Numbers of LONDON (CP) ~ Animal lowers take heart: It may be possible to reduce the mimber of animals needed ‘for laboratory tests by using Planta instead. A grup of sclentsts now balieve that enzymes ob- tained from laboratory eaimais could be replaced by Himilar enzymes found in Plant roots, Enzymes are Frotein catalysts which play a large part in the chemistry of all living things. Researchers from the Pharmacology department af Edinburgh’s Heriot-Watt University, Scotland, rep recently thet the an sprou ‘ers promise in this direction. The Scottish team's Page &, The Herald, Monday, October 1, 1979 research Is almed ultimately @ testing new anti-epilepsy drugs. Ita leader, Prof. John Gilbert, says the bean sprout tas been found to produce a type of enzyme that reacts to auch drugs, Before new anti-epil drugs can be appronde Public use it Is necessary to establish the effect of them m the enzymes concerned with chemical! reaction in the train. This involves con- tinuous testing, in which nerve endings containing enzymes are removed from animal brains to find out what effect the drugs have upon = them. It occurred to the Tesearchers that as the mimal enzymes examined ae particularly concerned with pumping chemical compounds through cells, dmilar enzymes involved in the pumping activities of fant roots might be equally effective In screening drugs, In this way, the long, comy Arranged marriages still exist MODESTO, Calif. (AP) — Hardeep Singh attends college, works part-time and wears jeans just like many cher 18-year-old American women, Mg. Singh also plans ta be married later this year, but her marriage will be far plex process of operating on, animal braina could be confined to fewer animals — with the subsequent saving in animal lives. The Scottish researchers -qriginally tested a batch of punflower roots, but the different from - what ia customary in the United Sates. She has never met her bridegroom and can't even pronounce his name. Ms. Singh's parents arranged her marriage five years ago in the. custam of lab animals may resulta were not, en- couraging, They then tried some ordinary mung beans of the sort that can be bought in health food stores, and from the growing bean sprouts they extracted an mzyme closely related to upper-caste Sikhs, a monotheistic offshoot of Hinduism. She will be married in, her native Fiji: Islands to ‘a 22-year-old college student who will emigrate to America after the ceremony... The young couple will be BUSINESS DIRECTORY Jie lad, that found in animal cells, Tests showed that while the anti-epilepsy’ drugs slowed down the activity of the animal enzymes they had " the opposite effect on en-~ zymes from the bean sprouts, able to communicate because she can speak In- dian and “he probably speaks English,” Ms. Singh says. 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