Sentences with phrase «ablation of»

The cold air reduced above water ablation of the icebergs.

The energy available for ablation of a glacier is determined by the energy budget of the glacier surface, illustrated in the accompanying figure.

Alternatively, significant ablation of the Greenland ice sheet greatly exceeding even the most aggressive of current projections would be required.

In Situ Fabrication of a Solar Nanofluid by a Femtosecond Laser Ablation of Tin in Ethylene Glycol

Reconstructed mass balance yielded accumulation and ablation each of ~ 3 km3 / yr, with glacial movement near the equilibrium line altitude dominated by basal sliding.Pollen and charcoal records from three lakes in northern Yellowstone provide information on the postglacial vegetation and fire history.

This certainly speaks to the rapid ablation of tropical glaciers.

Those of us who joined the society then had high hopes that human society could restrain its possibly unwise ablation of nature and natural resources until too little remained.

Detailed studies of the energy balance and ablation of the Zongo and Chacaltaya glaciers support the importance of air temperature increase, and identify the increase in downward infrared radiation as the main way that the effect of the warmer air is communicated to the glacier surface [Wagnon et al. 1999; Francou et al, 2003].

He is currently working on developing a cardiac electrophysiology laboratory to diagnose and treat via radiofrequency catheter ablation of arrhythmias.

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Surgical extirpation results in total ablation of the ear.

Dr Roberto Santilli and Dr Romain Pariaut performed a successful radiofrequency catheter ablation of a mid-septal accessory pathway maintaining a fast reciprocating tachycardia (> 300 bpm).

Two days later a radiofrequency ablation of the electrical circuit was performed at the electrophysiological laboratory directed by Dr. Roberto Santilli of the Veterinary Clinic Malpensa, with an endocardial and epicardial approach with interruption of the arrhythmia.

Located in New York, and as a former patient at the hospital, Cornell's Cardiology Companion Animal services provide, «a number of interventional therapies including, but not limited to, pacemaker implantation, occlusion of patent ductus arteriosus, balloon valvuloplasty for pulmonic and subaortic stenosis, cardioversion of atrial fibrillation and radiofrequency catheter ablation of arrhythmias.»

Small animal nephrology and urology Nephroliths and ureteroliths (kidney and ureter stones) Minimally invasive urology procedures including shock wave lithotripsy, laser lithotripsy, laser ablation of ectopic ureters, and periurethral collagen injection for treatment of urinary incontinence Nutritional therapy of urinary tract disease Problem - based learning in veterinary education Client communications

There are interesting similarities between the results of the current study and published data from leptin - deficient mice with genetic ablation of the atrophic hormone myostatin (55, 56).

Genetic ablation of a Na + / H + exchanger (NHE2), which is expressed in the stomach at high levels, leads to a decrease in gastric acid secretion, along with decreased viability of parietal cells, severe metaplasia, and hyperplasia of gastric mucosa.

Ablation of TLR4 in mice has been shown to reduce atherosclerotic plaque formation (29).

Satyanarayana, A., Klarmann, K.D., Gavrilova, O. & Keller, J.R. Ablation of the transcriptional regulator Id1 enhances energy expenditure, increases insulin sensitivity, and protects against age and diet induced insulin resistance, and hepatosteatosis.

a) In the subsection «Cell type - specific NMDA - R pharmacology in cocaine - induced synaptic plasticity» we now more clearly introduce the Zweifel and Engblom studies as well as the differences between them: both of which used genetic ablation of Grin1 over 1 week but showed different results with respect to DA neuron synaptic potentiation, which was due to methodological challenges with AMP - R compensation.

Acute ablation of autophagy leads to animal death caused by infection, diabetes, and neurodegeneration, as well as muscle dystrophy and reduced fat storage [18].

Using conditional genetic ablation of Ar in Sertoli cells, we have shown that AR signaling is required for three stages of spermatogenesis: progression through meiosis I, the differentiation of haploid round spermatids into elongating spermatids, and spermiogenesis, the release of fully differentiated elongated spermatids into the lumen of the seminiferous epithelium.

C: the green line shows the attenuation of optical fluence in scattering tissue relative to the PNB thresholds for normal and prostate cancer (PC) cells, the difference between these thresholds determines an effective radius of PNB - based selective ablation of prostate cancer cells.

This little - heralded, meticulous investigation into the effects of ablation of the telomerase catalytic subunit in mice with human - like telomeres provides us with strong reassurance that, should it prove to be the preferred approach for implementing the OncoSENS strategy, the effects of knocking out TERT would be limited to those dictated by the loss of telomere - lengthening per se, and would not lead to an unintentional loss of some essential but hitherto - unknown phsyiological function.

Ablation of command interneurons by restricted expression of the human caspase ICE showed that even in the absence of interneuron input, worms can still move in a sinusoidal wave in a limited manner [41].

We are currently employing our new genetic tools for mast cell - specific inactivation of loxP - flanked genes and for inducible ablation of mature mast cells in adult animals to clarify the roles mast cells play in neoplastic disease.

If ectopic gap junctions are the sole cause of the Unc - 7 phenotype, then laser ablation of AVAs should eliminate communication between these interneurons and the B motor neurons and restore normal forward locomotion; in conjunction with AVA ablation, animals should be backward Unc (Figure 1).

Laser ablation of the axochord impaired crawling (fig.

New approaches to microscopy, precision laser ablation of individual cells and capillaries, and genetic engineering of model organisms are opening new vistas for exploring the brain and how it works.

Moreover, ablation of a STAT5A allele reduces tumor incidence in a mouse model of breast cancer in which mammary epithelial cells express T antigen (48).

Genetic ablation of Cyp8b1 preserves host metabolic function by repressing steatohepatitis and altering gut microbiota composition — Jay V Patankar — American Journal of Physiology — Endocrinology and Metabolism

Recent physical approaches, including the ablation of bonds between cells using laser light, have revealed that mechanical tension on cell bonds is elevated along this anterior - posterior compartment boundary.

It is unfortunate that the investigators did not assess insulin secretion, insulin action, or systemic inflammation in early - aging BubR1H / H; INK - ATTAC mice, with and without ablation of senescent adipose cells, but reasonable to be optimistic that doing so would yield some normalization of age - related metabolic abnormalities.

An initial five - year, multicenter study of cryoablation to treat early - stage breast cancer sponsored by the National Cancer Institute found it to be 92 percent effective for complete ablation of invasive breast tumors smaller than 2 centimeters and 100 percent effective for complete ablation of invasive ductal breast cancer tumors smaller than 1 centimeter.

It would indeed be of great interest to see whether ablation of stromal p16Ink4a - expressing senescent cells, in otherwise genetically intact INK - ATTAC animals without existing tumors, would lower the animals» risk for cancer, and put any tumors they might develop on a less malevolent trajectory, than untreated mice.

(6) Following this initial test of abrogating the early, age - related rise in p16Ink4a - expressing cell burden, the investigators probed the effects of leaving BubR1H / H; INK - ATTAC to undergo 5 months of rapid «premature aging» (and thus, to the attendant accumulation of high levels of p16Ink4a - positive cells and onset of «early - aging» phenotypes), and only then inducing ablation of senescent cells with the INK - ATTAC drug - activated system (see Figure 2 (g) below).

To impute aging phenotypes directly to p16Ink4a - expressing senescent cells, van Deursen and colleagues with expertise in the aging and senescence of the relevant tissues developed and tested the effects of a pharmacologically - inducible system for the ablation of p16Ink4a - expressing cells.

Genetic Ablation of Butyrate Utilization Attenuates Gastrointestinal Salmonella Disease.

On the other hand, there are many other tissues — notably, the kidney and articular cartilage — where p16Ink4a - expressing senescent cells appear to be a contributing factor to human and murine degenerative aging, but which were not evaluated in treated or control mice in this study, and it would be of interest to see the effects of ablation of p16Ink4a - positive senescent cells.

(1) One clear disadvantage of using these «early - aging» mice is that they die too early to develop cancer — too early for ablation of p16Ink4a - positive senescent cells to impact the course of the disease.

At 9 - 10 mo of age, such mice were then compared a to age - matched cohorts of untreated BubR1H / H; INK - ATTAC mice, and to BubR1H / H mice lacking the INK - ATTAC system for selective ablation of p16Ink4a - expressing cells.

Genetic ablation of calcium - independent phospholipase A2β causes hypercontractility and markedly attenuates endothelium - dependent relaxation to acetylcholine.

Ablation of MMP9 gene ameliorates paracellular permeability and fibrinogen — amyloid beta complex formation during hyperhomocysteinemia.

Previously in a mutated BRAF mouse model, ablation of PTEN led to melanoma development [45], suggesting the PI3K / AKT signaling cascade is one of the critical players in melanoma turmorigenesis.

Ablation of MEKK4 kinase activity causes neurulation and skeletal patterning defects in the mouse embryo.

Endothelium - specific ablation of PDGFB leads to pericyte loss and glomerular, cardiac and placental abnormalities.

Sidoli M, Musner N, Silvestri N, Ungaro D, D'Antonio M, Cavener DR, Feltri ML, Wrabetz L. Ablation of perk in schwann cells improves myelination in the S63del Charcot - Marie - Tooth 1B mouse.

Our laboratory has assembled a comprehensive set of tools for doing this, including mice with conditional ablation of the Btla gene in different subsets of immune cells.

A two - way ANOVA revealed that there was no interaction between temperature and ablation of antennae (n.s. = non-significant, P = 0.15), and then Student's t - test was conducted for intergroup comparison (**, P < 0.01).

A previous study reported that ablation of the antennal flagella impaired warmth avoidance behavior in the European worker honeybees [21].