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POPSKennel Cough – Prevention, Symptoms and Treatment At this time of year many pets are on the move with their families or boarded out. The conditions are right for kennel cough in pets that are normally in their home environment. These timely tips will help you prevent kennel cough or know what to do if you suspect your pet has caught it.
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POPS"Obesity caught like common cold" continues (through link): It is increasingly clear, several experts say, that viruses might play a role in some obesity cases. There are 49 known human adenoviruses. They cause everything from the common cold to gastrointestinal problems and eye inflammation, pneumonia, croup, and bronchitis. AD-36 was first fingered as being possibly linked to obesity more than a decade ago. Nikhil Dhurandhar, of Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana, and a colleague made the connection in 1997 in research presented at an annual Experimental Biology meeting. That preliminary study of 199 people found that up to 15 percent of them carried antibodies to the virus, which provided indirect evidence that they once were exposed to the virus itself.
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POPSOne Test to Rule Them All? The Wall Street Journal has an interesting report about a new test that can look for a dozen viruses, including the common cold. It's innovative, but expensive at $300 to $400 a pop and takes several hours to process. Would that matter to you if it meant you could get a definitive diagnosis?
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POPSNew way to make stem cells is safe Hochedlinger's team used a much more harmless virus, called an adenovirus, to carry into the cells the four transformative genes, called Oct4, Sox2, Klf4 and c-Myc. They used mouse skin cells and also liver cells from fetal mice and got both types to look and act like iPS cells As the cells divide, they dilute the virus until it disappears, he said. But the genetic changes remain. To test the cells they made chimeras --- a blend of two separate animals. They injected their newly made cells into mouse embryos and when the pups were born, they carried visible evidence that the cells had indeed transformed them And so far, these chimeric mice have not developed any tumors If it works, some day doctors may be able to make tailor-made transplants to treat diseases in people by removing a few cells, transforming them in the lab and transplanting the new tissue or organs back in
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POPSStem Cells without Side Effects It sounds like a breakthrough has been achieved. Not long (relative:) from now we may be growing extra organs from our own cells... life extension may be nearer...
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POPSCommon Cold Mutates the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. "But adenovirus is causing severe disease and, in some cases, death in normal, healthy people." 1,035 people in Oregon and a handful of other states have been infected by adenovirus Oregon, where seven patients have died. Twenty percent of our patients did not survive this severe infection.
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POPSNew Adenovirus Serotype This kind of things happens each time a new virus emerges... It takes out its first victims then mutates into something more tolerable. Or we adjust by becoming immune. Someone wins and someone loses.
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POPS Virulent form of cold virus worries experts Virulent form of cold virus worries experts suggest the emergence of a new and virulent Ad14 (adenovirus 14) variant t. Adenoviruses frequently cause acute upper respiratory tract infections like the common cold, but also can cause other illnesses including inflammation of the stomach and intestines, pink eye, bladder infection and rashes. Colds caused by adenoviruses can be very severe in the very young and the very old as well as in certain other people, like those with compromised immune systems.
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POPSSore throat virus linked to obesity At Pennington biomedical centre, Louisiana State University, they collected fatty tissue from 10 patients having liposuction. They extracted stem cells from the tissue and exposed half from each patient to adenovirus-36, a cause of respiratory tract infections, diarrhoea and conjunctivitis. A week later, many stem cells exposed to the virus had been converted into early stage fat cells and begun storing fat. In samples that were not infected, a third as many stem cells had become fat cells. "We're not saying that a virus is the only cause of obesity, but this study provides stronger evidence that some obesity cases may involve viral infections," Dr Pasarica told the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society in Boston.
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POPSA Virus that makes you Fat! Well ... what else is new. It seems you can't eat, drink, talk on your cell phone, be intimate, or buy groceries without danger to your health ... so why not a "Fat" virus!?
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POPSObesity is contagious? This is amazing research. What if in the effort to fatten chickens or cows for our consuption, we have somehow altered our own bodies.
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