Sentences with phrase «higher activation of»

The greater squatting depth leads to a higher activation of the anterior side (mainly the quadriceps muscle group) and allows you to train over a greater range of motion.

Higher activation of this brain region has been found in obese compared with normal - weight subjects when anticipating food, suggesting that the rewarding quality of food is enhanced in obesity.

They found that individuals with genetic variations to the RASGRF2 gene had higher activation of the ventral striatum area of the brain (closely linked to the VTA and involved in dopamine release) when anticipating reward in a cognitive task.

Even more surprising, subjects who had grown up in a city showed higher activation of a brain area called the anterior cingulate cortex, essentially the amygdala's boss, even if they had later moved to the suburbs or country.

In mice that gorged and then fasted, the researchers saw elevations in inflammation, higher activation of genes that promote storage of fatty molecules and plumper fat cells — especially in the abdominal area — compared to the mice that nibbled all day.

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The favorable composition of flora were associated with a «higher activation status» of their killer T cells within the tumor compared to those who had an abundance of Bacteroidales.

Research has linked the positive feeling we often experience while talking about ourselves to higher levels of activation in areas of the brain associated with reward.

Prior to the development of a fully functioning nervous system, and the activation of said system, a human embryo is «alive» in the same sense a tumor is «alive»: the individual cells that make it up are alive, but there is no higher - level functionality.

Some IGF - 1 / mTOR activation is necessary for muscle / bone maintenance, and if that proves mostly a matter of leucine intake, then perhaps higher leucine / methionine ratio proteins like lentils, adzuki beans and split peas can provide most of the benefits with fewer of the drawbacks.

Malibu, the original coconut liqueur and Caribbean rum blend, is out to give consumers the Best Summer Ever with a series of high - energy consumer activations across the country and an engaging online content series spotlighting its signature cocktails.

We have previously described studies of pacing strategy using various experimental interventions, including faster and slower starts, higher temperatures, hypoxia, hyperoxia and altered energy substrate availability.1 We have proposed the presence of a complex, regulatory system that mediates changes to skeletal muscle motor unit activation and work rate in order both to optimise performance and prevent potentially harmful changes to homeostasis.

They found that one particular style of parenting that ranks high on the poor parenting monitoring scale, which is sometimes referred to as «uninvolved parenting» (not knowing where kids are or what they're doing; not disciplining; not showing warmth or being involved in kids» lives) was associated with higher immune system activation.

Although scientists have long suspected that RHI caused brain damage, especially in boxers, a 2010 study of high school football players by researchers at Purdue University [1,13] was the first to identify a completely unexpected and previously unknown category of players who, though they displayed no clinically - observable signs of concussion, were found to have measurable impairment of neurocognitive function (primarily visual working memory) on computerized neurocognitive tests, as well as altered activation in neurophysiologic function on sophisticated brain imaging tests (fMRI).

Hologram Standee Billboards — Located at high - traffic spots within the activation venues, holograms of Enrique and Pitbull will create completely lifelike images of the musician for concert goers to check out and take selfies with!

The unique formula of this basecoat blends a combination of kale and superfood extracts that promise amazing benefits for your nails including keratin hardening, keratin activation to stimulate growth, hydration, anti-breakage and anti-splitting protection, deep nourishment and healthy looking, brighter nails with a high gloss finish.

Mothers who breastfeed have been found to report lower levels of perceived stress and negative mood, higher levels of maternal attachment, and tend to perceive their infants more positively than mothers who formula - feed.9, 19 - 21 There is evidence to suggest that breastfeeding mothers may also spend more time in emotional care and be more sensitive to infant emotional distress cues than bottle - feeding mothers.22, 23 Relatedly, a small fMRI study of 17 mothers in the first postpartum month, found that breastfeeding mothers showed greater activation in brain areas involved in empathy and bonding than formula - feeding mothers when listening to their own infant's cry.24 These brain areas included the superior frontal gyrus, insula, precuneus, striatum and amygdala.

Only Israel comes even close to this level of military activation of its population, even though many countries have, or had until recently, some form of mandatory military service and subsequent mandatory paramilitary or reserve service, and I am not aware of any national or insurgent military force in the world with a higher percentage of women serving than North Korea (about 33 % of soldiers in enlisted ranks and 50 % of officers in the Israeli Defense Force, which would be the runner up to North Korea, are women).

Most strikingly, muscle showed a surprisingly high rate of escapers, with over 50 % of active genes escaping X chromosome activation, a result that may be relevant to some diseases of the muscle.

«HIV - infected young males have higher rates of bone loss than females: Study suggests macrophage activation as possible reason for differential bone loss in adolescent males.»

«While transient disruption of this pathway may have therapeutic benefit because it temporarily «revs up» the immune response, permanent loss of PD - 1 signals seems to result in a «flame out» where T cells can't sustain higher level activation and become more dysfunctional,» Wherry says.

Their hypothesis draws on the observation that sooty mangabeys (monkeys) infected with the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)-- a pathogen thought to be the ancestor of HIV — have a high viral load but low immune activation.

Correspondingly, controllers with the highest level of immune activation have the lowest levels of CD4 counts.

«The difference between these two scenarios is high levels of immune activation.

In contrast, there was some evidence that activation in emotion - related areas, such as the amygdala, correlates with the degree of punishment subjects assign to John: higher punishment scores were associated with higher activation in these regions during the decision period.

Reasoning that direct insertion of a metal into the bond would face too high an energy barrier, the authors implemented a dual activation strategy, targeting a mechanism in which gold coordination enhances the reactivity of the C - C triple bond while trifluoroacetate coordination to B stimulates transfer of the adjacent O group.

Dr. Joaquín Espinosa is enthusiastic about the results of his study, «The constant activation of the Interferon response could explain many aspects of Down syndrome, such as cognitive deficit, stunted growth, increased prevalence of autoimmune disorders, high risk of Alzheimer's disease, and protection against solid tumors.»

Although brain - imaging studies of human participants watching funny cartoons or listening to jokes reveal the activation of evolutionarily ancient structures such as the amygdala and nucleus accumbens, more recently evolved, «higher - order» structures are also activated, including distributed regions of the frontal cortex.

«Noninvasive brain imaging shows readiness of trainees to perform operations: Surgeons who trained on simulator had higher level of cortical activation and faster times for cutting tasks.»

To investigate the direct impact of VTA activation on primate behavior, the research team used high - resolution magnetic resonance imaging to guide the placement of microelectrodes within the VTAs of macaque monkeys.

Our finding is the most robust evidence yet that Behavioural Activation is just as effective as CBT, meaning an effective workforce could be trained much more easily and cheaply without any compromise on the high level of quality.

This soluble factor was found at higher levels in the blood of animals with lung tumors, could increase the activation of osteoblasts and contributed to the maturation of neutrophils in cultured cells.

The process is then followed by high temperature activation annealing (about 600 to 900 degrees Celsius) to form a honeycomb lattice of carbon atoms, a typical microscopic structure of graphene.

Trinuclear copper - oxo clusters were identified that exhibit a high reactivity towards activation of carbon - hydrogen bonds in methane and its subsequent transformation to methanol.

«Our data suggest that individuals at high risk of developing recurrent intestinal tumors may benefit from chronic TRPV1 activation,» said Raz.

Using an imaging procedure with high resolutions, the scientists revealed that a simultaneous counterchange of luminance of neighboring stimuli creates a sequential activation in the primary visual cortex.

As these cells rapidly proliferate, they also express high levels of an enzyme known as activation - induced cytidine deaminase (AID), which induces mutations in their DNA.

Children with the lowest scores on the social cognition tests showed atypical responses to the unknown words — no response at all, for example, or activity in a different part of the brain, while those with the higher scores showed a more typical pattern of brain activation in the left hemisphere, the authors report online today in PLOS ONE.

Other risk factors for diabetes included AHI during rapid eye movement sleep and measures of the physiologic consequences of OSA, including oxygen desaturation, sleep deprivation and activation of the sympathetic nervous system, as indicated by a higher mean heart rate during sleep.

Through studies conducted in mice, Oliver M. Steinmetz, MD (University Hospital Hamburg Eppendorf, in Germany) and his colleagues have shown that the messenger protein IL - 6, which is rapidly produced at high levels during an acute inflammatory form of kidney disease, potently dampens activation of tissue - destructive immune cells called macrophages.

All of these men showed activity that mirrored that of the mothers, with much higher activation in the amygdala - based network, the team reports online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The activation of this signaling pathway progressively increased in different types of gliomas, with the highest activity seen in patients with glioblastoma, a particularly difficult - to - treat form of brain cancer that represents approximately 15 percent of all brain tumors.

The emotion control center of the brain, the amygdala, shows significantly higher levels of activation in males viewing sexual visual stimuli than females viewing the same images, according to a Center for Behavioral Neuroscience study led by Emory University psychologists Stephan Hamann and Kim Wallen.

We theorize that predominant activation of the latter, preexisting memory cells can account for the observed high frequency of neutralizing antibodies (11/15 HA - binding antibodies), the majority (9/11) of which are cross-reactive with seasonal H1N1 strains (Fig. 3 C) and other group 1 influenza strains, including H5 HA.

The fMRI scans revealed significantly higher levels of activation in the amygdala, which controls emotion and motivation, in the brains of the male subjects compared to the females, despite the fact that both males and females expressed similar subjective assessments of their levels of arousal after viewing the images.

Trinuclear copper - oxo clusters were identified that exhibit a high reactivity towards activation of carbon — hydrogen bonds in methane and its subsequent transformation to methanol.

By looking at activation of different brain regions while test subjects were exposed to different listening conditions, Dr. Johnsrude's research has revealed that the early processing of sound, which occurs in a brain region called the primary auditory cortex, depends on higher - level linguistic knowledge encoded in other regions of the brain.

The team was able to determine that this activation process occurs within an hour of eating high - fat foods.

We will use high and super-resolution fluorescence microscopy like total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (TIRFM) and fluorescence photo - activation localization microscopy (FPALM) to visualize and track the spatio - temporal dynamics of tethering and SNARE proteins in live and fixed cells with single molecule resolution.

In the Ugandan cohort, higher T - cell activation and IL - 6 were associated with faster disease progression, whereas IFABP levels, indicative of enterocyte turnover, was elevated in slow progressors compared to fast progressors.

It is mediated by the inflammatory cytokines interleukin - 1 and tumour - necrosis factor, both of which are produced in high amounts following sustained activation of Toll - like receptor 4 by LPS.