The human brain is 80 percent water, which makes the constant regulation of the amount of fluid in the brain even more important. Disruptions in the regulation of the direction or speed of the water flow are associated with medical conditions, including hydrocephalus (“water in the brain”), for example. Neurobiologists at Heidelberg University have now discovered a new mechanism that regulates the speed and direction of water flow between the cerebral spinal fluid and the brain cells. This mechanism could also be of great importance in the treatment of hydrocephalic diseases. The research results were published in the “Journal of Biological Chemistry”.
(Image caption: Isolated ependymal cells show the phosphorylation of AQP4 (in red) after the blocking of GABAA receptors. Cell nuclei are shown in blue. Credit: Universität Heidelberg)
target: Adnan Jašary, Minister of Justice of Macedonia and Mrs. Gordana Jankuloska, Minister of Internal Affairs of Macedonia
Dogs disappearing overnight nowhere to be found.
Tied, starved, and traumatized dogs, dogs left without water is the image one gets upon entering an abandoned building under construction in Kočani (Macedonia).
Once you step a foot inside your blood freezes and cold sweat covers your body – always a new dog staring back at you, terrified and asking for help, dehydrated and starved. At the same time you get an unstoppable urge to vomit from the unbearable stench of the rotting corpses.
“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water,” W.H. Auden wisely said. Indeed, the precious resource, as vital as it is beautiful, holds the key to our survival. And yet, all too often, the element is taken for granted, wasted, overlooked. But not today.
Today, March 22, is World Water Day, a time to cherish the water that we have, and formulate a future where we’ll continue to cultivate its availability. It’s a time to recognize how many around the world don’t have access to water, and thus suffer from a variety of water-related issues. It’s a time to see how you can help assure a water-safe future for yourself and your planet.
And here, on an arts and culture site, it’s a time to acknowledge the visible splendor of the life force, whether spurting from a busted fire hydrant or crashing on the shore of a…
Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It’s our reality.
Bill McKibbe
I would like to share with you today the following which I came across from Care2s’ daily action.
Protect The Rocky Mountain Forests From Climate Change,
In the past 15 years, tens of millions of trees have died in the Rocky Mountains. Hotter and drier conditions driven by climate change have made wildfires, tree-killing insects and the stress of heat and drought more intense.
If these climate change impacts remain unchecked, the Rocky Mountain’s iconic tree species and their crucial role in our environment will significantly decrease in the years ahead. The decay of our nation’s forests is something we can’t afford to ignore.
Please take a stand for forests and watch the Union of Concerned Scientists’ short video on how we can protect the Rocky Mountain…
Kwan was a Sun Bear that never really saw the sun. She had been living in a dark room for almost two years.
Abandoned and neglected, she was in a horrific state when she was found in a temple that was serving as a defunct sanctuary by her rescuers, Edwin Wiek and his team at Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand. Deprived of sunlight and emaciated, the poor bear had lost most of her hair. She no longer resembled a sun bear.
Despite heroic efforts to save her life, Kwan passed away at 2:45 pm the following day.
It is miraculous that she had clung onto to her life for so long. Oblivious and cut off from the outside world, she lived in purgatory, surviving under appalling conditions, only to die in the arms of her saviors. It was almost as if she was waiting for her rescue – a chance…
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(Image caption: Isolated ependymal cells show the phosphorylation of AQP4 (in red) after the blocking of GABAA receptors. Cell nuclei are shown in blue. Credit: Universität Heidelberg)
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