Sentences with phrase «barrier between»

It turns out that the barrier between the brain and the body's defence forces isn't as impassable as we thought.

In a study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers looked at how immune cells reached the myelin, focusing on the barrier between brain tissue and the rest of the body.

The slimy mats acted as a barrier between the water above and the sediments below, preventing oxygen from reaching under the sea floor and making it largely uninhabitable.

The investigators reached this conclusion by comparing the integrity and development of the blood - brain barrier between two groups of mice: the first group was raised in an environment where they were exposed to normal bacteria, and the second (called germ - free mice) was kept in a sterile environment without any bacteria.

A protein located in the cells that form a barrier between the brain and blood could be partly to blame, experiments on mice suggest.

The barrier between the wells prevents the physical system from rapidly interconverting between the two states.

HTML5's power is that it can break down the barrier between applications running online and those on your own device almost completely.

There is also a long - standing barrier between the lab and the classroom.

The structure of the testes depends on a type of cell called Sertoli cells, which maintain the barrier between the bloodstream and the testes and nourish developing sperm cells.

«In the gut, you have a barrier between the immune system and the bacteria that live there.

HEALTH • A clearer understanding of the barrier between the brain and the circulatory system may lead to better treatment options for diseases that affect the brain, such as cancer or Alzheimer's.

To try to understand this barrier between waking and sleep, the researchers also compared the differences in reports of images or thoughts of Tetris both before sleep onset and right after.

This widening chasm has created a rapidly increasing language barrier between basic biomedical scientists and practicing clinicians.

He reckons the oxygen concentration inside should be 30 to 40 percent, and he envisions using the spacecraft's liquid water store as a barrier between the Mars pioneers and the sun.

In addition, the recombination barrier between the contact layers is sufficiently high that the losses in these solar cells is minute despite the many holes in the perovskite thin - film,» says Bär.

To model the transmission barrier between rabbits and other species, they generated a transgenic mouse model that expressed the rabbit PRNP gene instead of the corresponding mouse gene.

In a study that could improve the safety of next - generation batteries, researchers discovered that adding two chemicals to the electrolyte of a lithium metal battery prevents the formation of dendrites — «fingers» of lithium that pierce the barrier between the battery's halves, causing it to short out, overheat and sometimes burst into flame.

When those finger - like deposits elongate until they penetrate the barrier between the two halves of the battery, they can cause electrical shorts, overheating and fires.

Pattnaik and other Nebraska scientists continue to investigate how the virus breaks the barrier between the brain and the bloodstream and to develop a drug that could be used to treat Zika infection.

It is also important in swallowing, and acts as a barrier between the chest cavity and the abdomen.

Reefs also form a barrier between land and ocean, preventing beach erosion and creating sheltered sanctuaries for mangroves, birds, and other wildlife.

But Greaves says his team's work questions the assumption that the placenta provides a wholly effective barrier between mothers and fetuses.

Issues of intellectual property ownership, human resources protocols, and time management, as well as the challenge of keeping a delineated barrier between professorial and business activities can be difficult to manage, but these concerns shouldn't prevent academics from seeking to create a startup company.

Placentas had underdeveloped blood vessels, the barrier between mother and fetal cells was abnormal, and researchers spotted evidence of cellular stress.

If your house is right atop one of those buried empty spaces, you may be in trouble — because the fragile barrier between yourself and the void can easily give way.

Sometimes I find opening a laptop to take notes in a meeting a bit too intrusive, it creates a barrier between you and the rest of attendees.

«Atlantic Avenue has been a blight in our community that has been unsafe for motorists and pedestrians, while serving as a barrier between the two communities.»

The study recommended a barrier between the sand and fill to protect beachgoers from any potential exposure.

It is, especially on the East Side, a barrier between two worlds.

MANHATTAN — New York State Senator Daniel Squadron has launched a Chinese - language hotline, hoping to break down the language barrier between Chinatown residents and the senate.

Companies are forced to translate their products and services for each region and deal with a language barrier between their different offices.

Our local law will sunset once the federal ban goes into effect, but until that time it will remain the only barrier between these toxic plastic bits and our precious waterways.

Punitive drug laws create a barrier between society and the police with more people going to court for drug possession than ever before.

The legislations will attempt to remove the barrier between people who have served jail time and now want to contribute positively in society.

As part of the project, the state will separate traffic on the Korean War Veterans Parkway heading westbound to the bridge from the merging West Shore Expressway by installing a concrete barrier between the lanes, the DOT said.

But too many front - line health care providers lack sufficient training to treat post-partum depression, too many women lack access to information about available services and stigma is a barrier between families and the mental health services they may need.

For many of our participants — by no means all, it is important to state — there was an extra barrier between them and the Conservative party directly related to their ethnic background.»

And every Liberal Democrat MP is a barrier between Nigel Farage and Alex Salmond and the door to 10 Downing Street.»

Some find relief in the dulling drug of alcohol as a barrier between their inner sensibilities and the exterior hell's pageant.

The S2 is a closed system which means there is a physical barrier between the milk and the pump.

The use of the stand - alone cot impeded breastfeeding by introducing a barrier between mother and baby preventing contact; inhibited the baby's ability to root and initiate suckling; obscured the baby's cues from the mother; and by its height prevented mothers from retrieving their babies without either assistance or the need to get out of bed, thereby substantially hampering the ease and speed of maternal response.

A cloth diaper cover creates a waterproof barrier between the prefold cloth diaper and the baby's clothes.

They do not add absorbency but can be used as a barrier between diapers and creams that could damage them.

Also, having some barrier between mom's breast and the outside world is helpful in keeping babies focused on eating.

When using a closed system pump, milk contamination is prevented because there is a barrier between the parts where the milk passes through and the pump motor.

It's like a barrier between baby's bum and the diaper.

This is super important because closed system breast pumps have a barrier between your milk and the pump motor and tubing, preventing moisture from entering the tubing and pump motor.

They are hard to wean off of and because it creates a barrier between baby and breast it means baby gets less milk and can cause slow weight gain and lowered supply.

It's so important that you use the backflow protectors that come with your pump because they create a barrier between the tubing and your collection kit, preventing milk and moisture from entering the tubing.

Universal school breakfast breaks down that barrier between students and their morning meal, allowing students the opportunity to fuel their brains and bodies so they are ready to learn.