After massive experiment, results favor wildlife corridors
...cted areas, creating one central clearing and four peripheral clearings on each site. They also logged corridors connecting each central clearing to one of the peripheral clearings, leaving the others separated by the forests. Each the clearing measured about two acres. ...Prenatal alcohol exposure can damage both information processing and response capabilities
... action plan from the brain to the muscles, called peripheral activity." The children with prenatal exposure t...alcohol exposure also had a negative impact on the peripheral processes involved in conveying the action plan from the brain to the muscles. "Young children typic...Shadow proteins in thymus - Clues to how immune system works?
...jority of these expressed proteins are used by the peripheral organs to tell T cells to stay away. Indeed, the r...e exhibited in their thymus only a fraction of the peripheral self-proteins found in the thymus of normal mice. And the mutants exhibited widespread autoimmunity....UCSF-led team reports new test improves detection of prions in animals
...imals are still alive, perhaps using blood or some peripheral tissue such as muscle. Early evidence in hamsters and mice suggest this might be possible. In this case, the test could also potentially be used to diagnose patients with one of the several human forms of prion disease, known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob dis...Your brain is teaching your nose new tricks, say UC Berkeley researchers
...here is no neural link between the nostrils at the peripheral level, the researchers concluded that this exposur...though he added the researchers have not ruled out peripheral neural changes occurring as well. Ongoing research is being conducted to determine if peripheral neu...Lower insulin sensitivity found In Mexican-Americans, regardless of behavioral and metabolic factors
...ise, and dietary fat have all been shown to impact peripheral insulin resistance. The StudyA new research study that compares behavioral, metabolic, and molecular behavior between Mexican-Americans and non-Hispanic whites offers new clues on why public health officials need to act on this potential problem now....Acorda Therapeutics acquires CeNeS neuregulin products
...or degenerative disorders of the CNS, such as SCI, peripheral neuropathies and Parkinson's disease." About Neur...een shown to enhance survival and function of both peripheral and CNS nerves, for example, those involved in peripheral neuropathies or Parkinson's disease. In ad...Hearing loss & rehab, stroke & depression among topics of Vol. 39, Iss 5, JRRD
...sk for individuals with lower-limb amputations and peripheral vascular disease. Time-expanded speech and speech recognition in older adults Investigates the effects of speech rate on speech recognition in older adults. Eighteen adults, assigned to three different groups, were tested at two rates of time-expa...Blood proteins tied to inflammation
... procedure to remove plaque from the neck artery), peripheral vascularization (a type of angioplasty used to dilate narrowed arteries in the legs), or amputation. The risk of heart disease increased with high C-reactive protein levels and low albumin levels, even after adjusting for factors like cholesterol le...Structure of pain-modulating enzyme described by scientists at the Scripps Research Institute
...dy produces in signaling cascades in response to a peripheral pain stimulus. THC binds to "CB-1" receptors on cells on the rostral ventromedial medulla, a pain-modulating center of the brain, decreasing sensitivity to pain. Unfortunately, the receptors that THC bind to are also widely expressed in other parts o...Newly-discovered role for Nf1 gene explains heart abnormalities associated with neurofibromatosis
...eural crest the part of the embryo that forms the peripheral nervous system," said Jonathan A. Epstein, MD, associate professor in the Cardiovascular Division of Penn's Department of Medicine. "NF1, however, is associated with cardiovascular problems, which our findings could explain by linking the loss of the...Is there a common genetic link for depression and cardiovascular disease?
...ding stress with its multiple actions on brain and peripheral organs, acute inflammatory reactions with altered immune function as well as a genetically driven susceptibility to develop the disorders are under debate. Regarding the genetic contribution, variants in two genes were repeatedly discussed as import...Supervised exercise program is an effective remedy for cramping leg pain
...with cramping leg pain, the most common symptom of peripheral arterial disease (PAD), suggests that regular walking while painful is worth it. The Johns Hopkins-led team of scientists published their report in the Dec. 12 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. PAD, a condition that affects eight ...Hopkins researchers find genetic cause for multi-system disorder
...mber of inherited conditions involving deafness or peripheral neuropathy. While others have linked a connexin to Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, Jabs and her colleagues have helped identify a faulty connexin gene as the cause of a skin and deafness disorder known as "KIDS" (for keratitis, ichthyosis and deafness s...JCI Table of Contents, January 2, 2003
...nsulin release and decreased insulinsensitivity of peripheral tissues. However, the metabolic function of mutantisolated skeletal muscle and pancreatic islets is normal, suggesting thatthe origin of the glucose intolerance is located elsewhere. The authorsspeculate that AMPKa2 exerts its function as a fuel sens...UW researchers discover gene mutation associated with a form of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
...ificant in the degradation of proteins critical to peripheral nerve function, and that the mutated gene may not ...tated LITAF gene may lead to new understandings of peripheral nerve damage. The discovery of the LITAF mutations could provide a molecular marker for the 1C form...For spinal cord injury patients, new insights for rehabilitation therapy
... spinal cord. This would lead to vasodilatation of peripheral vessels and, therefore, to a decrease in vascular ...raining to gain insight into the plasticity of the peripheral vascular system and to distinguish between the effect of loss of central neural control vs. decondit...Scripps scientists discover new approach for treating 'misfolding diseases'
...ibrils cause the disease FAP by building up around peripheral nerve and muscle tissue, disrupting their function and leading to numbness, muscle weakness, and--in advanced cases--failure of the autonomic nervous system including the gastrointestinal tract. The current treatment for FAP is a liver transplant, wh...Neurofibromin: It's so degrading
...de. NF1 patients 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. Although the Nf1 gene was identified in 1990, this work by Drs. Jacks,...Endothelial progenitor cells could serve as biological marker for cardiovascular disease
... or clumps, of endothelial progenitor cells in the peripheral blood of 45 men with a mean age of approximately 50 years. The men had various degrees of cardiovascular risk, but no history of cardiovascular disease. The researchers also measured blood vessel function using non-invasive high-resolution ultrasou...