Purdue researchers design fishes' diets to make you healthier
...sh eating specially formulated diets high in fatty acids could improve people's health and also satisfy dif...LA to fishes' diets we can get more of these fatty acids into the fishes' tissues than is found in any other animal," said Brown, a nutritional aquaculturali...Anesthesia drug may better protect newborn brains during heart surgery
...crease the amount and effects of deleterious amino acids in the brain. The current study builds on previous animal research by the Children's Hospital team, which showed neurological benefits to using desflurane during DHCA. Approximately 40,000 babies are born in the United States every year with cardiova...New guidelines focus on fish, fish oil, omega-3 fatty acids
..., Nov. 18 Healthy people should eat omega-3 fatty acids from fish and plant sources to protect their heart... of the American Heart Association. "Omega-3 fatty acids are not just good fats; they affect heart health in positive ways," says Penny Kris-Etherton, Ph.D.,...Human cytomegalovirus may be involved in colorectal cancer
...s S Cobbs comments: "Human cytomegalovirus nucleic acids and proteins can be found that specifically localise to neoplastic cells in human colorectal polyps and adenocarcinomas, and virus infection can induce important oncogenic pathways in colon-cancer cells. In view of the many cellular modulatory proper...Flaxseed-rich diet blocks prostate cancer growth and development in mice
...etary fiber reduces cancer risk, and omega-3 fatty acids also have shown a protective benefit against cance...xseed is the richest plant source of omega-3 fatty acids and is high in fiber. Also, flaxseed is a source of lignan, a specific family of fiber-related compo...A nicotine by-product reacts with proteins, say scientists at TSRI
...tly (permanently) to steroids and to certain amino acids on the surface of proteins. These modified steroids and proteins can then interact with other chemicals in the body. Significantly, nornicotine-modified proteins can react to form a variety of compounds known as advanced glycation endproducts. These ...Eating fish cuts risk of dementia
...s well as providing vascular protection, the fatty acids contained in fish oils could reduce inflammation in the brain and may have a specific role in brain development and regeneration of nerve cells, suggest the authors. Healthy dietary habits acquired in infancy could be associated with achievement of h...Prostate cancer program at UCLAs Jonsson Cancer Center designated a site of research excellence
...eir strategy calls for a decrease in omega-6 fatty acids found in animal and vegetable fats and an increase in omega-3 fatty acids delivered through dietary fish and fish-oil supplements. Laboratory studies at UCLA have shown that ...How you respond to high-fat diet is linked to genes
...moderate alcohol and diets high in saturated fatty acids increase the levels of HDL in the blood. But saturated fats also increase the level of low-density lipoprotein (LDL), called "bad cholesterol" because it's associated with heart disease. Generally, LDL increases much more than HDL with saturated fa...A quick-change artist: Tiny protein folds faster than any other
...three-dimensional, blob-like shapes when the amino acids they are composed of spontaneously fold into place...eople. Misshapen proteins, or proteins whose amino acids form an even slightly different configuration than normal proteins, have been connected to Alzheimer...Researchers find trigger for devastating digestive disease, propose treatment
...to an unusually long molecule a chain of 33 amino acids that cannot be broken down by the human digestive system. They immersed the 33-amino acidchain in digestive enzymes derived from bacteria and found that a bacterial enzyme, prolyl endopeptidase, can break the chain into apparently harmless componen...Futile cycle both fights diabetes and causes weight gain
...se, an enzyme that causes fat cells to store fatty acids faster than it produces them. "It is what resear...e cans off of the shelves. The net influx of fatty acids into fat tissue contributes to reduced fatty acids in the bloodstream that, in turn, leads to increa...Artificial liver trials show progress, as transplant candidates wait
...ing effects. Concentrations of ammonia, free fatty acids and amino acid toxins decreased significantly. All patients had improvement in their neurological state, some had decreases in intracranial pressure, and there were some signs that the native livers were regaining the ability to produce important mo...Duke researchers develop method to make safer drugs
...ould neutralize the aptamer by using small nucleic acids that could be paired with the aptamer, much like the DNA in our cells forms paired strands. We developed an aptamer that inhibits a protein required for blood clotting to make a new anticoagulant (blood thinner). We then made an antidote specifically...Essential fatty acids in mothers diet affect infants sleep patterns
...belongs to a class of nutrients known as n-3 fatty acids and is essential for normal visual and central ner...r concentrations of plasma DHA. Because n-3 fatty acids (including DHA) accrue in the fetal tissues primarily during the last trimester of pregnancy, adequa...Dietary change may prevent the most serious form of prostate cancer
...and canola) were not. Consumption of omega-3 fatty acids (found in fatty fish such as salmon and mackerel) also did not have an impact on overall prostate-cancer risk, contrary to experimental studies in cell cultures that have suggested there may be a protective effect. The U.S. Department of Agriculture'...Linoleic acid intake may help cut stroke risk
...sunflower oil, safflower oil, and soybeans. Fatty acids help control blood pressure, blood clotting, inflammation and other body functions. Linoleic acid also tends to lower blood cholesterol. Researchers believe linoleic acid may reduce the risk of ischemic stroke (stroke caused by blood clots) becau...Omega-3 fatty acids may prevent heart disease by improving arterial elasticity
...Nestel et al. examined the role that omega-3 fatty acids play in improving systolic and pulse pressure and ... study adds another potential benefit of n-3 fatty acids to previously known benefits, such as the lowering of triacylglycerols, which appear to aid in the p...Platelet molecule regulates blood coagulation, study finds
...field of blood coagulation as to the role of fatty acids in blood coagulation. Most investigators have long held the belief that PS was simply a co-factor for other components on platelets necessary to form normal amounts of the clotting enzyme but now Dr. Lentz and his colleagues have clearly shown that P...Therapy for mice with prion disease could offer benefit to human beings with CJD
... the fact that these agents do not contain nucleic acids (genetic material). Hans Kretzschmar from Ludwig-Maximilians University and colleagues from the Technical University Munich, Germany, and Coley Pharmaceuticals, aimed to use genetic material (a specific type of nucleotide arrangement called CpG olig...