Researchers find a genetic connection in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
... in SIDS cases. The 5-HTT gene regulates membrane uptake of serotonin and was therefore considered a likely candidate for SIDS studies. Furthermore, a recent Japanese study of the 5-HTT gene found an association between SIDS and the L/L genotype and L allele. Seeking a similar association in an American...Discovery of iron-acquisition pathway suggests new treatments for drug-resistant Staph. infections
...p drugs that would disrupt the Staphylococcal iron uptake systems," said co-author Eric Skaar, Ph.D., research associate in molecular genetics and cell biology at the University, "which could, in turn, prevent infection. Having the entire pathway provides us with multiple new drug targets." With one known ...School of Public Health awarded $30 million to develop and introduce pneumococcal vaccine
...ions, supply, and financing issues that impede the uptake of the vaccine in developing countries. Establishing the burden of pneumococcal disease and the safety and effectiveness of pneumococcal vaccines are major priorities for the ADIP team.As a milestone driven project, the ADIP is a new approach to publ...Innovative research with pythons offers new insights into the body's digestive processes
...tion of the organ's mass, morphology, and nutrient uptake values, and compared the findings against a control group. Tests for signals other than luminal nutrients: To determine the potential regulatory role of other signals, the researchers (1) identified the cephalic (cranial) phase response on the smal...Tapeworm's chemical trick could make drugs more effective
... certain kinds of drugs to increase their level of uptake into the blood?" An example of a drug that might be more effective if it passed through the intestine at a slower pace is Fosamax, a medicine used to combat osteoporosis that is made by the pharmaceutical giant Merck. The company claimed Fosamax sale...JCI table of contents, March 3, 2003
...rophages is involved in the binding and subsequent uptake of M.tuberculosis. Mice lacking CD44 exhibited a more severe pathologicalresponse to infection with M. tuberculosis: they had a profound defect inthe early recruitment of macrophages to the lungs, enhanced mycobacterialoutgrowth in lung and liver, an...Study of insecticide neurotoxicity yields clues to onset of Parkinson's Disease
...e insecticide permethrin. The increase in dopamine uptake indicated the mouse's system was reacting to a neurochemical insult caused by the presence of the insecticide. The slow response to high levels of exposure to pesticides is caused, Bloomquist thinks, by the system being overloaded and only after a pe...From biology to computing and back again
... asthma, the prediction of epileptic seizures, the uptake of carbon dioxide by forests, and, in vertebrates, the ability of cells to "self-organize" into tissues and the mechanisms that create limbs. The participants are also examining efforts to add mathematical-modeling exercises into undergraduate biolo...What makes the body absorb too much iron?
...t also hints strongly at a link between the body's uptake of iron and the immune system, where hepcidin also has a role to play....New clues emerge about the fate of smog in Sierra Nevada forests
... damage, we need to do a better job of quantifying uptake by the trees," said Meredith Kurpius, lead author of the study and a former UC Berkeley graduate student in ecosystem science. "The forest acts as a type of 'sink,' a place where a lot of the ozone generated as pollution ends up being taken up by the...UGA researcher receives patent for remediation technologies
...combines removal of contaminants from soil by root uptake and concentrates the contaminants in plant biomass. Conventional phytoextraction requires that plants be harvested, which presents the problem of disposal of the contaminated biomass. Use of chemical sequestration does not require killing the plant...Missing link detected in insulin mechanism
...e mechanism for insulin to stimulate this glucose uptake remain to be sorted out. A conundrum is that muscle and fat cells have proteins known as transporters for ferrying glucose, but these transporters are in the wrong place. Instead of being in the cell's surface membrane where glucose can climb aboard...Muslims embrace brave new world of IVF
...Muslims in Lebanon and Sunni Muslims in Egypt. The uptake of IVF has been profoundly influenced by Islamic fatwa declarations. Dr Inhorn, who spent many years studying social and cultural aspects of infertility in Egypt and is now working on a male infertility study in Lebanon, said that a number of Sunni I...First structure of transporter enzyme family is solved
...sporter GLUT4 is responsible for increased glucose uptake in response to insulin stimulation, which has important implications for diabetes. Using the structure of lactose permease we can model GLUT4 and design drugs to control glucose uptake." Membrane transport proteins play a crucial role in maintaining...Endostatin promising treatments for AIDS-related cancer
...they eat things," she said. "Therefore, endostatin uptake by KS cells is rapid, after which the KS cells fail to mobilize the filaments needed for movement. If we could stop this KS cell migration in a human patient, then we could prevent a tumor from progressing beyond a small lesion." Homosexual and bisex...Scientists find key to ocean bacterium that helps control greenhouse gas
...oceans. "A 10 per cent decrease in carbon dioxide uptake by the oceans would leave about the same amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as is produced by fossil fuel burning each year. Therefore, understanding what factors influence this bacterium's ability to regulate carbon dioxide is crucial for hu...New clinical study uncovers mechanism by which chromium picolinate may enhance insulin sensitivity
...lar insulin dependent protein that facilitates the uptake of glucose into cells. "This study demonstrates ...udies, were used to assess the efficacy of glucose uptake on all subjects prior to randomization and at the end of the study. Of the 16 subjects, those rando...Purdue research plots new field in plant genomics
...nderstanding how plants regulate ion transport and uptake could have significant implications for human and ...utrition, Salt says. For example, by modifying ion uptake and transport, scientists may develop plants that contain elevated levels of nutrients essential to ...Physiologists findings make fishing tournaments safer for fish!
...he lamella will also collapse, which inhibits the uptake of oxygen. As a result of Dr. Tufts' research, Shimano Canada Ltd. has now incorporated the following changes into their live-release procedures on the Canadian Fishing Tour, one of Canada's highest profile tournament circuits: Fish are transfer...Salmonella uses molecular staples to change structure of infected cells
...sophisticated," Stebbins says. "It induces its own uptake into a host cell, but once inside, it sends out proteins that turn off the effects induced by SipA and other virulence factors." Findings from the study will allow researchers to probe how other bacteria use virulence factors similar to SipA to chang...