Highlights of the October 2004 Journal of the American Dietetic Association
...versity examined whether eating a salad as a first course had any effect on intake of the main meal. The results of the study of 42 women showed eating a large salad (3 cups), compared with not having a first course, reduced the women's meal energy intake by 12 percent. The researchers concl...Lycopene slows human prostate tumour growth in mice and combined with vitamin E is even better
...treatment to that used in the mice could alter the course of minimal clinical disease in patients. The lycopene product used (LycoVit)[3], has received the Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) status from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and can be used to fortify foods. It was too early,...Schepens Eye Research Institute receives 'Roadmap' grant to develop center for curing eye diseases
... be an interdisciplinary research center. Over the course of the three years, the Institute will hold a series of large and small symposia and workshops to develop new hypotheses on the causes of blinding eye diseases, which will touch on such known processes as blood vessel growth, inflammation, poor wound...DNA barcode finds four new bird species
... New Species Discovered In the course of their research, the scientists found two distinct COI barcodes within each of four species -- solitary sandpiper, eastern meadowlark, marsh wren and warbling vireo. This discovery indicated that what had been identified as one species, in these ca...Study explores gene transfer to modify underlying course of Alzheimer's disease
...l, this could be a major step toward modifying the course of the disease. Rush is the only center in this study. The new technique uses CERE-110 as the gene therapy agent. CERE-110 carries the Nerve Growth Factor (NGF) gene encased in a harmless viral coating, which protects the gene and facilitates its de...Study reveals why eyes in some paintings seem to follow viewers
... we ended up making thousands of settings over the course of the experiment. "From all that data we were able to mathematically construct a surface that is most consistent with the overall pattern of judgments in each condition." However, the different viewing conditions didn't yield many different results....Human chromosome 5 final sequence analysis released to public
...r fish rather than accumulating mutations over the course of evolution. "If you have such large human regions that stay conserved over vast evolutionary distances, it strongly supports the idea that they must contain something important," said Jeremy Schmutz, the informatics group leader at SHGC. Any mutat...Gene expression in liver tumors and patient prognosis
... to identify therapeutic targets that can slow the course of disease progression," the authors conclude. "Fo...ailable and may provide opportunities to alter the course of HCC progression in both subclass A and B." An accompanying editorial by Joseph Locker...Can an old gene learn new tricks?
...antageous genetic changes that occurred during the course of evolution. A new research study published in the September issue of Developmental Cell suggests that the evolution of higher-order vertebrate organ systems can result from primitive developmental genetic programs that are, in a sense, recycled fo...New treatment for fibromyalgia
...tients were prescribed one of two treatments for a course of 12 weeks. About half, 104 individuals, received 60 milligrams of duloxetine twice a day. The remaining 103 patients were given a placebo. Both groups were evaluated and scored, using the Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire and other standard measure...Scientists discover proteins involved in spread of HIV-1 infection
...re therefore potential new drug targets, though of course many significant hurdles remain to be overcome, such as inhibitor screening and potential problems with cellular toxicity."...OHSU-VAMC study sheds light on estrogen's benefit for MS
...y aimed at assessing pregnancy and delivery on the course of the disease. The group found there was a marked reduction in the rate of MS relapse during pregnancy, especially in the third trimester. Three years later, Offner and a team of OHSU and Portland VA Medical Center neurologists published a study sho...Discovery of new shrimp species adds to unique family
...re interesting than species descriptions." In the course of his career, Anker has already described 15 new species and several new genera of shrimp. While the marine world contains many different families of shrimp, Anker thinks his group is particularly interesting, as it contains some very unusual varie...Images reveal how rotavirus - leading cause of diarrhea - enters cells
...ike a landing apparatus and is stripped off in the course of entry," explains Dormitzer, who also is an assistant professor of Pediatrics at HMS and is affiliated with HMS's Center for Molecular and Cellular Dynamics. "Its job is to get the innermost portions the genes and the replication machinery -- ins...Circadian clock genes reign in duration of fruit fly copulation
...ontrol the timing of physiological events over the course of day-night cycles approximating 24 hours. The new work reveals that, in fact, at least some circadian clock genes can also control the duration of behaviors over a much shorter time scale--in this case, the length of the fly's copulation. The effec...Length of sex act in flies dictated by genetics
... less sperm and eggs, and are less fertile. In the course of this research on fecundity, a graduate student in Giebultowicz's lab, Laura Beaver, was observing flies in mating chambers, and noticed that flies missing normal period or timeless genes tended to copulate 30-50 percent longer than usual.In more d...Study suggests cell-cycle triggers might be cancer drug targets
... "triple-knockout" mouse embryos followed a normal course of cell division and proliferation until as late as 13.5 days, when most tissues and organs are already formed. A typical mouse pregnancy last 18 days. (In a companion paper in Cell, researchers from Spain report similar findings involving protein ki...New understanding of the machinery of flinching
...of defense of the body surface, although PZ may of course have other sensory and motor functions not tested in the present experiment," they wrote....... with thousands of small steps spread out over the course of several years. The importance of solving the...The Scripps Research and GNF team charted the time course of circadian rhythms by looking at the expression of 10,000 different genes in various murine tissue......of naturally occurring mutations. Mutations are of course also occurring in the genes and those are of inter...ection have varied across different species in the course of evolution. "A more complex model of the neutral process should start to pay for itself in explor...