Substance Discovered That Induces Hair Follicle Formation In The Mature Skin Cells Of Mice
...ifferent functions. In adult epithelial cells, it participates in binding neighboring cells together to facilitate cell-cell communication. But during embryogenesis, beta-catenin appears to have another role: it reacts with a molecule called LEF-1, which is expressed only in cells that will eventually become ha......ergency room volunteer. Shefences, dances hula and participates in church activities, but spends most ofher spare time these days as a medical research assistant in the UH John A.Burns School of Medicine's Geriatric Medicine Program. Her honors thesisexplores individual differences in human neuromotor information...Targeted toxins may revolutionize pain therapy
...xinsaporin to substance P, a peptide that normally participates in the transmissionof painful stimuli. Substance P-saporin gains entry to neurons by binding to thesubstance P receptors that stud the surface. Once inside, saporin halts proteinproduction and kills the cell. In rats, the toxin blocks the developmen...Study: Children with more hours of child care act more aggressively
...titute staff in Research Triangle Park, N.C., also participates in the project. ...Wolfgang Glasser receives ACS award for wood chemistry, bio-based composites research
...ias Center for Innovative Technology (CIT), and he participates in the work of the Wood-Based Composites Center as a researcher and member of the steering committee. Biobased materials are defined as products other than food or feed that use biological, renewable agricultural or forestry materials. Concerns ove...Estrogen's role in preventing female cardiac disease
...s. "This is the first demonstration that FKBP12.6 participates in excitation/contraction coupling in the normal heart." More surprising to the researchers, however, was the difference between male and female mice, both lacking the gene for FKBP12.6. Even though heart cells in female and male mice had the same g...Fit seniors better able to react when quick thinking needed, study says
...he senior citizen who swims, jogs, plays tennis or participates in some type of regular exercise program is likely to be better prepared to respond to situations requiring quick thinking than a peer who logs too much time in the recliner. So say researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who e...Nitric oxide crucial to respiration
...ood cells to get a better idea of how nitric oxide participates in these diseases," McMahon said. "We hope this will allow us to develop better ways of diagnosing and treating these diseases." Currently, the technology to measure the levels of nitric oxide in the blood is complicated and time-consuming, ...Memorial Sloan-Kettering scientists uncover function of BRCA2 protein
... broken DNA strands. Researchers showed that BRCA2 participates in the repair of "double-strand" breaks: These breaks are a particularly lethal type of damage because if both strands of the DNA double helix break at the same time, cells can permanently lose genetic information. The structure revealed that BRCA2 b...Aging lowers activity in brain's language areas; performance unaffected
...ns on both sides of the brain. The parietal cortex participates in word pronunciation and the decoding of meaning (among many other functions). The visual areas are concerned with processing written material. Increased brain activity with age was seen in an area of the brain known as the posterior cingulate corte...Human cytomegalovirus may be involved in colorectal cancer
...studies to establish whether human cytomegalovirus participates in pathogenesis of colorectal cancer."...The Gerontological Society of America confers 2003 Freeman Award to U. of Washington's Abrass
...of Medicine at Harborview Medical Center, where he participates actively in the care of geriatric patients. He supervises medical students, residents, and fellows, and has served as a clinical and research mentor to numerous talented fellows and postdoctoral trainees in geriatric medicine. He is widely published ...JAMA study confirms drug can help improve memory and cognition in advanced Alzheimer's patients
... say things like, 'Gee, he's more like himself; he participates in and can follow a conversation; he can talk on the phone; he does not get as upset.' Or, 'He doesn't appear to be declining the way he did before,'" Tariot added. "While memantine is not a cure for Alzheimer's, if it helps to keep a person with Alz......cepted as indicating a risk of heart disease, also participates in the process of atherosclerosis that narrows heart arteries, said a Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) researcher. In a report that went online in the "rapid track" portion of the website of Circulation, the journal of the American Heart Association...