Most indoor - only, FIV positive cats will
live normal life spans, though they may need dental cleaning more often than an FIV negative cat.
However, most indoor - only FIV positive cats
live normal life spans.
Human females can
live a normal life span with the disease, as can female mice — the latter species also frequently becomes obese.
For a man who
lives a normal life span, there's a 1 in 500 risk, and for a woman, 1 in 1,000.
Their median life expectancy is around five years but what happens, in fact, is that about half the cats disappear mysteriously presumed dead at approximately age one year (which corresponds to the late teen years in humans) and the other half learn how to take care of themselves and usually
live a normal life span of 8 to 12 years.
His surgery was very sucessful and he is expected to
live a normal life span.
Mildly affected animals may exhibit no ill effects and
live a normal life span.
If you have controlled epilepsy, you know very well that you'll
live a normal life span.
His doctor said he could expect to
live a normal life span so who was the life insurance company, the only one out of all of the traditional companies that will even offer life insurance to HIV positive clients, to corner him into buying only permanent products.
Not exact matches
Most have a
normal life span.
Indeed, I am inclined to think that Daniels» proposal would be safe only in a society that thought of human
life not simply in terms of a
normal life span but also as directed toward God.
These treatments could be developed and used, but their use would be restricted to those who had not yet
lived out that
normal span of
life.
While it is affected by the wars of Europe and either as a belligerent or as an active sympathizer with one or another of the contestants has been drawn into each of the general European wars which have been fought within the
span of its history, geography has spared the United States the full impact of these wars and the nation has not been so severely impoverished as Europe, nor has its
normal life been so badly disrupted.
Taking unnecessary chances is «tempting fate,» and hence is sin against the God who desires all his children to
live out their
normal span of years in health and well - being.
As the only institutions with ongoing face - to - face contact with «
normal» people throughout the
life cycle, churches have a unique opportunity to help people use the extended
life -
span given us by medical progress.
Recent research shows that HIV - positive mothers who receive effective ARVs, protecting their own health sufficiently to result in a near -
normal life -
span, can also expect that the risk of transmission of HIV to their babies during pregnancy, birth, and throughout the recommended period of breastfeeding, can be close to zero.
And their genes are easier to manipulate than those of their mammalian counterparts — by altering Sod1, Wu created flies that died after only about two weeks, a quarter of their
normal life span.
Telomere length does seem to be linked to
life span; one key study in The Lancet found that otherwise -
normal people over 60 who started out the study with short telomeres were more likely to die over the next 17 years than those with long telomeres.
In particular, a team at the University of Queensland in Australia and Central China
Normal University in Wuhan zeroed in on a Wolbachia strain that halves the
life span of its natural, fruit - fly host.
IBM developed a technique for making carbon nanotubes emit light, paving the way for new fiber optics; Harvard scientists figured out how to deposit tiny wires on glass or plastic, opening the door for the development of supercheap computers; and at the University of Central Florida, neuroscientist Beverly Rzigalinski discovered a nanomolecular fountain of youth effect: When Rzigalinski applied cerium oxide nanoparticles to rat neurons in a petri dish, the particles seemed to strip out the free radicals that make tissues age and kept the neurons alive and functioning up to six times their
normal life span.
While cancer cells are immortal — their hallmark is wildly reproducing out of control — Hayflick discovered that
normal cells have a limited
life span.
When the researchers then inserted a copy of the
normal gene back into clk - 1 mutants, these worms
lived a
normal life -
span.
Using transgenic fruit flies, he and his colleagues in the Curtsinger lab demonstrated that the production of a protein called hsp70 in response to brief heat stress extends the insects» subsequent
life span at
normal temperatures (see «Survivor!»).
Excision of the P element resulted in a reversion to
normal life -
span.
Dramatic calorie restriction, diets reduced by 40 percent of a
normal calorie total, have long been known to extend health
span, the duration of disease - free aging, in animal studies, and even to extend
life span in most animal species examined.
The transgenic mice gave birth to fewer offspring than their
normal relatives, which fits well with the evolutionary theory that there is a trade - off between longer
life span and fertility.
And the genetic makeup of the flies also mattered, because lifelong antibiotic treatment caused one normally long -
lived mutant line to die at the same age as
normal flies given antibiotics — in other words, its
life span was extended only in the presence of bacteria, the researchers report in this week's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
More than 30 antiretroviral (ARV) drugs have come to market to treat HIV, and many combinations enable infected people to
live near -
normal life spans.
In fact, about a year ago, Jerry Shay and his colleagues at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas showed that adding the enzyme to
normal connective tissue cells called fibroblasts extends their
life -
span (ScienceNOW, 13 January 1998).
But a recent report that her telomeres — the tips of chromosomes, which tend to shrink as cells grow older — are shorter than
normal for her age suggests that her
life span might be reduced.
The mouse lifespan study is the important news here, as it demonstrates meaningful extension of median
life span through removal of senescent cells, the first such study carried out in
normal mice for this SENS - style rejuvenation technology.
Reduced mammalian target of rapamycin activity facilitates mitochondrial retrograde signaling and increases
life span in
normal human fibroblasts.
Glucose -6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase (G6PD) Deficiency: G6PD is an important element (enzyme) in the glucose oxidation (oxygen utilization) process of red blood cells and for maintaining their
normal life span.
In a healthy hippocampus over a
normal life span, neurogenesis proceeds at only a low level.
Thus, chronically increased p53 activity causes premature aging in mice, whereas transgenic mice with extra copies of p53 and ARF genes under
normal regulation show tumor resistance and extended
life span.
It turns out that our attitude may have much to do with our
life span — above and beyond «
normal» factors like diet and exercise.
However, at no point in the
life span of an adult is incontinence ever «
normal.»
If properly managed, diabetic patients do well and usually have
normal life -
spans.
Finally we will look at the health factor for your dog, looking at common diseases for that breed,
normal life span, and hereditary concerns.
However, epileptic dogs often have shorter than
normal life spans because their bodies are not completely healthy, as a result of either a known or an unknown cause.
Today's effective treatment options can actually cure the disease by killing off the abnormal tumor cells while leaving the
normal thyroid cells undamaged, resulting in a
normal life span for many affected cats.
Reduced
Life Span A study of age - matched Labrador retrievers found that dogs kept on the slender side of
normal lived a median of 2.5 years longer than their overweight counterparts.
In many cases, dwarfs
live a perfectly
normal life for a perfectly
normal life span.
A patent ductus arteriosus is not compatible with a long or
normal life span - unless it is corrected (surgically closed).
A child diagnosed with Type I Diabetes has much more potential for complications of poor diabetic control than a dog that has maybe 3 more years of
normal life span.
In a healthy dog, the liver will absorb, metabolize and excrete bilirubin as red blood cells reach the end of their
normal life span.
In the course of their
normal nine - month
life -
span, two fleas can produce more than one million offspring.
Most cats with FeLV
live normal lives, but their
life span tends to be significantly shorter.
Although patients with mild or moderate obstruction may
live a
normal life, dogs with severe pulmonic stenosis have a reduced
life span due to the development of congestive heart failure or
life - threatening arrhythmias.
Treatment consists of daily administration of L - thyroxine orally and, when successfully treated, the prognosis is excellent and the dogs
life span is
normal although the dog may require lifelong thyroid supplementation.