Health & Medicine Week back issues from August 2008:
The genetics of the white horse unraveled.
Aug 04, 2008 ... The white horse is an icon for dignity which has had a huge impact on human culture across the world. An international team led by researchers at Uppsala University has now identified the mutation causing this spectacular trait and show that white horses carry an identical mutation that ...
Data on acute lymphoblastic leukemia reported by researchers at Children's Hospital.
Aug 04, 2008 ... " Corticosteroids are a critical component of therapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) but are associated with late effects, such as osteoporosis. Risk factors remain poorly defined," researchers in the United States report (see also Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia). ...
New findings from Nagasaki University describe advances in acute myeloid leukemia.
Aug 04, 2008 ... "Myeloperoxidase (MPO), a pivotal lineage marker for acute myeloid leukemia (AML), has been also shown to have a prognostic value: a high percentage of MPO-positive blasts correlates to favorable prognosis. To understand the relationship between the expression of MPO in leukemia cells and ...
Reports on acute myeloid leukemia findings from Karolinska University provide new insights.(Report)
Aug 04, 2008 ... "An internal tandem duplication of FLT3 (FLT3/ITD) occurs in approximately 25% of newly diagnosed AML. PKC412 inhibits the growth of leukemic cell lines with FLT3 mutations such as the MV4-11," scientists in Stockholm, Sweden report (see also Acute Myeloid Leukemia). "This ...
Data on adenoma published by researchers at National Institutes of Health.(Report)
Aug 04, 2008 ... According to recent research published in the American Journal of Roentgenology, "A computer-aided detection (CAD) system with high sensitivity in the detection of adenomatous polyps in varied CT colonography (CTC) data sets increases the utility of CAD in the clinical setting. The purpose ...
Fitch Rts $77.75MM Maryland Health & Higher Ed Fac Auth Revs UMMS Ser 2008G & H.
Aug 04, 2008 ... Fitch Ratings assigns an 'AA/F1+' rating to the $40,705,000 Maryland Health and Higher Educational Facilities Authority revenue bonds, University of Maryland Medical System issue, series 2008G and an 'A/F1' rating to the $37,040,000 Maryland Health and Higher Educational Facilities ...
PRI: Pro-Life Leader Blames Feminist Groups for Slaughter of Girls.
Aug 04, 2008 ... Steven Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute (PRI), says that America has a hidden problem of sex discrimination, but a form of discrimination that feminists refuse to address (see also Population Research Institute). In PRI's latest YouTube video, Mosher ...
New ageing study findings have been published by scientists at Brown University.
Aug 04, 2008 ... "Consensus is growing that long-term care delivery, regulation, and financing are no longer viable, a concern that will grow more salient as the population ages. To better understand these prevailing challenges, the authors interviewed experts regarding the current state of long-term care ...
Reports outline ageing study findings from University of Massachusetts.(Report)
Aug 04, 2008 ... According to recent research published in the journal Research on Aging, "The authors examined Black-White differences in the likelihood of completing written advance directives for end-of-life health care and engaging in informal verbal communication about advanced wishes. Data from the ...
Studies from University of Michigan have provided new data on ageing.
Aug 04, 2008 ... According to a study from the United States, "The purpose of this study was to see whether informal social support from fellow church members sustains an older person's sense of religious meaning in life over time. Two types of church-based social support were evaluated: spiritual support ...
Study data from University of Wisconsin provide new insights into ageing.
Aug 04, 2008 ... "The authors reflect on the use of marital status to study the living arrangements of elderly people (aged 60 years and older) in a comparative perspective. Traditionally, relevant studies have differentiated by marital status and assumed that married people lived together and that ...
Studies from M. Munozamatriain and colleagues provide new data on albinism.
Aug 04, 2008 ... According to a study from Zaragoza, Spain, "In cereals, albinism is a major obstacle to produce doubled haploids (DH) for breeding programs. In order to identify QTLs for green plant percentage in barley anther culture, a specific population was developed." "This population, ...
Findings in brain research reported from University of British Columbia.
Aug 04, 2008 ... "To inform the design of haptic information displays for noisy environments, we investigated two mechanisms for temporal masking of vibrotactile stimuli (backwards and common-onset) using a commodity display. We used a two-channel setup, presenting stimuli to the middle and ring finger of ...
New brain research from University of Tennessee discussed.
Aug 04, 2008 ... According to a study from the United States, "Vibration-related neurons in monkey primary somatosensory cortex (SI) discharge rhythmically when vibratory stimuli are presented. It remains unclear how functional information carried by vibratory inputs is coded in rhythmic neuronal ...
Studies from University of Minnesota provide new data on brain research.
Aug 04, 2008 ... According to recent research from the United States, "We recorded from over 250 single cortical neurons throughout the medial anterior lobe of the cat cerebellum during passive movements of the ipsilateral hindlimb resembling stepping on a moving treadmill. We applied three different ...
New findings in clinical dysmorphology described from St. Mary's Hospital.
Aug 04, 2008 ... "Three individuals from two families with bilateral camptodactyly and recurrent patellar subluxation are presented," scientists in Manchester, the United Kingdom report (see also Clinical Dysmorphology). "All three have features of Di George syndrome owing to a 22q11 deletion ....
Data from Erasmus University provide new insights into clinical endocrinology.
Aug 04, 2008 ... " Classical GH deficiency (GHD) is associated with typical phenotypic features. We have analysed standardized photographs of 137 Caucasian patients with GHD, in order to examine the relations between auxological, biochemical, pituitary and facial morphometric features," investigators in ...
Investigators at Ghent University publish new data on clinical endocrinology.(Report)
Aug 04, 2008 ... According to recent research from Ghent, Belgium, " Sex steroid concentrations in men are related to body composition and both are determined by genetic and environmental factors. This study investigates heritability estimates of sex steroid serum concentrations and body composition as ...
New clinical endocrinology data have been reported by scientists at Zhejiang University.(Report)
Aug 04, 2008 ... " To investigate the role of ghrelin and polymorphisms of ghrelin/obestatin gene in children with short stature. A total of 117 GH deficient (GHD) and 81 idiopathic short stature (ISS) children were studied," investigators in Hangzhou, People's Republic of China report (see also Clinical ...
Studies from D. Rottembourg and co-researchers in the area of clinical endocrinology published.
Aug 04, 2008 ... According to recent research from Paris, France, " Pituitary stalk interruption syndrome (PSIS) is a frequent cause of GH deficiency (GHD) and is commonly associated with other PH deficiencies (PHDs). Although previous reports have correlated multiple PHDs with severe anatomical lesions, ...
Studies from H.X. Guan and co-authors have provided new information about clinical endocrinology.
Aug 04, 2008 ... According to a study from Shenyang, People's Republic of China, " The aim of the present study was to evaluate whether the status of iodine nutrition influences the TSH concentration in a selected Chinese reference population according to the criteria proposed by National Academy of ...
Study findings from University of Kiel provide new insights into clinical neurophysiology.(Clinical report)
Aug 04, 2008 ... According to a study from Kiel, Germany, "Differentiating between a fixed activation pattern (phase shift) and conduction time (time delay) in rhythmic signals has important physiological implications but is methodologically difficult. Delay was estimated by the maximising coherence method ...
New clinical orthopedics study findings have been published by R.E. Cook and colleagues.(Clinical report)
Aug 04, 2008 ... According to a study from Scotland, "Periprosthetic fracture is an uncommon but typically complex complication of cemented THA usually treated operatively. It is a source of reduced function, subsequent morbidity, and increased mortality." "Previous studies may have ...
Report summarizes clinical orthopedics study findings from University of New South Wales.(Clinical report)
Aug 04, 2008 ... According to recent research published in the journal Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, "Nitric oxide is an important messenger molecule in many physiological processes. The addition of NO via NO-flurbiprofen enhances the material properties of healing tendon, however, ...
Research findings from Keele University update understanding of clinical orthopedics.
Aug 04, 2008 ... "The Movin scoring system and its validated modifications and the Bonar scoring system are used to classify the histopathological findings of tendinopathy. We compared the reliability of these two different histopathological evaluation scores of tendon tissue," scientists in the United ...
Research from S. Boraiah and colleagues has provided new data on clinical orthopedics.
Aug 04, 2008 ... "Associations between fracture patterns are important and can ensure proper diagnosis and guide treatment. Occult posterior malleolus fractures associated with distal spiral tibia fractures often are underrecognized and the morbidity of a missed posterior malleolus injury can be ...
Research from S.A. Jelinsky et al has provided new information about clinical orthopedics.
Aug 04, 2008 ... According to a study from the United States, "Rest is a common treatment for overuse injuries, but its effectiveness on gene expression has not been systematically evaluated under controlled experimental conditions. We asked whether genes regulated in the supraspinatus tendon as a result ...
Research from V. Titus and co-authors reveals new findings on clinical orthopedics.
Aug 04, 2008 ... "Limb salvage in tumor surgery has encouraged the development of megaprostheses. However, reattaching the ligamentum patellae poses a particular problem: avulsion and/or extensor lag may lead to poor function," scientists in Australia report (see also Clinical Orthopedics). "We ...
Researchers from Linkoping University discuss findings in clinical orthopedics.
Aug 04, 2008 ... "Healing of the rat Achilles tendon is sensitive to mechanical loading, and the callus strength is reduced by 3/4 after 14 days, if loading is prevented. Exogenous GDFs stimulate tendon healing," investigators in Sweden report (see also Clinical Orthopedics). "This response is ...
Researchers from Michigan State University publish new studies and findings in the area of clinical orthopedics.(Clinical report)
Aug 04, 2008 ... "Tendon cells respond to mechanical loads. The character (anabolic or catabolic) and sensitivity of this response is determined by the mechanostat set point of the cell, which is governed by the cytoskeleton and its interaction with the extracellular matrix," investigators in the United ...
Researchers from University of Minnesota report on findings in clinical orthopedics.(Clinical report)
Aug 04, 2008 ... According to a study from the United States, "The reported results of acetabular cage reconstruction for pelvic deficiency are widely variable. Our primary question was: what is the survivorship of cage reconstruction with a primary end point of cage revision and secondary end points of ...
Researchers from University of Wisconsin publish findings in clinical orthopedics.(Report)
Aug 04, 2008 ... "The purpose of this study was to define the acetabular changes associated with coxa vara and determine how these acetabuli differ from those of a normal hip. Charts and radiographs of 33 patients with coxa vara with a mean age of 6 years (range, 2-15 years) were retrospectively reviewed," ...
Scientists at Medical University of Graz report research in clinical orthopedics.(Report)
Aug 04, 2008 ... According to recent research from Graz, Austria, "A Galeazzi fracture is defined as a fracture of the radius associated with dislocation of the distal radioulnar joint. Treatment in children and adolescents is usually possible with closed reduction and casting." "The objective ...
Data on clinical pathology published by researchers at Baylor University.(Clinical report)
Aug 04, 2008 ... "Thromboelastography (TEG) aids in monitoring a patient's global hemostatic system by measuring the rate of clot formation, clot strength, and stability. The usefulness of TEG in pediatric settings, especially with neonates, is limited owing to a lack of neonatal reference values," ...
Mayo Clinic reports research in clinical pathology.(Clinical report)
Aug 04, 2008 ... "We evaluated the accuracy of capillary whole blood international normalized ratio (INR) on the CoaguChek S (Roche Diagnostics, Indianapolis, IN), CoaguChek XS (Roche Diagnostics), and i-STAT I (i-STAT, East Windsor, NJ) point-of-care (POC) analyzers compared with venous plasma INRs ...
Researchers from Children's Hospital report recent findings in clinical pathology.(Clinical report)
Aug 04, 2008 ... "The erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) is a nonspecific screening test to assess elevations of acute phase proteins that occur in various acute and chronic diseases. The recommended method is based on the Westergren method," investigators in the United States report (see also Clinical ...
Data on cognition described by N. Jacoby et al.
Aug 04, 2008 ... According to recent research published in the journal Cognition & EmotionLondon, the United Kingdom, "In a replication and extension of Watkins, Teasdale, and Williams (2003), a scrambled sentences paradigm was used to test whether prompting contextual processing of negative cognitive ...
Findings from Syracuse University broaden understanding of cognition.(Report)
Aug 04, 2008 ... "People with a repressive coping style are highly motivated to defend themselves against self-concept threats. But what kinds of unfavourable personal characteristics are they most focused on avoiding? Weinberger (1990) suggested that repressors are primarily concerned with seeing ...
New cognition data have been reported by B.A. Nosek and co-authors.
Aug 04, 2008 ... "Explicitly, humans can distinguish their own attitudes from evaluations possessed by others. Implicitly, the viability or a distinction between attitudes and evaluative knowledge is less clear," investigators in the United States report (see also Cognition). "We investigated ...
New cognition data have been reported by S. Cahan and co-authors.(Report)
Aug 04, 2008 ... According to recent research published in the journal Cognitive Development, "Using the ''between-grade levels'' regression discontinuity design, this study examined the hypothesized differential sensitivity of logico-mathematical (LM) and infralogical (IL) operational tasks to the effects ...
New cognition findings from University of Wisconsin published.
Aug 04, 2008 ... According to recent research published in the journal Cognition & Emotion, "The ability to understand the causes and likely triggers of emotions has important consequences for children's adaptation to their social environment. Yet, little is currently known about the processes that ...
New cognition research reported from University of Montreal.
Aug 04, 2008 ... "Three experiments were conducted in order to validate 56 musical excerpts that conveyed four intended emotions (happiness, sadness, threat and peacefulness). In Experiment 1, the musical clips were rated in terms of how clearly the intended emotion was portrayed, and for valence and ...
New cognition study findings recently were published by M. Ebersbach and co-researchers.
Aug 04, 2008 ... "Previous studies have suggested that children as young as 9 years old have developed an understanding of non-linear growth processes prior to formal education. The present experiment aimed at investigating this competency in even younger samples (i.e., in kindergartners, first, and third ...
New cognition study results from University of Quebec described.(Report)
Aug 04, 2008 ... "This Study investigated the understanding of false belief and emotion in monozygotic (MZ) and same-sex dizygotic (DZ) twin pairs compared to non-twin children. Aged 3;9 to 5; 1 years, the children (N = 123) were administered three false belief and three emotion understanding tasks," ...
Research from Franklin University in cognition provides new insights.
Aug 04, 2008 ... "Repressors have shown short-term tolerance of acute pain but long-term sensitivity to chronic pain. To reconcile this discrepancy, we hypothesised that repressors routinely suppress pain-related thoughts during acute pain, and thus paradoxically incur rebound effects (increased ...
Research reports on cognition from Indiana University provide new insights.
Aug 04, 2008 ... According to recent research from the United States, "We conducted a longitudinal analysis of the relative intensity and duration of interests associated with conceptual domains between the ages of 4 and 6 years, respectively. Results indicated a significant portion of preschool children ...
Researchers at Boston College have published new data on cognition.
Aug 04, 2008 ... "Some accounts imply that basic-level emotion categories are acquired early and quickly, whereas others imply that they are acquired later and more gradually. Our study examined this question for fear happiness, sadness, and anger in the context of children's categorization of emotional ...
Researchers from University of Plymouth detail findings in cognition.
Aug 04, 2008 ... "The elaborated intrusion (EI) theory of desire (Kavanagh, Andrade, & May, 2005) attributes the motivational force of cravings to cognitive elaboration, including imagery, of apparently spontaneous thoughts that intrude into awareness. We report a questionnaire study in which respondents ...
Scientists at University of Miami report research in cognition.
Aug 04, 2008 ... "The question of how people represent emotions is eminently important for a number of different domains of psychological research. The present study tested the assumption that emotion concepts are represented similar to theories in that they are comprised of a set of causally interrelated ...
Studies from University of Michigan in the area of cognition described.
Aug 04, 2008 ... "Mother-child conversations about pictures systematically differ from mother-child conversations about objects: Pictures are more likely than objects to elicit talk about kinds, whereas objects are more likely than pictures to elicit talk about individuals. The purpose of the cur-rent ...
Study results from Bar-Ilan University update understanding of cognition.
Aug 04, 2008 ... According to a study from Ramat Gan, Israel, "We investigated manifestations of jealousy in preschoolers (n = 32) with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and in a group of typically developing children (n = 18) matched on mental age, verbal mental age, nonverbal mental age, and mother's ...
New comparative endocrinology findings from Indiana University described.(Report)
Aug 04, 2008 ... According to recent research published in the journal General and Comparative Endocrinology, "In order to reproduce successfully, animals must integrate multiple environmental cues to synchronize breeding with favorable conditions. In temperate, seasonally breeding rodents, photoperiod ...
New comparative endocrinology study findings reported from T. Yada and co-authors.
Aug 04, 2008 ... "Influence of environmental salinity on expression of distinct corticosteroid receptor (CR) genes, glucocorticoid receptor (GR)-1 and -2 and mineralcorticoid receptor (MR), was examined in osmoregulatory and hemopoietic organs and leucocytes of steelhead trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). There ...
New comparative endocrinology study findings reported from University of Genoa.
Aug 04, 2008 ... According to recent research from Genoa, Italy, "Chimera monstrosa (rabbit fish) like other holocephalans is a rare, delicate deep sea fish. Owing to the difficulty of sampling individuals in good shape, there is a paucity of information available on the morphology and physiology of this ...
Research from University of Glasgow has provided new information about comparative endocrinology.
Aug 04, 2008 ... According to recent research from Scotland, "In response to stressors, most vertebrates elevate secretion of glucocorticoids (CORT) to produce a 'stress response' that enhances survival, but simultaneously inhibits reproduction. Circumstances in which the value of current reproduction is ...
Research from University of Missouri has provided new data on comparative endocrinology.(Report)
Aug 04, 2008 ... "Although amphibian sex determination is genetic, it can be manipulated by exogenous hormone exposure during sexual differentiation. The timing of sexual differentiation varies among anuran amphibians such that species may or may not be a tadpole during this period, and therefore, may or ...
Research results from I. Yamamoto and co-authors update knowledge of comparative endocrinology.(Report)
Aug 04, 2008 ... According to a study from Tokyo, Japan, "Motilin is a peptide hormone involved in gastrointestinal motility. GPR38, initially cloned as an orphan receptor, is now considered a specific receptor for motilin." "Previously, molecular characterization of the motilin receptor had ...
Researchers from University of Murcia provide details of new studies and findings in the area of comparative endocrinology.
Aug 04, 2008 ... "The gilthead seabream is a Protandrous hermaphrodite seasonal breeding teleost with a bisexual gonad that offers an interesting model for studying the two first reproductive cycles (RCs), in which the specimens develops as males. During the first RC (RC1), 11-ketotestosterone (11-KT) and ...
Studies conducted at Carleton University on comparative endocrinology recently published.
Aug 04, 2008 ... According to recent research published in the journal General and Comparative Endocrinology, "The factors influencing prolactin (PRL) variation in birds and in wildlife in general have rarely been investigated with respect to the physiological impacts of exposure to environmental ...
Studies from Nihon University add new findings in the area of comparative medicine.
Aug 04, 2008 ... "A 1.5-y-old female Djungarian hamster (Phodopus sungorus) presented with a large subcutaneous mass surrounding the right shoulder. Radiography revealed dislocation of the right humeral articulation and osteolytic lesions of the right scapula," scientists writing in the journal Comparative ...
Findings in comparative neurology reported from University of Turin.
Aug 04, 2008 ... "In rodent cerebellar cortex, synaptogenesis occurs entirely postnatally, allowing study of the mechanisms of synapse formation in vivo. Here we monitored the clustering of GABA(A) receptors and the scaffolding protein gephyrin at GABAergic postsynaptic sites during rat cerebellar ...
New comparative neurology study findings have been reported by scientists at Rockefeller University.(Report)
Aug 04, 2008 ... "The CD11c enhanced yellow fluorescent protein (EYFP) transgenic mouse was constructed to identify dendritic cells in the periphery (Lindquist et al. [20041 Nat. Immunol. 5:1243-1250). In this study, we used this mouse to characterize dendritic cells within the CNS," scientists in the ...
New comparative neurology study findings have been reported from University of Washington.
Aug 04, 2008 ... According to a study from the United States, "Area X is a songbird basal ganglia nucleus that is required for vocal learning. Both Area X and its immediate surround, the medial striatum (MSt), contain cells displaying either striatal or pallidal characteristics." "We used ...
New findings from University of Minnesota in the area of comparative neurology published.
Aug 04, 2008 ... "It has been reported that mu-opioid agonists depress glutamate release in some neurons but the specific receptor subtype mediating this effect is unclear. The purpose of the present study was to examine whether a particular mu-opioid receptor (MOR) splice-variant, MOR1C, is expressed in ...
New findings reported from University of Gothenburg describe advances in comparative neurology.
Aug 04, 2008 ... "The autonomic nervous system develops following migration and differentiation of precursor cells originating in the neural crest. Using immunohistochemistry on intact zebrafish embryos and larvae we followed the development of the intrinsic enteric and extrinsic vagal innervation of the ...