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UF Researchers Map Bacterial Proteins That Cause Tooth Loss

...etermining which proteins are expressed in greater levels in the mouth has allowed us to gain clues as to ho... disease makes it difficult to control blood sugar levels in people with diabetes. If that’s not bad enough, pregnant women with periodontal disease are seven...

Key Trigger Of Opioid Withdrawal Symptoms Found

...s showing that treatment with opioids also altered levels of the transporter for the neurotransmitter glutamate, "suggesting that neurotransmitter transporters may prove to be useful targets for management of opioid dependence," they wrote. The researchers also wrote that, since GABA is a neurotransmitter t...

Affymetrix and the Karolinska Institutet Announce Translational Medicine Strategic Alliance

...he Company's ability to achieve and sustain higher levels of revenue, higher gross margins, reduced operating expenses, uncertainties relating to technological approaches, manufacturing, product development, market acceptance, personnel retention, uncertainties related to cost and pricing of Affymetrix prod...

Family trees of ancient bacteria reveal evolutionary moves

...nd inexplicable rise in oxygen, from extremely low levels to 10 percent of what it is today. There were three ?some say four ?global glaciations, and the fossil record reflects a major shift in the number of organisms metabolizing sulfur and a major shift in carbon cycling. "The question is: Why?" said Bla...

Scientists discover how fish evolved to float at different sea depths

... have developed a way of floating at certain water levels using a gas-filled swimbladder. Dr Berenbrink inv...wimbladder allowing the fish to float at different levels in the sea without coming to the surface of the water for air. A similar system is also present in t...

Gene therapy for Parkinson's disease moves forward in animals

...ts prevented brain damage by producing therapeutic levels of a protein that helps nourish brain cells, said ...uce it naturally. It also produces more manageable levels of the protein in the brain. "Our strategy is a neuroprotective concept and would only be amenable ...

FDA Approves New Drug to Treat Type I and Type II Diabetes

...th their doctor often; will test their blood sugar levels before and after every meal, and at bedtime; and understand how to adjust Symlin and insulin doses. Symlin should not be used if patients cannot tell when their blood sugar is low, have gastroparesis (slow stomach emptying), or are allergic to praml...

How an AIDS-Related Cancer Unleashes Inflammation

...ding of kaposin B activated MK2, leading to higher levels of cytokines in the cell. Activated MK2 does this by prolonging the stability of cytokine messenger RNA ?the genetic blueprint for cytokine proteins. The longer these messenger RNAs remain in the cell, the more cytokine proteins the cell's protein-ma...

PCRM develops world's first cruelty-free insulin assay

...free insulin assay, a test used to measure insulin levels in individuals with diabetes. The assay, which uses no animals, was developed as part of PCRM's ongoing clinical trials to test the effects of a low-fat, vegan diet on patients with type 2 diabetes. "We only had two options available to us when we b...

Applied Biosystems Introduces Advanced Gene Expression Service Provider Program

...e for the detection of genes expressed at very low levels compared with conventional fluorescent microarrays. The system uses a chemiluminescence-detection instrument, software, and chemistries to deliver unambiguous gene results that are highly sensitive and reproducible. The PCR process and the 5' nuclea...

Harnessing microbes, one by one, to build a better nanoworld

...e for the detection of genes expressed at very low levels compared with conventional fluorescent microarrays. The system uses a chemiluminescence-detection instrument, software, and chemistries to deliver unambiguous gene results that are highly sensitive and reproducible. The PCR process and the 5' nuclea...

Wiley announces publication of Databasing the Brain

...strates how data obtained using different species, levels of biological organization, and methods can be integrated. "Databasing the Brain" Offers: * A solid foundation for the application of computer science in order to build databases, tools, and workflow environments in neuroscience * An analys...

Bone Density Recovers After Teens Stop Injected Contraceptive

...top using DMPA, their bone density can increase to levels comparable to those of other women in their age gr...A interferes with bone mineral density by lowering levels of estrogen, a hormone that promotes bone mineral density in women. The findings appear in the Febr...

Unprecedented water level rise in Somalia

... affected by breaks in the river. Overnight, river levels dropped from 4.6 to 4 metres, suggesting a breach somewhere upstream. OCHA said Somali authorities and humanitarian agencies agreed that larger scale protection of the river embankment was required and that it would be supported by the UN Children's ...

Use of Insecticides Linked to Lasting Neurological Problems for Farmers

...study questionnaire were classified as having high levels of symptoms. Researchers found that nearly 3,000 participants had a high lifetime exposure to insecticides ?that is, they used insecticides more than 500 days in their lifetime. Nearly 800 of these farmers reported more than 10 neurological symptoms...

How the environment could be damaging men's reproductive health

...e 1970s, this contamination has resulted in higher levels of POPs in humans, such as fishermen, who consume ... sperm in semen, and that age, smoking and hormone levels had no effect. "When we compared the 20% of fishermen with the highest exposure with the 20% with t...

Surprising findings reported about iron overload

...that Asians and Pacific Islanders have the highest levels of iron in their blood of all racial/ethnic groups...African-Americans and 10,000 whites for blood iron levels or the presence of mutations in a gene, called the HFE gene, which evidence suggests regulates iron ...

Variation in women's X chromosomes may explain differences among individuals, between sexes

...te variable patterns of inactivation and different levels of activity in the "silenced" X chromosomes, the t... at characteristically higher, and often variable, levels in females compared to males. Moreover, the findings show that a minimum of an additional 10 percen...

Hirsute Or Hairless? Two Proteins May Spell The Difference

...ion in the skin of transgenic mice caused abnormal levels of cell proliferation in the epidermis and reduced...l. Knockout mice lacking TGF-β2 also showed higher levels of E-cadherin—normally down-regulated by Snail—than their nonmutant littermates. Altogether, these ...

PET/MRI scans may help unravel mechanisms of prenatal drug damage

.... In the fetus, cocaine accumulated at the highest levels in the liver (due to the unique anatomy of fetal circulation) and to a lesser extent in the brain. "While the uptake of the tracer into the fetal brain is lower and slower than in the mother's brain, a measurable quantity of cocaine and/or its label...

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