Test For Genetic Trait May Indicate Heart Benefits Of Hormone Replacement Therapy
...rcent for all women. "The really interesting part came when we looked at how the women with pattern Acompared to women who were pattern B," Superko says.The pattern B women reduced their LDL cholesterol by 15 percent compared to adrop of only 4.6 percent in the pattern A group. HDL cholesterol rose 14pe...Heart Inflammation Declining In The United States
... took biopsies of the hearts of 1,757 patients who came toHopkins between 1985 and 1996 with new-onset heart failure or abnormal heartrhythms. Myocarditis was present in 157 patients (9 percent) who had no otherdisease associated with heart inflammation. The number and proportion of patients wit...Wake Forest Physicians Demonstrate How Gene-Diet Interaction Affects Cholesterol Absorption
...ch asolive oil). On the diet where the fat came from polyunsaturated fat, the amount ofcholesterol absorbed jumped substantially in the "normal" group, while remainingvirtually unchanged in the group with the variant gene. The difference wasstatistically significant. Absorption of cholest......a. "A lot of different evolutionary roots probably came from the samepools." The arguments concerni...ternational experts in a numberof different fields came together to discuss the implications of thermophileresearch. Researchers in biology, genetics, bioge...Gene Influences How Lifestyle Affects Blood Cholesterol
...not available to the general public. The findings came from the Bogalusa Heart Study, based at Tulane UniversityMedical Center, which followed 1,520 men and women for 16 years, starting whenthey were between the ages of five and 14. The scientists periodically measuredblood levels of cholesterol and tri...Scientists Find First Protein In Central Nervous System Junctions
... from molybdenum cofactor deficiency. "We came to the remarkable conclusion that this protein is required formaking inhibitory synapses in the spinal cord and also is required to usemolybdenum in all tissues," Sanes says. "So it looks to us as if gephyrin hastwo seemingly unrelated functions - an...Fetal Surgery For Spina Bifida Still Under Investigation At VUMC
...e physiological causes of spina bifida,researchers came up with the 'two hit' hypothesis for neurological deficits withspina bifida," Bruner said. The first damage, or hit, to the spinal cord comes from the fact that the fetushas spina bifida and the spinal cord is developing in an abnormal fashion. Thes...SFU Researcher Finds Low Cost Solution To High Auto Emissions
...y and faulty research cars at the Detroitlab, Saif came up with a model-based technique which uses mathematicalalgorithms to detect and isolate engine faults. "Cars already have on-boardcomputerized engine control tasks, and we are certain that for the most part,the same data can be used for diagnostic mo...Montana State University Scientist Contributes To Latest Dinosaur Discovery
...ot of collecting [last year] because the discovery came at the endof the field season." Jackson has several other egg research projects under way, and last yearshe co wrote a Nature article on the evolution of dinosaur reproductive traits.She's also taught geology and paleontology at the Museum o...New Phylloxera Strain Poses Threat Primarily To Grape Nurseries
.... "That's all we know at this pointabout where it came from and how it got here." The earlier strains of phylloxera that caused growers to spend millions on new,more resistant rootstocks does its damage by attacking roots. Theorange-colored, aphid-like louse sucks nutrients out of the roots unti...Chinese And US Scientists Identify The World's Oldest Flowering Plant
...Beipiao about 250 miles northeast of Beijing. They came from a spot known as the Yixian formation, made famous during the last decade or so for its large number of pristine fossils of dinosaurs, insects, fish and other ancient life. The plant fossil made its way to Sun by way of colleagues and local res...Study Of Raindrop Energy To Aid Fight Against Crop Diseases
... sensor modifications. Support for this work came fromstate and federal funds including a United States Departmentof Agriculture National Research Initiative CompetitiveGrant....Severe Pain Following Shingles Safely Relieved In Clinical Trial Of Anti-Convulsant Drug Gabapentin
...ch funded the study. Soon after gabapentin came into use in 1995 to treat epilepsy,physicians noted its pain-relieving powers. The shingles study reported in theDec. 2 issue of JAMA is one of two multi-center studies to test the drug'sability to control severe pain associated with nerve damage. A ...Cells From Mother Can Boost Success Of Sibling-To-Sibling Kidney Transplants
...figures are available, 7 in 10 transplantedkidneys came from cadaveric donors. Sibling-to-sibling transplants accounted forabout 41 percent of the 3,300 living donors. Transplant centers perform tissue typing in an attempt to find the mostcompatible donors and recipients. In a kidney transplant, a "perfe...NCAR Team Tags 'Imported' Pollutants Over The Pacific Northwest
...lUnion conference in San Francisco. Research funds came from the NationalAeronautics and Space Administration and the National ScienceFoundation. NSF is NCAR's primary sponsor. "It's widely recognized that sulfate aerosols are playing a major rolein the climate system," says Kiehl. The ability of these ae...West Coast Measurements Confirm Asian Air Pollution Can Travel To U.S.
... the pollutants. However, the March 29measurements came from air that was most clearly traceable to a large area ofeastern Asia. Those readings showed carbon monoxide levels 10 percent higherthan normal marine air, a nearly 100 percent rise in PAN, and a 50 percentincrease in particulates. "In this suite ...First Complete Fossil Of Fierce Prehistoric Predator Found In South Africa
...n of the NationalScience Foundation. The discovery came in the most recently formed rock in whichsuch a fossil has ever been found, in sediment beds lying immediately belowthose marking the mass extinction. Ward said the specimen should yield valuableclues about the extinction and provide a better underst...Pet Therapy Programs Help Patients In Rehab, Physical Therapy And More
... buthad refused to talk to anyone for weeks. Janie came in, sat in the chair and puther paws on the rail. Immediately the patient started talking to her and pettingher. "The doctor was in awe," says Feder. Bailey, a Bichon Frise, volunteers in Rehabilitation twice a week. "Peoplesometimes think he's stu...