LOUISVILLE, Ky. – University of Louisville researchers have replicated the inflammatory gene changes of a human kidney as it progresses from mild to severe diabetic nephropathy, using a mouse model developed by a UofL researcher, according to an article published today in the journal Experimental Nephrology. Diabetic nephropathy is the foremost cause of kidney failure. "In 2004 we published an article that showed that our diabetic mouse model, OVE26, excreted high levels of protein in the urine, as humans with diabetes do. We continue to see resemblance to human diabetes ...

Outonline.com, OUT TV Pittsburgh and GLTV has officially added Oklahoma's Joe Exotic to Wednesday's online live video talk show Talk It Out. As an already public figure whose toured the United States, Canada, and Mexico performing magic in front of nearly two million people per year and owning one of the largest privately owned exotic animal facilities in the country, accepted the offer to be on the talk show every Wednesday at Noon eastern standard time. David Stanton, producer and co-owner of OUT TV Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, offered Joe a regular spot ...

Planes, trains, and automobiles. You don't need Canadian TV to know that this summer, like every summer, Americans will be leaving their homes in order to travel all over the US. As Americans are huge consumers of gas, this will only happen if the gas prices continues to fall. As strange as it sounds, lower gas prices are great for business. High gas prices means less money to spend on the latest fashions, less money to spend on the local arts, and certainly less money to spend on all things entertainment, like tickets to a comedy club. Needless to say, what is bad for ...

Athletes for Education (AFE) will host their 6th Annual Celebrity Fundraiser and Golf Classic event on June 1-2, 2011 to benefit youth programs throughout San Diego County. The two-day event will begin with a dinner, live entertainment and live/silent auction at Humphrey's by the Bay on June 1, 2011 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm and continue with a celebrity golf tournament on June 2, 2011 at the Maderas Golf Club in Poway (shotgun start at 12:00 pm). Southern California Pain and Spine is sponsoring the celebrity fundraiser and the tournament is co-hosted by Surgery One. Personal ...

Bill Howe Plumbing, Heating & Air Conditioning, Inc. and the American Heart Association have announced the winners of the "Howe" Healthy is Your Heart Drawing Contest. The nine week contest garnered 94 drawings from children ages 5-12 throughout San Diego County who described how they keep their hearts healthy and drawings of their image of healthy hearts. Participants' descriptions included a wide variety of ways to keep their hearts healthy, ranging from exercising and eating right to not fighting with siblings to receiving flowers from a boyfriend. Grand ...

Chelsea's Agora Gallery will feature French-born artist, VeroniKaH, in Portal to Enigma. The exhibition is scheduled to run from June 4, 2011 through June 25, 2011 (opening reception: Thursday, June 9, 2011). About the Artist Boldly valiant in both theme and aesthetic, French-born artist VeroniKaH is curious to her core. Color splashes through her lively compositions, guiding our eyes in explorations of sparkling vibrancy. Through rich, nuanced texture, VeroniKaH teases out the opulent significance of her relationship with the people, places and perspectives that populate ...

In the ever changing world of sports, fans are flocking to online gaming sites like never before, and one of those sites is listening. Value Sports Picks, the Global Leader in Sports Gaming Information is expanding at an exciting rate to better serve their current and future fans. As a Global Leader in Sports Gaming, Value Sports Picks experts have a 70% winning accuracy rate and are offering Free Football Picks. Not only can you have access to your Free Football Picks at home or the office, their new VSP mobile site allows you to pick your teams on the go! VSP gives ...

Dr Roger Amar is the man behind the FAMI technique that has successfully treated women using a series of injections. This fat grafting technique enables surgeons to take a fat transfer and improve areas of the face through a fat injection. After spending years researching the subject he finally found ways to achieve surgery on the face without the incisions of a knife. Visiting the website RogerAmar.com you too could learn what this could do for you. Listed below are the 10 points that make the FAMI technique so specific. 1) The FAMI technique, 6 years ago, became ...

Business Internet Marketing, Inc., (BIM) defines onlinemarketing to be broad in scope because it not only refers to marketing on the Internet, but also includes marketing done via e-mail and wireless media. Digital customer data and electronic customer relationship management (ECRM) systems are also often grouped together under internet marketing. Search engine SEO ties together the creative and technical aspects of the Internet, including design, development, advertising, and sales. Internet marketing also refers to the placement of media along many different stages ...

Virginia Spine Care Chiropractic is excited to announce that Virginia Beach chiropractor ( http://www.virginiaspinecarechiropractic.com/ ), Dr. Jay Berkowitz and Dr. Thomas Skelton are focused on helping patients get lower back pain relief and avoiding unnecessary surgery. Dr. Berkowitz and Dr. Skelton use the latest chiropractic techniques and cutting edge technology to help people reduce back pain, align the spine, and optimize their patients health. Dr. Berkowitz and Dr. Skelton concentrate on restoring optimal nerve function by ensuring the proper alignment of his ...

Jamaican film is making strides to its rightful place in entertainment as the highly anticipated feature "Out the Gate" made its historic opening last weekend in New York City to enthusiastic crowds. From a list of 112 movies currently playing in United States theaters the weekend of May 13th, box office gross reports show the indie film starring Paul Campbell and Oliver Samuels at the position of #13 in the nation, in a ranking of average gross per screen. The action/drama also starring Shelli Boone and Everton (E-Dee) Dennis, opened in New York City at AMC ...

Aunsoft Studio today announced the first professional AVCHD Management Software, named Aunsoft Final Mate for Mac. It offers lossless HD videos in native format for storage, and also provides Apple ProRes/AIC for high quality video editing on Mac. The native support of AVCHD clips in Aunsoft Final Mate for Mac indicates that there is no transcoding for editing clips. When AVCHD camcorders are connected to iMac/MacBook, the Apple applications like iMovie, FCE, FCP would capture videos from camcorder, but the videos would be transcoded into Apple Intermediate codec (AIC) ...

The world today is facing a staggering shortage of energy resources making it vital for humanity to reach out for alternate energy. The situation is alarming enough which is the reason why so many research studies are under way to find ways and means of dealing with the situation and find a comprehensive energy solution for our future generations. In order to survive as a species, it is imperative that we embrace alternate energy solutions. It is our duty as a global citizen to be aware of our energy shortage and devise potent strategies to address the issue on an urgent ...

Dan Marshall, HTA founder and co-owner of Peapods Natural Toys and Baby Care in St. Paul, MN, will serve as President for the upcoming session. Dan served as Vice President during the 2010-2011 year. Randy Hertzler, owner of euroSource, LLC, a specialty European Toys online store established in 1999 in Lancaster, PA takes on the role of Vice President. Jolie Fay continues for a second year as Secretary. Based in OR, Jolie is the owner and designer of Skipping Hippos, vintage inspired outerwear with a modern twist. Mary Newell continues in the role of Treasurer, which she ...

Terry Tegnazian, co-founder of Aquila Polonica Publishing, will appear on the popular morning show ÒThe Balancing Act,Ó on Lifetime Television Wednesday, May 25, 2011. Tegnazian will talk to viewers about the award-winning World War II memoir, ÒThe Mermaid and the Messerschmitt.Ó Winner of the 2010 Benjamin Franklin Silver Award for Best First Book (Nonfiction), author Rulka LangerÕs book vividly describes protecting her family as Nazi German bombers rained death and destruction on the city of Warsaw during the first month of World War II. Bestselling author Alan ...

On July 31st, 2007, the White Stripes had what would later be known as their last live performance. Jack and Meg White announced in February that they are officially disbanding their Indy-Rock duo after nearly 4 years without performing together. The pair was on tour when Meg suffered an anxiety attack and the remainder of the tour was postponed indefinitely. Strangely enough, fans were reported as saying that the band was at the top of their game just before the incident and many fans upset to hear about the turn of events, considering the positive press the tour was ...

Jody Costello, founder of ContractorsFromHell.com has published the fourth in a series of articles designed to help homeowners avoid a home remodeling disaster. The article entitled âEURœWarning: DonâEUR t Even Think About Remodeling Your Home Until You Understand The RisksâEUR gives an overview of the most common mistakes and misnomers made by homeowners before they begin to search for a contractor. The series of articles are based on the core principals of her Home [Pre]modeling Bootcamp For Women (and The Men Who Love Them!) that focuses on little known but necessary ...

Jessica Ruiz is on the cusp of becoming one of the most talked about new artists in the industry. The Cleveland, OH, native has been blessed with the voice of an angel and has sung in front of some of today's finest artists including Whitney Houston and CeCe Winans and has opened up for Tye Tribbett. The songstress and Worship Leader of West 58th Street Church of God in Cleveland recently dropped her first single from the highly-anticipated release, Ignited. She is supporting the upcoming release with two television appearances. In her hometown, Ruiz will be featured ...

"Since Titus-Will has so few promotional sales events, our customers have come to know that they are meaningful. We never use that four letter word, sale," said Brandy Newman, Customer Service for Titus-Will Ford. "When we say the word SALE - we truly mean it. We recognize that Memorial Day weekend is a popular time for sales shopping and it's important to let customers know about the great savings we will be offering on all new and used Fords, Toyotas and Scions." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGSDzHa1jf8 About the Half-Yearly Sale on All New ...

Mobile social network Parlor.fm announced today that the company has closed an angel round of funding that has made $500,000 available for its launch. The funding, provided by investment group ALM UNLTD, has an impressive $5 million pre-money evaluation. An innovative, voice-based social platform, Parlor will use this funding to help bolster its current array of interconnected mini-apps and debut new functionalities down the line. Parlor is currently gearing up to launch at TechCrunch Disrupt on May 23 through May 25, 2011 in New York, N.Y. Users can reserve their usernames ...

It isn't often that an institution of higher learning sells off most of its holdings and closes its doors for good, but that's exactly what is about to happen at Lambuth University, a small liberal arts school located about midway between Memphis and Nashville. A sale of the university's property will be held Saturday, May 28, in the Student Union Building. And the offerings will be considerable. Auctioned will be a wide variety of merchandise from the school's 168-year history, to include magnificent antiques, important works of art, rare and vintage books (some dating ...

The financial benefits of breast-feeding took center stage in the latest issue of The Urban Shopper, a Shopping Lifestyle and Values web magazine, targeted to Black and Latino females. The web magazine devoted all of its six content channels exclusively to the financial impact of raising a baby. "Milk-Made Wars", the title of the article, looks at the health and wealth benefits of breast versus bottle-feeding baby. The issue of breast-feeding is a sensitive one in the African-American community especially given high rates of premature and low-birth weight ...

MDI announces that it is pioneering developments in the field of healthcare intelligence and healthcare data warehousing. MDI provides essential services to government and medical industries such as analytics solutions, data management services, Internet decision support systems, assessments for clinical quality, risk measurement, and reporting. Their primary products include the Carepoint custom provider network, Viewpoint claims assessment and Viewpoint claims monitoring, as well as Viewpoint healthcare data warehouse and analytics. These products provide trusted ...

Since opening 16 months ago, Marquis Residences, Miami's majestic 67-story residential tower, has drawn inspiration and energy from its neighbors in the cultural community. It is only fitting that Marquis would want to give back to a community that has given much to so many others by sponsoring a group of visionary artists. Marquis Residences recently hosted artists with the Metamoto Dance Forum at the New World Symphony throughout the duration of their visit. Marquis Residences, located just steps from the preeminent Adrienne Arsht Center for Performing Arts; Museum ...

Tutors International announces the launch of a new case study section on its website, enabling parents to filter case studies by a variety of factors including age, gender, geographical location and the nature of the educational problem solved by Tutors International. For more information, visit http://www.tutors-international.com or call +44 (0) 1865 435 135. "We were dissatisfied with the previous incarnation of the case studies section as all it conveyed at the uppermost level was our global reach,"explained Adam Caller, founder and senior partner of Tutors ...