For Ullrich and Thiel, the direct evidence of a rapid and complete adaptation to zero gravity in less than a minute begs the question as to whether previous
cell changes measured after hours or days were also the result of an adaptation process.
Not exact matches
These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity
measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize
cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to
changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).
Also there is evidence of molecular mechanisms in the
cell membranes that can amplify small
changes in the field to produce large
changes in neural activity.13 On the other hand, earlier tests of Kohler's theory found that interference with electrical gradients over the cortex had no effect on behavioral
measures (see note 11 for reference to these studies).
The
change in load
cell output occurring with time, while under load, and with all environmental conditions and other variables remaining constant; usually
measured with Rated Load applied and expressed as a percent of Rated Output over a specific period of time.
By
measuring how the light has
changed once it emerges through the other side of the slide, the researchers can detect and monitor processes occurring on the sensor surface, such as
cell division.
The detector developed at UNH, known as DoSEN, short for Dose Spectra from Energetic Particles and Neutrons,
measures and calculates the absorbed dose in matter and tissue resulting from the exposure to indirect and direct ionizing radiation, which can
change cells at the atomic level and lead to irreparable damage.
It has been particularly difficult to
measure changes in electrical functions of
cells grown within Organ Chips that are normally electrically active, such as neuronal
cells in the brain or beating heart
cells, both during their differentiation and in response to drugs.
Since many human diseases can be explained by perturbations of molecular interactions within
cells, interactomes will drastically
change how we think about human health, and how we set about designing drugs and preventive
measures to counter illness.
Another component senses
changes in the electrical current flowing through the generated sweat, which
measures alcohol levels and sends them to the user's
cell phone.»
The researchers then
measured cell composition and electrical activity again and found that the
cells dramatically
changed when they were in contact with neurons from different regions.
Measuring changes in a voltage bias applied to the saline reveals how close the capillary tube is to the
cell, allowing researchers to scan subtle structures on the
cell surface without disrupting them.
By
measuring changes in the levels of proteins that control each
cell death program and by observing the
cells» physical
changes, the team saw clearly that cocaine causes neuronal
cell death through out - of - control autophagy.
Using in vitro, or test tube, experiments, the researchers applied these chemicals to human cancer
cells to
measure changes of estrogen receptor - and androgen receptor - target genes and transcriptional activity.
Neural signals are transmitted within neurons by
changing calcium concentrations, so the researchers used this technique to
measure the amount of calcium contained within the Purkinje
cells in real time.
The nerve
cell's activity was
measured via concentration of calcium ion in the
cell, and the team analyzed the
changes in calcium concentration using a mathematical model.
Such measurements could be used to sort different types of
cells — to distinguish cancerous
cells from healthy ones, for example — or to
measure how
cells change when exposed to drugs.
Cell - based biosensors measure changes in cell cultures via electrical sign
Cell - based biosensors
measure changes in
cell cultures via electrical sign
cell cultures via electrical signals.
In this way, the effect of vaccines or drugs (for example) can be tested: the more effective the active ingredient is, the smaller the number of
cells that are destroyed by the viruses and the lower the
measured resistance
change will be.
After
measuring millivolt
changes in 58 brain
cells in frogs in response to sound, the researchers used a mathematical model to convert the information into how much a brain
cell was excited or inhibited by a given sound pulse.
The method made it possible «to record or
measure millivolt — thousandths of a volt —
changes in the
cell,» Rose says.
Using zymonic acid it is furthermore possible to specifically investigate the pH value outside of the
cell membrane: With other biosensors it is often not clear whether
measured changes take place inside or outside of the
cell (intracellular or extracellular).
Consequently, despite the extensive and highly successful efforts of many researchers to develop infection models in Drosophila, the outcomes of infection are often
measured by end - points such as insect death (survival of a cohort of insects over time) or
changes in
cell morphology at fixed periods throughout infection (often monitored by staining different elements of the cytoskeleton).
The
measured levels of LDH in this study were well within the normal range found in rabbits, and no
changes in
cell appearance or organ health were associated with the
changes.
Measuring these critical
cell changes is fundamental to this project and to accomplish this, the team is developing state - of - the - art imaging equipment to non-invasively
measure the structural and biological
changes in the nerve
cells of the eye due to glaucoma.
This way scientists can
measure changes in the brain
cells more accurately, she says.
The critical secondary endpoint of the
change in retinal ganglion
cell macular volume
measured from baseline to week 48 demonstrated a statistically significant difference (p = 0.0189) between all GS010 - treated eyes and all sham - treated eyes, with untreated eyes losing 0.038 cubic mm of macular ganglion
cell volume while treated eyes preserved their ganglion
cell volume -LRB--0.003 cubic mm).
To determine whether huntingtin is involved in trafficking a specific subset of proteins, we
measured changes in global transcription levels in embryonic stem
cells and neurons lacking huntingtin.
Here we investigate age - related mean and variance
changes in gene expression
measured by RNA - seq of fat, skin, whole blood and derived lymphoblastoid
cell lines (LCLs) expression from 855 adult female twins.
Interestingly, even though the volunteers in body wrap studies thought their appearance had
changed, no statistical
measure could find any differences in fat
cell depth or girth, or reductions in cellulite whatsoever.
MRT uses a patented combination of flow cytometry and proprietary impedance technology to
measure subtle volumetric
changes in white blood
cell populations simultaneously.
Because of the vast array of potential mediators and reacting
cells,
measuring volumetric
changes in all circulating white
cells after antigen challenge is the most logical, direct, comprehensive and functional
measure of food sensitivity reactions.
It
measures the inflammatory response and subtle
changes in our immune
cells (lymphocytes, neutrophils, monocytes, and eosinophils) as they release chemical mediators (a substance released from
cells, e.g., cytokines, histamine, leukotrienes, prostaglandins, etc.), that regulate or cause physiologic consequences during an immune response to an antigen.
Year 4 Science Assessments Objectives covered: Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways Explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment Recognise that environments can
change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans Identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey Compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases Observe that some materials
change state when they are heated or cooled, and
measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C) Identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases Identify common appliances that run on electricity Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including
cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers Identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors
Any
changes in electrolyte levels and general blood
cell health will be
measured as well.
I can assure you that so far as my own experiences have shown me, and some of my instrumentation has been part of everything from
measuring re-entry temperatures on the Space Shuttle to research studying the effects of small temperature
changes on types of brain
cells, that I've rarely found anything that made me question the theories I was taught.