Genetic mutation plays major role in adrenal cancers
... hereditary, occurring in conjunction with unusual endocrine disease syndromes. Not so fast, says Dr. Charis Eng, director of the Clinical Cancer Genetics Program at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute. Eng, leading ...Gene plays key evolutionary role in food-gathering behaviors
...here are changes in brain chemistry and structure, endocrine activity and gene expression. Robinson and colleagues theorized that increased gene activity was necessary to drive behavioral change. Other genes had been implicated, but for is the first one shown to actually affect division of labor in honeybee ...Obesity may exacerbate a heart disorder in African American females
..., with no known acute heart disease complications, endocrine problems, complications from diabetes mellitus, HIV/AIDS, or other major diseases as determined by completing a health history questionnaire. Subjects were 12-14 hours fasted upon arrival. Trained faculty and university student technicians measured...Popular weed killer demasculinizes frogs, disrupts their sexual development
...e Fund and an internationally recognized expert on endocrine disrupting chemicals. "Tyrone's work demonstrates the need to do research on the safety of chemicals in the field where the animals live and at the levels to which they are exposed. The changes he found in the gonads were not discovered with the trad...Report supports sustainable food production
... associated with elevated cancer risk and possibly endocrine disruption and reproductive dysfunction. The earths population currently stands at 6 billion a number estimated by the United Nations to increase to 9.3 billion by the year 2050. As our population grows, so too will the demands we place on the envir...Medicines, caffeine and antibacterial soap among contaminants found in American streams
... phosphate) and a detergent breakdown product with endocrine disruptive properties (4-nonylphenol). Of the 95 target compounds, the researchers found 82 of them in at least one stream. And in 35 percent of streams, the scientists found 10 or more compounds. In one stream, they found 38 chemicals. The scientis...'Night eating syndrome' may be related to the performance of the body -- not the mind
...l relationships between the nervous system and the endocrine apparatus of the night eating syndrome has previou...ns. The circadian rhythms represent the biological endocrine clock, whereas the HPA represents the stress-induced biological response. However, the interplay bet...Tracing the neural circuitry of second sight
...emperature, cardiac output, oxygen consumption and endocrine gland secretion. In mammals, the internal circadian clock resides in the brain, and sunlight is the cue that resets this clock daily. Basic insights into the circadian system could lead to improved treatment for such problems as jet lag and depressio...Men with higher levels of PCBs more likely to father boys
...otential dangers of PCBs: disruption of the body's endocrine system and a possible carcinogen. In this study, Karmaus and colleagues restricted their research to children born after 1963 and to families in which PCB levels were detectable in both fathers and mothers. This was a total of 208 children from 101 ...Hormonal regulation of glucose production by fat cells
...olely as a storage site for lipids, but also as an endocrine tissue. The discovery of resistin and Acrp30 extended this finding and showed that multiple hormones secreted by adipocytes can profoundly alter energy metabolism in various tissues. Here, Combs and colleagues elucidate the primary metabolic effect o...Single enzyme may be linked to obesity
...sful situations. Observations of patients with the endocrine disorder Cushing's syndrome who have too much cortisol in their blood had shown that they develop increased intra-abdominal fat as well as other metabolic symptoms. This led Flier to hypothesize that obese patients who don't typically have incre...Gene triggers stem cell differentiation in the intestine
...ate the Delta-Notch signaling pathway that governs endocrine cell differentiation. According to Zoghbi, the discovery of Math1s role constitutes a significant step toward understanding how intestinal stem cells differentiate. A few months ago all we knew was that in the gut there is a stem cell that is self-...Link to our ancient past is confirmed in potassium channel research
...tes to the electrical signals in nerve, muscle and endocrine cells. Scientists who study the brain's electrical signals have relied on a blue-print developed from functional studies of eukaryotic (neuronal) potassium channels and structural studies of prokaryotic (bacterial) potassium channels, based on the as...Father's play the key role in transmitting
...y play a role in gender-specific susceptibility to endocrine disorders. PITTSBURGH, Pa. - Thyroid autoimmun... may play a role in sex-specific susceptibility to endocrine autoimmunity.-...Blood vessels trigger development of the pancreas
...r basic functions. These include hormone-secreting endocrine glands, lungs, kidneys, the liver and the pancreas. "So, these organs must arrange for intimate contact with vessels," he said. "To do this, they could develop first and then send signals to blood vessels to come to them as tumors do in the process ...New pathway to understanding circadian rhythms
...rature, blood pressure, and the release of various endocrine hormones. In an article published in the September 21, 2001, issue of the journal Science, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Amita Sehgal and colleagues Julie A. Williams, Henry S. Su, Andre Bernards and Jeffrey Field report that the prote...Stress, infertility linked in study by Magee-Womens Research Institute
... the Endocrine Society, an organization made up of endocrine specialists in internal medicine, pediatrics and g...overed, and five continued to experience FHA. "The endocrine system rewards moderation, explained Dr. Berga. "We try to teach balance and creative problem solvin...Study looks at causes, consequences of sex differences
... we get to be males and females from a genetic, an endocrine and a developmental point of view," Vandenbergh said. "And the second part of this was, how do these basic differences between us cause us to look at diseases in a different way?" Some basic differences in how men and women respond to disease are wel...Researchers find evidence of aging system that may promote long life
... either retarding growth or by activating specific endocrine tissue to release other hormones. Scientists may guess which hormones may be involved in human aging, but we dont know which brain signals or external environmental signals turn on the aging mechanism, he said. Th......art, intestines, kidneys, the immune system, skin, endocrine organs, muscles and more. People vary widely in where, when and if they develop these deposits. Again, these mutations that show up late in life will escape the force of natural selection. "While these mutations are individually rare, they are c...