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The infectious disease risks associated with baboon-to-human transplants may represent an insurmountable hurdle in the race to save lives. Yet, public health agencies are relucant to regulate Xenotransplantation in spite of those risks.
Reduced intake of food and enhanced physical activity, the main behavioral manifestations of self-starvation and anorexia nervosa, activate brain substrates associated with reward.
The presence of a specific amyloid β-protein in the brains of Down's syndrome patients suggests a common etiological pathway with the development of Alzheimer's disease-related neuropathology (pages 93–95).
Advances in cell transplantation and material sciences are being combined to create more biocompatible tissue engineered medical devices (pages 90–93).