Italian doctors selected a large group of people in love to explore the mechanism of the powerful human feeling. The respondents were compared to two other groups consisting of lonely and happily married individuals. All the volunteers had their blood tested for the level of hormones and proteins. It turned out that there was only one detail that distinguished the “group of romance” from two other groups – the nerve growth factor protein. The protein was discovered in 1986 by US scientist Rita Levi-Montalcini. The sensational discovery earned her a Nobel Prize. This protein is produced by salivary glands and the central nervous system cells
Posted on: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 00:11:03 +0000
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