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Hydrogenated Fat Pts Weight around the Abdomen

...e taken in this regard. A study was carried out in monkeys over a period of six years by the scientists at th...ol of medicine in North Carolina. About 50% of the monkeys were fed with western-style diet containing hydrogenated fat and the rest were given the same calori...

Trans Fats Adding Inches to the Waistline

... calories over a period of six years. One group of monkeys received 8 per cent of their dietary fat in the fo...n't give them enough calories.’ Surprisingly the monkeys fed trans fats had a 7.2 per cent weight gain in comparison to 1.8 per cent in the group that was gi...

The Deadly Evolution of SIV to HIV

...d to the deadly change from benign SIV in apes and monkeys to a deadly infection called AIDS in humans. // S... that the Nef function which conferred immunity in monkeys infected with SIV from causing the disease. The lead authors were Frank Kirchhoff of the University ...

Women With Hectic Jobs Prone To Infertility

...actors interact, Berga subjected a group of female monkeys either to mild stress by putting them in a differe... and exercise. In each group, 10 per cent of the monkeys stopped having periods. But when the monkeys were subjected to stress as well as diet and exercise, ...

Dolly Paves the Way for Exhaustive Stem Cell Research

... attempts to clone primates especially with rhesus monkeys have not been successful. He said that there is something different with the embryos of primates and it will need something new to make it work. Dolly was the one successful clone out of 270 embryos that were created by transferring a nucleus into an...

Definite Connection Between Receptor Levels and Cocaine Abuse Reveals PET Imaging

... result of cocaine use. "The present findings in monkeys suggest that both factors are likely to be true," ...and recovered completely within three weeks. But monkeys that used for a year averaged a 21 percent reduction in D2 receptors. Three of those monkeys recover...

Males too Undergoes Hormonal Changes During Parenting: Study

...ed the brain structure of common marmosets - small monkeys that live in trees - that had become fathers, reported the online edition of New Scientist. The species is rare among mammals in that fathers share in caring for their offspring. In both first-time and experienced fathers with dependent offspring...

Gene Therapy Technique for Inherited Heart Problems in The Pipeline

...c cardiac abnormality.’ Additional tests in rhesus monkeys conducted in conjunction with scientists at the California National Primate Research Center at the University of California at Davis showed that AAV-9 easily passes into the heart muscle in primates after a single intravenous injection, and the effec...

A Protein from Primate may Save Humans from HIV !

...e to retrocyclin, a defense peptide still found in monkeys and lower primates. If additional laboratory tests demonstrate only weak resistance, Cole will study how retrocyclin could be developed into a drug designed to prevent the HIV virus from entering human cells. Cole is also working with Henry Danie...

Fatherhood gets into the head

...gth of their close// resemblance with humans. Tiny monkeys called marmosets, whose brains are pretty complex,...omparison with non-fathers, where the brain of the monkeys displayed an affinity with a hormone that promotes learning. In addition, the scientists observed th...

Viruses Can Cross Species Barrier

...s that can cross the species barrier and jump from monkeys to humans //are a danger to human health. A primat...study showing how methods to limit contact between monkeys and humans can reduce the risk of transmission between the species. Other researchers describe how h...

Brain's Filing System Uncovered

...sense of our surroundings. In these experiments, monkeys were taught to play a simple computer game in whic...tal cortex and the middle temporal area, while the monkeys played the categorization game. The activity of parietal neurons mirrored the monkeys’ decisions abo...

Brain changes in schizophrenia to be analyzed

...schizophrenia and bipolar illness with tissue from monkeys treated with antipsychotic medications will provide a unique opportunity to delineate disease from drug effects – allowing a clearer understanding of disease-related changes." To complete the picture of the neurobiological basis of schizophrenia, t...

Researcher Reports on Origin of Deadly Fever Outbreak

...ilities in 1967 after outbreaks traced to infected monkeys imported from Uganda. Only a few sporadic cases were reported until the 1998–2000 outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The team recorded a fatality rate of 83 percent for that outbreak. Young male miners comprised 52 percent of the cas...

Catastrophic Elephant Man Drug Trial Victims Injected Recklessly

...d been injected 15 times faster than when given to monkeys in animal studies. Scientists claim that this 'r...anging from three to six minutes.On the other hand monkeys used in earlier experiments were slowly infused with the drug over an hour. Professor Terry Hambli...

Is India Prepared to Face the Epidemics?

...ngue and chikungunya. Moreover, India has a lot of monkeys that can act as a reservoir for the YF virus once ... for as long as five months in tissues of infected monkeys and delivered by aedes mosquitoes. Aedes aegypti has a remarkable ability that not all mosquito sp...

Was the Warning of a Severe Reaction To a Drug, Overlooked?

...tis during their lifetime. Prior trials on rhesus monkeys were successful which prompted the first stage of the human trial at Northwick Park Hospital in London. TNG1412 was the brain child of a relatively small biotech company, Genero Immuno Therapeutics , for the treatment of B cell chronic lymphocytic le...

An abused child may grow up to be an abusive parent

...ession.It may also lead to impulsive aggression in monkeys and humans. The research team found that when baby rhesus monkeys endured high rates of maternal rejection and mild abuse in their first month of life, their brains o...

Researchers explore medicine in space

...nesthesia, came from a mission in which two Rhesus monkeys were sent to space. When the monkeys returned to Earth, surgeons performed minor biopsies on them as part of their study. One of the monk...

Child Rearing May Make Men Smarter

...n the brain of male Marmosets, small tree-dwelling monkeys that spend 70 percent of their time caring for newborns. The result of all this baby time, according to new research by Princeton University psychologist Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy and her colleagues, is that the nurturing actually boosts the mental ac...

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