Study finds rare juvenile turtles
...to determine the extent to which this species uses peripheral wetlands not contiguous with Sherriff's Marsh and to find out where the juveniles live. So far, the continuing study has yielded a treasure trove of information, with a total of 411 captures and recaptures through June 2000. Of those, 263 are diff...Blood pressure-lowering DASH diet also reduces homocysteine
...to increase the risk of heart disease, stroke, and peripheral vascular disease. The study appears in the August 22 issue of Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. DASH stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension. This new report is based on data from the DASH trial, which found that a...Parkinsons disease is more than just a brain disorder
...d may be caused by an abnormality that affects the peripheral nervous system, which includes the sympathetic nervous system, as well as the brain. The study, and a related editorial, appear in the September 5, 2000, edition of the Annals of Internal Medicine.(1) (2) The loss of nerve terminals in the hear...New technique will improve delivery of drugs and gene therapy for cystic fibrosis patients
...erapy. "Aerosolized drugs often don't reach peripheral lung areas, where the disease begins, because the ...he fine particles landed primarily in the smaller, peripheral airways. With the coarse particles, the aerosol deposited in the same pattern, regardless of how fa...UC Davis study shows spirulina boosts immune system
...les from 12 healthy volunteers, separating out the peripheral blood mononuclear cells. These cells, which include macrophages, monocytes, and lymphocytes, including B and T cells, work as a team to mount an immune response. The researchers incubated these cell cultures with dilutions of spirulina made from 429 ...... main clock is thought to regulate local clocks in peripheral organs, such as in the digestive tract. In turn, t...ge at all. This exciting result indicates that the peripheral clocks can become independent and even override the central clock. This result also demonstrates tha...Vanderbilt neuroscientists identify 'oops center' in the brain
... the monkey was preparing to shift its gaze to the peripheral spot. In these cases, the monkey was rewarded when it cancelled the eye movement it was planning and kept its vision fixed on the central target. As the monkeys were performing these tasks, the researchers were monitoring the activity of neurons in...UCSF study of HIV patients identifies interleukin-7 as a key factor in controlling T-cells
...ces the number of T-cells; dendritic-like cells in peripheral lymph nodes sense the loss and cause the productio...zed that support cells, called "stromal" cells, in peripheral lymph nodes might sense the loss of T-cells due to HIV. They could respond by increasing production...New fossil study rejects 'Eve theory'
...n fossil crania from Australia and Central Europe, peripheral regions far from Africa, where modern humans evolved, according to the Eve theory. They compared these Europeans and Australians (between 20,000 and 30,000 years old) with two even older groups who might be their ancestors---archaic fossil crania fr...The first schizophrenia gene is discovered
...ript was found exclusively in the brain and not in peripheral tissues such as heart, muscle, or liver. Chromosome 22, where the gene is localized, has come into focus based on results of a previously conducted linkage analysis, which is a commonly used method to narrow down chromosomal disease loci. The discove......system when using NSAIDs, rather than the specific peripheral pain site, may result in more effective pain relief....MGH researchers shed new light on how pain killers work
...rom inflammation to pain. The journey begins when peripheral inflammation stimulates production of a molecule c...ill need to focus on inhibiting central as well as peripheral production of PGE2," Woolf says. "Were tremendously excited about the potential to relieve sufferin...One change in farming makes for cleaner waterways
... farming and excluded rural residents with only a peripheral interest in farming. Forster also analyzed the effectiveness of 19 federal and state government-sponsored farm incentive programs. Most of these provide financia...Mice nibbling at the secrets of NF1
... People with NF1 develop benign tumors along their peripheral and optic nerves, as well as caf-au-lait skin spots. NF1 is also associated with an increased risk of malignant neurological tumor development and childhood learning disabilities. NF1 is one of the few diseases for which the underlying molecular mech...Agent Orange might boost the risk of leukemia, UNC researcher says
...ltiple myeloma, both acute and sub-acute transient peripheral neuropathy and porphyria cutanea tarda, another skin disorder, Hertz-Picciotto said. That evidence was weak and inconclusive, however.U.S. forces sprayed Agent Orange and other defoliants over parts of South Vietnam and Cambodia beginning in 1962, sh...Gene therapy for diabetic neuropathy
...he biochemical link between hyperglycemia and this peripheral neuropathy remains a matter of debate, the same symptom occurs in patients with type I and type II diabetes and can be observed in animal models of both conditions. Isner and his colleagues recently showed that a similar neuropathy, this one arisin...Neuroscientist studies brains of bizarre-looking mammals
...e more connections to the brain that the outer, or peripheral appendages. Much as a person instinctually looks d...entral appendages after they are discovered by its peripheral arms. Most recently, the neuroscientist has established that these central appendages owe much of th...Color vision out of the corner of the eye
... have now elucidated how color is perceived in the peripheral visual field. In most humans, color vision is best...ervous system? As the team now reported in Nature, peripheral ganglion cells are just as color sensitive as central cells. Thus, our loss of color vision in the p...Pooling worldwide data about childhood tumors helps researchers gauge aggressiveness of treatment
...se in point is neuroblastoma, a solid tumor of the peripheral nervous system that accounts for 10 percent of all...uroblastoma patients. However, stem cells found in peripheral blood provide better results. "Peripheral blood stem cells regenerate faster than bone marrow stem c...The ability of immune cells to home to peripheral lymphoid organs or target tissues is critical to autoimmune patho-genesis,but it also makes these cells a promising vehicle for delivering therapeutic agents to the relevant tissues. Tworeports in this issue apply this principle to suppress collagen-...