In the obese, metabolic adaptations post-weight loss lead to regaining of shed pounds
...t would be difficult to follow them throughout the protracted course of the development, treatment, and recurrence of their obese state. Rats offer a better opportunity to address this issue. The ability to select obesity-prone rats, coupled with the shorter lifespan of the test animals and a better ability t...Scripps scientists describe dangerous cocktail of alcohol, brain peptides, and neurotransmitters
...c activity decreases during alcohol withdrawal and protracted abstinence--the initial post-acute withdrawal peri...l as well--a situation analogous to an alcoholic's protracted abstinence. In their latest paper, Siggins and his colleagues show, at the cellular level, ho...The Rosetta space probe's long trek to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
...ll be breaking new ground - this will be the first protracted cometary encounter." The trip to the meeting place in space will certainly be a long one, located as it is some 4.5 astronomical units from the Sun, which translates into something like 675 million kilometres. Rosetta will be on the road for ten yea...Scripps Research receives $3 million anonymous donation
...c activity decreases during alcohol withdrawal and protracted abstinence. Another target for therapy at the cen...ve drinking associated with alcohol withdrawal and protracted abstinence. The center will aim to discover and test new CRF antagonists and other compounds that m...Women who drink may be at greater risk of cardiovascular complications than men
...pertension related to detoxification also showed a protracted pattern of cardiovascular dysfunction after a period of abstinence from alcohol. This is in contrast to previous studies showing that men with tHT return to 'normal' resting cardiovascular functioning after a period of abstinence, and manifest cardi...Duke ecologist finds devastation, hope in Iraqi marshes
...imated, through a combination of upstream damming, protracted warfare, and deliberate draining. The draining was done by Saddam Hussein's government, both for land development and to suppress an indigenous 5,000-year old Marsh Arab culture that opposed his regime. For Richardson and his colleagues who made the ...AVANT to develop an oral anthrax and plague vaccine for U.S. Department of Defense
... anthracis) and plague (Yersinia pestis) require a protracted dosing regimen or provide only limited protection, and each vaccine protects against only a single agent. The Defense Department is looking for new, improved generation vaccines that are effective, single-dose, and can protect against multiple agent...Public health report stresses worker protection as key component of homeland security
...safely after two weeks of 12-hour days. Continued protracted efforts then "begin to take a toll in both physical and mental terms," which leads to increased risk taking, injuries and illness. Worker protection standards must be enforced. With personnel at the scene of the World Trade Center numbering more ...Genes, maltreatment, and the cycle of violence
... programs to prevent its manifestation through the protracted use of psychotropic medications in as-of-yet undiagnosed teens. Of course, medicating young people based on family history, vague genetic factors, and the perception by parents that their adolescent's behavior is abnormal in some poorly defined way ...New center to study deadly microbial pathogens
...th cystic fibrosis in the United States dying from protracted infection with Pseudomonas, or a child in Africa dying of malaria," says Dr. Chris Wilson, professor and chair of immunology, one of the co-directors of the center. "Infectious agents remain the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in developing ...Brain damage from HIV, Alzheimer's, may have similar mechanism, SFVAMC researchers say
...at HIV-associated dementia has evolved into a more protracted disorder. Although treatment with anti-retroviral drugs appears to cause macrophages monocyte/macrophages to secrete lower levels of toxins, a more subtle neurotoxicity continues to disable neurons, she said. This neurotoxicity appears to alter leve...Nonprofits, corporations can collaborate to improve environmental management
... corporations address environmental issues through protracted and public conflicts, lengthy administrative processes in government agencies and costly litigation in the courts. Recently, a number of environmental nonprofits have teamed with corporations to launch a wide range of community and international envi...Collapse of simple life forms linked to mass extinction 200 million years ago
...vent was," he said. "It was very quick, not a long protracted episode." Ward now has done research on the last three of the Earth's mass extinctions (scientists know of five) and has found that each happened quite quickly. Bolstered by a recent astrobiology grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administ...October Geology and GSA Today highlights
...lect a simple period of amalgamation, but rather a protracted multi-stage history of supercontinent assembly. Microscale observations of sulfate reduction: Correlation of microbial activity with lithified micritic laminae in modern marine stromatolites. Pieter T. Visscher et al. Although stromatolites are the...Protracted cooling could camouflage effects of global warming
...ng will turn around and we will again experience a protracted period of cooling," Schlesinger said. "If we do see that, we should not conclude that the human effect on climate is small or nonexistent -- or that we have eliminated the problem -- and go back to 'business as usual.' We need to be far more intell......st place; and why some tend to relapse, even after protracted abstinence. These studies of chemical imbalances prompted by heavy drinking could help serveas predictors of future addiction problems. (see page 107, MEDI 157, on Monday,August 23, at 9:45 a.m., at the Convention Center, R09) Tuesday, August 24: Pr......st-injury intervals of 12 hours to two months. The protracted timeframe is unique to this study. Not all regions of the brain responded similarly.Early on, much of the programmed cell death occurred near the surface of thebrain where the injury occurred. Then a progressive wave of cell death extendeddeeper into...