Fruit fly helps reveal the secrets of the fragile-X-syndrome
...has been knocked out display behavior problems and disturbances in the brain. It is these modified flies that the research team in Leuven is using as their model system. Actin and profilin Their research has led to the discovery that fruit flies that produce no dFMRP in turn produce more profilin. Profilin, a ...Molecular trigger for Huntington's disease found
... brain cells. The researchers also speculated that disturbances in p53 may also play a role in some forms of Parki...our findings provide a molecular mechanism linking disturbances of nuclei and mitochondria in HD." Download PDF...JCI table of contents August 1, 2005
...g it a potential drug candidate for diseases where disturbances in neurogenesis are a factor. Title: The hematopoietic factor G-CSF is a neuronal ligand that counteracts programmed cell death and drives neurogenesis AUTHOR CONTACT: Armin Schneider Axaron Bioscience, Heidelberg, Germany Phone: 049-622-145-4713; ...Stepping up therapy for stroke and other CNS disorders
...g it a potential drug candidate for diseases where disturbances in neurogenesis are a factor....Scientists uncover new clues about brain function in human behavior
...This may be the first study to identify functional disturbances in a brain pathway associated with abnormal social behavior caused by a genetic disorder," said NIMH Director Thomas R. Insel, M.D. In this study, investigators used functional brain imaging (fMRI) to study the amygdala and structures linked to it i...Discovering an ecosystem beneath a collapsed Antarctic ice shelf
...as opened the pristine chemical-based ecosystem to disturbances and debris that have already begun to bury the delicate mats and mollusks established within the underwater environment. He added that there may be a sense of urgency to investigate the unusual seafloor ecology below the Larsen shelf because of the l...Choline during pregnancy may avoid, reverse some Fetal Alcohol Syndrome nervous disorders
...ilities, mental retardation and sleep and suckling disturbances in infancy. Claybaugh believes there is reason to continue research on several levels: Study whether prenatal ethanol-induced vasopressin and oxytocin system damage can be overridden by post-natal administration of choline in pups. (Post-natal chol...Invasive honeysuckle opens door for new hybrid insect species
...ther. According to the researchers, such man-made disturbances could create many more situations in which new hybrid species could form....Census of Marine Life explorers surprised by diversity, density of Arctic creatures
...uld polar caps continue receding, hypothetical new disturbances on the northern ocean such as energy exploitation, fishing and shipping. The research compares species distribution in the shelf, slope and deep sea regions (the deep sea is generally agreed to begin at 1,000 meters). Investigations of the seawat...Coyotes in the suburbs, bears in the backyard
... that military exercises replace, in part, natural disturbances that land managers have reduced or eliminated in o...ntensity, compared with more uniform human-induced disturbances that occur in other places. The researchers postulate that the resulting multi-faceted habitat supp...USGS Science at Ecological Society of America
... they perform. Because ants are also influenced by disturbances and environmental stress and can provide important clues to environmental change. USGS scientists collected ants in areas subjected to different disturbance levels in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, in Canyonlands National Park, and ...A novel method to measure circadian cycles
...een large populations for genetically linked sleep disturbances such as advanced and delayed sleep phase syndromes. They may also use this test to hone in on the genetic mechanism responsible for such conditions. Outside the realm of medicine, future genetic studies of circadian rhythm may exploit the method deve...Joslin study sheds light on birth defect cause in pregnant women with diabetes
...ate effects on Pax3 expression, or whether the two disturbances were linked. To their surprise, when they investigated the production of free radicals, they found that embryos of oxygen-restricted mice showed the same three- to five-fold changes in markers of oxidative stress as did embryos of glucose-injected mi...Logging doubles threat to the Amazon, rivaling clear-cutting, study suggests
...le map of the ubiquitous but very diffuse types of disturbances that exist in Brazil or in any tropical forest," Asner said. The researchers found that, from 1999 to 2002, selective logging added 60 to 128 percent more damaged forest area than was reported for deforestation alone in the same study period. The to...Bone marrow stem cells may heal hearts even years after heart attacks
...til now irreversible heart complaints and function disturbances in patients with chronic coronary artery disease after myocardial infarction, even many years after heart attack. Therefore there is hope for this large amount of patients with previous myocardial infarction and non-treatable complaints," said Bodo E...Zebrafish and CHIP help untangle protein misfolding in brain disease
...al damage leads to movement disorders, psychiatric disturbances and cognitive decline. The mutated protein contains an abnormally long stretch of a repeated amino acid and is prone to misfold and clump together, forming aggregates. Working with several models of Huntington's disease (HD), Paulson and his colleagu...ECCO 13 explores issues in cancer patient management
...nd after chemotherapy treatment. Fatigue and sleep disturbances were significantly increased after the treatment period, but no changes emerged in the rates of anxiety or depression throughout chemotherapy. Nevertheless a significant proportion of the cancer patients studied (almost a third), were found to be exp...Studying substitute animals will not save endangered species
...ormation about population responses; human induced disturbances will not always affect common and rare species in the same fashion. "After all, target species are the ones that are doing poorly, whereas other taxa continue to persist or even thrive despite human disturbance," authors Tim Caro, John Eadie, and An...New model protects wetlands of the future
...clarity or shoreface slopes as a result of natural disturbances or restoration efforts. Often, only the existing SAV beds are considered for conservation efforts. This model helped set a restoration goal; and the assessment of potential beds provides protection of these areas from future degradation. The gen...Study in Royal Society journal on link between creativity and mating success
...production of tryptophan even in presence of large disturbances in the individual process units. This superior performance, arising from a design principle, is intrinsic and therefore inherent to any similarly designed system, either natural or engineered. The study reverse engineers the design principle of the b...