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...thyroid gland controls the body's basal metabolic rate--the rate at which it consumes energy while at rest. When the thyroid hormone is produced in excess, the body consumes energy faster than it can be supplied. The result is a haywire combination of anxiety, tension and fatigue. The body wants to go, go, go--and it does, even when it isn't going anywhere. This type of things can wear you out, even if you haven't been exerting yourself...
Currently I'm on medication to suppress my overactive thyroid gland. The hope is that by taking my medication regularly and by doing my best to regulate my lifestyle, my thyroid gland will quickly begin to regulate itself as well. I figure my metabolism has to slow down eventually. After all, my Harvard experience will be going into remission starting in about two weeks. That might be just the thing my Graves' Disease needs to head into remission along with...
Folkman and his fellow researchers found thathemoglobin solutions could support an isolatedthyroid gland in a glass chamber. They thenchecked to see if the thyroid gland could supporttumor growth...
...When we put tumors in, they all stoppedgrowing at a millimeter or less," Folkman says."You could see it. The difference was in thethyroid gland with hemoglobin solutions, theendothelial cells along the blood vessels swelledup and prevented blood vessels from reaching thetumor. But when we moved the tumor to the animal,it grew and killed the animal. In 1961, we saw forthe first time that when you have no bloodvessels, tumors stopped growing...
Dolly is a carbon copy of her mother, grown from a cell taken from an adult ewe's mammary gland. The father, in a sense, is embryologist Ian Wilmut, who as a boy wanted to be a farmer but, after a summer of laboratory work, became enchanted by the magical progression of embryos from amorphous balls of cells into living entities of exquisite complexity. In the pursuit of the advancement of animal husbandry (and, by extension, human nutrition and health), he began experimenting with cloning at Scotland's Roslin Institute. His vision was the creation of genetically engineered farm animals...