Southern Pine Beetle Reaching Outbreak Levels In North Florida
...orestation of surrounding acreage. Had Gainesville delayed in removinginfested trees, Meeker said it would have been "very, very costly." "During outbreaks, the Southern Pine Beetle is going to run the show andwill overwhelm all the pines in its path, including the more resistantslash and longleaf pines," Me...Hawaiian Whales Show 'No Overt Response' To Sounds Of ATOC Simulation
...ine Mammal Research Program. Start-up of ATOC was delayed in 1994 when some biologists and environmentalist groups expressed concern that ATOC sounds could harm -- or even deafen -- whales and other marine mammals with sensitive hearing. Run by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, ATOC seeks to measure ...At Life's Most Sensitive Stage, Embryos Cope With Stress
...n fending off toxins, the embryo maypay a price in delayed development. (For more information on Epel1s discoveries about MDR transporters in musselsand worms, see Stanford Report, March 18, 1997, available on the Web athttp://www-leland.stnaford.edu/dept/news/relaged/970319epel.html.) Surviving heat shock ...Candidate Regulator Of The Temporal Component Of Neurotransmitter Release Identified
...er release. Unexpectedly, the NSF peptides also delayed transmitter release, i.e. the postsynaptic response recorded was not only smaller in amplitude, but took longer to reach the peak and faded more slowly than in controls. Further experiments pinpointed the site of action of the NSF-peptide...Inhibitor Shows Potential To Protect Infant Brain
...ur knowledge, this is the first demonstration that delayed treatment with a caspase inhibitor, even when give...DM. Caspase inhibitor affords neuroprotection with delayed administration in a rat model of neonatal hypoxic-ischemic brain injury. Journal of Clinical Investi...First Reproducible Cloning Of Mammals From Adult Cells Reported In Nature
...eded the secondmaturation step, and the scientists delayed this maturation anywhere fromone to six hours. This delay increased the likelihood that when the oocytecontinued its maturation, a process called activation, it would divide anddevelop normally. After activation, the cells divided repeatedly to reac......most organisms from plants to people. In humans, delayed resetting by the clock is an underlying cause of jet lag, and clock malfunction has been linked to seasonal affective disorder and various sleep and mental disorders. DMS Researchers, Jay Dunlap, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry, Jennifer Loros, Ph......g PAR3 andfound that while the mice had a markedly delayed and diminished response tothrombin activation the response was not totally absent. The discovery of PAR4explained the continued response. "We determined that PAR3 is necessary fornormal thrombin responses in mouse platelets, but that PAR4 does contr......rea at night at a variety of depths, and some were delayed for several days before passing the dam. The results of the study will be critical for developing effective eel passage technologies. ("Behavior and Passage of Silver-Phase Eels at a Small Hydroelectric Facility," by Alex Haro, S.O. Conte Anadromou...Gene Mutation Found For Common Form Of Mental Retardation
...g. Despite their profound behavioral disabilities, delayed and primitivespeech as well as severe learning and social impairments, most look remarkablynormal. Normally, the PAK3 protein consists of two domains, a binding domain andan activating or kinase domain. The mutant form had a defect in the kin...University Of Texas Southwestern Researchers Develop New Test For Kidney Function
...e to overestimatekidney function, which results in delayed therapeutic intervention," Seikalysaid. The new procedure involves injecting the patient with a small amount ofradioactive isotope solution. After patients ingest water, the procedureestimates how effectively the kidney excretes waste products b......up. So far, they have found no relationshipbetween delayed language acquisition and other abilities such as spatial andnon-verbal skills. The study, which was published in the journal "Nature Neuroscience,"reaffirmed known gender differences in language delay: more boys than girlshave this problem...New Test Spots ALD Carriers With Near-Perfect Accuracy
...ions. "Because of this test, women who've delayed having children because ofuncertainty about passing on the disease can have a new confidence," saysgeneticist Garry R. Cutting, M.D., one of the researchers and head of Hopkins'DNA Diagnostic Laboratory. The scientists present the technique this wee......anabolic steroid available by prescriptionto treat delayed puberty and used, illicitly, by some athletes to "bulk up." The studies conducted in rats provided what NTP staff called "clear evidence" ofcarcinogenic effects at several sites in female animals; triethanolamine, an ingredient in some cosmetics and...Researchers Discover Genetic Mutation For Rare Form Of Dwarfism
...ed amounts of abdominal fat. Except for asomewhat delayed onset of puberty, which did not affect their fertility, theydid not manifest any signs or symptoms to suggest deficiency of other pituitaryhormones. In ongoing research since identifying the defective pathway, theresearchers have been treatin...UB Study Finds No Relationship Between Male Consumption Of Lake Ontario Fish And Conception Delay
... fish consumption resulted in an increased risk of delayed conception,Buck said. The findings held up even after restricting the analysis to menwhose partners ate no Lake Ontario fish to minimize the effect of female fishconsumption, she said. Buck cautioned against construing these results to mean ......e rats responded to beta-endorphin by exhibiting a delayed response in pullingthe inflamed paw away from the heat source, a sign that the hyperalgesic painsensation was reduced. An added bonus was the observation that the non-inflamedpaw had a normal withdrawal response. This points not only to a lack ofto...Key Peptides Found That Stop -- Even Reverse -- Kidney Disease In Lupus
...th the peptides in young, lupus-pronemice markedly delayed the onset of severe, lupus-related kidney disease.Long-term therapy with the peptides in adult mice with established kidneydisease prolonged survival and even stopped progression of their disease. Remarkably, one of the peptides, called H......eraction of three distinctly different mechanisms: delayed stall,rotational circulation and wake capture. These findings are important to the DoDbecause they will aid in the design and ultimate construction of tiny roboticflies that could be used for a variety of missions such as stealthful urbanreconnaissan...Mice show function of gene that causes two types of blindness
...oscience at UTSouthwestern. This symptom is called delayed dark adaptation, an early sign ofthe illness, which is the most common form of juvenile macular degeneration. Because the genetically engineered animals lack the ABCR gene, RmP alsois missing. In normal mice, RmP inhibits accumulation in the ...