Putting physiology into the Nobel Prize: 2004 marks 100th anniversary of Pavlov's award
... "in recognition of his works on the physiology of digestion with which works he transformed and broadened substantially the knowledge in this field." Pavlov made many contributions to physiology and medicine and was key in recognizing the important link between the two. According to Gerard P. Smith in his a...Peakadilly nv biopharmaceutical firm created
...r all life processes in our cells - regulating the digestion of our food, communication between cells, and so on. Defects in (the activity of) particular proteins are at the basis of many diseases (such as diseases of the muscles and cancer), and the development of medicines focuses on restoring or positively ...In a tiny squid, bacterial toxin governs organ development
... the gut and help with critical processes, such as digestion and the provision of certain vitamins. Also, the bacterial partners that normally occur with the healthy human are critical for the development of the immune system. There is evidence, for example, that their influence is responsible for suppressing ...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...aucier, G. Piette. 2004. Postprocessing in vitro digestion challenge to evaluate survival of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in fermented dry sausages. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 70. 11: 6637-6642.) *************************************** Shock Therapy Effective Against Bacteria on Stainless Steel I...Timing scavenging to prevent age-related blindness
...unction. How this synchronous cycle of uptake and digestion is maintained is not completely clear. Nandrot and... unable to pick up rod cell fragments. The link to digestion was also surprising because integrin signaling has never been linked to cellular digestion functions...... not been activated by a ligand are protected from digestion by that protease. Now, in a report published in the December 29 issue of Current Biology, Shigeo Hayashi (Group Director, Laboratory for Morphogenetic Signaling) and colleagues at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (Kobe, Japan) have identifi...Calcium may protect women from cancer
... secondary bile acids that are produced during the digestion of fat and are highly irritating to the cells in the lining of the colon. The evidence in support of this theory is not very strong. "An alternate theory is that calcium has a direct impact on a whole series of biochemical pathways within the cells...Mutant protein developed by Hebrew University scientists
...petite and later by its effect on growth, puberty, digestion and immunological processes. Leptin can also have negative consequences, such as, for example, enhancing the spread of tumorous growths. In his laboratory at the Hebrew University's Faculty of Agricultural Food and Environmental Quality Sciences i...Study of genomic DNA leads to new advances in cancer diagnostics
...estion. Non-malignant cells were sensitive to DNA digestion by Alu I while highly malignant cells were resistant. These results suggest that a cell's DNA, or chromatin, is protected during malignancy. This effect was confirmed using three pairs of cell types (normal melanocytes and melanoma cells, normal br...DNA 'packaging' linked with cancer
...nd malignant tissues respond differently to enzyme digestion could lead to a new diagnostic tool for distinguishing different types of tumors. The researchers also believe that their findings suggest new therapeutic strategies for combating cancer. "Many current forms of chemotherapy target DNA directly and a...Highly adaptable genome in gut bacterium key to intestinal health
...ctivity genes were involved in the acquisition and digestion of carbohydrates. "In mice fed complex carbohydra...larger repertoire of genes related to carbohydrate digestion than any other microbe we know of." Next, the researchers will use germ-free mice to investigate ho...Wind turbine to stir up renewable energy research
...ons focusing on wind, biomass, biofuels, anaerobic digestion and renewable hydrogen. Renewable energy research and demonstration systems under development at the center include the wind-to-hydrogen demonstration project. Other projects are: A biomass district heating and cooling system for UMM; A hybrid win...A frog's life is food for thought
...ts pre-aestivation state, and by the completion of digestion of the first meal the gut was operating on par with that of non-aestivating frogs," she said. "This rate of rectification of gut morphology is virtually unparalleled with the small intestine having increased in mass by 450 percent within just 36 hou...TPA and ATRA a potential one-two punch for cancer of the pancreas
... gland in the abdomen that produces enzymes to aid digestion and hormones, such as insulin, that help balance sugar in the blood. "Pancreas cancer is a tough one to treat. Treatment options are very limited, and not many people survive. TPA has good potential for therapy so it's definitely worth pursuing...Northeast Sun Grant Institute at Cornell spurs 'green revolution'
...verting dairy manure-derived biogas from anaerobic digestion to produce electricity, hydrogen and heat on dairy farms; utilizing used vegetable oil from restaurants to replace diesel fuel for vehicles; investigating the technical and economic constraints of using digester and landfill gases to operate fuel ce...Seaweed could make junk food healthier
...ody's natural protection of the gut wall, can slow digestion down, and can slow the uptake of nutrients in the body. Moreover, alginate is high in fibre and has been proved to be palatable and safe, and as such is already in widespread use by the food industry as a gelling agent, to reconstitute powdered foods...Candidate hookworm vaccine shows benefits in animal study
...th recombinant Ac-APR-1, an enzyme that starts the digestion of hemoglobin in hookworms, induced an immune response and resulted in significantly reduced hookworm burdens and fecal egg counts in vaccinated dogs compared to control dogs after challenge with infective larvae of the hookworm Ancylostoma caninum ...Newly discovered hormone keeps digestive acid in check
... discovered hormone plays an important role in the digestion of fat, cholesterol, and fat-soluble vitamins, such as vitamins A, E, and D, according to a new study in the October 2005 issue of Cell Metabolism. The intestinal hormone sends a signal to the liver that controls the production of bile acid. Manufact...NHGRI's large-scale sequencing research network sets its sights on disease targets
...ect on many human physiological processes, such as digestion and drug metabolism, and play a vital role in disease susceptibility. Sequencing the genomes of these 100 microorganisms found in the human gut, which represent a significant, but unknown fraction of all microbes in the human gut, is expected to prov...When do mosquitoes prefer a blood banquet, or a sugar feast? Three genes make the call
...od digestion, and started expressing one for sugar digestion and fat retention. "We are just beginning to understand the genes that regulate diapause," Denlinger said. "There are other genes that we are looking at, and we want to find the ones that signal the switch from one state to another. The genes for the...