Abnormal fat metabolism underlies heart problems in diabetic patients
...ie heart dysfunction in diabetic heart disease and may be a useful biomarker for diagnosing cardiovascula...e in diabetes," Gross says. "Measuring alterations may be a way to tell the severity of heart disease and to evaluate how well therapies work. In addition,...Circadian clock controls plant growth hormone
... and water, and suggests that many other processes may be influenced by circadian rhythms. Auxin tells shoots to grow away from the ground and toward light and water. Charles Darwin conducted early experiments that showed how auxin affects plant growth. Most plants and animals have an internal clock th...Scientists show that mitochondrial DNA variants are linked to risk factors for type 2 diabetes
...imated that more than 20% of type 2 diabetes cases may involve mutations in the mitochondrial genome. In the study published today, the scientists compared two different rat strains; the strains possessed virtually identical nuclear genomes but different mitochondrial genomes. This eliminated any comp...Smokeless tobacco more effective than cigarettes for delivering dangerous carcinogens into the body
PHILADELPHIA It may not be inhaled into the lungs, but smokeless tobac...lly in places, like an office setting, where snuff may be acceptable while smoking is not. ...No evidence that widely prescribed statins protect against prostate cancer
...e is that our study provides evidence that statins may not have a clinically meaningful impact on testost...Research Institutes. That doesnt mean that statins may be lowering prostate cancer risk through one or more alternative pathways, but it doesnt appear to b...Genetic variation helps to understand predisposition to schizophrenia
...be overexpressed in the human brain. These results may provide a new way to design better drugs to treat ... changes that alter the expression of this protein may contribute to schizophrenia by modifying the development and wiring of the brain, Law says. By under...Gilbert Foundation and American Fed for Aging Research award grants on Alzheimer's disease
...p in the processing of proteins within neurons and may represent an entirely novel class of candidates fo... protein accumulation in AD. These new techniques may also be broadly applicable to more than 25 diseases that have been shown to be associated with prote...A study by the MUHC and McGill University opens a new door to understanding cancer
...cular Cell provides a key to these mechanisms that may prove crucial in the future. The paper is co-autho...that can become a cancer. In the long term, this may serve as a basis for us to find ways to intervene in this chain reaction and discover a treatment ad...New study suggests Concord grape juice may provide protection against breast cancer
...ting this disease, lifestyle and nutrition choices may also play a role. One dietary choice that may help provide protection against breast cancer is a glass of 100 percent grape juice made from deep p...European Science Foundation's Forward Look reaches out beyond the endless frontiers
...mittees ( http://www.esf.org/research-areas.html ) may propose topics that might be stimulated by their own scientific activities. On the other hand ESF Member Organisations, among them research councils, research performing organisations and academies, are also invited to put forward their topic suggest...Brain blood flow gives clues to treating depression
...family members, friends and co-workers. Depression may be related to a chemical imbalance in the brain th...CT and the radiotracer 99mTc-HMPAO. Our findings may aid in elucidating the mechanism of depression and its treatment, said Bonne. There may be more than...... much about our ancestors and their behavior. Such may be the case with an ape that lived more than nine ...of Spain. While the authors ponder that the fossil may be from a direct ancestor of living great apes (especially the orangutan), Dr. C. Owen Lovejoy, Kent...Smithsonian scientists show differing patterns of rainforest biodiversity
...but all rainforests are not the same. Biodiversity may be more evenly distributed in some forests than in others and, therefore, may require different management and preservation strategies. That is one of the conclusions of a large-...Acute sleep deprivation leads to changes in nighttime urine production for men and women
... higher blood pressure on sleep deprivation nights may also have affected the blood pressure in the kidney producing an osmotic diuresis. The researchers found that during nighttime, acute sleep deprivation leads to: an increased urine output more evident in males a reduced fall in blood pr...Study finds gender differences in renal and other genes contributing to blood pressure
...sease. Previous studies have reported that gender may affect vascular physiology and the bodys response to some types of blood pressure medications. Although gender is usually accounted for in association studies, newer research has focused on identifying autosomal (not on the X or Y chromosomes) genes...Cardio exercise benefits in male vs. female hearts
...s different for females versus males. The findings may eventually help improve treatment strategies for women and men with heart disease. The study is entitled Voluntary Exercise Induces Sex-Specific Physiological Cardiac Remodeling. It was conduced by Sebastian Brokat, Kathleen Cantow, Nadine Ehrenbe...Study suggests estrogen deficiency can lead to obesity-induced high blood pressure after menopause
... the idea that estrogen deficiency in aged females may trigger the development of high blood pressure and...suggest that the loss of estrogens after menopause may contribute to the development of obesity and hypertension, opening new therapeutic approaches to pos...Satellite tracking reveals threats to Borneo pygmy elephants
...phants, the Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary, may be too small and too fragmented to support a viabl...o help predict locations where elephants and farms may come into future conflict. While pygmy elephants can live in logged and secondary forests, it is...Testosterone replacement therapy: How safe for aging men?
...tural decrease in testosterone brought on by aging may affect the progression of pre-existing cardiovascular/renal disease.......ught to contribute to the differences, as hormones may influence the body's responses to renal injury. Estrogen especially may exert certain cellular effects on the kidney because it can suppress the growth of scar tissue as we...