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

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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.

Even though she has lived
in this central California city
for 13 years and wants tobe a
lawyer, Ms. Singh js willing

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However, this did not dis-
appoint the acientists.
Although the effect was the
apposite ‘of what was ex-
pected, the researchers
regarded as important the
pronounced reaction of the
bean-sprout enzymes to

to go through with the
arranged marriage for her
parents’ sake.

“] lave my parents and to
do otherwise would disgrace
them,” she said in an In-
terview.

Her parents would become
,Social outcasts among other
"Sikhs if she failed to accept

the arranged marriage, Ms.
Sngh said.’ :

“lf Tran away, if I went
against my parents’ wishes,
they would probably never

be socially accepted again,’

shesaid. ~ .

Ms. Singh has never dated
American boys because her
parents were “afraid it
would corrupt me.”

Her parents sold a sugar-
cane plantation in the islands
18 years ago and bought
farm land here. They
returned to Fiji five yeara
ago to arrange traditional
martiages for their two
ddeat daughters.

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_ aut, you can always blame

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crease

drugs related to epilepsy.
While the bean-sprout tests .:
might snot completely -

replace - conventional «

screening of drugs by using -
animals, they may’ provide -
an important initial :

Moy ew

Cultural differences have -
causedsomeproblemsinher -
adder sister's marriage «
because in Fijl, “the men ©
make the rules,” Ms. Singh “
said. “My parenta have let :
ws be very independent.”

She doesn't expect to lose ;
her independence after ©
marriage, though, because .
her husband will be a‘
stranger in this country. .

“I know what's going on -
here,’ Ms, Singh said. "He's °
wing to be dependent on ©
me. iT} .

Mg. Singh termed the
divorce of a cousin “a
disgrace” but then vowed of
her own arranged marriage:
“Tm not going toatay withit «

if it doesn't work." ‘

She is satisfied with the ar-
rangement, however,
because “I like my life to be
planned. If it doesn’t work

your parents, After all, they

gmt you into it. E's their
fault.”

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Gao says practices are |
held in the use of the |

shelters, Even children

receive drill training in -

school and tunnel exits at
kindergartens are like
slides.

While the tunnels are an |

important part of the city's
defence, Gao says they are .
not secret, While the United
States “remains an im-

perialistic power,” its people .
have remained friends, s0 °

they are free to visit the
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“Tt seems the danger of .

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Gas extender
their answer

motorists in potato culls and
processing wastes in the
Maritimes.

Dr. Adel Al-Taweel of the
Centre for Energy Studies at

the Nova Scotia Technical -

College’ is working on a
project to turn waste

products from Prince Ed- ;

ward Island’s large potato
industry into fuel alcohol.

The project, being carried

out at the request of the
P.E.L firm Simmons and

MacFarlane Lid., is ex: |

pected to be completed by
1980.

In the United States and
Brazil, the production of
“gasoliol” is already a
rapidly expanding industry,

Alcohol (ethanol) derived

from Agricultural products.

and wastes, when mixed
with gasoline as a 10-per-
cent al blend,
ga 4 fuel of superior
quality, Al-Taweel says,

His research is aimed at ‘

adapting the techno to
sult Maritime conde and

determine how practical |

small scale operations would

Tech president Clair
Callaghan describes the
gasohol program as ha
excellent practical potentia

for regional agriculture and

for the conguimer.

4& matter of common
sense, Callaghan Says, the
recovery and practical use of
waste praducts has to he re.
searched ta meet con:
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