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Research may provide new link between soft drinks and weight gain

A University of Cincinnati (UC) study provides new evidence that drinking large amounts of beverages containing fructose adds body fat, and might explain why sweetening with fructose could be even worse than using other sweeteners. Researchers allowed mice to freely consume either water, fructose sweetened water or soft drinks. They found increased body fat in the mice that drank the fruct...

Leptin-signaling Protein Maintains Normal Body Weight And Energy Balance In Mice

32% increase of African fish supply needed by 2020 just to maintain consumption levels Calling fisheries critical for nourishing the poor and for helping Africa cope with the health, economic and social devastation of problems like HIV and AIDS, the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), the WorldFish Center and partners are making an urgent appeal to boost the continent's fish...

Weight control protein may yield antiobesity drugs

A weight control protein with a key role in the brain's ability to monitor body fat content may yield new approaches for treating obesity and type 2 diabetes, according to a new report in the August issue of Cell Metabolism. The findings in mice further suggest that particular variants of the protein SH2-B might underlie obesity in humans, the researchers said. SH2-B, which has multiple fu...

Eating, body weight regulated by specific neurons

In findings with implications for pandemic influenza, a new study reports for the first time that a less-virulent strain of avian influenza virus can spread from poultry to humans. The research appears in the October 1 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, now available online. Crossing the species barrier is an important step in the development of a flu virus with pandemic potenti...

An essential regulator of body weight revealed

Scientists are one step closer to unraveling the complex mechanisms in the brain that regulate body weight. Working with mice -- whose appetites are controlled by systems very similar to those in humans -- they have identified a specific type of neuron that is essential for feeding behavior. Without these neurons, adult mice stop eating and undergo rapid weight loss. Remarkably, the rese...

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High Molecular Weight DNA Markers from Invitrogen

Description:High Molecular Weight DNA Markers are suitable for sizing linear double-stranded DNA from 9 to 48 kb on low-percentage agarose gels. The 13 bands consist of 8.3- to 48.5-kb fragments generated from restriction endonuclease digests of Lambda DNA (cIind1ts857 Sam7). Ethidium bromide staining causes the four bands identified by an asterisk (8271 bp 8612 bp 12220 bp and 19399 bp) to show greater inte...
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[14C] Methylated Protein Molecular Weight Markers from GE Healthcare, formerly Amersham Biosciences

Description:[14C] Methylated Protein Molecular Weight Markers, 37 kBq, 1 uCi. Carbon-14 radiolabelled marker proteins enable molecular weight determination of the sample on Western blots.The Rainbow-labeled version also allows visual monitoring of band migration in the gel and on the blot.The specific activity of the [14C] version without Rainbow-labeling is 0.37-3.7 MBq/mg (10-100 uCi/mg) or 185 kBq/ml (5 u...
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New Protocols for Isolating High- Molecular-Weight Genomic DNA

Stratagene Stratagene now offers updated protocols to isolate and purifyhigh-molecular-weight genomic DNA using the RecoverEase DNAisolation kit. New procedures include DNA isolation from blood, bo...

Isolation of Low Molecular Weight Digestion Products of the Human Platelet Thromboxane A2 Receptor, Rev A

Joseph W. Turek and Guy C. Le Breton, Department of Pharmacology,University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60612.Address correspondence to: Joseph W. Turek, 835 South Wolcott, Departmentof Pharmacology M/C 868, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612.E-mail: jturek1@icarus.uic.edu Introduction...

Cellular Dynamics hits market with UW research heavyweights

Three noted UW-Madison biotech researchers, including stem-cell pioneer James Thomson, have begun construction on a laboratory to house a new drug screening company in Madison's In partnership with Tactics II Ventures LP, a venture capital firm that specializes in early-stage life science companies, UW researc...

IPod, I Run: The technology of weight loss

The majority of Americans make a health and fitness resolution of some sort and 38 percent of Americans who set a resolution (according to GNC in 2001) set out...

Americas weighty problem: Why the fight against fat is about more than just looking good

MADISON Speaking to a home-state crowd last week, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson described how his agency touches Americans in unseen ways every day, from regulating the prescription drugs they take to administering their Medicare accounts to watching over the safety of the food they eat. We just want you to eat less of it (food), joked Thompson, the former Wisconsin...

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CDC reveals relationship between prepregnant weight and heart defects in infants

Keeping fit and in to be in shape is not only good for the individuals themselves but also for their siblings. Over weight, which is of course the predisposer of majority of the illness such as diabetes, heart disease, hypertension etc., is now being studied in depth, the reason is to attain the destination of disease free environment, that are preventable.// Researchers from the US Cent...

Watch your weight when pregnant

Fat women are more likely for Cesarean delivery, says Dr.Bell from Duke University NC. Years ago, anesthesia had been one of the major causes of maternal mortality. Pregnancy and obesity both make it difficult to breathe under general anesthesia, so a woman's risk is doubled when the two conditions are combined.// Bell and colleagues studied more than 3000 women and calculated e...

Lose Weight With New Wonder Slimming FDA approved Prescription Drug

There is a new wonder slimming FDA approved drug which can actually works. Not only that - it even lets you eat normally, all while you are slimming. This wonder slimming drug is XENICAL. Xenical allows about 30% of the fat eaten in a meal // to pass through the gut undigested. Your body cannot convert these excess calories to fatty tissue or use them as a source of energy. This will...

Stress can make you overweight

Over 45 and under too much of stress,a self-perpetuating cycle of factors can fuel the urge to snack at the wrong times. The resulting weight gain often piles up around the abdomen, which boosts the risk of heart disease and stroke.This applies to both sexes.// One doctor states, that people may be able to avoid the hazards of weight gain in midlife by learning when the body is vulne...

Birth weight key factor in heart diseases

Sluggish growth in the first year of a boy's life greatly increases the risk of heart diseases as an adult, according to a study of Finnish children. The key factor in heart disease is not how much you weigh now, but how you grew in the past. It's long been known that babies with a low birth weight are roughly twice as susceptible to coronary heart disease in adulthood as heavier babi...

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Blinkeze™ External Lid Weights

Description:Blinkeze External Lid Weights offer the physician a new approach to supportive eye care for the treatment of facial paralysis. The weight simply uses gravity to gently close the upper eyelid when the patient looks down, or when the eyelid muscle is relaxed. MedDev offers Blinkeze External Lid Weights in a variety of skin tone colors to match a patients complexion. Blinkeze External Lid Wei...
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Quick Drop Apron - Lightweight

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Elixir Pharmaceuticals Presents Additional Preclinical Data Demonstrating the Potential of Ghrelin Antagonism to Regulate Metabolism, Body Weight and Glycemic Control

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 5, 2007 - ElixirPharmaceuticals, Inc., announced today new preclinical dataconfirming ghrelin antagonism as a potential method for regulatingmetabolism, decreasing body weight and managing blood glucose. Thedata were presented in poster sessions during ENDO 07, TheEndocrine Society's 89th Annual Meeting, being held in Toronto,Canada. Elixir is focused...

Breaking Multi-Center Study: Masimo SET Pulse Oximetry Technology Shown to Significantly Lower Instances of Severe Retinopathy of Prematurity in Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants

Study released at the Pediatric Academic Societies' Annual MeetingThis Month in Toronto Shows That Switching to Masimo SET PulseOximetry Technology Can Reduce the Risk Associated with ROP by 40% IRVINE, Calif., May 30, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Masimo, theinventor of Pulse CO-Oximetry and Read-Through Motion and LowPerfusion pulse oximetry, reported that a new independent studypresented at the...

New Data Show Xenical Significantly Reduces Cardiovascular Risk and More Than Doubles Weight Loss Achieved in Overweight and Obese People

BUDAPEST, April 24 /CNW/ - The weight loss medication Xenical(orlistat 120mg) significantly reduces weight and improvescardiovascular risk factors such as blood pressure, glycaemiccontrol and lipid profile in overweight and obese people with type2 diabetes and hypertension, according to a study analysispresented at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO), Budapest,Hungary.(1) Th...

New Data Confirm That Use of Levemir Can Limit Weight Gain

COPENHAGEN, April 3, 2007-Newly published results in theInternational Journal of Clinical Practice(1) from the large-scale,observational ‘PREDICTIVE™ study’*, confirm thatLevemir® for the majority of people effectively treats diabeteswithout causing weight gain.(1) The PREDICTIVE™ study is examining patient outcomes whenLevemir® – a long-acting...

Safety Analyses of Clinical Data for Bifeprunox in Patients with Schizophrenia Showed a Favorable Weight and Lipid Profile, Similar to Placebo

COLLEGEVILLE, Pa., March 30, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a division of Wyeth , SolvayPharmaceuticals, Inc. and Lundbeck A/S presented clinical studyresults on bifeprunox at an international medical congress thisweek. Safety analyses suggest bifeprunox, an investigationaltreatment for adult patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, wasassociated with a favorable weig...

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