This rendered each natural mummification process a true asset, due to the undisturbed burials, many in situ and with soft tissue for potential DNA analysis. ... Disease of the Skull The largest quantity of data came from the analysis of the skull. ... This deafness due to diving sample populace showed a large bias toward men, indicating that deep diving fishing was an occupation largely reserved for men (Gerszten et al. 1997). ... Domesiticated dogs, guinea pigs, cats mice and others as well as humans act as host to Chagas' carrying vectors. ... Sex differentiation in Chagas' preval...

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The Sample population in the study was obese humans and mice. ... The researchers found that obese humans and mice have increased level of neutrophil elastase and a decreased level of α1-antitrypsin. When the team leveled out the neutrophil elastase and of α1-antitrypsin, and fed the mice a high fat diet, the mice did not gain weight (Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute). ... "The population in the first study was 30 young active men and women. ... In that study, published last year in The Journal of Obesity, 34 heavy men and women began a supervised, five-day-a-wee...

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Using co-localization, co-immunoprecipitation and proximity ligation assays, DYX1C1 was shown to have estrogen receptors that interact with estrogen in the nucleus. (10) Massinen et al found that Erβ knock-out (KO) mice present very similar phenotypes as the post-mortem brains of dyslexic individuals. ... Thus, the dyslexia associated SNP G-A substation mutation was shown to affect the binding of the transcription factor, which led to a reduced expression of DYX1C1 gene.(9) In 2012, Tammimies et al performed a quantitative real time-PCR analysis on DYX1C1 mRNA using two SH-SY5Y human neuo...

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Research review of Parkinson's disease Afflicting over one million Americans, Parkinson's disease is one of the most devastating neuro-degenerative diseases in the world. A British physician, James Parkinson, first discovered this disease while observing people on the streets of London. He not...

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The first theme is the structural conditions that impact and marginalize these women and men on a daily basis. The second theme is the search for respect and the reclaiming of dignity by these men and women. ... For example, as stated by a philanthropic aid society, "Basic requirements for even minimal living [are] lacking the looting of water pipes, radiators, toilets, and bathtubs- (Bourgois, 66) There are also many pests including mice and rats that are in many of the buildings in El Barrio making the conditions even worse. ...

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Since the passage of the Harrison Act in 1914, the federal approach to drug abuse control has included a variety of ways for reducing both the supply of, and demand for, illicit drugs. At first the supply and demand reduction strategies were grounded in the traditional deterrence model: Though leg...

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However unlike most scientific papers, his target audience is not specific to the men of his field. ... Darwin begins his analysis of nature by establishing the base of which natural selection acts upon: variation. ...

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