Inherited Depression Linked To Shortage Of Cells In Brain Region
...late to the genetic difference that gives people a tendency tobecome depressed." The difference in familial cases amounted to between 25 percent and 40percent. The subgenual prefrontal cortex of the controls contained about 9million glia. The number was reduced to about 7 million in the people withfam...Nutrition Therapy Helps Patients Emotionally, Research Shows
... regimen at home. While the tendency today is to make patients take more responsibility when it comes to diet, Schiller advocated more intervention on behalf of thepatient. "Research now shows that patients who have a...Williams Syndrome: UD Research Pinpoints Language And Learning Traits Of Those With The Disorder
...l deficitmay result, at least in part, from "their tendency to allocate attention tosmaller regions of space than normal children, as well as their difficultiesencoding an object's properties and location," says Barbara Landau, a professorof psychology and director of UD's Language and Cognition Laboratory. T......that are sensitized by inflammation have a greater tendency to initiate dangerous blood clots."When the body mounts an inflammatory response, it releases a substance called C-reactive protein into the bloodstream. Because the amount of C-reactive protein in the blood possibly correlates with the extent of th...New Worlds Of Order, Argentine Ants Succeed By Outnumbering The Competition
...hevoracious appetite of this alien species and its tendency to displace nativeants has been well documented, but until recently scientists knew very littleabout the specific mechanisms used by the insect to gain control of a particulararea. Now a new study, published in the January issue of Ecology, reveals...UF Researcher Finds Way To Slow The Aging Process
...itamin C and beta carotene, all of which fight the tendency ofoxygen to slowly break down muscle mass, might protect against the type oftissue and muscle loss that occur as individuals grow older, Leeuwenburghsaid. "When an individual grows old, we all know that the person loses a lotof muscle mass," ...Offshore DDT Deposit Spreading, Research Suggests
...cean floor. Utilizing equations that describe the tendency of a compound to go from being particulate-bound (adsorbed onto a particle) to being dissolved in water, Zeng found that DDT and PCBs are readily transported from sediment into the water column, even in the absence of any physical disturbance. The sc...Protein Adultery Revealed!: Mechanism Of Protein Folding Captured In Computer Simulation
...oform inert lumps," says Istrail, referring to the tendency of proteins that bindpromiscuously to form something that resembles clumps of spaghetti. A walk on the wild side In Alzheimer's and other protein-based diseases, an amino acid from one proteinlinks to an amino acid on a second protein, rather than ...Fungal Disease Threatens Global Banana Production
...o depend on this crop. Moreover,the pathogen has a tendency to develop resistance or tolerance towards sometypes of fungicides." Historically, genetic resistance in banana to black Sigatoka and other diseaseshas been poor. The situation is changing, however, as a result of new hybridsthat are being developed ...Studies Document Ease Of Ecosystem Disruption
...al wisdom about ecologicalprotection. "Our tendency is to focus research and management efforts on speciesthat have consistent, dramatic impacts on an ecosystem," said Eric Berlow, arecent OSU doctoral graduate now doing research at the University of California,Berkeley. Underlying that approa...Unprecedented View Of RNA Structure Captured
...t to impossible tomanage because of RNA's inherent tendency to be unstable. The trick, Draper discovered, was to use the particularly stable protein incombination with an unusually sturdy RNA from organisms that live in hotsprings. It was also important that Draper's group chose an RNA whose secondarystructur...UCSF Research Team Looking For Volunteers For Nationwide Study On Family Traits And Alcoholism
...traits also depend on choices we make." "A tendency toward high blood pressure might be offset by regular exercise and ahealthy diet. A similar situation seems to apply to alcoholism. Personality,behavior, and how well someone can 'hold' his or her alcohol may be inheritedtraits that affect how like...Stressed-out mice offer clues to depression, anxiety, anorexia
... mice. "This test is based onthe animal's natural tendency to explore its environment in the absence of aperceived threat and to retreat to an enclosed area when fearful," Seasholtzexplains. Experimental and control animals produced nearly the same amounts of the stresshormones ACTH and corticosterone during...New drugs target HIV's deep pocket
... numerous reasons, including poorstability and the tendency to trigger an immune response. Using peptides made of D-amino acids, which can be synthesized in thelaboratory, avoids these problems. Because human cells do not naturallyencounter D-amino acid peptides -- no species makes peptides or proteinsexclu...Argonne biochips may halt tuberculosis epidemic
...ch gel pad, the chip takesadvantage of the natural tendency of each DNA base to pair with itscomplementary base. When tests begin, a sample of unknown single strands oftuberculosis DNA will be spread on a chip and allowed to naturally pair up inthe gels with single strands of tuberculosis DNA with identified ...Higher obesity rates prevail among Dutch women exposed to famine in utero
...ociated with the so-called "metabolic syndrome": a tendency to highcholesterol levels, hypertension, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Womenwhose mothers were exposed to the famine early in their pregnancies wereespecially prone to later obesity, and the investigators conclude that thisdifference cannot be...Smells may trigger alcohol craving, and relapse, among alcoholics
...ter successful short-term treatments, has a strong tendency to reoccur." Weiss said there are both biological and 'situational' factors involved in relapse; situational factors that include stress, a particular neighborhood, a piece of music, the sight of a liquor bottle, a bar environment, or the smell of a...... other parts of thepool and showing much less of a tendency to search for the platform. "They seemed to have trouble making a map in their heads, like the normal rats did, so they couldrecall where the platform was," Lai said. "Their spatial reference mapping or 'place learning'strategies seemed to be affec......e and Alcoholism, also found support for a genetic tendency for alcoholism. Both Hesselbrock and Stoltenberg spoke of an unknown number of genes -- six to eight, 10 or more -- that each has an influence vis-à-vis vulnerability or susceptibility to alcohol disorders that can be 'shared' with other diso......ve shown that if you disrupt the microtubules, the tendency of the Smad proteins to promote gene expression is strongly enhanced," he said. "If you strengthen the microtubules, they then draw in the Smads and the TGF-beta pathway activity is ...