Dancers do rule!After analyzing DNA, researchers at the Hebrew University Hebrew University of Jerusalem, at Mt. Scopus, Givat Ram, Ein Karem, and Rehovot, Israel; coeducational. First proposed in 1882, formally opened 1925. It is the world's largest Jewish university and is noted for its work on the Dead Sea Scrolls. The university has faculties of humanities, mathematics and natural science, law, agriculture, and social sciences, as well as schools of education, social work, library and archive studies, and business, and operates the of Jerusalem concluded that dancers are genetically different from non-dancers. Their study last September examined the levels of serotonin serotonin /sero·to·nin/ (ser?o-to´nin) a hormone and neurotransmitter, 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT), found in many tissues, including blood platelets, intestinal mucosa, the pineal body, and the central nervous system; it has many physiologic properties including inhibition of gastric secretion, stimulation of smooth muscles, and production of vasoconstriction., a neurotransmitter false neurotransmitter an amine that can be stored in and released from presynaptic vesicles but that has little effect on postsynaptic receptors. neu·ro·trans·mit·ter (n  r that contributes to mood, and arginine arginine /ar·gi·nine/ (Arg) (R) (ahr´ji-nen) a nonessential amino acid occurring in proteins and involved in the urea cycle, which converts ammonia to urea, and in the synthesis of creatine. Preparations of the base or the glutamate or hydrochloride salt are used in the treatment of hyperammonemia and as a diagnostic aid in the assessment of pituitary function. vasopressin VP A hormone, related to oxytocin, that is secreted by the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland, constricts blood vessels, raises blood pressure, stimulates intestinal motility, and reduces the excretion of urine. Also called antidiuretic hormone. |
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