Sentences with phrase «biochemical signaling»

This insight is particularly valuable — while the influence of biochemical signals on stem cells is well - understood, the effect of physical factors has been more mysterious.

Now for all this to happen you need to release a precise cocktail of hormones and other biochemical signals.

As you can see, food is just more than food — it's a vessel of biochemical signals that literally change the physiological state of your metabolism.

Integrins have roles in a wide range of biochemical signaling pathways, but Parker's team identified one particular pathway that seems to play a role in injury to axons.

For instance, when alarmed, juvenile Asian carp emit «aggregation pheromones,» biochemical signals telling the fish to bunch up.

Duke engineers have developed a technique to make artificial arteries that naturally produce biochemical signals vital to their functions.

But many questions remain, says Kazushige Touhara, a molecular biologist at the University of Tokyo who works on biochemical signaling among mice.

One of the studies, by Johns Hopkins University scientists in collaboration with many other groups, turned up unexpected hints that biochemical signals controlling blood pressure may spring from within cells that line blood vessels themselves.

Studying hydra regeneration may lead to a better understanding of how mechanics integrate with biochemical signals to shape tissues and organs in other species.

«The ability to capture and analyze biometric and biochemical signals opens up new opportunities to evaluate audience reactions to stimuli in real - time... This research introduces a strong potential complement to those methods,» she says.

Further, they identify a specific biochemical signaling mechanism inside amygdala neurons that can mediate this transition to generalized fear, which could potentially serve as a target for designing new treatments against PTSD.

At the same time, the techniques of genetics and molecular biology began to reveal the intricate biochemical signals that synapses — the portals of nerve cells — deploy during communication.

In the study, the researchers show that after two to four weeks of 3 - D culture, the resulting muscle cells form muscle fibers that contract and react to external stimuli such as electrical pulses and biochemical signals mimicking neuronal inputs just like native muscle tissue.

«There is no evidence that you need to go beyond biochemical signaling to explain morphogenesis,» says Michael Klymkowsky, a professor in the University of Colorado's department of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology.

This allows nerve fibres to grow in the right direction by following simple developmental rules controlled by biochemical signals — in a similar way to how the grid of New York City's streets makes it easy to give someone directions to a destination.

The paper, to be published Dec. 14 in the journal Nature Communications, traces complex biochemical signals leading to peripheral nervous system dysfunction found in people with Down syndrome.

Drugs provide some relief from these attacks, but more help may be on the way: In tomorrow's issue of Nature, researchers describe a key biochemical signal involved in asthma and show how a snippet of DNA may prevent an attack.

But as malignant cells multiply and form tumors, they release biochemical signals that suppress the immune system and the T - cells no longer function properly.

Focal adhesions transmit tensile stresses from the extracellular space to the cytoskeleton, thereby converting force cues into biochemical signals that regulate cell functions [6].....

Studies of satellite cell activation via nitric oxide have opened an exciting area of research on muscle regeneration, growth and the muscle - fiber cytoskeleton that integrates mechanical and biochemical signal transduction with cell and molecular biology of muscle tissue in growth, development, disease, aging and evolution.

We also have a strong interest in mechanotransduction, i.e., how circulating cells transduce fluid shear forces into changes in biochemical signaling cascades.

Thus, the publication reported improved hunger, and food intake as well as improved biochemical signals (glucokinase), which might be a responsible mechanism.

Signaling dynamics increase the information transmission capacity of biochemical signaling pathways.

«Rapidly building arteries that produce biochemical signals: New technique speeds tissue engineering of functional arteries.»

Low - calorie, high - carbohydrate diets generate a series of biochemical signals in your body that will take you out of the balance, making it more difficult to access stored body fat for energy.

The Serhan lab, which focuses on identifying and elucidating the structures of bioactive molecules, has made critical discoveries over the last two decades that have illuminated the biochemical signaling pathways that resolve and control inflammation and pain associated with disease and injury recovery.

Without knowing such details, says Touhara, it is difficult to know how important tears are as a biochemical signaling route in human interactions.

The project will attempt to intercept the biochemical signals that are going back and forth between the microenvironment and the tumor.

Embryonic stem cells, for example, can readily give rise to any type of cell found in the body under the right set of circumstances — and when plied with the right set of biochemical signals.

The elegant feedback system discovered in this study links the regulation of contraction to the shape and function of epithelial tubes via mechanical and biochemical signalling.

They hypothesize that the reactive particles may induce an immune response in the body or modify the biochemical signaling agents between cells.

«That's really the big thing: coupling the regulation of the sugar coating to these biochemical signaling molecules.»

While the presence of β1 - integrin in adult stem cells is apparent, «its role in these cells has not been examined,» especially its influence on the biochemical signals promoting stem cell growth, wrote the three authors, Chen - Ming Fan, an adjunct biology professor; Michelle Rozo, who completed her doctorate in biology at Johns Hopkins this year; and doctoral student Liangji Li.

«The identification of this biochemical signal could lead to new approaches for treating diabetes.»

Others say that, in a sense, genomics is not big enough — that to fully understand cancer, scientists need to elucidate not just genomic changes but their downstream effects on proteins, biochemical signaling, and the other processes that make up the life of the cell (and the tissue, and the person).

And this was not just a moment spent pondering how nice a piece of chocolate would taste but a persistent drone of all my biochemical signals telling me I needed something to fill me up.

While the old truth of eat less, move more remains true, the metabolism of weight involves a complicated mixture of biochemical signals and pathways that significantly impact how much you eat and perhaps even how much you move.