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Pomegranate Juice May Be The Next Best Thing For People With Heart Disease

...ve genes in atherosclerosis prone mice. When these mice were orally fed with pomegranate juice, the hypercholesterolemic mice at different stages of the disease showed significant reduction in progress of atherosclerosis. Th...

New Enzyme Identified For Arthritis

...red that lack of presence of the enzyme ADAMTS5 in mice leads to inhibition of destroying of cartilage that leads to inflammatory arthritis. More research is required to prove that the same conditions lead to similar results in human beings also. Researchers are confident that more study will not only con...

Effect of estrogen on behavior difference between sexes

... boy to being a grown man. Laboratory testing of mice showed that an estrogen receptor in the hypothalamus is responsible of defeminization or removal of feminine traits from man. This starts acting even before the birth of the individual. This process seems to be the main neurological factor that disti...

Onions to prevent osteoporosis

... had involved segregation of bone cells of newborn mice that were treated with parathyroid hormone to simulate a situation of osteoporosis. These cells were later exposed to the peptide GPCS. The treatment with the peptide helped in controlling the bone loss by preventing the loss of bone minerals like ca...

Early rising from sleep can run in families

... same but lengthy circadian period. And transgenic mice with the same gene showed a shorter circadian period. The results show that CKI -T44A is the central component that controls the sleep patterns of mammals. Reference: Journal Nature, issue March 2005, familial advanced sleep phase syndrome, FASPS...

Sleep cycles may be related to metabolism

US scientists have found out that mice with a mutation of a gene that controls the circad... of the hormone ghrelin in the hypothalamus of the mice genetically changed had caused them to be active when the rest of the species sleep. The gene that...

Brain stem cells to help in producing insulin

...ansplanted in to immuno-suppressant mice. When the mice were given glucose, circulating human insulin and ...sulin precursor. Although the results obtained in mice is a far cry from the procedure that can be adapted to suit the human needs, but the study may be th...

New treatment possible for drug addiction

...h inside the brain. This procedure when applied to mice has shown a reduced affinity for drugs, like addic...has also been seen to increase the appetite of the mice thus treated. The latest procedure has showed that there may be a new treatment to deal with drug a...

Promising cure for West Nile Virus

...ne scientists have shown a successful treatment on mice suffering from West Nile virus. The researchers h... affected by the virus anymore. When inoculated in mice the mice were capable of fighting the virus on their own. The researchers feel that this antibody de...

Brain cells associated with insomnia and obesity

...tness, have been found in a excitable condition in mice with a unique organization of inputs that make the excitatory nerve junctions outnumber inhibitory contacts by almost ten times. In human beings these cells may remain excitable in the post menopausal age in women, as at that time women report insom...

In Search Of A New Drug To Target Cholesterol

... builds up into the deadly plaque. After studying mice who were genetically altered not to produce ACAT2 researchers came to the conclusion that the mice had 85-percent less hardening of the arteries than mice who still produced the enzyme. When the norm...

New breed of mice to live longer

Scientists had successfully created a new breed of mice that can reduce free radicals at the cellular leve...rough the free radical theory of ageing. The new mice created by the research team produced higher than normal levels of antioxidant enzyme catalase. The ...

In Search Of A New Drug To Target Cholesterol

... builds up into the deadly plaque. After studying mice who were genetically altered not to produce ACAT2 researchers came to the conclusion that the mice had 85-percent less hardening of the arteries than mice who still produced the enzyme. When the norm...

Delaying pregnancy may lessen life expectancy of the child

...earchers who have worked with delayed pregnancy in mice had said that this had led to shorter life spans for the offspring’s' and reducing birth weights. When offsprings were assessed for all other parameters of health, none showed as much detrimental effects as the life expectancy and the birth weight. ...

Ceramide can target and kill cancer cells

...eatments. Researchers had used their techniques on mice for successful results. However injecting cerami...re, and disrupts the mitochondria of the cells. In mice these bundles of ceramide targets and destroys only breast cancer cells, leaving the surrounding cel...

Metabolic problems related to clogged arteries

...tibiotic doxycycline in the drinking water for the mice to initiate the process of overproduction of uncoupling protein-1. As low energy level is one of the direct results of metabolic activities, then it is possible that defective metabolic systems can cause atherosclerosis. Reference: New Scientist,...

Plastic to cause breast cancer

...been seen to make the breast tissues of the female mice more sensitive to the effects of the hormone estrogen. These mice, which were exposed to BPA from the womb, had developed more tissues in their breasts. It is a noted fact that higher density breast tissue is a risk factor for breast cancer. The st...

Fish is good for Alzheimer's patients

...e researchers, who had created genetically altered mice with Alzheimer's disease, had fed rats with diet rich in DHA. When compared against the rats with the disease and without the fortified diet, rats that were fed food with DHA had a 70% less build up of amyloid protein in their brain. This happened af...

New insight for neuro-degenerative diseases discovered

... Researchers have observed genetically engineered mice producing prion protein without a glycophosphoinos... when inoculated with scrapie prion protein. These mice had developed plaques in their brain, similar to those that are observed in the brains of patients w...

New insight for skin cancer discovered

...inoblastoma or p53 tumor suppressing pathways. The mice were observed to see how the cancer had metasized. The new studies bring a new insight to moving the study of cell transformations, from simple forms to functional human tissues. It is possible to have a ready access to such tissues and hence the ne...

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