<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7093d0d1-fe27-4e88-baac-8de1cdf4f8bf/03FCE76A-FCDD-40CF-80F6-9176F8B50D97/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20081023/sc_livescience/thestinkinfartscontrolsbloodpressure" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20081023/sc_livescience/thestinkinfartscontrolsbloodpressure" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20081023/sc_livescience/thestinkinfartscontrolsbloodpressure"><P><DIV> A smelly rotten-egg gas in farts controls blood pressure in mice, a new study finds. </DIV> <BR /><DIV> The unpleasant aroma of the gas, called <SPAN id="lw_1224789727_0" class="yshortcuts">hydrogen sulfide</SPAN> (H2S), can be a little too familiar, as it is expelled by <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/livescience/sc_livescience/storytext/thestinkinfartscontrolsbloodpressure/29607639/SIG=1260kuglh;_ylt=AlMtfCvmK3AW9RLWLrCHEg6zvtEF/*http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/070425_microbes_overview.html" linkindex="54"><SPAN id="lw_1224789727_1" class="yshortcuts">bacteria</SPAN></A> living in the human colon and eventually <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/livescience/sc_livescience/storytext/thestinkinfartscontrolsbloodpressure/29607639/SIG=11por4mhq;_ylt=Ajhdag3qi6.KYstc1o0HArKzvtEF/*http://www.livescience.com/health/top_10_about_you.html" linkindex="55"><SPAN id="lw_1224789727_2" class="yshortcuts">makes its way</SPAN></A>, well, out. </DIV> The new research found that cells lining mice's blood vessels naturally make the gas and this action can help keep the rodents' blood pressure low by relaxing the <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/livescience/sc_livescience/storytext/thestinkinfartscontrolsbloodpressure/29607639/SIG=11tgm8sfv;_ylt=AgP58i9Ysw6Yoyxx8bvx2pCzvtEF/*http://www.livescience.com/health/060705_blood_vessels.html" linkindex="56"><SPAN id="lw_1224789727_3" class="yshortcuts">blood vessels</SPAN></A> to prevent <SPAN id="lw_1224789727_4" class="yshortcuts">hypertension</SPAN> (<SPAN id="lw_1224789727_5" class="yshortcuts">high blood pressure</SPAN>). This gas is "no doubt" produced in cells lining <SPAN id="lw_1224789727_6" class="yshortcuts">human blood vessels</SPAN> too, the researchers said. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/03FCE76A-FCDD-40CF-80F6-9176F8B50D97/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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