<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/5b42d726-514a-4f00-836e-72df02d0025e/7BB62CFB-B503-4A20-B8B0-EECAC1E902E3/" 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://www.kurzweilai.net/news/news_single.html?id=8855" href="http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/news_single.html?id=8855" style="font-size: 11px;">www.kurzweilai.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/news_single.html?id=8855">Rutgers University scientists have shown that neurons that produce the beta-endorphin peptide (BEP) "feel good" hormone -- released during exercise, a good <A class="thought" href="javascript:loadBrain('Conversation')">conversation</A>, and many other aspects of <A class="thought" href="javascript:loadBrain('Life')">life</A> that give humans pleasure -- play a roles in regulating the stress response and immune functions to control tumor <A class="thought" href="javascript:loadBrain('Growth')">growth</A> and <A class="thought" href="javascript:loadBrain('Progress')">progress</A>ion.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/news_single.html?id=8855"> To test their <A class="thought" href="javascript:loadBrain('Hypothesis')">hypothesis</A> about the role of BEP in controling tumor <A class="thought" href="javascript:loadBrain('Growth')">growth</A> and <A class="thought" href="javascript:loadBrain('Progress')">progress</A>ion, the Rutgers scientists took neural <A class="thought" href="javascript:loadBrain('Stem Cell')">stem cell</A>s, transformed them into BEP neurons by treating them with particular chemicals, and then transplanted them into brains of live rats. The authors studied tumor <A class="thought" href="javascript:loadBrain('Growth')">growth</A> in the rats that had been given carcinogens to induce prostate tumors. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/news_single.html?id=8855"> The neurons also protected the rats against prostate <A class="thought" href="javascript:loadBrain('Cancer')">cancer</A> 90 percent of the <A class="thought" href="javascript:loadBrain('Time')">time</A>. The <A class="thought" href="javascript:loadBrain('Research')">research</A>ers discovered that the "natural killer," or NK cells that typically attack <A class="thought" href="javascript:loadBrain('Cancer')">cancer</A> cells in the body, are activated by the inserted BEP neurons.</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/7BB62CFB-B503-4A20-B8B0-EECAC1E902E3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.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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