Scripps Research receives $3 million anonymous donation
...cripps Research have shown that GABAergic activity decreases during alcohol withdrawal and protracted abstinence. Another target for therapy at the center will be the brain corticotropin releasing factor (CRF) stress system-- which is responsible for activating the pituitary adrenal stress response and is one...JCI Table of Contents, January 15 2004
...tiating transmission to a new host, B. burgdorferi decreases the expression of the outer surface protein OspA that allows the bacterium to adhere to the tick gut and instead begins expressing an alternative outer surface protein, OspC. In order to determine the function of OspC, Erol Fikrig and colleagues gene...Inhibition of Borrelia burgdorferi protein may reduce Lyme disease transmission
...tiating transmission to a new host, B. burgdorferi decreases the expression of the outer surface protein OspA that allows the bacterium to adhere to the tick gut and instead begins expressing an alternative outer surface protein, OspC. In order to determine the function of OspC, Erol Fikrig and colleagues gene...Primates trade smell for sight
...t 20%. Reliance on the sense of smell, it appears, decreases for animals that develop a dependence on other senses, such as hearing or sight, to survive. In characterizing this high proportion of pseudogenes, Yoav Gilad et al. asked: Is this characteristic of all primates? If not, at what point in primate evol...Long-term effects of embryo culture on behavior studied
...erived mice of either sex, small, but significant, decreases in memory were observed. No differences in development or motor skills were found. According to the researchers, their findings suggest a broader need to examine carefully practices associated with assisted reproductive technologies. Their study ...'Elves' makes protein crystallography easier
...sing thing was, that works." As a result, Elves decreases the time and training needed for researchers to interpret X-ray crystallographic data and increases the efficiency of beamlines like those at the ALS. Holton, who copyrighted Elves through UC Berkeley, has already distributed some 100 copies of the ...Using a companion crop to control weeds organically
...in. They found that inter-seeded winter cereal rye decreases the amount of weeds in the soybeans and increases soybean yield, in years where soil moisture was not a yield-limiting factor. Two years of the three-year project were drier than the 30-year average, which resulted in decreased soybean yields. "Ou...Pacifying bacteria prevents lethal post-op infections
...dripped directly into the blood stream. The bowel decreases its activity, rendering it far less able to contain the toxic effects of certain strains of bacteria. At the same time, the intestine undergoes erosion of its protective mucus coating. "Bacteria are smart enough to sense this change and re-program...Kidney injury's harmful effects on bones blocked in mice
...ct of kidney injury: heart disease. "Kidney damage decreases mineral storage in the bones, and minerals not stored in the bones are stored elsewhere," he explains. "This extraskeletal storage of minerals can take the form of vascular calcification, and that's very bad. That can be a huge contributor to heart a...Small amounts of alcohol or anesthetics may damage the developing brain
...n. But rats exposed to alcohol and anesthetics had decreases in LTP ranging from 75 to 100 percent. In other words, some of the exposed animals had a complete loss of LTP. His team also tested a related process called long-term depression (LTD). When treated with an LTD stimulus, normal slices of the rat hipp...National ocean commissioners & scientists call for overhaul of ocean policies & management
...ere were no other healthy stocks to compensate for decreases in the major populations. This was the case in British Columbia where most efforts at salmon management focused almost exclusively on the Fraser River salmon runs, which subsequently collapsed. By then, the natural diversity of salmon runs along the ...Genetics, alcohol sensitivity, and behavior
... release of neurochemicals that cause increases or decreases in brain activity," said Kim Fromme, symposium organizer and associate professor of psychology at The University of Texas at Austin. "Virtually everything we think, feel, sense, and do are determined by activity of these neurochemicals and their rel...Schering-Plough scientists identify protein essential for cholesterol absorption from intestine
...urces of cholesterol through dual inhibition which decreases cholesterol production in the liver as well as blocks cholesterol absorption in the intestinal pathway," said Dr. Ballantyne. Important information about ZETIA Discovered by Schering-Plough scientists and marketed by Merck/Schering-Plough Pharmaceu...Scripps scientists describe dangerous cocktail of alcohol, brain peptides, and neurotransmitters
...ohol dependence have shown that GABAergic activity decreases during alcohol withdrawal and protracted abstinence--the initial post-acute withdrawal period after the cessation of drinking during which a person is especially vulnerable to relapse. These GABAergic activity changes are probably a major cause of re...New study confirms conservation surgery is safe for BRCA breast cancers
...r our patient becomes older the risk of recurrence decreases by 6%. This is a regular decreasing of the risk, but at the same time there are still a lot of uncertainties concerning BRCA mutations and age." Dr Kirova said that there was some evidence that BRCA tumours are more sensitive to radiothera......al genes, including apolipoprotein E (apoE), which decreases the risk of Alzheimer's and vascular disease in aging human adults. Chimpanzees who eat more meat than any other great ape, but are still largely vegetarian served as an ideal comparison because they carry a different variation of the apoE gene, ye...Estimated one in five people worldwide lack enough zinc in diet
...ntation among such children produce impressive 25% decreases in the prevalence of diarrhea and 40% reductions in the rate of acute lower respiratory infections, like pneumonia. These diseases are among the most common causes of child mortality in developing countries. Early evidence indicates that mortality...Leptin rewires the brain's feeding circuits
...othalamus that express the leptin receptor. Leptin decreases feeding and fat deposition by acting on two classes of neurons. Leptin suppresses the activity of neuropeptide Y (NPY) neurons and it enhances the activity of proopiomelanocortin (POMC) neurons. Conversely, the absence of leptin increases feeding and...Physics tip sheet #41 - April 5, 2004
...elf-filtering" effect-- the concentration of beads decreases after the suspension is sucked through the tube. Better understanding of jamming could be important for many industrial applications, from getting grain out of farm silos to getting ketchup into bottles. Journal articles are available to journalists...MCG pursues markers to improve ovarian cancer treatment, diagnosis
...ator. "If you can watch a biomarker over time that decreases as you get chemotherapy, you can think, wow, maybe this one is more associated with ovarian cancer. We are taking the same women at diagnosis and remission and looking at what's different. We should get an enriched pool of specific biomarkers and tha...