News tagged with palmitic acid
Ice cream may target the brain before your hips, study suggests
Blame your brain for sabotaging your efforts to get back on track after splurging on an extra scoop of ice cream or that second burger during Friday night's football game.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 14, 2009 |
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Hazelnuts: New source of key fat for infant formula that's more like mother's milk
Human breast milk is the best source of food for infants. University of Georgia researchers have found what may be a new second best—formula made from hazelnut oil.
May 23, 2012 |
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Analyzing food quality with an artificial intestine: the NutriChip
EPFL researchers have developed a miniature on-chip gastrointestinal tract in order to observe the effects of various nutrients on health. The “NutriChip” project’s in vitro tests have already ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Mar 26, 2012 |
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Archeologists discover Egyptian mummies styled with fatty hair gel
(PhysOrg.com) -- While it has long been known that the ancient Egyptians prettied up those deemed worthy of mummification, not so clear was what was done for the hair. Now, archeologist s working out of the KNH Centre for ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 23, 2011 |
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E. coli metabolism reversed for speedy production of fuels, chemicals
In a biotechnological tour de force, Rice University engineering researchers this week unveiled a new method for rapidly converting simple glucose into biofuels and petrochemical substitutes. In a paper published ...
Aug 10, 2011 |
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Investigating pancreatic beta-cell function in type 2 diabetes
(PhysOrg.com) -- UCD researchers led by Conway Fellow, Professor Philip Newsholme have described how a polyunsaturated fatty acid, arachidonic acid, can positively impact on the function and survival of pancreatic beta-cells ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 21, 2011 |
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Epilepsy drug could help treat retinitis pigmentosa, study finds
A small preliminary study has found that valproic acid - a drug already used to treat epileptic seizures, migraines and bipolar disorder - may halt or even reverse the loss of vision produced by retinitis pigmentosa, researchers ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Aug 12, 2010 |
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This is your brain on fatty acids
Saturated fats have a deservedly bad reputation, but Johns Hopkins scientists have discovered that a sticky lipid occurring naturally at high levels in the brain may help us memorize grandma's recipe for cinnamon buns, as ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 30, 2009 |
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Enzyme Crucial to Insulin Resistance Found in Brain
An enzyme known to cause insulin resistance in muscle is also located in the brain and has a similar function there, a research team that includes a University of Cincinnati scientist has found.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 14, 2009 |
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Dynamic molecular mechanism to keep brain activity stable
In the brain, many types of synaptic proteins are spatio-temporally regulated to maintain synaptic activity at a constant level. Here, the Japanese research group led by Professor Masaki Fukata, Drs. Yuko Fukata and Jun Noritake ...
Jul 13, 2009 |
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Primate study shows excess vitamin A can be stored during fetal development
A new University of Wisconsin-Madison study suggests that pregnant women who take some types of vitamin supplements or eat fortified foods may be passing excess vitamin A to their developing fetuses. Reported in the October ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 08, 2007 |
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