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How alcohol blunts the ability of hamsters to 'rise and shine'
Sep 01, 2009 |
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Chronic alcohol consumption blunts the biological clock's ability to synchronize daily activities to light, disrupts natural activity patterns and continues to affect the body's clock (circadian rhythm), even days after the ...
Researchers shed light on fat burning
Feb 05, 2009 |
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Researchers at Georgia State University have found that fat cells give feedback to the brain in order to regulate fat burning much the same way a thermostat regulates temperature inside a house.
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Seasonal depression may affect hamsters
Nov 16, 2005 |
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An Ohio State University study suggests hamsters may suffer from symptoms of anxiety and depression during the dark days of winter, just as some humans.
Apples, apple juice shown to prevent early atherosclerosis
May 03, 2008 |
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A new study shows that apples and apple juice are playing the same health league as the often-touted purple grapes and grape juice. The study was published in the April 2008 issue of Molecular Nutrition and Food Research.
Circadian clock may be critical for remembering what you learn
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Oct 08, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The circadian rhythm that quietly pulses inside us all, guiding our daily cycle from sleep to wakefulness and back to sleep again, may be doing much more than just that simple metronomic task, ...
Running Hamsters Can Power Nano Devices (Video)
Feb 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Among the vast number of untapped energy sources are finger taps, heartbeats, and even hamsters running on exercise wheels. In a recent study, researchers from Georgia Tech have shown that ...
Adolescent but not adult hamsters are more aggressive on low dose of fluoxetine
Oct 17, 2006 |
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New research offers tantalizing clues as to why some teenagers taking common anti-depressants may become more aggressive or kill themselves. The research is published in the October Behavioral Neuroscience, which is publis ...
Sex Ends as Seasons Shift and Kisspeptin Levels Plummet
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Dec 28, 2006 |
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A hormone implicated in the onset of human puberty also appears to control reproductive activity in seasonally breeding rodents, report Indiana University Bloomington and University of California at Berkeley ...
Researchers find smallpox drug may also target adenovirus
May 19, 2008 |
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Scientists at Saint Louis University have made two key discoveries that could lead to the first-ever human testing of a drug to target the adenovirus, which causes a number of severe upper-respiratory infections and is one ...
Little known type of cholesterol may pose the greatest heart disease risk
Aug 20, 2009 |
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Health-conscious people know that high levels of total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol (the so-called "bad" cholesterol) can increase the risk of heart attacks. Now scientists are reporting that another form ...
The power of multiples: Connecting wind farms can make a more reliable - and cheaper - power source
Nov 21, 2007 |
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Wind power, long considered to be as fickle as wind itself, can be groomed to become a steady, dependable source of electricity and delivered at a lower cost than at present, according to scientists at Stanford University.
Study finds that linked wind farms can result in reliable power
Dec 05, 2007 |
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Wind power, long considered to be as fickle as wind itself, can be groomed to become a steady, dependable source of electricity and delivered at a lower cost than at present, according to scientists at Stanford ...
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