Oral Vaccine Protects Infants From Severe Rotavirus Diarrhea
... pink liquid vaccine or its look-alikewas given by mouth to the infants at 2, 3 and 4 months of age. Neither thestudy investigators nor the infants' parents knew which product a child received untilthe study ended. The babies were monitored at home by their parents and caretakers for episodesof diarrhea...Peutz-Jeghers Disease Gene Identified: Enzyme Loss Causes Polyps And Cancer
... brown melanin spots on the lips and around the mouth are easily recognized during childhood, but can fade during adolescence. A serious life-threatening feature of this disease are various tumors which can develop in the gastrointestinal tract, pancreas, ovaries, testis, breast and uteru...Gene For Inherited Syndrome Is Possible New Tumor Suppressor
...ckle-like spots on the lips andthe skin around the mouth and on the fingers.How these two relate to each other is absolutely unknown." Furthermore, he said, "the combination of tumors that can occur with thissyndrome really gives no clue to what's going on.That is truly intriguing." The work on PJS continu......other universities have used laboratory strains of mouth bacteria andpopulation data to show this possible ... and strokes if Porphyromanas gingivalisfrom their mouth gets into the bloodstream and clumps platelets similar to whatwe see in the laboratory." The...... of the skull. Thisallowed the animal to open its mouth quite wide in order to eat large fooditems. The diet of Shuvuuia deserti is not known, but may have includedinsects, as well as lizards and even small mammals. Prokinesis is considered avery advanced characteristic of birds - to find evidence of th...Water Quality In Indiana's White River Basin Affected By Urban And Agricultural Activities
...ere found in at least 5percent of samples near the mouth of the White River. The widely used agricultural herbicides atrazine and metolachlor were always found. "In a few samples, concentrations of the herbicides atrazine, alachlor, or cyanazine exceeded Federal drinking-water standards or advisories; howe...Study Shows Athletes Get No Kick From Nasal Strips
...reathing through the nose to breathing through the mouth as the demand for oxygen increases. A nasal strip would have to extend an athlete's time to switch point beyond that reached normally during exercise to be of any benefit. "Such a result would show that the nasal strip made nasal breathing ea...Destructive Algae Overtaking Mediterranean Waters
...l control effort. They are using sea slugs whose mouth structures allow them to eat only Caulerpa algae. The big question is whether the control organisms will make a dent in the algaes invasion, because these predators eat at a snails pace literally, says Meinesz. He presented his analyses at a rece...Horses Prefer Bridles That Have A Bit Missing
...es, hesays. Putting an object in a horse's mouth confuses the animal, stimulatingsalivation and other feeding reflexes. Cook points out that because a horsecannot breathe and swallow at the same time, it has to stop breathing to swallowexcess saliva, otherwise it may choke. The bit also interferes ...Social Stress Causes Dormant Herpes Virus To Resurface In Mice
...auses cold sores around the mouth and on the face in humans and genital disease. Glaser conducted the study with David Padgett, assistant professor of oral biology, and John Sheridan, professor of ...New Research: Children Inhale Higher Percentage Of Pollution
... The UNC-CH scientists also will compare mouth versus nose breathingsince people switch from breathing nasally to breathing orally at some pointduring vigorous exercise. They want to know whether children switch earlier andwhether that causes them to trap more polluted air in their lungs. ...Teaching Great White Sharks To Link People With Food Is A Recipe For Disaster
...s into the water. Sharks are naturally curious and mouth objects floating onthe surface. "The sharks are getting the opportunity to find out that every time theysee a surfboard there might be food around," says George Burgess, a shark expertat the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville. ......exists only in latent form. In others, ittriggers mouth or genital sores. And in one in 250,000, for reasons as yetunknown, it penetrates the blood-brain barrier, entering the central nervoussystem, where it causes encephalitis. **Protease Enzyme Essential to Replication In describing the role th......reas nextBroca's area resulted in movements of the mouth and lips, but not the hands. "This study also strongly suggests that the supramarginal gyrus plays acritical role in blending semantic and phonetic information," he added, citingthe word cat as an example. Cat has semantic features, being a "...Children, Pets Who Swallow Post-1982 Pennies At Risk For Stomach Upset, EvenUlcers
...(a thin tube with a surgicaltool inserted from the mouth into the stomach), they discovered that the objectwas a 1989 penny the child had swallowed four days earlier. In addition, thechild had developed a stomach ulcer in the area where the penny had lodged. According to the Consumer Products Safet...Real Connection Between Oral Health And Heart Disease
...roducts. Onepossibility is that bacteria from the mouth -- or products released by thesebacteria -- travel through the bloodstream to other parts of the body, where theydamage the linings of blood vessels. In his own research, Loesche has foundthat patients with coronary artery disease have elevated leve...Farmers Can Afford To Clean Up Gulf Of Mexico, Analysis Shows
...xic means oxygen deprived). The zone begins at the mouth of the Mississippi River and extends west toward the Texas coastline, occurring in the middle of the most important commercial and recreational fishing zone in the lower 48 states. The zone exists because of the flood of excess nitrogen that com...Use Of Protease Inhibitors For HIV Associated With Dramatic Rise In Oral Warts
...s, a newstudy reveals. Unlike the more treatable mouth and tongue infections, oral warts are difficultto control and highly prone to recur, says Deborah Greenspan, BDS, DSc, clinicalprofessor of oral medicine in the UC San Francisco School of Dentistry and studyprincipal investigator. In addition, they......al monitoring devicesdeployed at 31 sites from the mouth of the Columbia River to near Los Angeles.They will provide detailed information about water temperatures, currents andthe plethora of marine life forms, many of them tiny or even microscopic, whichare found at varying depths. These custom-b...