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Colon cancer Linked to low-folate diet

...er likelihood of developing colorectal cancer than rodents which were given a fully balanced diet containing ...bility to metabolize folic acid. It was found that rodents with the mutation and also fed a low-folate diet had more than double the incidence of intestinal tu...

Whole Wheat, Wholesome for Pregnant Women and Their Offspring

...amined the benefits of dietary changes on pregnant rodents and studied its implictions on the babies’ health. These results could well mimic the occurrence in humans, the researchers opined. According to the researchers, the daughters of women who consumed a high fat diet during pregnancy suffered a high ris...

A New Option For AIDS Treatment - Radioimmunotherapy

...be infected by HIV . The spleens of some of these rodents were injected with HIV infected cells , while others were grafted with human or liver tissue which were infected. The lack of immune systems ensured that the grafts were not rejected. The researchers bound radioactive particles such as bismuth 21...

Can Our Body Manufacture A Pain Killer?

...an the well known morphine. In their experiments, rodents were found to experience pain relief with a reduced dosage of this chemical in comparison with the usual dosage of morphine. The finding which may prove interesting read, is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, slated to ...

Telomerase Expression Linked To Body Mass

...ion by creating a unique test. She investigated 15 rodents from across the globe to determine what level of t... " For over a year, Gorbunova collected deceased rodents from around the world and had them shipped to her lab in chilled containers. She analyzed their tiss...

Pregnant Women Can Minimize Risk Of Rodent-Based Virus

...infectious agent carried by house mice// and other rodents that can cause severe brain damage in a fetus. ... transmission increases in the winter months, when rodents seek shelter in homes, said Daniel Bonthius, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of pediatrics at the U...

A New Gene to Contribute in Insulin Metabolism

...tor to mice,' he explains. Unlike fruit flies, the rodents do not have just one cytohesin at their disposal, they have four. Professor Famulok wanted to find out whether they play a similar crucial role in the insulin metabolism of mice as 'Titch' does in the fly and discovered the following: 'Liver cells of...

Smoking Out Rats from Fields to Mizoram’s Dining Table

...ing 'mautam' (the bamboo famine of the 1950s) when rodents multiplied like anything. They devoured our paddy ...But the Mizo government is getting worried. With rodents appearing in paddy fields across the state, efforts are on to kill them either by poisoning or throu...

Handle Your Cute Pets With Care

... say. According to health experts small cute pet rodents like mice, hamsters and rats can spread bacteria. ...who could be interviewed, 13) had had contact with rodents purchased from retail pet stores. Two individuals had become infected through contact with a primary...

Early Risers are Born That Way, Not Made

...ion, by transplanting the gene into mice to create rodents with FASPS. "They get up and start running on their running wheels four to six hours before other mice, and they also stop running on their running wheels four to six hours earlier than normal mice’, says Ptacek. The scientists hope the results co...

WBC in Lung Produces Histamine: Study

...e to mycoplasma, a common respiratory infection in rodents and humans. One population had a genetic abnormality that causes a total lack of mast cells; the other population was made up of normal, wild-type mice. Both populations of infected mice developed pneumonia. "We thought the mice without mast cells...

Drink Red Wine to Stay Young

...ejo, of the University of Granada, Spain, gave the rodents melatonin every day from five months of age and found that it helped counteract their age-related process. If humans took a daily supplement of melatonin from the age of 30 or 40 onwards then they too could delay the normal ageing process, the sci...

CMV Vaccine Prototype Successfully Tested in Guinea Pigs

...n experimental vaccine that reduces stillbirths of rodents born to mothers infected with cytomegalovirus// (C... in their third trimester. Tests showed that the rodents given the experimental vaccine had acquired immunity to guinea pig CMV because they produced antibod...

Specially Developed Proteins Could Help Resist Ageing

...e large lifespan extensions have failed to work in rodents and other animals. Many actually resulted in an increase in cancer risk. Dr Shchepinov believes the heavy isotopes extend lifespan by making bonds within the delicate molecules inside and around our cells harder to break. 'Because these bonds are ...

Not Parkinson’s Disease Alon

...at different levels of SNCA exist in the brains of rodents that prefer alcohol versus those who do not like alcohol." Since then, added corresponding-author Foroud, human research has suggested that SNCA might be important in determining an individual's craving for alcohol. "Using previous research as a b...

Switching Genes to Overdrive Improves Muscular Dystrophy Symptoms in Mice

...ce having no additional PGC-1alpha. Both sets of rodents were run on a treadmill for one hour, then again 2... the runs easily on both days, while untreated MDX rodents were exhausted halfway through each run. The MDX mice with increased PGC-1alpha activity performed a...

Glucose Causes Death of Brain Cells in Rodents Following Hypoglycemic Coma

...ation. In their study, the researchers subjected rodents to a model of severe hypoglycemic coma. 'The rats could remain hypoglycemic without evidence of significant oxidative stress for at least 60 minutes,' says Swanson, who is also professor and vice-chair of neurology at the University of California, Sa...

Single Drug Dose Cures Malaria in Mice

...r compounds, which defeated the febrile disease in rodents after three oral doses. These peroxide compounds, containing a crucial oxygen-oxygen unit, promise not only to be more effective than today's best malaria remedies, but also potentially safer and more efficient, said research team leader Dr Gary P...

A New Pill to Burn Away Unwanted Fat

...lds up and is broken down in the body. Tests on rodents earlier too had showed that manipulating these pathways can halt muscle wastage from disuse or disease. At least three research groups said they had identified some of the genes responsible. Alfred Goldberg and colleagues at Harvard University ...

Gene Responsible for Ageing Process Discovered – and Calorie Restriction Could Hel

...tamins and minerals, lived almost twice as long as rodents with unrestricted access to food. Experiments with other creatures found that the phenomenon appeared to be ubiquitous in the animal kingdom. Some scientists suggested it was an evolutionary adaptation to surviving hard times until enough food bec...

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