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Offline Nemesis

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Preventing hearts from aging
« on: October 16, 2009, 09:01:11 am »
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Scientists prevented age-related changes in the hearts of mice and preserved heart function by suppressing a form of the PI3K gene, in a study reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.


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The Japanese researchers compared aged mice with a functional p110α to aged mice with suppressed p110α and found that mice with the suppressed gene had:

    * improved cardiac function;
    * less fibrosis (fibrosis causes the heart to lose flexibility);
    * fewer biological markers of aging; and
    * a pattern of cardiac gene expression like that of younger mice.

“This study showed that aging of the heart can be prevented by modifying the function of insulin and paves the way to preventing age-associated susceptibility to heart failure,” Shioi said.
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Re: Preventing hearts from aging
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2009, 06:54:58 am »
Fortunately, I was a SNCO in the Air Force, and had my heart removed at the NCO Academy..just ask any of my former airmen   ;D 

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Re: Preventing hearts from aging
« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2009, 07:09:28 am »
Quote from: Capt. Mike on October 17, 2009, 06:54:58 am
Fortunately, I was a SNCO in the Air Force, and had my heart removed at the NCO Academy..just ask any of my former airmen   ;D 

Mike

  :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :thumbsup:
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Re: Preventing hearts from aging
« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2009, 12:00:11 am »
Quote from: Capt. Mike on October 17, 2009, 06:54:58 am
Fortunately, I was a SNCO in the Air Force, and had my heart removed at the NCO Academy..just ask any of my former airmen   ;D 

Mike

 I thought they removed the spine, not the heart, Mike !!   ::)
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Re: Preventing hearts from aging
« Reply #4 on: October 21, 2009, 05:26:45 am »
Quote from: Wraith 413 on October 21, 2009, 12:00:11 am
Quote from: Capt. Mike on October 17, 2009, 06:54:58 am
Fortunately, I was a SNCO in the Air Force, and had my heart removed at the NCO Academy..just ask any of my former airmen   ;D 

Mike

 I thought they removed the spine, not the heart, Mike !!   ::)

Now now, fightin's out of style here...

One must remember, I volunteered in 1973 to avoid the draft..and found I liked the lifestyle..

And I've never been afraid to make a decision, right or wrong..I preferred to lead, not rule..

Can't say how it is in the USAF these days, even though I work at Offutt..most of the base has gone civil service (we're contractors at the PMEL), and the few military I do interface with are usually the test equipment monitors

Take care..and I do appreciate you serving

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My chops were not as fast...[but] I just leaned more on what was in my mind than what was in my chops.  I learned a long time ago that one note can go a long way if it's the right one, and it will probably whip the guy with twenty notes.
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