Pediatrics Doctors in Lake Providence, LA Accepting Medicare
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 Dr. Camille Perkins, M.D. Pediatrics Medicare: Not Enrolled in Medicare Practice Location: 326 N Hood St, Lake Providence, LA 71254 Phone: 318-559-4900 Fax: 318-559-1772 |
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Low-carb diet burns more excess liver fat than low-cal diet
People on low-carbohydrate diets are more dependent on the oxidation of fat in the liver for energy than those on a low-calorie diet, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found in a small clinical study.
GlcNAc plays a key role in keeping cancerous monsters ‘fed'
Behaving something like ravenous monsters, tumors need plentiful supplies of cellular building blocks such as amino acids and nucleotides in order to keep growing at a rapid pace and survive under harsh conditions. How such tumors meet these burgeoning demands has not been fully understood.
Breast cancer not 100% inherited: Study
According to study results released this Monday, women with a close relative with breast cancer may not be at a higher risk of getting breast cancer. The findings may bring comfort to women from high-risk families after a 2007 study suggested that simply having a relative with a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation raised their risk of developing breast cancer, even if they had tested negative for the genes.
Loss of SKIP sensitizes cancer cells to apoptotic effects of DNA damage-inducing anticancer drugs
When cells find themselves in a tight spot, the cell cycle regulator p21 halts the cell cycle, buying cells time to repair the damage, or if all else fails, to initiate programmed cell death. In contrast to other stress-induced genes, which dispense with the regular transcriptional entourage, p21Cip1 still requires SKIP, a transcription elongation factor that also helps with the editing of transcripts, to be expressed, found researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
Study finds high levels of depression among children abused in the first five years of their lives
Although children can be depressed for many reasons, new evidence suggests that there are physiological differences among depressed children based on their experiences of abuse before age 5. Early abuse may be especially damaging due to the very young age at which it occurs.
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