Obesity And Breathing Capacity
...e cross-sectional data to determine the effects of body composition and fat distribution on ventilatory fu...Adjusted FVC was not significantly associated with body mass or body mass index, but was negatively associated with percentage body fat in men ( P = 0.0003...Native Fish Found In U.S. Lake Ontario For First Time In 50 Years
...l-pr; mapping-pr; products-pr; lecture-pr. In the body of the message write: subscribe (name of listserver) (your name). Example: subscribe water-pr joe smith....Williams Syndrome: New UD Study May Shed Light On Rare Genetic Disorder-And Normal Development
...r, and this allows them to freely move their head, body and eyes. Thepurchase of this special piece of equipment also was supported by matching fundsfrom UD. The children in the study will wear the cap when trying to replicate the blockpatterns on the computer. Tracking their eye movements may yield some ...... data suggest possible approaches to "purging" the body of cells latentlyinfected with HIV. "We now know that it is possible to drive latently infected CD4+ cells, at leastin vitro, to a state of productive infection by using combinations of cytokinesand/or antibodies to the CD3 molecule on the cell surfa...Scientists Excited About Miniature Cooking Pots
...us. Such a minusculevessel could travel inside the body and deliver a drug to theright cellular address, for example. "What you have is a container," said ScrippsResearch Institute virologist Jack Johnson. "It allows youto do chemistry on an exceptionally small scale." He said the applications could be...Scientists Identify New Gene That Controls Sleep/Wake Cycle
...per and tim genes, but the brain cells set the body clock. PERand TIM proteins accumulate in the nuclei of light-sensitive eye cells, calledphotoreceptors, as well as pacemaker cells of the central brain. Scientists atthe California Institute of Technology discovered per in 1971, while Young'sgroup id......ed organs that would normally be recognized by the body asforeign. "DCs can be manipulated to di...are less likely to disappear quicklywithin a donor body before they have a chance to teach T cells to tolerate a neworgan." In a related animal stud...Clever Chemistry Protects Beetle Babies
...e compounds and secreting them through microscopic body hairs, Epilachna borealis pupae can thwart just...ugh themicroscope, the pupae are seen to have fine body hairs topped by glisteningdroplets of chemicals. A series of analytical investigations (including ...Researchers Identify A Protein Critical For T Cell Development And Activation
...more than a binary on-off response. When a foreign body attaches to a Tcell receptor, it sets off a chain of biochemical reactions that lead to immunesystem activation. Gary Koretzky, M.D. Ph.D., UI Kelting Professor of Rheumatology, reports thatthe protein SLP-76 appears to be critical for the developm...Cultured Neural Stem Cells Reduce Symptoms In Model Of Parkinsons Disease
...he basic steps of brain development outside of the body --they multiplied, differentiated, and formed functioning connections with othercells. By manipulating cells in culture during these crucial stages,researchers could study how complex brain structures are built, damaged, andrebuilt, allowing them to...Shellfish Toxin Study Provides Possible Clue To Cystic Fibrosis Therapy
...tivesecretory pathway. Unfortunately, the body normally needs to protect itself from excessiveloss of salt and fluid. So cells produce a substance that inhibits the verypathway of fluid secretion that the drugs are designed to increase. But the new shellfish poisoning study shows that t...First Reproducible Cloning Of Mammals From Adult Cells Reported In Nature
...udies as the role of a given gene inthe developing body or in the process of disease," says Dr. Perry."We really know very little about the mechanism of early development,and this cloning technique should help us to learn much more." The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD),pa...Defects In Embryonic Development In Lunatic Fringe Knockout Mice
...hat iscritical to the normal implementation of the body "blueprint" in mammals andother organisms. ... helps choreograph implementation of the segmented body plan inorganisms as diverse as insects, nematodes, and mammals. In humans, Notchmutations have been ...Creatine Works, But Long-Term Effects Are Still Unknown
...resistancetraining produces increases in strength, body mass and fat-free mass. Thepercentage of body fat and body mass remains relatively constant. Creatine may work for both men and women eng...USGS Measures Coral Reef Recovery In Culebra, Puerto Rico
...cal-pr; mapping-pr;products-pr; lecture-pr. In the body of the message write: subscribe (name oflistserver) (your name). Example: subscribe water-pr joe smith....Australian Scientists In World-First Cell Discovery
...e of a vital receptor found on the surface of the body cells of all animals including humans. The discovery, reported in this week's issue of the international scientific journal Nature, has major implications for our understanding of the mechanisms behind growth and development, and diseases such ...Social Stress Causes Dormant Herpes Virus To Resurface In Mice
... researchers to study how a body physically interprets certain stressors. The researchers infected mice with HSV-1 and subjected the animals to two stressful situations. One situation involved restraining the anim...New Hope On The Horizon For Patients With End-Stage Cardiovascular Disease
...d that is normally produced insmall amounts by the body and stimulates blood vessel growth. In this procedure,it is injected directly into the coronary artery to further stimulate bloodvessel growth. The initial injection is followed by a series of threeintravenous infusions -- one every three days. These...University of Kentucky Neuroscientist Develops Unique Device For Treatment Of Brain Tumors
...r drugs in the brain without exposing thepatient's body to the systemic effects of the medicine," said Roy Patchell,M.D., University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center neuroscientist and inventorof the device. "Our studies are preliminary, but we've seen some long-termsurvivors, which is unusual for thi......onitor can track dosage ofcompounds that enter the body through ingestion, skin absorption and/orinhalation. Other monitoring systems generally measure exposure from chemicalsin the air. And the monitoring system can measure better a person's exposure bysimultaneously identifying multiple chemicals. ...