Gator Blood May Be New Source of Antibiotics

...it a case of gator aid. New research suggests that alligator blood could serve as the basis for new antibiotics...The research is in its early stages -- extracts of alligator blood have only been tested in the laboratory -- a... research is the first to take an in-depth look at alligator blood's prospects as an antibiotic source. Accordi...

Saving cancer patients' skin

... met with Sasaki, he prescribed four specially formulated creams including sunscreen, a body moisturizing cream to ward off the severely dry and itchy alligator skin, a topical steroid ointment for her face and medicated shampoo. He also recommended an ophthalmologist for dry eyes -- another unpleasant side ef...

Nine Miami Defendants in Strike Force Cases Sentenced for $56.5 Million in Medicare Fraud

...iami submitted over $1.2 million in false claims to Medicare. The previous named owner of Tamiami, Justo Padron, 36, died in November of 2007 after an alligator attack at the Miccosukee Tribe Indian Reservation. Vasquez pleaded guilty on October 22, 2007. De La Serna was sentenced by U.S. District Marcia G...

Tobacco Industry Promotes Antismoking Campaigns

...at reduce smoking rates, she said. For example, one billboard in California read Tobacco is legal, profitable, and kills people featuring an alligator labeled big tobacco with a smirk saying Two out of threes not bad. However, these messages arent always getting out there because of the mon...

Dengue Outbreak Feared in Nepal

...epalgunj, they are Biratnagar, home of Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, Chitwan, a popular tourist destination famed for its one-horned rhino and alligator population, and Birgunj, Nepal's industrial hub. According to G.D. Thakur, chief of disease control at the Department of Health Services, the ad...

Alligator in Medical Products

Snap-In Snap-Out®-II Alligator Grasping Forceps Insert

Description: The Snap-In Snap-Out-II Tip Inserts offer a large variety of configurations....
Company:GYRUS ACMI

Grasper, Alligator Hook Tip, 4.2 mm, Straight Shaft

Description: The patented ratchet design provides fingertip ratchet disengagement allowing smooth, ratchet-free grasping. The Series I Instrument program offers state-of-the-art quality in an instrument of extremely low profile, while maintaining strength and durability. Low profile cutting tips allow access...
Company:Arthrex

Grasper, Alligator Hook Tip, 3.4 mm 15 Up Curved Shaft

Description: The patented ratchet design provides fingertip ratchet disengagement allowing smooth, ratchet-free grasping. The Series I Instrument program offers state-of-the-art quality in an instrument of extremely low profile, while maintaining strength and durability. Low profile cutting tips allow access...
Company:Arthrex

Grasper, Alligator Hook Tip, 3.4 mm Straight Shaft (b)

Description: The patented ratchet design provides fingertip ratchet disengagement allowing smooth, ratchet-free grasping. The Series I Instrument program offers state-of-the-art quality in an instrument of extremely low profile, while maintaining strength and durability. Low profile cutting tips allow access...
Company:Arthrex

Grasper, Alligator Hook Tip, 2.75 mm 15 Up Curved Shaft

Description: The patented ratchet design provides fingertip ratchet disengagement allowing smooth, ratchet-free grasping. The Series I Instrument program offers state-of-the-art quality in an instrument of extremely low profile, while maintaining strength and durability. Low profile cutting tips allow access...
Company:Arthrex

Grasper, Alligator Hook Tip, 2.75 mm Straight Shaft

Description: The patented ratchet design provides fingertip ratchet disengagement allowing smooth, ratchet-free grasping. The Series I Instrument program offers state-of-the-art quality in an instrument of extremely low profile, while maintaining strength and durability. Low profile cutting tips allow access...
Company:Arthrex

Graspers Alligator

Description: A broad selection of procedurally specific tip configurations provide maximum grasping capability and allow easy access to all areas of the meniscus from a variety of approaches. Loop Handled Graspers feature an infinite position sliding-lock mechanism that holds tissue firmly without tearing or sl...
Company:Smith & Nephew, Inc. - Orthopedics

MICROSTIM PLUS Nerve Stimulator

Description:...mall, still offer sufficient output to ensure current is fully adjustable from 0 to 70 mA. Instruction manual, ball electrodes, battery and leads with alligator clips are included with each unit....
Company:Sun Med

Micro Stim Nerve Stimulator

Description:...mall, still offer sufficient output to ensure current is fully adjustable from 0 to 70 mA. Instruction manual, ball electrodes, battery and leads with alligator clips are included with each unit....
Company:Sun Med

Stimuplex® Dig RC Peripheral Nerve Stimulator with Remote Control

Description:.... Simply put: Stimuplex Dig RC is more ergonomically efficient and consistent than the practice of using non-insulated needles, connected by bulky alligator clip leads to a high current range nerve stimulator with limited settings and functionality for nerve location....
Company:B. Braun Medical Inc.

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Alligator in Biological News

Reintroduced Chinese alligators now multiplying in the wild in China

...wild that are now multiplying on their own. The alligator hatchlings15 in numberare the offspring of a group... for the 10-year effort to reintroduce the Chinese alligator on Chongming Island, located at the mouth of China...uggests that there's hope for bringing the Chinese alligator back to some parts of its former distribution." ...

CU-Boulder study shows 53 million-year-old high Arctic mammals wintered in darkness

...illion years ago, first became evident in 1975 when a team led by Mary Dawson of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburg discovered fossil alligator jaw bones. Since then, fossils of aquatic turtles, giant tortoises, snakes and even flying lemurs -- one of the earliest forms of primates -- have be...

BioScience tip sheet, December 2008

...s that will improve diagnosis of environmental disease and ecological risk assessments. Special Section: Endocrine Disruptors in the Environment. alligator Tales: New Lessons about Environmental Contaminants from a Sentinel Species. Matthew R. Milnes and Louis J. Guillette Jr. Environmental exposure t...

Genetic sequencing of protein from T. rex bone confirms dinosaurs' link to birds

...Most of the collagen sequence was obtained from protein and genome databases, but we also needed to sequence some critical organisms, including modern alligator and modern ostrich, by mass spectrometry," says Asara. "We determined that T. rex, in fact, grouped with birds--ostrich and chicken--better than an...

How alligators rock and roll

...ly and encases the stomach and intestines. When an alligator inhales, the diaphragmaticus pulls the liver back ...und all four muscle types work together to help an alligator shift its lungs so it can rock downward to dive or...s duct-taped to an alligators snout, it helped the alligator dive. As a result, the electrical recordings showe...

Researchers: No faking it, crocodile tears are real

...ng on a spit of dry land at Floridas St. Augustine alligator Farm Zoological Park. He found that five of the...tead, Vliet had to settle for the dog biscuit-like alligator food that is the staple at the St. Augustine alligator farm. He decided to observe alligators and caimans...

Alligator in Biological Technology

Re-Shaping the Future with Shape Memory Alloys - SMA Starter Kit

...ot;, 0.01" and 0.005" thick), three pieces of nickel titanium SMA wire (0.02", 0.01", 0.005"), heating element, 9v battery, 2 alligator clips, three pieces of spring steel (varying thicknesses) and other materials used to perform SMA wire actuator demonstrations. So next time your ...

Alligator in Biological Dictionary

Tandem repeat sequence

...riation in these genes. ... sequence consisted of tandem repeats . alligator mississip ... 6.— Sequence (59 to 39) of the tandem repeat region in. alligator ... Repeat sequences . Synonym(s) tandem repeat sequences . Defi...