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Examining camel remains recovered from local abattoirs, the scientists found the answer. Camel noses are filled with many tiny winding passageways, moistened with glandular secretions. As the camel loses water, the secretions dry and form an absorbent crust. This crust soaks up moisture coming from the lungs. During inhalation, the stored moisture is carried back into the lungs. In short, the camel saves water not in its hump but in the folds of its prodigious shnoz, which cover an area of roughly 1,100 sq. cm, vs. only 12 sq. cm for the average human...
Beth Israel researchers observed 178 DES daughters, some of them from puberty. Initially, 121 had cervical ectopy, a condition in which misplaced glandular tissue grows on the cervix. But subsequent examinations revealed that this tissue was being replaced gradually; in many of the young women the ectopy disappeared. At the start of the study, 123 women had fibrous ridges growing around their cervical walls; this "hood" later receded in 52% and vanished in 28%. But the good news has a bad side. If DES daughters lose their abnormal cervical "markers" and neglect checkups, doctors may not monitor them for another...
Hamsters are also useful for research in other diseases, such as epilepsy, muscular distrophy, and obesity caused by glandular problems, Homborger said...
Doctors are beginning to use synthetic versions of these hormones to diagnose certain glandular disorders and to treat problems like infertility. Guillemin believes brain hormones may some day be found that influence behavior as well...
DIED. Hans Habe, 66, Hungarian-born author (A Thousand Shall Fall) and journalist who once enraged Adolf Hitler by disclosing that his real name was Schicklgruber; of a glandular ailment; in Locarno, Switzerland. Habe fought in both the French and U.S. armies in World War II and during the Allied occupation was named overseer of German newspaper publications. Called "a born novelist" by Thomas Mann, Habe wrote a score of widely translated books and, by his own count, some 10,000 articles...