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Encephalitis Death Toll In U.P. Crosses 200 Mark.

...entre of the disease - had demanded the removal of pigs from residential areas. "Yes, we had decided to launch a drive against the proliferation of pigs in residential areas; but then local legislators have come in the way to pressurise the administrati...

Stem Cell Therapy Effective For Treating Heart Attacks

...nd that stem cell therapy is effective in treating pigs with heart attacks . During the study injecting st... and left only a trace of the heart attack for the pigs that received therapy. However researchers say they are unsure of how long the healing effects would...

Xenotransplantation “breakthrough”

...antation Society, said, “Alpha galactosyl knockout pigs have been made before, what's new is that [PPL have] cloned them, which makes [production] easier.” He said, “Of concern is the potential risk of transmission of porcine viruses,” but added, “We would welcome any breakthrough that supports the safe a...

Vitamin Supplements - Good, The Bad And The Ugly

...People taking high dose supplements are the guinea pigs of the future. There's no way you can record adverse effects for high levels of supplements, and absence of reported effects does not mean there's an absence of effects." Collins also hit out at therapists and lifestyle gurus such as Cherie Blair's...

Pig Bacterium (Streptococcus suis) Kills 24 In China

... mostly farmers and butchers, who handled infected pigs or people who handled the contaminated pork produc...According to investigations in China, the infected pigs are thought to have come from up to 300 different farms, which were then spread across 70 areas in a...

Heart Disease In Women Can Be Reduced By Eating Grapes

...s significantly. In a study in 2003 ,female guinea pigs that had had their ovaries removed were used as a model for menopausal women . The guinea pigs were fed either a control diet or a diet containing grape powder for twelve weeks. The results bore ...

Stem Cell Therapy For Treating Heart Attacks

... that it is possible to treat the heart attacks of pigs in such a way. In just two months, stem cells harvested from another pig?s bone marrow and injected into the animal?s damaged heart restored heart function and repaired damaged heart muscle by 50 percent to 75 percent. The findings are to be p...

Acrolein may be the key to halting spinal cord damage

...els of acrolein in the injured spines of 25 guinea pigs for several days following an injury," Shi said. "We found that levels of acrolein peak 24 hours afterward, and they remain high for at least a week. Because acrolein has such a long lifespan and is so toxic, we theorize that it is primarily responsi...

Gene Therapy To Treat Deafness

...rt of their hearing sensations. Tested on guinea pigs with a positive result, the procedure shows enough promise to be tested on human beings. This is probably the first time it may be possible to do cellular and functional damage repair of the organ of corti in deaf mammals....

SARS vaccine shows promise in Animal Testing

...rome, is a coronavirus. Similar viruses infect the pigs and other animals. It emerged in southern China in late 2002 and spread to more than two dozen countries on four continents before it was contained last summer. // More than 8,000 people worldwide were sickened, and at least 774 died.Civet cats and o...

Animals can give us a second chance at life

...ialysis, I wouldn’t be here.” Some doctors predict pigs will cure them. “The holy grail of all this is a ...es are working to eliminate that. They’re breeding pigs they say do not pass on the PERV virus --the one deemed most dangerous to humans. While it may be ...

Animals Can give us a second chance at life

...ialysis, I wouldn’t be here.” Some doctors predict pigs will cure them. “The holy grail of all this is a...es are working to eliminate that. They’re breeding pigs they say do not pass on the PERV virus --the one deemed most dangerous to humans. While it may be...

Stem cells - New and richer source found

... researchers propagated Wharton’s jelly cells from pigs in the lab without losing potency. The encouraging results with the animal tissue, prompted the team of researchers to broaden their investigations to human umbilical cord matrix cells, which also produced similar exciting findings - human umbilical ...

Latest device for cardiac revival under test

...sting a battery-operated chest compression belt on pigs with cardiac arrest. These animals have hearts which are a similar size to the human heart, so act as a good model. The device is like an eight-inch wide seat belt and compresses more of the chest than is possible using the manual method. In this exp...

Pig cloning for organs

...hers say they've taken a major step toward cloning pigs whose hearts, lungs and kidneys could be safely transplanted into humans. Such organs would save the lives of thousands of critically ill people who cannot get transplants because of the shortage of human organs.// Using the same cloning technique t...

Sniff out flatulence

... odour) to 8 (very offensive). Eight of the guinea pigs wore specially designed gas-tight pantaloons made of metallised nylon which prevented any smell leakage. A catheter was attached to the subjects' anus. In addition to finding that the charcoal-coated cushions reduced the bad smell levels produced b...

Decrease in testosterone levels lead to Alzheimer's

...f amyloid increased significantly in female guinea pigs whose ovaries had been removed. Once hormone replacement therapy had been administered, the brain amyloid levels decreased. Dr Chater said that people with a genetic predisposition to Alzheimer’s disease might have borderline amyloid levels until m...

A Porcine Dolly

...Needles to say that the jury is still out on using pigs as a granary for much need organs for transplant....

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