The News Review:
- Discovery of protein associated with severe preeclampsia
- A Rainforest Retreat
- Scientist finds root of Asian vulture deaths: Scavenger serves key…
- Sugar takes its lumps
- Activity in the lateral prefrontal cortex reflects multiple steps of…
Discovery of protein associated with severe preeclampsia
News-Medical.net - Jun 6, 2006
These new findings, reported in. “Preeclampsia typically develops in the third trimester of pregnancy and is characterized by high blood pressure, edema and protein in the urine,” explains the study’s senior author S. Ananth Karumanchi, MD, a nephrologist in the Center for Vascular Biology at BIDMC and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology at.
A Rainforest Retreat
thestreet.com - Jun 6, 2006
The humid air felt heavy enough to touch; sounds from chirping birds and insects, those appropriately named howler monkeys, waterfalls and the flow of an unseen river seemed remarkably loud. Crossing streams on rocks and scrambling up mud-slick hillsides required total concentration. Other available activities include a medicine walk guided by a local shaman; a 10-mile nature-adventure hike; overnight platform camping in the rainforest; and fishing from shore or boat. Visitors can also plant a tree in the rainforest and learn more about the local ecosystem. All groups are limited to 10 or fewer to preserve the intimacy of the experience. The Lapa Rios mantra is tat a forest left standing is worth more than one cut down. The resort also has a.
Scientist finds root of Asian vulture deaths: Scavenger serves key…
Free with registration - Spokesman-Review - AccessMyLibrary.com - Jun 6, 2006
But the drug is cheap and effective, and it took vulture proponents two years to win over India’s government, which recently banned the drug for veterinary uses. It’s still in use in Pakistan and Nepal. “We’re hoping it’s not too late,” said Oaks, an assistant professor of veterinary medicine at Washington State University, who led the.
Sugar takes its lumps
AZ Central.com - Jun 6, 2006
Kresent Thuringer, a medical nutrition therapist and weight-management specialist in the Valley. She’s speaking specifically about corn syrup and high-fructose corn syrup, the corn derivatives widely used for sweetening. Also pervasive, in foods as unlikely as peanut butter and crackers, are several other natural sweeteners (as opposed to artificial, zero-calorie sweeteners such as Sweet’N Low) whose names you might not recognize. Added during processing and home preparation, they include sucrose, or table sugar, which comes from sugar beets or sugar cane, and maltose, a fermentable sugar from malted grains. Sugars that occur naturally - fructose in fruit and lactose in milk - aren’t a problem as part of a healthful diet, Thuringer says, because they come packaged by Mother Nature in fiber- and nutrient-rich foods. It’s the added sugars that trip us up, providing nutritionally empty calories that can supplant healthful foods and lead to weight gain. The sugars contribute to tooth decay, too… “A lot of people slip up on that,” Thuringer says. “Those little cups can have up to 5 teaspoons of added sugar and 200 calories each. ”
Physician Roberto Ruiz of the Southwest Internal Medicine Group in Phoenix talked with a pre-diabetic patient recently who had been drinking two to three bottles of an electrolytes-replacement sports drink every day. An 8-ounce serving contains about 14 grams, or about 3 teaspoons, of sugar. “Beverages, except for the diet sodas, are just loaded with sugar,” Ruiz says. “That’s one of the biggest surprises for some people. They never think about it.
Activity in the lateral prefrontal cortex reflects multiple steps of…
News-Medical.net - Jun 6, 2006
They concentrated on a brain region called the lateral prefrontal cortex (PFC), which many studies have shown to be involved in such higher brain functions as planning. However, noted the researchers, few studies have analyzed the specific nature of the behaviors that are planned… They concentrated on a brain region called the lateral prefrontal cortex (PFC), which many studies have shown to be involved in such higher brain functions as planning. However, noted the researchers, few studies have analyzed the specific nature of the behaviors that are planned. “To achieve a behavioral goal in daily life, we often need to plan multiple steps of motor behavior that involve selection of a series of actions,” wrote the researchers. “The question arises: how are individual neurons within the PFC involved in the planning of multistep behaviors? More specifically, does the activity of PFC neurons during the process of planning reflect the multiple movements required during future actions or the individual future events that occur as a result of the actions?”
To study the detailed activity of neurons in the lateral PFC during planning, the researchers fitted monkeys with recording electrodes that could measure activity in the region’s neurons. They then taught the monkeys to perform a complex task in which the animals were required to manipulate joysticks to move a cursor on a computer screen from a starting point to a goal. Importantly, the researchers required the monkeys to maneuver the cursor within a maze to reach the goal and to perform those maneuvers in a discrete stepwise fashion with pauses in between.
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