Posted on 12/20/2005 10:55:40 PM PST by Mo1
Yes, Mimi cat was very good at doing bluff charges.
(She was a big cat, 22 pounds. But she was also long and tall for a cat.)
But Mimi was also very thin under her long coat of fur.
All her weight was muscle, and that wasn't apparent until she started moving stuff around like it was nothing.
(Comparitively.)
Good night, pleasant dreams.
I'm heading out as well.
Israeli PM taken into the operation room to relieve pressure on the brain.
Actual Medical Charts [Yeah, right...]
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A Chuckle for you!
First up?
Hi guys, I'm still around, but just tied up with Dr's appointments, etc.
Having these aches and pains checked out to make sure I don't have Angina. So far it's looking ok from the EKG yesterday, but will be seeing a Cardiologist soon. I am now an official "Snow-bird, Gray Hair", as I started my BP pills this morning. Urrhhhhhhhhhhhhhggg!
I'm lurking, and will keep in touch. I still think it's muscle spasms, and the Doc has to agree so far, but you know they will keep digging and probing until I'm nothing but a wasted frazzled specimen. I knew those Barrr-stids would get me some day...lol.
Cheers till later....
Now all you need to do is dye yer hair blue...
Thanks a bunch for the pictures Westy, I've been quiet for a few nights, my daughter has been using the computer for her school work and I have not wanted to bump her off.
Hope you're getting well.
Love Ya.
Hi Nully,
There aren't many political cartoons half as good as the one you posted about Hillary.
Thanks.
January 04, 2006
Female Hormone Key to Male Brain
Female hormones circulating in the brain determine masculine behavior, at least in mice. Estrogen--the quintessential female hormone responsible for regulating the reproductive cycle--turns lady mice into wannabe male mice when it is allowed to penetrate the brain during development, according to new research.
Neuroscientist Julie Bakker of the University of Liege in Belgium and her colleagues proved this in the course of solving one of the longstanding riddles of brain development. Although it had long been known that a certain protein--alpha-fetoprotein (AFP)--plays a key role in mouse brain development by binding to estrogen, it was unclear whether AFP facilitates the development of female brains by carrying the hormone or simply by blocking it from entering the brain.
| The scientists used female mice incapable of producing AFP and set them loose in a Plexiglass aquarium with a sexually active male. To give them extra incentive to mate, they also received injections and capsules of female hormones. But, unlike their wild cousins, the AFP-deficient mice showed little interest in the male's advances and their brains had fewer cells devoted to producing certain chemicals critical to reproduction, just like males. Furthermore, when placed in a cage with a sexually receptive female, the mice without AFP tried to mimic their male counterparts by mounting the female and engaging in pelvic thrusting.
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| These observations still didn't constitute definitive proof that AFP helped female mice stay ladylike by blocking estrogen, however. So the researchers prevented AFP-deficient mice from being exposed to estrogen while still in the womb. Without AFP and without estrogen during brain development, these mice proved just as behaviorally female as their wild cousins, the researchers report in the February issue of Nature Neuroscience. In addition to revealing that it is the lack of estrogen that makes the brains of female mice feminine, the findings indicate that it is the presence of the hormone that makes male mice behave as males. In primates, including humans, androgen--not estrogen--plays the key role in making men's brains masculine and AFP does not bind to estrogens. But the appropriately named sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) may play a similar role to that of AFP, Bakker notes, keeping women feminine and allowing baby boys develop masculine behavior. --David Biello |
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I did not get any food pictures today as I did not take my camera but anyway it would not have been interesting just very dark meat on a large platter.
The dark meat was Wild Boar, shot in Lugo and marinated for 30 hours in wine, a little vinegar, herbs and spices. It tasted very good. But as it is more filling than pork, maybe less digestable, we really ate very little for ten people with enough leftovers for forty more.
Another Food Adventure.
Thanks.
Add one more thing to the list I would like to do someday.
Eat wild boar.
have a good one -- I always look forward to your pics of food, I showed them to my wife the other day.
Thought of you.
Don't know why...
Reddish hair + monitor + intravenous coffee feeder = SL
A simple math formula as explanation.
http://www.engrish.com/recent.php
Priceress photographs Going one to next.
Enjoy.
I can't imagine what this means....
*rolling eyes*
Glad you check in!:)
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