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UTMB study identifies women at risk of gaining excessive weight with injectable birth control

... gainers exhibited three major risk factors: A body mass index under 30, having children before ... those who had gained more than 5 percent of their body weight within six months, or after just two ... include glucocorticoid-like activity, how the body breaks down simple carbohydrates such as glucose, ...

Study explains potential failure of oral contraceptives with obese women

... the effective blood concentrations needed in the body to prevent conception in obese women, it appears ... who are more than 130 percent of their ideal body weight. "When we first test drugs for safety ... we generally do not include people with a high body mass index," Cherala said. ...

Army study improves ability to predict drinking water needs

... oxygen he or she consumes and the more heat the body produces. Sweat is the body's coolant, but it ... individuals lose between one and three liters of body water a day. More activity and warmer climates ... losses. Sweat rates also vary depending on body size, exercise intensity, clothing, air ...

Male seahorses like big mates

... egg and offspring size all increase with female body size in seahorses, suggesting that males may ... concentrating on the importance of partner body size in mate selection. A total of 10 female and ... that sexual selection may act strongly on female body size in wild populations of H. abdominalis, ...

Two dietary oils, two sets of benefits for older women with diabetes

... how two common dietary oil supplements affect body composition suggests that both oils, by themselves, can lower body fat in obese postmenopausal women with Type 2 ... length of time, on the other hand, reduced total body fat and lowered the ...

Can a new implant coating technique create a new six million dollar man?

... surgeons can reconstruct joints in the human body using metal structures implanted to take the ... the implant with a synthetic version allows the body to register the implant as similar to a real ... the body's own material ― which helps the body accept a new implant. The next-generation ...

ESHRE launches international study of polar body screening

... out if a novel method of doing PGS using polar body biopsy and chromosome array analysis offers a ... status of an oocyte in at least 90% of polar body biopsy attempts." The two centres chosen for ... PGS once and for all. If we can show that polar body screening works, it will be a major step forward ...

New trigger for chronic inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis discovered

... A signal molecule made by the human body that triggers the immune system into action may ... When a microbe infects the body, the body responds by turning on a molecular switch to set the immune system into action and protect the body from disease. Today's findings show that a signal ...

NIH expands Human Microbiome Project; funds sequencing centers and disease projects

... to study changes in the microbiome at particular body sites that are healthy or affected by diseases. ... projects listed by principal investigator, body site (s), disease focus and approximate funding ... the relationship of the microbiome from these body sites and esophageal cancer. Jacques Ravel, ...

American Chemical Society's Weekly Presspac -- June 17, 2009

... that vinegar can help prevent accumulation of body fat and weight gain. Their study is scheduled for ... given acetic acid developed significantly less body fat (up to 10 percent less) than other mice. ... involved in breaking down fats, thus suppressing body fat accumulation in the body. ARTICLE #4 FOR ...

3 to 6 months to lose weight gained in pregnancy is normal

... is not only normal, it is necessary. The mother's body has to nourish the growing baby. Her body needs to take on more fluid to support the extra ... Even though many magazines have "get your bikini body back quickly" diets on their covers, promising ...

Caltech researchers explore how cells reconcile mixed messages in decisions about growth

... PASADENA, Calif.The cells in our body are constantly receiving mixed messages. For ... as contact inhibition, is one of the ways the body keeps cell growth in check. When contact ... all other environmental signals. The human body is, after all, a complex environment. And in that ...

Discovery of a water snake that startles fish in a way that makes them flee into its jaws

... a message to the fishes' muscles causing its body to bend into a C-shape facing in the opposite ... the biologist noticed that the first part of its body that the snake moves is not its head. Instead, it ... he put in the aquarium, he confirmed that this body fake produces sound waves intense enough to ...

NIH funds $9.5 million for research on HIV and the human innate immune system

... therapies to provide new insights into how the body keeps us stay healthy. "New evidence surfaces ... mouth against the virus when compared to other body sites. FOUR RESEARCH PROJECTS Through ... how similar complications arise in other body sites" says Weinberg. In two projects, ...

Protein regulates movement of mitochondria in brain cells

... cellular structure that consist of a main cell body and dendrites and axons that project out from the ... are in the process of returning to the cell body perhaps to be recycled or replenished in some ... cell's dendrites and axon and return to the cell body proper. Understanding the mechanisms that ...

Huntington's disease deciphered

... parts of the body. However, the only part of the body that is affected is the nervous system. Why are ... the neuron that shuttles proteins from the cell body where they are synthesized to the synaptic ... cellular trunk, called an axon, between the cell body and the synaptic terminal to be very long. Some ...

Tracking down the causes of multiple sclerosis

... immune cells that should actually protect the body against threats like viruses, bacteria and ... any component of the nervous system as a foreign body and launch an attack. However, it is well known ... study: T cells that identify MOG as a foreign body also react to a second, completely different ...

Fatty foods -- not empty stomach -- fire up hunger hormone

... nutrient metabolism and promote the storage of body fat. The findings, the study's author says, ... during periods of fasting and is found in the body in high concentrations just before meals. It is ... attached to ghrelin by GOAT were produced by the body during fasting. The new data by Tschp and his ...

Researchers engineer metabolic pathway in mice to prevent diet-induced obesity

... are high, a signal is released that tells the body it is too full and that it needs to stop using ... allowed for fat degradation even when the body was full. Ultimately, the research team ... pathway in the liver can affect the whole body adiposity and response to a high-fat diet," said ...

Scholar unconvinced new lie-detection methods better than old ones

... somehow measurable that you can see them in the body through increased breathing, heart rate or by ... she said, is that "when you look at the body and get some kind of information whether it's ... is measuring that somehow you're able to see the body in action without needing any interpretation." ...

Harvard scientist says we are what we eat -- and what we cook

... from other species." Drawing on a wide body of research, Wrangham makes the case that cooking ... networks. Cooked food is also softer, meaning the body uses less energy merely digesting what it takes ... logical explanation for the advances in brain and body size over our ape ancestors," Wrangham says. ...

UF makes gene therapy advance in severe genetic disorder

... dog born with a deadly disease that prevents the body from using stored sugar has survived 20 months ... disease type 1A, the genetic disease stops the body from being able to correctly store and use sugar ... or glycogen, to glucose, the type of sugar the body uses for energy. This prevents ...

Breastfeeding duration and weaning diet may shape child's body composition

... and they have independent influences on body composition in early childhood, according to a ... x-ray absorptiometry to make direct measures of body composition in children at four years of age ... "Most studies linking infant feeding to later body composition focus on differences in milk feeding, ...

New therapy substitutes missing protein in those with muscular dystrophy

... Muscular dystrophy causes the muscles in the body to progressively weaken. Duchenne is the most ... combination spreads around the entire body efficiently and is able to penetrate the muscle ... for missing dystrophin. Because every cell in the body makes utrophin naturally, TAT-utrophin ...

Princeton team's analysis of flu virus could lead to better vaccines

... When a virus like influenza attacks a human, the body mounts a defense, producing antibodies ... that antibodies vie with each other to defend the body and sometimes crowd each other out as they ... are actually less effective at protecting the body against a specific virus are often equally adept ...

Laughing hyenas, wailing levees, the sound of cheese and blaring bagpipes

... sound get closer. Individuals with greater upper body strength and/or stronger cardiovascular systems ... DNA into tissues and cells in the human body -- has been slower than expected since the first ... deliver genes only to the specific parts of the body that they are meant to treat. Cardiologist ...

Lice can be nice to us

... difference between foreign invaders and its own body cells. But sometimes it can mistake self proteins ... non self proteins triggering an attack on its own body and causing an autoimmune disease such as arthritis, asthma, diabetes or multiple sclerosis. Or the body can mistake a harmless substance as a threat ...

Vitamin D levels linked to asthma severity

... provides epidemiological support for a growing body of in vitro evidence that vitamin D insufficiency ... other nutrients, is primarily synthesized in the body rather than consumed. Because about 90 percent of circulating vitamin D is produced by the body in response to sun exposure, deficiency is often ...

Caffeine appears to be beneficial in males -- but not females -- with Lou Gehrig's disease

... in 5-10 cups of coffee per day, controlled for body weight. Clinical measures: Food intake, body weight, body condition, ability to move, clinical score, and ...

Oral contraceptives impair muscle gains in young women

... oral contraceptives (OC) yet its effect on their body composition and exercise performance has not been ... at least 0.5 grams of protein per pound of body weight per day (a third more than is called for ... exercise at 75 percent of their maximum strength. body composition was determined using hydrostatic ...

Caffeine appears to be beneficial in males -- but not females -- with Lou Gehrig's disease

... in 5-10 cups of coffee per day, controlled for body weight. Clinical measures: Food intake, body weight, body condition, ability to move, clinical score, and ...

Oral contraceptives impair muscle gains in young women

... oral contraceptives (OC) yet its effect on their body composition and exercise performance has not been ... at least 0.5 grams of protein per pound of body weight per day (a third more than is called for ... exercise at 75 percent of their maximum strength. body composition was determined using hydrostatic ...

Singapore scientists synthesize gold to shed light on cells' inner workings

... gold nanoclusters are suitable for use within the body because they do not contain toxic metals such as ... nanoclusters enhances biomedical images of the body greatly as there is reduced background ... Synthesized via a single-step reaction at body temperature (37C), the gold nanoclusters are ...

Eat, drink and be merry?

... food and soft drink consumption on children's body weight and unhappiness. Using data from the ... at the fast food and soft drink consumption, body weight and level of happiness of 2,366 children ... a number of factors influencing children's body weight, eating patterns and happiness. For ...

COST Foresight 2030

... worn next to the skin or implanted into the body will help monitor people's state of health more ... effects. Ultimately, more of the human body could be artificial. Implants could replace worn-out body parts or be equipped with extra strength or ...

Will Europe at last unite to combat thousands of alien invaders?

... complexity of Europe makes a single coordinating body a necessity" The authors of the paper, who ... consideration to the establishment of a single body to bring together invasive species related ... these factors make the formation of such a body all the more challenging and only time will tell ...

Team identifies a molecular switch linking infectious disease and depression

... report that IDO, an enzyme found throughout the body and long suspected of playing a role in ... cytokines, signaling proteins that help the body fight infection. These proteins also activate IDO in the body and brain. IDO degrades the amino acid ...

International prize for Nottingham spine research

... The discs form the biggest structure within the body which doesn't have its own blood supply, creating ... enabling them to follow its progress through the body using an MRI scanner. They found that the ... in two situations loaded down with half their body weight to simulate the effect of being upright ...

Study unravels why certain fishes went extinct 65 million years ago

... Studies of modern fishes demonstrate that large body size is linked to large prey size and low rates ... Friedman traveled around the world measuring the body size and jaw bones of 249 genera of fossil fishes ... data and to quantify the relationship between body size, jaw function and vulnerability of fishes ...

Fossil fragments reveal 500-million-year-old monster predator

... describe the convoluted history and unique body construction of the newly-reconstructed Hurdia ... . Like Anomalocaris , Hurdia had a segmented body with a head bearing a pair of spinous claws and a ... preserved in the fossil record. "Most of the body is covered in the gills, which were probably ...