Pesticides linked to amphibian declines
...effects of very low pesticide doses on amphibians' susceptibility to disease....Genetic clash doubles schizophrenia risk
...ther Rh incompatibility increased these children's susceptibility to schizophrenia. Prior research on this topic had been limited to birth records. "Many studies have shown that mothers of children who develop schizophrenia experience a higher rate of fetal distress and obstetric complications," Palmer said. "We hy...Drug averts Parkinson's disease in fruit flies, suggesting new approach for humans
...-supplemented food as adults, flies with a genetic susceptibility to neurodegenerative disease -- flies that would normally experience a 50 percent loss of dopaminergic neurons by 20 days of age -- maintained normal numbers of these neurons. Geldanamycin tweaks the activity of Hsp90, one of a class of proteins kno...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...l cleaner-resistant staphylococcus aureus: reduced susceptibility to vancomycin and oxacillin and involvement of SigB. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 68. 11: 5417-5421.) Bacterial infection possible cause of liver disease A bacterial infection could be responsible for some cases of chronic liver disease...Linking alcohol drinking patterns to specific genes
...s at risk for alcoholism due to the inheritance of susceptibility genes, and lead to the development of more effective treatment of alcoholic patients. The study is also important for the field of alcohol studies because it demonstrates the importance of studying quantitative measures of drinking, and drinking pat...Eczema patients lack natural antibiotic in skin
...ral infections and therefore could account for the susceptibility of atopic dermatitis patients to eczema vaccinatum...gs could shed light on atopic dermatitis patients' susceptibility to eczema vaccinatum, a widespread skin infection that can afflict those who receive the smallpox va...Wake Forest receives $20 million NIH grant to oversee diabetes genetics study
...ldwide effort to identify the genes that determine susceptibility to Type 1 diabetes. The project, called the inter...en identified." One group of genes that determines susceptibility to the disease is termed HLA genes, which control a person's immune response. Another gene that is ...ADHD in a SNAP: The SNAP gene in attention deficit hyperactivity
...udies have indicated a strong genetic component in susceptibility to ADHD. An approximate five to six fold increase ...ransmitter release that has been implicated in the susceptibility to ADHD. DNA variations within or closely mapped to the SNAP-25 gene may alter the level of expressi...Genetic mutation, most common in Ashkenazi Jews, more than doubles cancer risk
...tween mutations in a gene called BLM and increased susceptibility to colorectal cancer was discovered independently ...chool of Public Health. Some people with a genetic susceptibility develop the disease, while others do not. Understanding the role of diet, physical activity, medicat...Advances in 'micro' RNA exploring process of life
...alities relate to birth and developmental defects, susceptibility to disease, misregulation of genes. And these same processes are also at work in all other life forms, including plants, and new findings could be applied to crop biotechnology or even traditional plant breeding." Continued research, Carrington said...Heart disease gene linked to prostate cancer
...MSR1 may play an important role in prostate cancer susceptibility in both African American men and men of European descent," says Jianfeng Xu, M.D., Dr. PH, of the Center for Human Genomics at Wake Forest. Isaacs and colleagues will conduct additional studies to uncover the pathway that the MSR1 gene controls and c...Wake Forest-Johns Hopkins team discovers prostate cancer gene
...hat "may play an important role in prostate cancer susceptibility in both African-American men and men of European descent." The 31-member team reports in the October issue of Nature Genetics that mutations in the MSR1 (for Macrophage Scavenger Receptor 1) gene were found in 4.4 percent of Caucasians who had prost...Mapping genes for schizophrenia in the South Pacific
...dicate genetic factors contribute substantially to susceptibility to this illness. Small, isolated populations can be useful for gene mapping for two reasons: the genetic causes of illness are typically less heterogeneous, and isolated populations often contain large extended multiplex pedigrees ideal for mapping ...Rad50 and the maintenance of genome stability
...ingle amino acid substitution, may underlie cancer susceptibility in the human population. In describing future project aims, Dr. Petrini states that "One of the next steps will be to examine the tumors that arise in these animals and establish a detailed genetic picture of the sorts of chromosome changes that occu...Emory to receive more than $6.5 million to study environmental risk factors for Parkinsons disease
...d cell models of PD to determine which genes cause susceptibility or resistance to the PD-inducing effects of pestic... of PD patients, environmental factors and genetic susceptibility will be examined closely. Dr. Levey will use brain samples from post-mortem Parkinson's patients an......tion of hypertension reduces the incidence and the susceptibility of patients to brain damage. Now a researcher suggests that linoleic acid, a doubly unsaturated fatty acid, which is essential in nutrition in mammals. It cannot be produced in animals, the sources of this needed nutrient are vegetable seed oils, s...Gene could hold key to predicting, combating life-threatening abnormal heart growth
...rt growth. "This gene exhibits the properties of a susceptibility gene for hypertrophy," Olson said. "In principle we eventually could identify people who don't have enlarged hearts but have mutations in that gene and tell them they're at risk." During the study Olson's team created mouse models that lacked HDAC9 a...Gene may protect abused kids against behavior problems
... science would never have known about the gene for susceptibility to the disease," Moffitt explains. By turning to maltreatment -- an environmental pathogen known to bring about antisocial behavior -- the UW-Madison researchers were able to identify a genetic variable necessary to solve the equation of why only so...Genes, maltreatment, and the cycle of violence
...5 "Science is learning more and more about genetic susceptibility factors in childhood and adolescence which, couple...phrenia Research (51, 2002) was devoted to genetic susceptibility to schizophrenia and the ongoing research programs to prevent its manifestation through the protract...Immune system component found common to both humans and worms
...ntified two genetic mutations associated with this susceptibility in genes that are part of a signaling pathway also known to be involved in the innate immune response of humans. "Because it's the only known component of the immune system common to both C. elegans and humans, this pathway probably represents the ...