NIH Honors Emory Researcher With Merit Award For Work On Renin-Angiotensin System
... mice fathered litters withmuch smaller numbers of offspring than those of typical wild mice, suggestingthat testis ACE is necessary for full male fertility (Laboratory Investigation,1994). In addition, mice lacking somatic ACE have an unusual renal phenotypecharacterized by the inability to effectively concen...'DES Daughters' Had Increased Rates of Cancer; An Animal Study Shows 'DES Granddaughters' May Too
... 'DESdaughters') but not in their unexposed female offspring (the 'DESgranddaughters'), the scientists said. The study was reported today in the scientific journal Carcinogenesis(September, pp. 1655-1663) by Retha R. Newbold, Rita B. Hanson and Wendy N.Jefferson, all of NIEHS; Bill C. Bullock of ...Painful Births For Babies Could Lead To Violent Suicide In Adulthood
(Obstetric care and proneness of offspring to suicide as adults: case-control study) Minimising pain and discomfort for an infant during birth seems to be of importance in reducing the risk of committing suicide by violent means in later life, claim a team of researchers from Sweden in th...Low Folate Levels In African American And Mexican American Adults
...olate levels are a risk for neural tube defects in offspring andpotentially other diseases. In the third NHANES both African American andMexican American adults have lower serum and red cell folates than white adultsregardless of education, underscoring need for improved diet and folatesupplements. For more in...Study: Birth Defects Decrease Survival, Childbirth, Boost Risk Of Similar Defects
...nthan others but face an increased risk of bearing offspring with the sameproblem, the research shows. Investigators found no higher-than-normal chancethat an infant would have a different birth defect from his or her mother. A report on the findings appears in Thursday's issue (April 8) of theNew Engl...Hormone involved in reproduction may have role in the maintenance of relationships
...t building and pupretrieval in rats, acceptance of offspring in sheep, and the formation of adultpair-bonds in prairie voles. In humans, oxytocin stimulates milk ejectionduring lactation, uterine contraction during birth, and is released duringsexual orgasm in both men and women. Turner and her colleagues tes...UI study suggests variable effects of fetal alcohol syndrome on brain
...(MRI) and post-mortem analyses, the team foundthat offspring of macaque mothers fed 170 - 270 milligrams (mg) of alcohol perdeciliter of blood (sufficient to bring blood alcohol concentrations to .17 to.27 mg percent) for several weeks or months had more axons in their corpuscallosums than did control animals....Scientists develop transgenic mouse that models Parkinson's, related disorders
...eggs were then implanted into mice, which produced offspring expressing the gene in neurons. Among the offspring were animals with high levels of protein in the brain; these animals have been used to develop a col...Parenting, stress and your child's risk for alcoholism
...ts are also very good at cueing into whether their offspring are aroused or anxious, and then helping them to calm themselves down." Higley's study looked at rhesus monkeys, which share between 90 to 95 percent of their genetic material with humans. These monkeys also have a similar adrenal system which, for ...Hospital researchers identify gene important in certain cancers
...ividing. In this way mutations are not passed onto offspring cells. If either this FOR protein or p53 are absent due to deletion/mutation of their respective genes, then mutated cells can divide and proliferate unchecked, allowing development of a full-blown cancer. Ongoing research by the hospital research te......0 times greater than the worst study sample, rats' offspring died within days of birth. PFOS will be phased out of use in all products by 2002, meaning that the compound will no longer be used in 3M products after existing supplies are sold, according to Zobel. Some reformulated Scotchgard products, starting...Using cocaine during pregnancy may damage developing fetuses, causing lifelong learning disabilities
...t rats and then assessing short term memory in the offspring when they were adolescents and adults. The test animals were placed in a cage with two identical objects. They were then removed from the cage for a brief interval, and then put back in with one of the former objects and a second new object. If the a...Exploring the brain chemistry of people at risk for alcohol disorders
...ated risk for future alcoholism that is present in offspring of alcoholics." "It is critical that researchers find out if this pattern of reduced responsiveness to aversive stimuli actually predicts the development of alcohol problems," said Finn. "One approach is to see whether young individuals such as youn...Non-traditional roles may boost risk of heart disease and death
...entative sample of 5,209 adult residents and their offspring in Framingham, Mass. Participants included 1,769 men and 1,913 women, ages 18 to 77 years, who completed psychological surveys during the third examination of the Framingham Offspring Study and were followed for 10 years for incidence of coronary hea...Family history of hypertension is related to maladaptive behavioral responses
... in the May issue of Health Psychology, finds that offspring of hypertensive parents react more negatively, bot... and colleagues of West Virginia University. Those offspring who have hypertensive parents not only exhibit exaggerated physiological reactivity to stressors but...Drug protects fertility, offspring in mice after radiation exposure
...ccomplished without yielding genetic damage in the offspring of the irradiated mothers. Researchers at Memorial...-treated mothers delivered normal litters, and the offspring appeared normal by several criteria. Further, subsequent generations also appeared normal. Neverth...Mothers who drink during pregnancy may increase children's cancer risk, study shows
...gher rate; their study also showed that the female offspring had higher breast density, and more estrogen receptors--both of which have been linked to higher breast cancer risk in humans. Rat mothers consuming alcohol during pregnancy had higher circulating estrogen levels, and high in utero estrogen levels ha...Study suggests that tomboys may be born, not made
...arly 1990s -- enrolled in the study. Data from 679 offspring of the 14,138 children born during the study were analyzed. The researchers obtained blood samples from the pregnant women during routine prenatal medical care; 55 percent of the women had blood taken between weeks 8 and 24 of the pregnancy; a quarte...Years to your health! Children of centenarians have less heart disease
...vives past age 20. Average age of the centenarian offspring in the study was 71.1 years, and average age of controls was 69.7 years. One of the c-children had two parents who lived to age 100, but that is too small a sample to draw any conclusions about possible enhanced benefits of being a two-parent c-child...In 15 seconds, new test will ID presence of 25 most common mutations of cystic fibrosis
...ase allele, a process of recombination produces an offspring with the double mutation necessary to cause the di...etic counselor will explain the severity of CF any offspring would have, should an identical mutation be found in the male. When both parties have the same mutat...