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Bone Density Recovers After Teens Stop Injected Contraceptive

...ee years. During the course of the study, 61 women stopped using the contraceptive. The researchers found th...men progressing through menopause. Once the women stopped using DMPA, they experienced significant gains in bone density. The study authors wrote that the inc...

World's largest rainforest drying experiment completes first phase

...rees, measuring 4 to 10 inches in diameter, simply stopped growing during the end of the dry season of 2000, following the first period of rainfall exclusion, as the trees of similar size continued to grow in the "control" forest plot. The trees slow down the amount of water that they lose from their leaves ...

Deficiency of growth hormone and IGF-1 reduces cancer and kidney disease, but creates other problems

...f age ?rat adolescence. Then hormone treatment was stopped and the animals had lower growth hormone and IGF-1 levels the rest of their lives. That had an effect on cancer: 88 percent of "normal" male rats have tumors at death. The male rats that had a lifelong deficiency of growth hormone had substantially ...

U-M scientists find genes that control growth of common skin cancer

...and colleaguesturned Gli2 off, the BCC tumor cells stopped growing and wereeliminated by a programmed cell death process. These results areconsistent with previous work from other labs studying differentHh-associated tumors, “but we were very surprised to see that sometumor cells persisted after shutting dow...

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