A vegetable fiber from tomato which can be used in making functional meat and bakery foods
...en that fibre is an ingredient that has beneficial physiological effects (preventing and protecting against a number of illnesses in the body). That is, fibre enrichment principally augments the added value of foodstuffs nutritionally. Likewise, the use of tomato fibre creates products with new sensorial attribu...Sphingolipids with therapeutic ends
...ny kind of infection or traumatic event. This is a physiological process called apoptosis. Certain sphingolipids also regulate this process. Why is this important? Imagine a metabolic dysfunction or alteration that causes the growth of a tumour. Perhaps the advance of this can be detained by adding certain sphin...Single genetic defect causes early heart disease
... development and contributes to an array of normal physiological processes in adults. Lifton emphasized that the compromised Wnt pathway is intriguing and the pathway will likely become an important research target for understanding coronary artery disease. "For example, now that we know that altered Wnt signaling...Research suggests a significant circadian rhythm in swim performance lasting 2-4 minutes
...ndocrine system, drives many of our behavioral and physiological rhythms. Researchers have speculated that there...m managers will find it useful to add the study of physiological concepts such as circadian rhythms to provide a potential edge for victory. ...Research physiologists convene for 120th Annual Meeting
... research, and dissemination of information in the physiological sciences. From its beginnings in 1887 the Society has grown to more than 10,500 members today. In addition to being a member-based organization, APS is a premier not-for-profit publisher in the life sciences community whose publications are among...Virtual duck bills demonstrate species coexistence
... is that each species has evolved morphological or physiological traits that allow it to exploit some resources more efficiently than all other species. Such partitioning of resources essentially provides each species with exclusive access to resources necessary for its survival. Although coexistence is often attr...Experimental Biology 2007: Today's Research, Tomorrow's Health, April 28-May 2
...f experimental evolution (selecting for particular physiological attributes in large laboratory populations) as a tool of physiological analysis. Other workshops include human subject research ethics and the challenge of presenting bas...Killing the messenger RNA -- But which one?
...dergo a kind of molecular editing with significant physiological consequences. A single substitution in their seque...he one gene we investigated, this differential has physiological consequences seen in the elevated uric acid levels." Given the fact that the PRPS1 gene was random...Smoking produces changes in human brain like those in animals using illicit drugs
... University. "The chemical changes alone suggest a physiological basis for nicotine addiction." Kuhar was not involved in this study. Hope and his colleagues studied samples of human brain tissue from the nucleus accumbens and the ventral midbrain, brain regions that play a part in controlling addiction-related...Environment and exercise may affect research results, UA study shows
...used widely by researchers to aid in understanding physiological functions at the cellular and molecular level. Essentially, it eliminates one or both copies of a gene that produces a specific protein or enzyme. Dr. Baldwin, a professor of physiology and psychology at the UA College of Medicine, developed a stu...Neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky will discuss stress, health, Feb. 17 at AAAS meeting
...sky has spent more than three decades studying the physiological effects of stress on health. His pioneering work i...roops of baboons in Kenya to gather behavioral and physiological data on individual members, including blood samples, tissue biopsies and electrocardiograms. "We'v...Scripps research team discovers a chemical pathway that causes mice to overeat and gain weight
...t inflammatory mediator that controls a variety of physiological functions including fever, fertility, and blood pressure. The most common anti-inflammatory and analgesic treatments like ibuprofen are aimed at reducing PGE2 signaling at all four prostaglandin receptors. The absence of EP3 receptors has long been...Decision-making -- Demonstration of a link between cognition and execution
... a fundamental advance in our understanding of the physiological role of the basal ganglia and, more specifically, of Parkinson's disease. This work was published on January 31 in The Journal of Neuroscience. There are two phases in the genesis of a movement directed towards a target when several choices are p...Reversal of symptoms in an autism spectrum disorder
... is the recovery of LTP, which is the best current physiological correlate of learning and memory. These findings are very encouraging for those searching for a treatment because they give hope that the symptoms could not only be halted from progressing, but the course of the disease itself may be able to be reve...Male sweat boosts women's hormone levels
...fumes and colognes - changed mood, sexual arousal, physiological arousal and brain activation in women. Yet, cont...l, androstadienone, does cause hormonal as well as physiological and psychological changes in women. More cognitive studies need to be done to understand how androst...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...is case yeast. Subjects were wired to measure nine physiological indicators. After odor exposure, the subjects watc...mples of saliva. As expected, AND heightened mood, physiological arousal, and subjective sexual arousal compared to control subjects. In addition, cortisol levels we...Stanford-led study closes in on genes that may predispose some people to severe depression
...ikely mixed in as well, things such as non-genetic physiological problems or psychological traumas. Some 10 to 15 percent of people suffer from severe depression at some point in their lives, and 3 to 5 percent have it more than once. Women are twice as likely to develop depression as men, although the reason is...Articles on animal migration published in BioScience
...y and John C. Wingfield describe morphological and physiological adaptations involved in seasonal migrations. They note that the control mechanisms that regulate migration and coordinate it with local conditions are largely unknown, and that the potential for disruption by climate change is great. Robert A. Cheke ...Breakthrough in nanodevice synthesis revolutionizes biological sensors
... detection of hydrogen ions or acidity, within the physiological range of reactions in the body. Traditional assays for detection of immune system cells such as T cells or for antibodies usually take hours to complete. "The ability to differentiate between immune system cells based on their function and with l...Joslin discovers protein that causes blood vessel leakage and swelling with diabetic retinopathy
...duct the necessary experiments to characterize the physiological effect of these proteins and how they were exerting these abnormal effects. The researchers then investigated several different lines of study and found that CA-1 increased retinal edema -- the swelling of the retina. "This is the first evidence w...