Sentences with phrase «nervous system studies»

Experience working on Oncology studies, Transplanting, Central Nervous System studies, Monitored the progress of clinical trial projects for timely attainment of milestone.

uDISCO isn't just limited to nervous system studies, either.

Not exact matches

Many studies have shown breathing in fresh outdoor air can help relax the nervous system and re-energize the brain, improving focus and creativity.

I studied body cognition, music therapy, behavioral cognitive neuroscience — everything I could learn about the role that the nervous system and our body plays in our health and emotional well - being.

The company runs clinical studies on behalf of its multinational pharma clients in oncology, respiratory / infectious disease and central nervous system disorders.

Even if such study leads us to something comparatively unromantic or unexciting, like «electrons, or the organic chemistry of the living cell, or the autonomic nervous system or the sun or anything else, then the workable idea of God would say: Lo, this is God.

Studies have also shown that coriander has significant anti-inflammatory effects, and protects the body from nervous system disorders.

In animal studies, too much fibrin in the central nervous system has been associated with breakdown of the myelin sheath that surrounds the nerves and allows them to conduct electrical signals properly.

Studies have shown that a topical application of capsaicinoid compounds can alleviate pain associated with peripheral neuropathies (nerve pain outside the Central Nervous System), pain attributed to diabetes, muscle pain, joint pain, fibromyalgia, and osteo - and rheumatoid arthritis.

Many studies have shown that exposure to even small doses of mercury can impair a baby's growing brain and nervous system.

Firstly, studies show that grapes help protect the nervous system, due to the unique structure of its antioxidants that allow them to penetrate through the selectively - permeable brain membrane.

Breastmilk Study Furthers Understanding of Critical Ingredients Ask someone in the know to list the substances in breastmilk that make it the ideal food for newborns and you may hear about proteins that guard against infection, fats that aid in the development of the nervous system, and carbohydrates that promote the growth of healthy bacteria.

Studies have shown that infant massage strengthens the immune system, stimulates digestion, improves quality of sleep by soothing the nervous system, reduces muscle tension, relieves gas and colic, and so much more.

Why Organic Produce Is Better for Us Studies have linked the consumption of pesticides to health issues including cancer, birth defects and nervous system damage, says Sonya Lunder, senior analyst at the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a not - for - profit research organization.

Studies have shown that at four months, a baby's nervous system is mature enough to allow him to be able to sleep at 12 hour stretch.

Most of the available studies suggest that the prenatal nervous system is more vulnerable to the harmful effects of organochlorine chemicals than the early postnatal nervous system.

Studying itching sensations is a relatively new field, but if we look at the number of diseases where itch is a major symptom, it includes not only atopic dermatitis but also nervous system disorders such as multiple sclerosis, as well as infection and end stage kidney disease.

A study in the journal Chemical Research in Toxicology finds that mercury on the surface of dental fillings slowly turns to an inert sulfide compound, which should keep the mercury from harming the nervous system.

Neurobiology differs from neuroscience, a much broader field that is concerned with any scientific study of the nervous system.

Her main focus has been studying how the central nervous system develops in embryos: in frogs as a graduate student, then in mice as a postdoc at Duke University starting in 1997, and later at U.C. San Francisco when her lab moved to the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center there in 1999.

Immune cells are normally associated with fighting infection but in a new study, scientists have discovered how they also help the nervous system clear debris, clearing the way for nerve regeneration after injury.

To study the pathogenesis of HIV - induced PNS disease, Jamie Dorsey, Research Technologist, and the research team led by Dr. Mankowski developed a simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)- infected macaque model that closely reflects key peripheral nervous system (PNS) alterations seen in HIV patients with peripheral neuropathy.

Our study found no evidence of benefit for nervous system or cognitive function from 12 months of supplementation among older people with moderate vitamin B12 deficiency.

Neurobiology is the study of cells of the nervous system and the organization of these cells into functional circuits that process information and mediate behavior.

[1] At the end of the study after 12 months of supplementation, participants undertook clinical tests to assess their nervous system function including measures of muscle strength, coordination, mobility, tests of cognitive function including memory, and of psychological health.

And the work of imaging keeps taking big, new steps in studying how the nervous systems work in animals and humans.

The less - complex nervous system of the fruit fly makes them easier to study than people or even mice, another genetic model organism.

Animal studies have revealed several ways in which opioids may amplify pain signals in the central nervous system, suggesting targets for drugs that could counter the effect.

We believe that they will also lead to the development of a whole new range of therapies for neurodegenerative diseases of the central nervous system,» explains corresponding author of the study Jihwan Song, professor and director of Neural Regeneration and Therapy Group at the CHA Stem Cell Institute of CHA University.

«These studies suggest that yoga has an immediate quieting effect on the sympathetic nervous system and on the body's response to stress,» she said.

«Neuro - immune crosstalk in allergic asthma: Study reveals a way in which the nervous system communicates with the immune system and allergic inflammation gets amplified.»

Principal investigator Charles H. Tegeler, M.D., professor of neurology at Wake Forest Baptist, and his team, performed five - minute recordings of heart rate and blood pressure in 131 study participants, during the enrollment visit, to assess the effect of the autonomic nervous system on the cardiovascular system.

The piglet models the anatomy and development of the nervous system of human infants well and provides a practical platform to perform these clinically relevant studies.

Prompted by studies suggesting immune responses can help repair the nervous system, Kipnis and his colleagues created mice that lack CD4 cells, a kind of T - cell.

«This is a unique glimpse into what the ancestral nervous system looked like,» said study co-author Dr Javier Ortega - Hernández, of the University of Cambridge's Department of Zoology.

The results obtained on skeletal muscles, moreover, will have to be interpreted in conjunction with those deriving from other studies of the PlanHab project, dealing with the cardiovascular, respiratory, immune and central nervous systems and metabolism.»

«Obesity and aging are both prevalent and increasing in societies worldwide, but the consequences for the central nervous system are not well understood,» says Bart Eggen, lead author of the study and a researcher at the University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands.

Lipids are integral to the central nervous system, and as studies of statins and diabetes drugs have shown, dropping levels of some lipids can have deleterious cognitive effects.

«This was a big surprise that SHANK3 is expressed in the peripheral nervous system, but before this study, no one had ever looked for it outside of the brain,» Ji said.

In the course of a study conducted throughout Germany, medical professionals have compared different treatment methods for Neuromyelitis optica, an inflammatory disease of the central nervous system.

Results of the study showed that administering LPS led to a substantial spike in the systemic inflammatory response and levels of reported sickness, and activated microglia in the central nervous system.

In this latest study, the team examined whether rapamycin also reduces neuropathic pain, a state of chronic pain resulting from injury to the nervous system.

To study how the creatures perform such movements without stressing their nervous systems, a team led by neurobiologist Binyamin Hochner of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, filmed them scooping up morsels floating in their tanks.

«But when we're studying neurons in the spinal cord or in other areas outside of the central nervous system, we need stretchable implants that don't require anchoring,» he said.

UBC researchers Jenn Jakobi and Gareth Jones, both Health and Exercise Sciences professors at UBC's Okanagan campus, recently completed a study that examined the methods used to monitor the progressive advancement of Parkinson's disease (PD)-- a degenerative disease that affects the central nervous system.

«Studying the eye and the brain might hold the key to creating therapeutic solutions for blindness, stroke and other seemingly unrelated conditions associated with the central nervous system,» notes Dr. Bazan.

Egelhaaf adds that he will be using the new sensor system to study visual information processing in the nervous system of flies.

«We now know that the megacheirans had central nervous systems very similar to today's horseshoe crabs and scorpions,» said the senior author of the study, Nicholas Strausfeld, a Regents» Professor in the University of Arizona's department of neuroscience.

Studies with lab animals have linked pyrethroid exposure to damage of the thyroid, liver and nervous system, as well as impairment of behavioral development, changes in the immune system and disruption of reproductive hormones, according to the 2006 EPA review.

The former fact has been used extensively in the study of how certain drugs affect the sympathetic nervous system.