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Did You Know That Moose Can Have Arthritis?
糜鹿也有關(guān)節(jié)炎？
It’s easy to tell, even at a glance, that people and moose are pretty different. Moose, at least males, have big, wing shaped antlers. People have no antlers. Moose are herbivores, eating only plants.
人們很容易就能看出，人與麋鹿有很大的不同，甚至一眼就能看出來。麋鹿，至少雄性糜鹿擁有龐大的，翅膀狀的鹿角。而人沒有鹿角。糜鹿是食草動物，只吃植物。
We eat mostly junk food. Despite their salad only diet, moose can weigh as much as 1400 pounds. Even the fattest humans top the scales at only around 1000 pounds. The list goes on.
我們卻幾乎一直吃垃圾食品。盡管只吃“色拉”，糜鹿的體重卻高達1400磅。而人類最胖的也只有1000磅。二者的此類差異不勝枚舉。
And yet, in some ways, people and moose are similar. For example, both suffer from arthritis.
但是在某些方面，人與糜鹿是相似的。例如，兩者都飽受關(guān)節(jié)炎的困擾。
And that’s interesting because how and why moose develop arthritis may be able to tell us something about the pathology of the human variety.
這個問題很有趣，因為研究糜鹿患關(guān)節(jié)炎的過程和原因，可能有助于我們發(fā)現(xiàn)一些人類患關(guān)節(jié)炎的病理。
For example, researchers working in Michigan’s upper peninsula have been studying moose there for decades. And one thing they’ve found is while arthritis in moose is partly genetic, it’s also triggered by the environment.
例如，數(shù)十年來，位于密西根湖上游半島的研究人員對糜鹿進行了研究。他們發(fā)現(xiàn)，糜鹿患關(guān)節(jié)炎在一定程度上是由基因引起的，同時也受到環(huán)境影響。
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