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If you choose to follow any links to the complete text of articles listed below, you will be leaving the Strategian Web site. If you wish to return to this page from the Web page you are sent to, please use the Back option of your browser. J. Travis Overview: A Vaccine for Alzheimer's Disease? (... new results from experiments on mice indicate that injections of beta-amyloid [a protein fragment suspected by some researchers as causing Alzheimer's disease in humans] generated antibodies that prevented the accumulation of beta-amyloid within the mouse brain and even cleared existing amyloid deposits [or "plaques"]. This immunization approach has yet to be tested in humans; if successful though, it might conceivably mean that one day injections [of beta-amyloid] could prevent or slow the development of Alzheimer's disease and that such therapy might even reverse some of the brain damage in people already afflicted with the disorder--from the text of the article in Science News; for more indepth information on this topic, see the article in Nature cited immediately below) Science News Volume 156, Number 2 (July 10, 1999): 20. **The complete text of this article is currently available through the Web site of Science News** Dale Schenk, Robin Barbour, Whitney Dunn, Grace Gordon, Henry Grajeda, Teresa Guido, Kang Hu, Jiping Huang, Kelly Johnson-Wood, Karen Khan, Dora Kholodenko, Mike Lee, Zhenmei Liao, Ivan Lieberburg, Ruth Motter, Linda Mutter, Ferdie Soriano, George Shopp, Nicki Vasquez, Christopher Vandevert, Shannan Walker, Mark Wogulis, Ted Yednock, Dora Games, and Peter Seubert Immunization With [Beta] Amyloid Attenuates Alzheimer-Disease-Like Pathology in the PDAPP Mouse. (mice, injection) Nature Volume 400, Number 6740 (July 8, 1999): 173-177. Luann Becker, Theodore E. Bunch, and Louis J. Allamandola Higher Fullerenes in the Allende Meteorite. (... fullerenes, a recently-discovered element on Earth and the third pure form of carbon besides diamond and graphite, have now been extracted from a meteorite) Nature Volume 400, Number 6741 (July 15, 1999): 227-228. Michael L. Platt and Paul W. Glimcher Neural Correlates of Decision Variables in Parietal Cortex. (... based on research with monkeys, this study found that when animals can choose freely between two alternative responses, the choices subjects make and neuronal activation in this area [lateral intraparietal area of the brain] are both correlated with the relative amount of gain that the animal can expect from each response--from the abstract on the Nature Web site) Nature Volume 400, Number 6741 (July 15, 1999): 233-238. The Lancet Editorial: Coke Adds Life, But Cannot Always Explain It. (... about the cause of the recent reported outbreak of poisoning among people in Belgium who had consumed Coca-Cola that was allegedly contaminated by "bad carbon dioxide" and a "fungicide." Now, a number of experts believe that the true cause of the outbreak was really mass hysteria) The Lancet Volume 354, Number 9174 (July 17, 1999): see issue. Martin Claussen, Claudia Kubatzki, Victor Brovkin, Andrey Ganopolski, Philipp Hoelzmann, and Hans-Joachim Pachur Simulation of an Abrupt Change in Saharan Vegetation in the Mid-Holocene. (... some 4,000-6,000 years ago, the Sahara region of North Africa began its transition into a desert; this study argues that the cause of that change was initiated by subtle variations in the Earth's orbit which were [then] strongly amplified by atmosphere-vegetation feedbacks in the subtropics. The authors conclude that Saharan desertification was a natural event and that human land use in the area played only a tiny role--from the text of the article on the Geophysical Research Letters Web site) Geophysical Research Letters Volume 26, Number 14 (July 15, 1999): 2037-2040. **The complete text of this article is currently available through the Web site of Geophysical Research Letters** How to find the above journals, magazines, and other publications? See Step 3: Locate of the Information Strategy for details. Questions about any or all of the above? Please let me know. |
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