Saturday, August 6, 2016

This and That


Vaccines fail to protect obese mice from severe influenza infections

Hidden tooth infections may predispose people to heart disease

Blood sugar slumps affect how lean men treat the more rotund
Low blood sugar makes them cruel.   Shocking, isn't it?

A simple treatment for a common breathing problem among premature infants
This is so fascinating, they put electrodes on their hands and feet and make their brains think they are running.  

Discovery of infants' airway microbiomes may help predict lung disease
In contrast to the general belief that the airways of an infant are sterile until after birth, University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers and colleagues have found that the infant airway is already colonized with bacteria or bacterial DNA when a baby is born—and this is true for infants born as early as 24 weeks gestation.
Hypocretin/orexin knock-out mice display disrupted behavioral and dopamine responses to cocaine.
 I knew it... liked a lot of stimulants, but not cocaine.    Pretty sure this effect is the cause of the meth epidemic...