Valentina Echeverria, a scientist at Bay Pines VA Healthcare System, said, “We found a compound that protects neurons, prevents the progression of Alzheimer’s disease pathology, enhances memory and has been shown to be safe. It looks like cotinine acts on several aspects of Alzheimer’s pathology in the mouse model. That, combined with the drug’s good safety profile in humans, makes it a very attractive potential therapy for Alzheimer’s disease.”

As part of the study, young mice were genetically altered to suffer memory problems akin to Alzheimer’s disease. Cotinine was administered regularly for five months.

During the end of the study period, findings revealed that mice which received cotinine performed better at tasks involving their working memory and thinking skills as compared to mice which did not receive cotinine.

Long-term cotinine treatment caused a 26% reduction in deposits of amyloid plaques, which is an indicator of Alzheimer’s disease. Cotinine also activated the signaling factor Akt, which helps neurons survive, thus improving memory.

Source-Medindia

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This new surgery could provide hope for the thousands of women diagnosed with breast cancer every year.

Cancer victim Claire Barrell, from Ripley, Surrey, is one of just a handful of women across the world and only the second in the UK to have had the state-of-the-art surgery, which costs the NHS around 35,000 pounds.

She had the surgery at the Royal Surrey Hospital in July last year.

“Doctors thought I was an ideal candidate because I am young and active. If your body is not in good condition it will reject the pig skin,” the Sun quoted Claire as saying.

“I was told that pigs’ tissue takes easily to the human body and would feel completely natural – and it does.

“Apart from one breast being a tiny bit tougher than the other, you really can’t tell the difference. When I have a bra on, both cups are full – they’ve done an amazing job,” she added.

Source-ANI

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The findings suggest that the children, whose brains were just 10 percent of a normal size, lacked the normal cortical architecture of the human brain.

This combination of factors has not been seen in other genes associated with the development of the human brain.

The researchers have found that mutations in the same gene, centrosomal NDE1, which is involved in cell division, were responsible for the deformity.

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“The walk makes me feel energetic and sets me up for the day,” said Ravi Wikar, whose daily constitutional takes him on a circular route past shuttered shops and up and down the switched-off escalators.

“I walk every morning from 6:30 am and do about three kilometres (1.9 miles) on average,” the 37-year-old businessman, dressed in a white baseball cap, white t-shirt, red tracksuit bottoms and running shoes, told AFP.

The concept of using a closed shopping centre as a place to exercise doesn’t seem strange to the 50 or so regular mall walkers of Malad, most of whom are senior citizens with ailments from arthritis to diabetes.

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A new study has found that interval training combined with healthy eating practices can be beneficial for those suffering from obesity.

Within the framework of this study, researchers analyzed the track record of 62 participants in Kilo-Actif, a 9-month program intended for obesity sufferers that focuses on weight loss and maintenance. The study showed significant improvements in participants’ body mass, waist circumference, body mass index and effort capacity.

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The litany of stomach-turning headlines has caused officials to scramble to contain the damage and sparked an anguished lament last week from Premier Wen Jiabao about unscrupulous food producers.

“These virulent food-safety incidents have revealed a grave situation of dishonesty and moral degradation,” Wen Jiabao said in a speech to government officials.

“Without high-quality citizens or ethical strength, China cannot be a respectable economy or power in a real sense,” he said in published remarks.

Recent scandals have included pork found on the market so loaded with bacteria that it glowed in the dark, according to a state press report.

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It is believed that it could be all about money or have to do with lifestyle factors.

But some might argue that sorting by education has less to do with personal preference and more to do with whom we’re likely to meet as people often meet their future spouses in college, grad school or workplace.

Now, Gustaf Bruze, an economist at the Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences in Denmark has said that movie star marriages can help sort all this out.

Bruze assembled a large data set of top movie stars’ marriages, earnings, and education levels. He found that level of formal education has no correlation with a movie star’s success, either in terms of box office earnings or the likelihood of winning an Oscar.

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The 39-year-old mother of two is the first Turkish woman to have a government-paid bodyguard after the European Court of Human Rights condemned Turkey in 2009 for failing to protect her and her slain mother.

Before the landmark case reached the judges in Strasbourg, Opuz was repeatedly beaten and survived both a stabbing and an attempt to run her over with a car.

After Turkish authorities repeatedly failed to act on her complaints, her ex-husband killed her mother.

Opuz, from the mainly Kurdish southeast, now lives a secluded life.

“For her, it is impossible to talk about a normal life…. She has been haunted by violence and death threats all throughout her marriage and afterwards,” lawyer Meral Danis Bestas told AFP.

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