Hormones

Hormones are secreted by the endocrine system into the body and adjust the functioning of all organ systems in the body. Testosterone and Estrogen are male/female specific, while others such as adre...

Disorders of Calcium Concentration

Calcium (Ca) is required for the proper functioning of muscle contraction, nerve conduction, hormone release, and blood coagulation. In addition, proper Ca concentration is required for various othe...

Genome Prairie appoints new president and CEO

Dr. Reno Pontarollo, the current CSO of Genome Prairie, will succeed Dr. David Gauthier as president and CEO on April 1, 2013. Dr. Pontarollo joined Genome Prairie in 2005. His credentials include a P...

Back off, stranger, that's my mate! The role of kappa opioid receptors

We’ve all heard of the legendary monogamous prairie vole, haven’t we? Our adorable rodent friend forms the kind of attachments that make us humans feel slightly ashamed of our more promi...

Mistaken infection 'on the prairie'?

(HealthDay)—Fans of the pioneer tales known as "Little House on the Prairie" are familiar with the ravages of scarlet fever. That's because Mary Ingalls—sister of the autobiographical series' auth...

Prairie cordgrass: Highly underrated

(University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences) When D.K. Lee and Lane Rayburn, faculty members in the crop sciences department at the University of Illinois, tal...

Decreased kidney function leads to decreased cognitive functioning

(Temple University) The greater a person's decrease in renal functioning, the greater the decrease in their overall cognitive functioning, particularly abstract reasoning and verbal memory, finds a ne...

Prairie dogs disperse when all close kin have disappeared

(University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science) Prairie dogs pull up stakes and look for a new place to live when all their close kin have disappeared from their home territory--a striking p...

Prairie Island nuclear plant back to full power

Xcel Energy Inc. says Prairie Island's Unit 2 reactor has returned to full power after a scheduled refueling outage.The St. Paul Pioneer Press (http://bit.ly/JJOIp2) reports the nuclear generating pl...

Decreased cognitive functioning associated with deterioration in kidney function

Decreased kidney function is associated with decreased cognitive functioning in areas such as global cognitive ability, abstract reasoning and verbal memory, according to a study led by Temple Univers...

Geraniol and simvastatin show a synergistic effect on a human hepatocarcinoma cell line.

Simvastatin is a competitive inhibitor of 3-hydroxymethylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase activity, whereas geraniol is a monoterpene with multiple pharmacologic effects on mevalonate metabolism. Both of...

Population genetic structure of the prairie dog flea and plague vector, Oropsylla hirsuta.

SUMMARYOropsylla hirsuta is the primary flea of the black-tailed prairie dog and is a vector of the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis. We examined the population genetic structure of O. hirsuta fleas...

Citronellol and Geraniol, Components of Rose Oil, Activate Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor α and γ and Suppress Cyclooxygenase-2 Expression.

We evaluated the effects of rose oil on the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2). Citronellol and geraniol, the major components of rose oil, activated PPARα...

Hydroxy-group effect on the regioselectivity in a photochemical oxetane formation reaction (the Paternò-Büchi Reaction) of geraniol derivatives.

The Paternò-Büchi (PB) reaction of geraniol derivatives 1, which contain allylic alcohol functionality and unfunctionalized double bonds, with benzophenone was investigated to see the effect of the...

Repellent Constituents of Essential Oil of Cymbopogon distans Aerial Parts against Two Stored-Product Insects.

The screening for bioactive principles from several Chinese medicinal herbs showed that the essential oil of Cymbopogon distans aerial parts possessed strong repellency against the booklouse, Liposcel...