Highlights from the October 2006 Journal of the American Dietetic Association
....6 percent); that it is important to limit fats to lose weight (71.7 percent vs. 52.4 percent) and that they need to lose weight (57.4 percent vs. 28.6 percent). According to the researchers: "These findings are in a...A plan for reintroducing megafauna to North America
... years, more and more evidence suggests that if we lose large animals from ecosystems, they often collapse and biodiversity, along with society, are the ultimate losers," says Josh Donlan (Cornell University). "For millions of years, large animals were the norm all over the world we should start thinking...Unique gene regulation gives chilly bugs survival advantage at bottom of the world
...tists found that adult midges (Belgica antarctica) lose their ability to continually express these protective heat-shock proteins. Instead, like most animals, adult midges produce these proteins only when they are stressed. The discovery currently appears in the online edition of the Proceedings of the Na...FDA approves new epilepsy indication for Lamictal
... People who experience PGTC seizures become stiff, lose consciousness, and jerk repetitively. Patients may fall to the ground, bite their tongue, and lose bladder control. Serious injury, including broken bones, can occur. The seizure will typically las...What animals can tell us about hemorrhage, organ transplants and aging
...ls." How is it that: Hibernating squirrels can lose up to 60% of their blood volume and survive at least 10 hours? Brine shrimp can lie on the shore like brittle skeletons, but snap back to life when placed in water? Naked mole rats can live for 28 years but their mice cousins live only three? Birds l...MIT team describes unique cloud forest
...e greenery disappears it's possible the trees will lose the ability to pull water from the mist and recharge underground reservoirs. A report on their research was published in a recent issue of Geophysical Research Letters. They are also advising the Omani government on handling the problem. The fore...Animal physiology conference sheds light on human physiology
...ks leading up to the migration, but they manage to lose it quickly, even when they don't expend the energy for migration. Hear Piersma, an authority on migratory shorebirds talk on "The physiology of long-distance avian migration" on Sunday, Oct. 8. The details of the talk are embargoed until 3 p.m. that...Compounds in cranberry juice show promise as alternatives to antibiotics
...coli bacteria exposed to cranberry juice appear to lose the ability to secrete indole, a molecule involved in a form of bacterial communication called quorum sensing. E. coli use quorum sensing to determine when there are enough bacteria present at a certain location to initiate a successful infection. "...New National Institute of Mental Health research program launches autism trials
...develop normal language and social skills but then lose these with the onset of autism before age 3. Non-regressive autism, the more common form of the disorder, begins early in life, possibly before birth, with evidence of subtle deficits throughout development. Children with these two forms of autism wi...Studies find general mechanism of cellular aging
...ine. "The studies indicate that certain stem cells lose their ability to divide and replace themselves with age as the expression of p16INK4a increases," said Sharpless, a member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. The trio of reports are published online Sept. 6 in the journal Nature. Th...It's not fair! We are programmed to resist weight loss
...an body is designed to strongly resist attempts to lose weight will be presented at an international gathe...odies have strong mechanisms to defend attempts to lose weight but very weak mechanisms to prevent weight gain. Dr King's weight loss intervention studies...Remarkable physiology allows crucian carp to survive months without oxygen
...sis, Paajanen said. The ponds in Finland gradually lose oxygen following the summer, and from February to April the ponds have virtually no oxygen. Members of the carp family are known for their ability to adapt to anoxic conditions. The crucian carp's cousin, the goldfish, was the pet fish of choice be......repelled by the same signal. Without Rx3 eye cells lose their preference and follow the bulk of brain cells into the other direction. Many other organs are thought to form when sheets of nearby cells expand to form new shapes. The current study suggests that individual cell migration might be a more com...The challenge of reconciling science and society
...why, despite good intentions, scientists sometimes lose the public's trust. "Scientists have dual responsibilities," Carlson explains in the first chapter. "As scientists, they are expected to have ethical standards for conducting researchscientists are also citizens, and they are not exempt from the et...Cortical plasticity: it's time to get excited about inhibition
...ered during a critical period of brain development lose some of their visual acuity and ability to respond to certain visual stimuli. In these experimental conditions, Turrigiano and colleagues explored the visual cortex circuit of young rats by recording electrical activity of neurons and their connectio...Evolving defenses rapidly suppress male killers
... male-killing wBol1 taken from Moorea in Polynesia lose that ability against Southeast Asian males with a Thai or Philippine genetic background, and whether benign wBol1 from Thailand or the Philippines turn lethal against males with a Moorean genetic background. They mated infected Moorean females with T...Life and death in the hippocampus: what young neurons need to survive
...here is cognitive decline," says Gage. "We know we lose the ability to generate new neurons with age. We are currently trying to figure out how to generate as many neurons as possible to potentially enhance learning or increase the amount of neurogenesis in adults." ...New flood-tolerant rice offers relief for world's poorest farmers
...of small farmers in the poorest areas of the world lose their entire crops to flooding," said Pamela Ronald, a rice geneticist and chair of UC Davis's Plant Genomics Program. "Our research team anticipates that these newly developed rice varieties will help ensure a more dependable food supply for poor fa...$14.6 million NIH Grant will build on macular degeneration findings
... blindness in developed countries. People with AMD lose the central part of their vision when the macula, a part of the retina, degenerates. No treatment currently exists for early stages of AMD, which affects nearly 50 million people worldwide. Treatment for advanced stages is very limited. In the pas......lobin disorder that causes some red blood cells to lose their smooth round shape and assume a crescent, or sickle, shape. Sickle cells can become lodged in small capillary blood vessels, with blockage of blood flow leading to pain, stroke, and damage to most organs including the lungs, spleen, kidneys and...