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Some neural tube defects in mice linked to enzyme deficiency
May 25, 2009 |
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Women of childbearing age can reduce the risk of having a child born with a neural tube defect such as spina bifida by eating enough folate or folic acid. However, folate prevents only about 70 percent of these defects.
Importance of sex-specific testing shown in anxiety study
Oct 15, 2008 |
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An Australian study has flagged an important truth for the medical research community. Like their human counterparts, male and female mice are not only different, their respective genetic responses can often be the reverse ...
Pregnancy may help protect against bladder cancer
Jun 26, 2008 |
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Pregnancy seems to confer some protection against bladder cancer in mice, scientists have found. Female mice that had never become pregnant had approximately 15 times as much cancer in their bladders as their counterparts ...
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The protein modifier SUMO helps set apart females and males
Sep 02, 2009 |
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One way in which men and women differ is in their expression of liver proteins that control a large number of whole-body processes such as energy generation and lipid and steroid hormone production and turnover. Now, Walter ...
Female mice can identify inbred males by their scent
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Apr 18, 2008 |
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Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that female mice avoid mating with inbred males by ‘sensing’ the diversity of a protein type in their urine.
Reproductive life of male mice is increased by living with females
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Jan 22, 2009 |
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Living with a female of its species can extend the reproductive life of a male mouse by a dramatic 20 percent, according to a study reported at the online site of the journal Biology of Reproduction.
Mice mothers devote energies to offspring when life is threatened
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May 28, 2008 |
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An Iowa State University researcher has found that sick female deer mice devote their energy to producing healthier offspring.
Pregnant women pass on the effects of smoking
Nov 22, 2007 |
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Smoking during pregnancy has many adverse effects on fetal development. A new study in mice by Andrea Jurisicova and colleagues at the University of Toronto, Canada, now adds the possibility that smoking before pregnancy ...
Study finds biological link between pain and fatigue
Apr 07, 2008 |
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A recent University of Iowa study reveals a biological link between pain and fatigue and may help explain why more women than men are diagnosed with chronic pain and fatigue conditions like fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue ...
How young mice phone home: Study gives clue to how mothers' brains screen for baby calls
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Jun 10, 2009 |
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Emory University researchers have identified a surprising mechanism in the brains of mother mice that focuses their awareness on the calls of baby mice. Their study, published June 11 in Neuron, found that t ...
Why men are more at risk of diseases caused by blood clots than women
Jul 11, 2008 |
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Being male increases your risk of diseases caused by the inappropriate formation of a blood clot (a process known as thrombosis), such as heart attack and stroke, but the reasons for this are not completely understood. However, ...
Hormones increase frequency of inherited form of migraine in women
Dec 22, 2008 |
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Familial hemiplegic migraine (FHM) is an inherited form of severe migraine that is accompanied by visual disturbances known as aura. As with other types of migraine, it affects women more frequently than men. Most cases of ...
To recognize their friends, mice use their amygdalas
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Apr 05, 2007 |
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Even those who can’t remember names can usually recall faces. New research from Rockefeller University suggests that a simple brain chemical, a neuropeptide called oxytocin, is a reason.
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