Sentences with phrase «biological system responses»

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«Within these genomes, the areas where we see relatively common Neanderthal introgression are in genes related to metabolism and immune system responses,» says Recep Ozgur Taskent, the study's first author and a UB PhD candidate in biological sciences.

«It's also possible that the broader discussion of nonlinear oscillations could be helpful to scientists examining other biological systems that exhibit comparable dynamic responses.»

Dr Nicholas Casewell said: «These are the first snake genomes to be sequenced and fully annotated and our results in relation to the king cobra provide a unique view of the origin and evolution of snake venom, including revealing multiple genome - level adaptive responses to natural selection in this complex biological weapon system.

Three of the genetic regions associated with PSC fall within a single biological system that underlies variation in T cells, cells important to our immune response.

Much has been uncovered about its role in the brain and nervous system, but few scientists considered how sNGF levels in people's saliva might be related to the behavioral and biological components of the body's stress response.

«We have achieved the important goal of helping these young patients and made progress in understanding the biological pathways and proteins that are important for the regulation of the immune system's responses.»

«Melanopsin is a part of our visual system from long ago in evolution, and it controls several important biological responses to light,» said lead author, Manuel Spitschan, PhD, who received his doctorate from the Psychology program at Penn in 2016 and is now a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford.

The standard approach to making such molecules immunogenic is to link them to a larger biological molecule like a protein in such a way that an individual's immune system is able to detect the drug molecule and mount a response to it.

Hatton said exposure to chronic stress has long been associated with biological weathering and premature aging, linked, for example, to oxidative and mitochondrial damage in cells, impaired immune system response and genomic changes.

Inflammation is part of a complex biological response of the immune system to harmful stimuli, such as pathogens, damaged cells, or irritants.

NIAID conducts and supports research on nearly 300 infectious agents and investigates the biological properties of these pathogens and the immune system's responses to them.

A major challenge that will be addressed in the second phase of LINCS is to optimize the combinations of cell types, perturbations and measurements of cellular responses to address a wider range of basic biological and disease - related problems than was possible in the program's initial pilot stage, said Alan Michelson, M.D., Ph.D., senior investigator, Laboratory of Developmental Systems Biology, NHLBI, and co-chair of the NIH LINCS Project Implementation Team.

Systemic enzyme blends work as a biological response modifier; working with the bodies own immune defense system to moderate inflammatory response.

Recent studies on cartilage, which is found abundantly in homemade broth, show it supports the immune system in a variety of ways; it's a potent normalizer, true biological response modifier, activator of macrophages, activator of Natural Killer (NK) cells, rouser of B lymphocytes, and releaser of Colony Stimulating Factor.

But it is important to do more than just stop the itching — drugs that simply block immune responses or important biological regulation systems often have strong and undesirable side effects.

The response of biological systems to global warming is almost infinitely complex, and not hard to spin.

[Response: Whether the dependence is linear or nonlinear is difficult to say, biological systems being as messy as they are, but the magnitude of the change is clearly significant, based on laboratory growth experiments.

I am curious as to what additional slower «earth - system» feedbacks might be indicated by the release of the methane... i.e. what kind of biological changes might occur to arctic regions by the melting of permafrost and release of methane that will add a longer - term feedback response that needs to accounted for before any sort of new equalibrium would be reached.

The calculation of carbon fluxes due to forest and grassland conversion is in many ways the most complex of the emissions inventories components, because responses of biological systems vary over different time - scales.

The following question that you posed is a good question: Is there a regime change in the Pacific or are 2015/16 sea surface temps — and resultant biological responses — just an excursion in a highly variable, complex and poorly understood system?

Is there a regime change in the Pacific or are 2015/16 sea surface temps — and resultant biological responses — just an excursion in a highly variable, complex and poorly understood system?

and the disturbance of biological systems is so nebulous not to warrant a response.

A growing literature considers response strategies that aim at preventing damage to particular key elements and processes in geophysical, biological and socio - economic systems that are sensitive to climate change and have limited adaptation potential; policy - makers may want to consider insights from the literature reviewed here in helping them to design policies to prevent DAI.

One of the propositions is the attachment of a carbon cycle model and the response function of the biological sinks (Southern Ocean etc) At ESD the editors have a biological systems (deep ecology) bias whic his why they had to publish where um the understanding is more limited.

While biological systems, which may have positive feedback between various subsystems (with on / off switches to bound the response), are often control systems, energy - conserving natural systems don't operate that way.

Much was not precisely dated, representing physical or biological systems that involve complex lags between forcing and response, as is the case for vegetation and glacier changes.

We examine alterations in biological stress regulatory systems; alterations in the neural regulation of stress responses; and expression of genes related to stress responses, both as latent indicators of impending health risks and as indicators of psychological and biological stress - reactive processes that may accelerate those risks.

The links between early life stress, alterations in biological stress regulatory systems, and health outcomes likely depend on neural regulation of stress responses in the brain.

Antenatal depression may not only alter development of stress - related biological systems in the fetus, but may also increase risk of obstetrical complications.6 Postnatal depression may also be an early life stressor given known associations with lower levels of sensitive, responsive care needed for infants» development of health attachment relationships, emotional regulation skills, interpersonal skills and stress response mechanisms.7 Early life stressors, such as those that might be associated with maternal depression, can influence brain development, which continues at a rapid pace at least for several years after birth.8 Problems in any of these aspects of development may disrupt the earliest stages of socio - emotional and cognitive development, predisposing to the later development of depression or other disorders.

In mothers and their children, Bush and colleagues are searching for biological markers of adversity in the telomeres at the ends of chromosomes, the immune system and other physiological stress response systems.

Dr. NIcki Bush and Dr. Alicia Lieberman have joined forces in the CTRP - Health study at the UCSF Child Trauma Research Program (CTRP) to examine the biological systems implicated in traumatic stress and their response to Lieberman's child - parent interventions.