High resolution satellite imagery assists hunt for infectious 'kissing bugs'
...y a microscopic protozoan parasite that causes the wasting and eventually lethal Chagas disease. Secondary sources of infection can include ingesting contaminated food, mother to child transmission like during breast feeding and tainted blood transfusions. Infection by this Trypanosoma cruzi parasite may cau...Frogs muscle-in on 'wasting' process
...l deprivation, such as drought." Similarly, muscle wasting experienced by astronauts, bed-ridden patients and the elderly, could be addressed. "A person forced into similar inactivity, would lose in excess of 90 per cent of their muscle strength. This is both a health burden for global populations and a barr...New research supports theory that indirect transmission of chronic wasting disease
...urescenarios over the course of one year. Chronic wasting disease is a fatal neurological ailment of elk,white-tailed deer and mule deer. Most researchers believe thedisease is caused by an aberrant prion protein that misfolds inthe brain, destroying brain tissues as it progresses. Clinicalsigns include let...Researchers make major gain in understanding how prions jump species
...halopathy (mad cow disease) in cattle, and chronic wasting disease in deer and elk. It is generally believed that the infectious agent responsible for these fatal diseases is not a virus, but an abnormally shaped form of the prion protein. This highly unusual pathogen is believed to propagate by acting as a ...Oregon Stem Cell Center result of OHSU research strides
...rs in that area." OHSU researchers like Grompe are wasting no time demonstrating the importance of stem cells. His laboratory is renowned as an international leader in cell therapy for liver and pancreas diseases as an alternative to organ transplantation. Last year, Grompe published a study showing that bon...Science, policy forum focuses on 'mad cow' and related diseases
...tal, prion-caused disease in deer and elk: chronic wasting disease (CWD). These and other related diseases wi...the infectious agent that causes BSE), and chronic wasting disease (CWD in deer and elk). George M. Gray, Executive Director of the Harvard Center for Risk An...... killing brain cells, and causing the neurological wasting that characterizes the disease. Now, Williamson and his colleagues in the Department of Immunology at The Scripps Research Institute are telling another story. In an upcoming issue of the journal Science, Williamson and his colleagues......imortem clinical test, or assay, to detect chronic wasting disease, a variant of mad cow that affects deer and elk. Current tests for such diseases -- known collectively as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, for the sponge-like formations they cause in the brain -- are effective only on slaughtered a...Genetic master switch sends bacteria toward 'seafood dinner'
...ce by a binding protein. This keeps the cells from wasting energy by manufacturing proteins that won't do them any good at that time." Roseman added, "When the bacteria are starving, however, they secrete an enzyme called chitinase into the water. When chitinase touches the discarded shell material, it begi...Link between alcohol consumption and muscle damage in females
...anifestation of alcoholism is the degeneration, or wasting away, of skeletal muscle. The condition, known as alcoholic myopathy, affects up to two-thirds of those who excessively consume alcohol; moreover, women appear to be particularly susceptible. The dominant features of this disorder are cramps, impaire...Dartmouth study advances prion disease research
...uch as Cruetzfeld-Jakob disease in humans, chronic wasting or scrapie in animals have long been known, but these diseases often develop over years, so research to piece together the process has moved slowly. The discovery more than a quarter century ago that prions were proteins, devoid of nucleic acids, up...World Parks Congress focuses on wildlife health issues
... Wildlife diseases such as brucellosis and chronic wasting disease (CWD) cause millions of dollars in damage annually in both Canada and the United States. In South Africa, tuberculosis continues to be a management challenge in Kruger National Park. The primary goal for AHEAD organizers is establishing a mul...Study shows prions stick around in certain soils
...hat has baffled them for decades: How does chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer and elk spread from animal t...nd, to date, there is no cure. Even though chronic wasting disease was first detected in free-ranging deer and elk in Colorado and Wyoming during the mid-1980s...Researchers develop faster, more accurate test for mad cow disease
...ding those that cause scrapie in sheep and chronic wasting disease in deer. With the recent detection of mad cow disease in neighboring Canada and the temporary ban on beef imported from that country, critics have stepped up their call for better testing. To date, there has never been a case of mad cow disea......tion pays an important role in the renal-phosphate wasting syndrome associated with MAS and fibrous dysplasia...ia of bone and its relationship to renal phosphate wasting AUTHOR CONTACT: Paolo Bianco Dipartmento di medicina Sperimentale e Patologia, Universit "La Sapie...New prospects for treating muscular dystrophy: Stem cells restore muscle in MD mice
...in blood vessels may someday be able to regenerate wasting muscle in muscular dystrophy (MD) patients. The authors caution that more research must be done before researchers consider applying these findings to humans. Nonetheless, their results provide a possible new direction for efforts that have met larg...Finished Y-chromosome sequence reveals a genomic 'crystal palace'
... Research. "People would ask why we would consider wasting our time mapping and sequencing it. But, in fact, what we see is that it's a crystal palace." The researchers published their findings in two articles in the June 19, 2003, issue of the journal Nature . Page collaborated with colleagues from the Whi...Clue to prion formation found, offers step toward treating puzzling diseases
...disease -- as well as scrapie in sheep and chronic wasting disease in deer and elk are transmissible. Yet the infectious agent is not a parasite, fungus, bacterium or virus. Instead, it seems to be a prion, which is a protein, but an abnormally shaped one. A normal brain protein called PrPC misfolds into ...2003 ASM Communications Award goes to Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporters
...n, was a two-part series on the arrival of chronic wasting disease in Wisconsin that also explored the comple...ns called prions and the diseases, such as chronic wasting disease, they are believed to cause. The Award, given annually since 1996 to recognize outstanding a...Male pregnancy in seahorses may affect formation of new species
...t to mate with another large seahorse so youre not wasting your eggs or your brood pouch space. So this kind of mating is the real mechanism for sympatric speciation. A lot of forms of parental care might not cause that size-specific restraint in mating, but this one does. In addition to size-specific ma...