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High-fructose diet hampers recovery from traumatic brain injury
A diet high in processed fructose sabotages rats’ brains’ ability to heal after head trauma, UCLA neuroscientists report.
Revealing a link between nutrition and brain health, the finding offers implications for the 5.3 million Americans living with a traumatic brain injury, or TBI. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 1.7 million people suffer a TBI each year, resulting in 52,000 annual deaths
“Americans consume most of their fructose from processed foods sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup,” said Fernando Gomez-Pinilla, a professor of neurosurgery and integrative biology an...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - October 2, 2015 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Keeping gut bacteria in balance could help delay age-related diseases, UCLA study finds
Why do some people remain healthy into their 80s and beyond, while others age faster and suffer serious diseases decades earlier? New research led by UCLA life scientists may produce a new way to answer that question — and an approach that could help delay declines in health.
Specifically, the study suggests that analyzing intestinal bacteria could be a promising way to predict health outcomes as we age.
The researchers discovered changes within intestinal microbes that precede and predict the death of fruit flies. The findings were published in the open-source journal Cell Reports.
“Age-onset decline is very tightly ...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - September 11, 2015 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Expert advice: How to help an addicted friend or family member get help
Experts understand that addiction isn’t a weakness or moral failing; it’s an illness, much like cancer or heart disease. And It often falls to family members and friends to convince their addicted loved one to seek help. The task can feel like negotiating an emotional minefield with anger, obfuscation and denial among the likely outcomes. How do you know if there’s a problem, when do you intervene and how? Dr. Timothy Fong, associate clinical professor of psychiatry and director of the UCLA Addiction Medicine Clinic, provided guidance in the July 2015 issue of UCLA Magazine. An edited version of the article fo...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - August 1, 2015 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Room to breathe for L.A. apartment residents
Public health efforts in California over the last two decades have succeeded in clearing the air of tobacco smoke in workplaces, restaurants, bars and many other public places. But for those who reside in multi-unit apartment complexes, the home is not always a smoke-free zone — even if they want it to be and even if their health suffers as a result.
With a $3 million federal grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research in the public health school is leading an initiative to change that reality for low-income Latino and African-American families living ...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - July 7, 2015 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Association of Leptin and Adiponectin Levels with Three-year Weight Change among Japanese Male Workers.
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to clarify, through a prospective study, the relationship between leptin and adiponectin levels, and subsequent weight change. The study subjects were 2,485 male office workers aged 35-64 employed by a company in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. Of these men, 1,936 (77.9%) received health check-ups both in 2005-2007 and 3 years later, in 2008-2010. Of the subjects who received both health check-ups, 352 were excluded duo to cancer, cardiac infarction, stroke or diabetes mellitus, leaving a total of 1,584. We divided them into tertiles according to baseline leptin and adiponectin le...
Source: Acta Med Okayama - June 1, 2014 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Yamaguchi J, Imatoh T, Une H Tags: Acta Med Okayama Source Type: research
Tomato therapy: Engineered veggies target intestinal lipids, improve cholesterol
UCLA researchers report that tiny amounts of a specific type of lipid in the small intestine may play a greater role than previously thought in generating the high cholesterol levels and inflammation that lead to clogged arteries.
The team also found they could reduce the negative effects of these lipids in mice by feeding the animals a new genetically engineered tomato being developed at UCLA that is designed to mimic HDL ("good") cholesterol.
The study, published in the December issue of the Journal of Lipid Research with an accompanying editorial, focused on a group of lipids found in the sma...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - November 13, 2013 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Himalaya Climb to Raise Awareness for Aphasia Research
The UA's Greg Leonard plans to climb Kun peak in the Indian Himalayas to raise awareness of and money for the UA's Aphasia Group. Aphasia, which means speechlessness in Greek, can result from a stroke, traumatic brain injury, progressive diseases or cancer. Patients typically have difficulty finding the words for what they want to say.
Source: The University of Arizona: Health - June 24, 2013 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Jennifer Fitzenberger Source Type: research
Fat chance: Scientists unexpectedly discover stress-resistant stem cells in adipose tissue
Researchers from the UCLA Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology have isolated a new population of primitive, stress-resistant human pluripotent stem cells that are easily derived from fat tissue and are able to differentiate into virtually every cell type in the human body without genetic modification.
The cells, called multi-lineage stress-enduring stem cells from adipose tissue (Muse-AT), were discovered by "scientific accident" when a piece of equipment failed in the laboratory, killing all the stem cells in an experiment except the Muse-AT cells.
The UCLA team further discovered that not only are Muse-A...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - June 5, 2013 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Boosting 'cellular garbage disposal' can delay the aging process, UCLA biologists report
UCLA life scientists have identified a gene previously implicated in Parkinson's disease that can delay the onset of aging and extend the healthy life span of fruit flies. The research, they say, could have important implications for aging and disease in humans.
The gene, called parkin, serves at least two vital functions: It marks damaged proteins so that cells can discard them before they become toxic, and it is believed to play a key role in the removal of damaged mitochondria from cells.
"Aging is a major risk factor for the development and progression of many neurodegenerative diseases," said David Walke...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - May 6, 2013 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
UCLA Nursing research on women and heart disease among key topics at nursing conference
New findings on the role gender plays in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of heart disease will be among the research topics highlighted by faculty members and students from the UCLA School of Nursing at the annual Western Institute of Nursing Conference, which runs from April 11 to 13 in Anaheim, Calif.
At a special state-of-the-science panel on Saturday, April 13, UCLA professor Lynn V. Doering will present a review of gender differences in identification, treatment and outcomes for cardiovascular disease, with a focus on coronary atherosclerosis, heart failure and stroke. During the same panel, UCLA profes...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - April 9, 2013 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
