Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Medical School student named Ann M. Michelson and a mouse named "Funny-foot" may have taken a giant step forward toward the cure for muscular dystrophy. Miss Michelson's research on "Funny-foot's" mutant genes resulted in a $50,000 grant for extensive exploration along the lines of heredity...
...present Miss Michelson is continuing her research with hopes of raising enough of the rodents to complete the work proposed by the Muscular Dystrophy Association of America. This will entail raising about 400 animals a month, a substantial increase over the eight or ten which are born each week...
...Dance Group featured expressive dancing and imaginative choreography by Adele Logan and Ruth Emerson. All of the dancers moved gracefully. Most of the girls have not yet attained perfect control, but their muscular coordination was surprisingly good. Anne Wallace, Karen Wilk, and Katherine Beer in particular danced very stylishly...
...every victim of hypertension examined after death shows arterial damage of some kind. Hardening of the minute arterioles-the slenderest twigs at the extremities of the arterial tree-almost always goes with high blood pressure. Its immediate cause seems to be loss of elasticity in the arterioles' thin muscular walls...
...whether hypertension causes arteriosclerosis, or vice versa, no one knows. A similar change in major arteries is often seen in the aged: the muscular wall hardens so much that the vessels are called "pipestem arteries." In an otherwise healthy individual this condition may go undetected and do no apparent harm...