Autoimmune processes may affect tic severity in some cases: the unproven and contentious hypothesis that Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal infections, PANDAS, plays a role in the onset of tic disorders and OCD is a current focus of research.
To establish that a disorder is an autoimmune disorder, Witebsky criteria requires that there be (1) a self-reactive antibody, (2) that a particular target for the antibody is identified (autoantigen) (3) that the disorder can be caused in animals and (4) that transferring antibodies from one animal to another triggers the disorder (passive transfer).
She assisted with critical research on Giant Pandas including work on panda breeding at the Center for Reproduction of Endangered Species (now called the Institute for Conservation Research), a research arm of the San Diego Zoo and San Diego Zoo Safari Park.
managing international publicity for Adelaide Zoo before, during and after the arrival of two giant pandas from China.
In July 1985, Electric Pandas performed two of their hit songs, "Missing Me" and "Let's Gamble", for the Oz for Africa concert (part of the global Live Aid program).
Alternative medical theories for condition were suggested, including Tourette syndrome and PANDAS, which Dr.Mechtler and his team ruled out as possibilities.
Of Pandas and People: The Central Question of Biological Origins is a controversial 1989 (2nd edition 1993) school-level textbook written by Percival Davis and Dean H. Kenyon and published by the Texas-based Foundation for Thought and Ethics (FTE).
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A review of Of Pandas and People by paleontologist Kevin Padian of the University of California at Berkeley for the National Center for Science Education's Bookwatch Reviews in 1989 called the book a "wholesale distortion of modern biology", and says that FTE's writers had misrepresented such topics as the Cambrian explosion, the history of birds, and the concept of homology.
In a visit by Hu Jintao to Japan in May 2008, China announced the loan of two pandas to Japan.
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In December 2008, the government approved the import of pandas under the terms of "species of traditional herbal medicine".
In 2007 singer/songwriter Josh Groban appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! performing a song entitled "Panda Love" which demonstrated the idea of pandas being encouraged to mate, this time with the music of Josh Groban.
23 Clubs affiliated with the Brisbane Women's Softball Association for the 1965/66 season—Athletics, Brisbane Bears, Cannon Hill Stars, Hawks, Inala Carltons, Kedron Park Teachers College, Magpies, Mitchelton Missiles, Mt Gravatt Eagles, Oxley Rockets, Pandas, Panthers, Rebels, Saints, Spiro Tots, Southside Scamps, T-Jets, Tramway Terrors, University, Wildcats, Windsors, Wolves and WRAAC and 66 teams participated in the competition at Downey Park.
Pandaren are a humanoid race which closely resemble pandas.
In 1994, Swedo was lead author on a paper describing Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal infections (PANDAS), proposing a link between Group A streptococcal infection in children and some rapid-onset cases of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) or tic disorders such as Tourette syndrome.
The gift of the pandas was first proposed during the 2005 Pan-Blue visits to mainland China, when politicians from the then-Opposition Pan-Blue coalition, which is comparatively pro-unification in stance, visited mainland China.
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After elections that resulted in a change of presidents in 2008, Taipei accepted the pandas, and they arrived in Taiwan on December 23, 2008.
The region, including the Panda Research Center, was largely devastated on May 12, 2008, by a catastrophic earthquake, though the captive giant pandas were initially reported to be safe.