Unfortunately piglets weaned early often don't thrive with reduced growth and diarrhea common. Ms Weaver's study investigated
#New gluten-free ingredient may cause allergic reaction, expert warnsa popular new ingredient in gluten-free products could be causing an allergic reaction according to a Kansas State university food safety specialist.
Lupin a legume belonging to the same plant family as peanuts is showing up as a wheat replacement in an increasing number of gluten-free products.
and soybean allergies to read labels before buying these products. Lupin is colored a yellow bean that's very popular in Europe Mediterranean countries Australia
and may not realize that lupin has the same protein that causes allergic reactions to peanuts and soybeans.
Allergic reactions can have various symptoms including hives swelling of the lips vomiting breathing difficulties and anaphylactic shock.
Even those without allergies to legume products need to be aware of the ingredient. You can become allergic to something at any point in your life Blakeslee said.
If you do start seeing any symptoms of an allergic reaction stop eating the food immediately
and contact your doctor. The FDA expects lupin to become a popular product in the gluten-free arena because of its many health qualities.
The FDA is actively monitoring complaints of lupin allergies by U s. consumers. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Kansas State university.
It's critical that we rigorously examine the long-term impact of this new technology on public health cardiovascular disease and stroke and pay careful attention to the effect of e-cigarettes on adolescents.
and pathogens including those involved in morphology behaviour and innate immunity. The study provides new insights into evolution
Furthermore special AMPS for the treatment of superficial infections could be developed. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Forschungsverbund Berlin e. V. FVB.
#Creating pomegranate drug to stem Alzheimers, Parkinsonsdr Olumayokun Olajide's research will look to produce compound derivatives of punicalagin for a drug that would treat neuro-inflammation
and slow down the progression of Alzheimer's diseasethe onset of Alzheimer's disease can be slowed and some of its symptoms curbed by a natural compound that is found in pomegranate.
Also the painful inflammation that accompanies illnesses such as rheumatoid arthritis and Parkinson's disease could be reduced according to the findings of a two-year project headed by University of Huddersfield scientist Dr Olumayokun Olajide who specialises in the anti-inflammatory properties of natural products.
Now a new phase of research can explore the development of drugs that will stem the development of dementias such as Alzheimer's
which affects some 800000 people in the UK with 163000 new cases a year being diagnosed.
This inflammation leads to the destruction of more and more brain cells making the condition of Alzheimer's sufferers progressively worse.
which inflammation--not just neuro-inflammation--is a factor such as rheumatoid arthritis Parkinson's and cancer. The research continues
#Fungus deadly to AIDS patients found to grow on treesresearchers have pinpointed the environmental source of fungal infections that have been sickening HIV/AIDS patients in Southern California for decades.
and tree samples from areas around Los angeles hardest hit by infections of the fungus named Cryptococcus gattii (CRIP-to-cock-us GAT-ee-eye).
Cryptococcus which encompasses a number of species including C. gattii causes life-threatening infections of the lungs
and brain and is responsible for one third of all AIDS-related deaths. The study which appears Aug 21 in PLOS Pathogens found strong genetic evidence that three tree species--Canary Island pine Pohutukawa
and American sweetgum--can serve as environmental hosts and sources of these human infections. Just as people who travel to South america are told to be careful about drinking the water people who visit other areas like California the Pacific Northwest
and Oregon need to be aware that they are at risk for developing a fungal infection especially
if their immune system is compromised said Deborah J. Springer Ph d. lead study author and postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Microbial Pathogenesis at Duke university School of medicine.
and UCLA infectious disease specialist Scott Filler M d. whose daughter Elan was looking for a project to work on during her summer break.
and compared the sequences to those obtained from HIV/AIDS patients with C. gattii infections.
because this fungal pathogen will be able to grow reproduce disperse spores and serve as a source of ongoing infections Springer said.
Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Duke university. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.
#Why major cow milk allergen is actually allergeniccow milk allergy occurs in children and in adults.
A specific protein in milk known as beta-lactoglobulin is able to initiate an allergy only when being devoid of iron.
The scientists discovered the same mechanism recently with regard to birch pollen allergy. Their findings help to decipher allergic reactions
and were published in the journal PLOS ONE. Milk allergy is confused frequently with lactose intolerance. However these are two entirely different mechanisms that occur in the body.
People with lactose intolerance do not digest lactose properly because they lack an enzyme known as lactase.
In the case of the potentially much more dangerous cow milk allergy however the body's immune system attacks milk proteins with its own Ige antibodies.
According to statistics about two to three percent of children in Europe suffer from a genuine milk allergy.
Hence people develop an allergic reaction to milk. Such an allergy may cause swelling of the mouth and mucous membranes diarrhea exacerbation of neurodermitis and in rare cases even an allergic shock.
Precise diagnostic investigation helps to differentiate between allergy and intolerance and thus avoid incorrect diets which under certain circumstances may cause malnutrition.
Lack of iron load transforms milk protein into allergenone of the most important milk allergens the so-called beta-lactoglobulin belongs to the protein family of lipocalins.
Lipocalins possess molecular pockets which are able to accommodate iron complexes. Iron is bound to the protein by so-called siderophores.
and may develop an allergic reaction to milk. Roth-Walter working at the department of Comparative Medicine at the Messerli Research Institute says:
Knowledge of the molecular structure of allergens has contributed very significantly to our conclusion about milk allergy.
An article published on August 21st in PLOS Pathogens examines the viral landscape in honeybee colonies in New zealand after the recent arrival of the parasitic Varroa destructor mite.
Uncontrolled Varroa infestation can thereby cause an accelerating virus epidemic and so kill a bee colony within two to three years.
The researchers say that the results of their study strengthen the idea that the multiple virus infestations in honeybees interact to create a dynamic and turbulent pathological landscape
Our data has become the most sensitive barometer of change during this poaching epidemic. We needed to quantify the scale of killing
When it is served over to young children it can cause diarrhea and contribute to obesity.
Their short stature is caused not by a single genetic mutation as occurs in many forms of dwarfism
and a more focused immunosuppression regimen in the baboon recipients according to a study published in The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery an official publication of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery.
Cardiac transplantation is the treatment of choice for end stage heart failure. According to the NHLBI approximately 3000 people in the US are on the waiting list for a heart transplant
and experience issues with power supplies infection and problems with blood clots and bleeding. Transplantation using an animal organ
The second advance was the use of target-specific immunosuppression which limits rejection of the transplanted organ rather than the usual generalized immunosuppression
which is more toxic. Pigs were chosen because their anatomy is compatible with that of humans and they have a rapid breeding cycle among other reasons.
No complications including infections were seen in the longest-survival group. The researchers used surveillance video and telemetric monitoring to identify any symptoms of complications in all groups such as abdominal bleeding gastrointestinal bleeding aspiration pneumonia seizures or blood disorders.
The goal of the current study was to evaluate the viability of the transplants. The researchers'next step is to use hearts from the genetically-engineered pigs with the most effective immunosuppression in the current experiments to test
whether the pig hearts can sustain full life support when replacing the original baboon hearts.
Our study has demonstrated that by using hearts from genetically engineered pigs in combination with target-specific immunosuppression of recipient baboons organ survival can be prolonged significantly.
since 2009 Texas Children's has reduced significantly its rates of necrotizing enterocolitis one of the most devastating
An even larger group of 157000 youths ages 10 to 24 are treated for self-inflicted wounds each year.
The study part of multi-million-dollar Operation Idiopathic Decline and funded by the private Rolling Plains Quail Research Foundation is titled Evidence of an Oxispirura petrowi Epizootic in Northern bobwhites
Throughout the Rolling plains Kendall and others found a significant infection rate with the birds they trapped.
and feed predominantly in ducts behind the eye where they can cause severe inflammation and edema from their feeding activities.
We think infection with these eyeworms can negatively impact vision of quail. These birds need to be 100 percent performance ready to get away from a Cooper's hawk.
and if you have vision impairment it could negatively impact your ability to get away from a predator.
For example many cancers are heritable and genome prediction can be performed to predict disease risk for a person.
and Osaka universities who have come up with a simple way to spot contaminants. Because it's so easy to accidently introduce impurities into graphene labs led by physicists Junichiro Kono of Rice
and plant diseases have dramatically cut back coffee supplies. With a lower supply of coffee in the market prices rise and that favors fraud because of the economic gain says research team leader Suzana Lucy Nixdorf Ph d. In 2012 a study from the U k.'s Royal Botanic Gardens
#Wild sheep show benefits of putting up with parasitesin the first evidence that natural selection favors an individual's infection tolerance researchers from Princeton university
and the University of Edinburgh have found that an animal's ability to endure an internal parasite strongly influences its reproductive success. Reported in the journal PLOS Biology the finding could provide the groundwork for boosting the resilience of humans and livestock to infection.
The researchers used 25 years of data on a population of wild sheep living on an island in northwest Scotland to assess the evolutionary importance of infection tolerance.
and its level of infection with nematodes tiny parasitic worms that thrive in the gastrointestinal tract of sheep.
The level of infection was determined by the number of nematode eggs per gram of the animal's feces.
While all of the animals lost weight as a result of nematode infection the degree of weight loss varied widely:
and found that sheep with the highest tolerance to nematode infection produced the most offspring while sheep with lower parasite tolerance left fewer descendants.
Medical researchers have understood long that people with similar levels of parasite infection can experience very different symptoms.
and so have developed statistical tools to measure variation among hosts in the fitness consequences of infection.
Therefore tolerance to nematode infection could result from an ability to make up for the lost nutrition
While the PLOS Biology findings provide strong evidence that natural selection favors infection tolerance they do raise questions such as how the tolerance is generated
In humans and domesticated animals intestinal parasites are becoming increasingly resistant to the drugs used to treat infections Graham said.
not only help reign in the current epidemic in West Africa but could be expanded easily and used if another filovirus strain started to spread.
Vaccines are the best way to completely eradicate an epidemic threat like Ebola says Matthias Schnell Ph d. Director of the Jefferson Vaccine Center and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Thomas Jefferson University.
in order to most effectively eradicate the threat of hemorrhagic fever. It includes the Zaire strain of Ebola virus that is currently spreading across West Africa as well as the Sudan strain and the Marburg virus a virus in the same family as Ebola
Vaccines however may only prevent the spread of the disease rather than help those who have contracted already the infection because of how quickly the disease progresses.
The lack of any significant biomagnification through the food chain indicates that there is very little risk of harm from exposure to these CUPS in this region.
Such legacy contaminants are banned now widely under the Stockholm Convention he said. But some have been replaced by CUPS
Contaminants Research Division. They examined the vegetation-caribou-wolf food chain in the area where the presence of other organic contaminants such as legacy pesticides
and fluorinated surfactants suggested that CUPS might be found in the vegetation and animals. Caribou are among the most important subsistence animals for people living in the North
Morris said these CUPS represent only a small percentage of contaminants in Arctic regions or in the environment globally.
However their unique set of properties does help us more clearly see how different contaminants behave in the environment
and in food chains compared to legacy contaminants. Morris has widened his research to include marine food chains
and therefore lower the risk of cardiovascular disease. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by St michael's Hospital.
while other studies report no acute impairment The effects of inhaled nicotine in ECIG vapor can be similar to that of nicotine in tobacco smoke.
#New methods to identify MRSA in pigsit is important to keep the number of MRSA infections at a low level.
Traditionally MRSA has been associated with severe infections which occur in hospitals and result in prolonged diseases and increased mortality.
which we normally use for treatment of Staphylococcus infections. In her Phd project at the National Food Institute Phd student Mette Theilgaard exploited the latest technologies within whole genome sequencing
Transfer of disease from animals to humansthe fact that MRSA can spread from animals to humans where they may result in infections has caused great concern in recent years.
LA-MRSA ST398 is zoonotic i e. it can be transferred directly from animals to humans and cause disease.
Staphylococcus aureus may cause various infections ranging from superficial wounds and abscesses to severe infections such as bone inflammation and infection of the heart valve.
In hospitals Staphylococcus aureus is the most frequent cause of infections following surgery. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Technical University of Denmark (DTU.
Giving hope against cancer? The state of Nayarit in Mexico is one of the major producers of soursop (Annona muricata) at national and global level
because in Mexico cancer is a disease that is increasing among the population and scientific research shows that the compounds found in this fruit can encapsulate tumors
but this depends on the how much is consumed. Montalvo Gonzã¡lez indicates that once the results are obtained the process could lead to the development of products derived from the soursop as ice cream yogurt juice or puree;
#Eating resistant starch may help reduce red meat-related colorectal cancer riskconsumption of a type of starch that acts like fiber may help reduce colorectal cancer risk associated with a high red meat diet
according to a study published in Cancer Prevention Research a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Red meat and resistant starch have opposite effects on the colorectal cancer-promoting mirnas the mir-17-92 cluster said Karen J. Humphreys Phd a research associate at the Flinders Center
for Innovation in Cancer at Flinders University in Adelaide Australia. This finding supports consumption of resistant starch as a means of reducing the risk associated with a high red meat diet.
The above story is provided based on materials by American Association for Cancer Research. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.
but that any harm to kangaroo populations by hunting is outweighed by what they gain from a landscape with small patches of different ages of post-fire vegetation.
which is known to cause a Parkinson's like harm of mitochondria recovered after the addition of the two substances.
This gene originally thought of as an oncogene has been linked to Parkinson's disease since 2003. Recent studies showed that DJ-1 belongs to a novel glyxolase family.
and thus can prevent the degeneration of neurons implicated in Parkinson's disease. Their experiments proved that both substances are lifesavers for neurons:
It could serve as a protection against Parkinson's and is actually very tasty at the same time! This is why the researchers have filed a patent for their finding.
Many diseases are associated with a decline in mitochondrial activity not only Parkinson's. Thus the researchers believe that the DJ1-products could have a general role in protecting cells from decline.
#Clues to flus mechanisms uncovered: Scientists analyze how influenza-related proteins help infect cellsa flu virus acts like a Trojan horse as it attacks
and infects host cells. Scientists at Rice university and Baylor College of Medicine have acquired a clearer view of the well-hidden mechanism involved.
Their computer simulations may lead to new strategies to stop influenza perhaps even a one-size-fits-all vaccine.
The discovery detailed this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows the path taken by hemagglutinin a glycoprotein that rides the surface of the influenza virus as it releases fusion peptides to invade a host cell.
Hemagglutinin is folded completely at the start of the process of interest to researchers who study viral infection Ma said.
Ma said the key to stopping the flu could be to attack these intermediate structures.
this is the reason people need flu shots every year. But he suspects the inner part of the protein is conserved more highly.
Such agents could lead to a universal flu vaccine that would last a lifetime. He said the membrane fusion mechanism is shared widely among many biological systems
which makes influenza a good model for studying other diseases. HIV has one. Ebola has one.
And it's also shared by intercell transport in the nervous system Ma said. He noted the work could not have been done without CTBP
The National Science Foundation (NSF) the Welch Foundation the National institutes of health the Gillson-Longenbaugh Foundation and the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas supported the research.
Exposure to biomass burning particles is associated strongly with cardiovascular disease respiratory illness lung cancer asthma and low birth weights.
or found to have many external wounds. Jacobs presented her research two weeks ago at the North america Congress for Conservation Biology in Missoula Mont.
and vegetables is associated with a lower risk of death from any cause particularly from cardiovascular disease
and vegetable consumption is related to a lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease and cancer. However the results are not entirely consistent.
and the United states decided to examine the association between fruit and vegetable intake and risk of all-cause cardiovascular and cancer deaths.
Higher consumption of fruit and vegetables was associated significantly with a lower risk of death from all causes particularly from cardiovascular diseases.
In contrast higher consumption of fruit and vegetables was associated not appreciably with risk of death from cancer.
and vegetables the adverse effects of obesity physical inactivity smoking and high alcohol intake on cancer risk should be emphasised further.
and vegetables is associated with a lower risk of mortality from all causes particularly from cardiovascular diseases.
#Eating tree nuts results in modest decreases in blood fats and sugars, survey findseating tree nuts appears to help reduce two of the five markers for metabolic syndrome a group of factors that raise
the risk for heart disease and other health problems such as diabetes and strokes a new research paper says.
The paper found a modest decrease in blood fats known as triglycerides and blood sugars among people who added tree nuts to their diets compared to those who ate a control diet.
and meta-analysis examining all of the collective evidence of randomized clinical trials on the effect of tree nuts on metabolic syndrome.
A person is considered to have metabolic syndrome if he or she has three of the following risk factors:
high blood pressure; high blood sugar; extra weight around the waist. Dr. Sievenpiper said the biggest reductions in triglycerides
He said there was no adverse impact on the other risk factors for metabolic syndrome or weight gain
The U s. Food and Drug Administration has granted tree nuts a qualified health claim for cardiovascular disease risk reduction.
and DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diets for cardiovascular disease prevention and management based on their ability to reduce bad cholesterol.*
Those with celiac disease or about 1 percent of the U s. population must follow a gluten-free diet
The $10. 5-billion gluten-free food and beverage industry has grown 44 percent from 2011-13 as the rate of celiac disease diagnoses increases along with awareness of gluten-free foods
thus helping some lose weight many health experts say a gluten-free diet is no healthier than a conventional diet except for those with celiac disease.
A gluten-free diet is prescribed for those with celiac disease a condition that can damage the lining of the small intestine.
and prevent the host of health economic and social problems associated with hunger and malnutrition.
and plant pathogens Wing explained. One example he said would be adding disease resistance genes from all of the wild rice varieties to a species of cultivated rice creating a new super-crop that is resistant to diseases and pests.
Mas cotek is used for example to treat pneumonia diabetes hypertension diarrhoea and gout. We found that dried Ficus deltoidea leaves extracted with water at 50 degree celsius for 20 hours yielded an aqueous extract with the highest content of flavonoids and total phenolics.
Combined Vitamin d and calcium supplementation has been shown to reduce the incidence of hip and other non-vertebral fractures among older populations with some studies suggesting that Vitamin d actually leads to lower rates of falling in subjects.
and muscle degeneration-related injury in older adults. Dairy products are a convenient way to work them into a diet as they contain Ca Pi
porcine epidemic diarrhea virus and porcine deltacoronavirus both of which were detected in China in the same time frame prior to the U s. Both porcine epidemic diarrhea virus
and characterize pathogens. The technique will soon be offered at the laboratory. As we isolate viruses we can completely sequence their genomes Hause said.
Hause's most recent work has led to the discovery of an influenza virus in cattle.
A swine sample came in that we thought was influenza but all other tests were said negative Hause.
We found instead that this was an entirely new type of influenza. Subsequent research has shown that it is widespread in cattle not just pigs.
Now we're studying the association of this strain of bovine influenza with respiratory disease in feedlots.
and characterizing pathogens. As a virus mutates and changes next-generation sequencing can be used to help update vaccines
or to get additional information on the pathogen. Some diseases such as flu mutate and change rapidly
and can jump from humans to pigs and back to humans so it's important for both animal health
because its damage can resemble other plant illnesses producing flecks on leaves and discoloration. Potential reductions in crop yields are worrisome:
The plant tries to stop this penetration by building a plug of cell wall material--a papillae--around the infection site.
Methoxychlor causes epigenetic changeswashington State university researchers say ancestral exposures to the pesticide methoxychlor may lead to adult onset kidney disease ovarian disease and obesity in future generations.
Supports earlier epigenetic findingswhen Skinner and his colleagues exposed gestating rats to methoxychlor at a range typical of high environmental exposures they saw increases in the incidence of kidney disease ovary disease
Neonicotinoid insecticides are receiving increased attention by scientists as we explore the possible links between pesticides nutrition infectious disease
In practice that means good fertility longer life udders that give good protection against infections improved claws and more efficient feed utilisation.
After 15 minutes a time brief enough to prevent serious harm to the bees the theater light was turned off.
and lipids resulting in cellular changes that lead to development of diseases such as cancer. They have a domino effect Dalaly said.
of which have the potential to boost the immune system and impact diseases such as cancer and heart disease.
and now widely banned pesticides and other toxic chemicals--called legacy contaminants--can become magnified in an animal that eats contaminated food.
Since these pesticides replaced some legacy contaminants that do biomagnify in similar food chains this is good news for the wildlife
. But this is still only a small part of a much larger picture regarding replacement contaminants and how they're behaving compared with their legacy counterparts.
None of the children had disabilities affecting language acquisition. The results of the study were published in the June 2014 Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research.
The measure was inspired by the Rice/Wexler Test of Early Grammar Impairment developed by Rice and Massachusetts institute of technology Professor Kenneth Wexler in 2001.
It was the first test to detect the subtle but common language disorder Specific Language Impairment.
In 2012 the group was granted $2. 8 million by the National Institute for Deafness and Other Communication Disorders for a fourth five-year-cycle that will enable researchers to continue to monitor the twins as they develop through adolescence.
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