Sentences with phrase «alters normal patterns»

Additionally, the stress experienced during activity, travel, or confinement commonly alters normal patterns of eating, eliminating, and sleeping, thereby negatively impacting the immune system and making our canine companions more susceptible to infection.»

Additionally, the stress experienced during confinement commonly alters normal patterns of eating, sleeping, urinating, and defecating, thereby negatively affecting the canine immune system and making our canine companions more susceptible to infection.

A striking consequence of CI is that it alters the normal pattern of reciprocal centrosome inheritance inNasonia.

Killer whales may move quickly out of range, or alter their normal patterns.

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Type 3 experiences do not alter existing beliefs or nurture new belief systems because they are perceived as insignificant and within the normal pattern of things.

One might argue that the effects of human - generated pollution have altered the normal weather patterns, but that's another argument for another forum.

In animal models, exposure to cigarette smoke or nicotine during fetal development alters the expression of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in areas of the brainstem important for autonomic function, 28 alters the neuronal excitability of neurons in the nucleus tractus solitarius (a brainstem region important for sensory integration), 29 and alters fetal autonomic activity and medullary neurotransmitter receptors.30 In human infants, there are strong associations between nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and serotonin receptors in the brainstem during development.31 Prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke attenuates recovery from hypoxia in preterm infants, 32 decreases heart rate variability in preterm33 and term34 infants, and abolishes the normal relationship between heart rate and gestational age at birth.33 Moreover, infants of smoking mothers exhibit impaired arousal patterns to trigeminal stimulation in proportion to urinary cotinine levels.35 It is important to note also that prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke alters the normal programming of cardiovascular reflexes such that there is a greater - than - expected increase in blood pressure and heart rate in response to breathing 4 % carbon dioxide or a 60 ° head - up tilt.36 These changes in autonomic function, arousal, and cardiovascular reflexes might all increase an infant's vulnerability to SIDS.

The next step was see how those factors were influenced by ENSO; while El Niños and La Niñas are defined by how much warmer or colder than normal tropical Pacific ocean waters are, they trigger a cascade of reactions in the atmosphere that can alter weather patterns around the globe.

We still need to know whether the activation patterns later return to normal or remain permanently altered, but this could provide the basis of a robust diagnostic test for children suffering from concussions and aid in evaluating recovery.»

When the researchers altered the animals» eating patterns by feeding normal mice only during the light cycle (a mouse's night), the numbers, types, and activity of the bacteria shifted as well.

The westerlies in the Northern Hemisphere, which increased from the 1960s to the 1990s but which have since returned to about normal as part of NAO and NAM changes, alter the flow from oceans to continents and are a major cause of the observed changes in winter storm tracks and related patterns of precipitation and temperature anomalies, especially over Europe.

arrhythmia An altered and usually erratic pattern in a normal rhythm, such as the pace of an individual's heartbeats.

However, it is also well known that both the acute and chronic intake of alcohol alters normal sleep patterns.

He's more than capable of disappearing into roles, altering his body language and speech patterns almost beyond recognition, but he can never quite suppress a certain soulful charm, whether he's playing a heroically abrasive AIDS activist in The Normal Heart or a dissolute A&R guy in Begin Again.

Systemic disease that causes any change in a rabbit's normal diet and eating patterns may lead to dental disease.1 — 4 A systemic disease characterized by altered calcium levels may result in changes in jawbones and altered tooth placement.3, 5