UNT Health Science Center Researchers Discover Eating Less May Not Increase Life...

UNT Health Science Center Researchers Discover Eating Less May Not Increase
Life Expectancy

FORT WORTH, Texas, Jan. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Dr. Michael Forster of
the UNT Health Science Center and Dr. Raj Sohal of the University of Southern
California's School of Pharmacy have discovered that eating less may not be a
key to living longer. Their study and others by Health Science Center
researchers were recently published in several scientific journals and
articles.

The Forster-Sohal study found that lean mice that ate fewer calories did not
lengthen their lifespan - a dietary factor which may be true for humans as
well. Caloric restriction was beneficial to obese mice in the study, however.
The study was funded by the National Institute on Aging, part of the National
Institutes of Health. Results from the study were published in The Journal of
Nutrition, Scientific American, Asian News International, Medical News Today,
Science Daily and ScienceBlog.com, among others.

Dr. Peter Raven published a study that yields new information about blood
pressure in Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. The overview of
historical experiments studies regulation of arterial blood pressure during
exercise. Results from the study were published in Life Science Weekly, Blood
Weekly, Biotech Week and others.

Dr. Adan Dibas published his findings on enzyme research, particularly related
to glaucoma, in the journal Molecular Vision. The study found that modifying a
protein may eventually lead to axon degeneration in glaucoma. Results from the
study were also published in Proteomics Weekly.

Dr. Shigehiko Ogoh found that a combination of cerebral autoregulation and the
autonomic nervous system work together to regulate cerebral blood flow during
exercise. The results of his study were published in Medicine and Science in
Sports and Exercise, Science Letter, Life Science Weekly and other
publications.

Drs. Abha Sharma, Rajendra Sharma, Pankaj Chaudhary, Sanjay Awasthi and Yogesh
Awasthi, all with the UNT Health Science Center, along with researchers from
the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston and the University of
Arkansas for Medical Sciences, shed new light on the understanding of
disintegration of cells in a study published in the Archives of Biochemistry
and Biophysics, Health & Medicine Week, Biotech Business Week and others.

The Center for Commercialization of Fluorescence Technologies partnered with
the Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, and the Institute of
Physics at the Marie Curie-Sklodowska University to study activity in cardiac
contractile fibrils of skeletal muscle using fluorescence. They found the
lifetime of a fluorescent marker was high in the presence of actin, a
component of muscle plasma important to muscle contraction. The marker's
lifetime was low when they were dissociated from it. Findings were published
by the American Chemical Society News Service.

University of North Texas Health Science Center
The University of North Texas Health Science Center is composed of the Texas
College of Osteopathic Medicine, the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences,
the School of Public Health, and the School of Health Professions. The
center's Institutes for Discovery conduct leading-edge research on select
health issues, including vision, aging, cancer, heart disease, physical
medicine and public health. This year, the Texas College of Osteopathic
Medicine was named a top 50 medical school in primary care by U.S. News &
World Report for the seventh consecutive year. The institution contributes
almost $600 million to Tarrant County and Texas economies annually. For more
information, visit www.hsc.unt.edu.

SOURCE University of North Texas Health Science Center

Lauren LaFleur of the University of North Texas Health Science Center,
+1-817-735-5152, +1-817-504-3603 (cell), llafleur@hsc.unt.edu