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Because phytoestrogens are present in virtually all natural-ingredient rodent diets that use soy as a source of protein [ 36 38 ] , and since these compounds are endocrine-active [ 27 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 ] , it is important to determine whether the amounts present in rodent diets are sufficient to affect sexually dimorphic spatial ability.
Chronically elevated cortisol levels caused by Cushing's syndrome leads to central obesity [ 1 ] while the reduction of cortisol caused by Addison's disease leads to decreased body weight [ 2 ] . Obesity in several rodent models is also associated with elevated corticosterone levels, and adrenalectomy reverses some of the phenotypes associated with these forms of obesity [ 3 4 5 6 7 ] . Furthermore, elevated corticosterone production can cause a metabolic syndrome [ 8 ] . These data suggest that reduction of glucocorticoid production might therefore constitute a plausible clinical strategy to treat obesity.
The present study addressed these issues, in part, by investigating the influence of dietary phytoestrogens (present in a normal rodent diet), on visual spatial ability.
In this regard, recent studies have shown that inflammatory mediators such as lipopolysaccharide (LPS), granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor and leukotriene B 4 delay apoptosis and prolong neutrophil survival in culture [ 3 4 ] . Neutrophils migrating into rodent lungs in response to LPS challenge have also been reported to exhibit delayed rates of apoptosis [ 5 6 ] . Similarly, increases in cytokine and growth factor activity, and reduced neutrophil apoptosis, have been described in various inflammatory lung diseases in humans including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, acute respiratory distress syndrome and pneumonia [ 3 7 8 ] .
The following databases were used: Human UTR-DB (EBI) (version 13) [ 70]; Human Transcript Database (Baylor University) (version 1) [ 71]; GenBank CDS (NCBI) (only PRI mRNA sequences were used, version 119) [ 72]; HINT (Ohio State University) [ 73]; EST Assembly Project (University of Washington) [ 74]; TIGR Human Gene Index (version 4.5) [ 75]; dbEST (NCBI) (version 119) [ 76]; MINT and RINT (Ohio State University) [ 73]; EMBL Rodent (EMBL) (version 63) [ 77]; SWISS-PROT (EMBL) (version 39) [ 78]; TrEMBL (EMBL) (version 14) [ 78]; PIR (MIPS-JIPID) (version 65) [ 79]; and Pfam (Sanger Centre) (version 5.4) [ 80].
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