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The UCO Accounting Club will sponsor a voluntary income tax assistance program Monday through Wednesday 1 - 3 p.m. and Thursday 5 - 8 p.m. through April 15 in the Troy Smith Lecture Hall. For The UCO English Society more information,' call Bill will meet at 1 p.m. May 8 at Austen at 336-3215. the home of Dr. Timmy GENERALLY Morales. For more information, SPEAKING call Carletta Rehbine at 3762692. Celebrating Bronze and Blue Committee will' be The UCO International around campus from 8 a.m. to Office will host an 5 p.m. every Friday, handing employment seminar over post- out free soft drink coupons to graduation immigration issues those wearing bronze and blue. and practical training, from 2 to For more information, call Beverly Prosser at 974-2364. 3:30 p.m. April 16 in Room 202 of the University Center. The UCO Swing Club will For more information, call the meet at 7:30 p.m. every International Office at 974- Thursday in the University 2390. Center Ballroom. Instructor Chris Ghant will be giving The English Society will lessons. For more information, host a showing of "Cat on a call Khalilah Watson at 9744365. .
APRIL 6, 1999
Scientists closer to eliminating obesity
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The Raven Society will meet at 2 p.m. April 13 at the Chatroom, located at 2nd and Kelly. For more information, call Calypso Harvey at 7519068.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AFP) Scientists have succeeded in identifying and cloning a mouse gene that can prevent obesity linked to fatty foods. "The cloning of the ... gene and the identification of its protein product are major first steps in achieving a better understanding of their roles in controlling weight based on the amount of fat in a diet," Karen Moore, director of genetic systems of Millennium Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge Massachusetts, told England's Nature magazine. The scientists found that while the gene, called mahogany (mg), produced a protein (MG) in many tissues of the body, its activity in a specific region of the brain's hypothalamus was particularly interesting because of that region's role in body weight ,regulation. Because great
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Mice genes offer clues similarity between mouse and human metabolism, the scientists expect to find that the gene plays a similar role in in human beings. Mice with a mutation in their mg gene maintain a healthy weight whether they eat a high fat (42 percent fat) or low fat (9 percent fat) diet with the same amount of calories. In contrast, mice with a normal mg gene gain excess weight on the high fat diet. Such diet-induced obesity differs from forms of genetically-induced obesity in which weight gain occurs even when mice are fed a normal diet. Genetically induced obesity in mice has been linked
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to mutations in the obese (ob), fat (fat) and agoutiyellow (Ay) genes. Mice with a mutation in their mg gene can suppress the genetic induced obesity of agoutiyellow mice but not that of ob and fat mice. In a separate report in the same magazine, Gregory Barsh of Stanford in the U.S. was quoted as demonstrating that the protein whose production is regulated by this gene contained an element resembling a molecule recently isolated in the human species and involved in immune reactions. —From College Press wire services 1999
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