Sentences with phrase «decrease the survival of»

The researchers had hoped their finding was evidence that bees may use «nature's medicine cabinet» to rid themselves of the intestinal parasite Crithidia bombi, which can decrease the survival of queen bees over the winter and hamper the success of young colonies in the spring.

Such impacts include decreased survival of native reef animals due to predation and competition, which reduces the recruitment success of native coral reef fishes.ref

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-- They assume that dividend payments decrease the value of the bank by lowering its probability of survival.

The cryotherapy process reduces inflammation for pain relief and improved mobility by decreasing the cellular metabolism, pain and spasm while increasing cellular survival and the levels of oxygenated blood delivered to damaged tissue.

Each and every week your baby stays put, his or her survival rate significantly increases and chances of problems decrease.

Quick execution of each and every link is critical because the chances of survival decrease 7 to 10 % with each passing minute.

NICU Survival and Attachment: Special Challenges for NICU Parents and Staff Discussion of the ways in which a NICU stay may both (a) contribute to perinatal mood disorders that decrease available energy and desire for attachment; and (b) cause interruptions to the attachment process.

Cannibals — whether microbes or Methodists — who eat their own relatives can also experience decreases in a measure of evolutionary success known as inclusive fitness, in which the survival of an individual's genes, whether they're from an offspring or a collateral relative (like a brother or cousin) is the true measure of evolutionary success.

In many patients diagnosed with LUAD, tumors cells have already spread to the brain, leading to decreased quality of life and low survival rates.

«Considering the marked prevalence of both prostate cancer and depression, additional efforts are needed to better understand and ameliorate the decreased survival following prostate cancer diagnosis in the depressed male patient.

Previously, studies have consistently demonstrated that conventionally fractionated high dose external beam radiation therapy (CRT), consisting of daily treatment for two months, decreases prostate cancer recurrence, and improves metastasis - free survival.

«Active surveillance of intermediate - risk prostate cancer associated with decreased survival.»

The Shark Monitoring Program of Recife, Brazil, reported approximately 100 % survival of protected species and a 97 % decrease in shark attacks when the strategy was used over 8 years.

Median progression - free survival for the 13 patients who had a decrease in the number of CTCs with ALK copy number gain was 14.0 months, while the median progression - free survival for the 16 patients who had stable or increased numbers of CTCs with ALK copy number gain was 6.1 months.

Among patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) fueled by ALK gene alterations who were being treated with crizotinib (Xalkori), a decrease in the number of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) harboring increased copies of the ALK gene over the first two months of treatment was associated with increased progression - free survival.

«These findings will give women with early stage breast cancer greater certainty that anti-estrogen therapy will decrease their risk of recurrence and increase their chance for survival whereas chemotherapy will not,» said breast cancer survivor Mary Lou Smith, JD, MBA, who helped design the study as a leader in the ECOG - ACRIN Cancer Research Advocates Committee.

«This finding suggests a novel therapeutic target to decrease invasion of tumor cells in patients and may also provide a novel biomarker that could help predict survival of patients with glioblastoma,» explained Israel.

«Low - risk thyroid cancer patients may not derive any survival advantage from the treatment but may end up paying the cost of decreased fertility.»

Over the last 20 years, complications have decreased and survival has improved for extremely preterm infants, according to a study in the September 8 issue of JAMA.

In fact, a victim's chance of survival decreases by 10 percent with each passing minute.

Following a cardiac arrest, each minute without treatment decreases the likelihood of surviving without disability, and survival rates depend greatly on where the cardiac arrest occurs, said the committee that carried out the study and wrote the report.

The presence of barred owls was associated with decreasing spotted owl survival rates in some study areas and spotted owls were disappearing from many of their historical breeding territories as those areas were invaded by barred owls.»

The researchers used computer models to predict that small changes of the pH within the tumor could tip the balance, decreasing the survival advantage of the invasive cells in favor of the non-invasive cells.

This method will be capable of giving an effective certainty at the moment of establishing the treatment, will also save time and decrease rejection, increasing the quality of life, allowing the survival of more patients and optimizing the health system, informed Gilberto Castañeda Hernández from the department of Pharmacology.

While advantages in PFS and OS emerged in an overall meta - analysis of the entire group, the survival benefit associated with obesity was restricted to men treated with targeted or immunotherapies, where obese men had a 47 percent decreased risk of death compared to men with normal BMI.

The disadvantages of such specialization are that the reproductive success of the highly specialized plant wanes when its pollinator is absent, and the survival rate of the pollinator decreases in the absence of the plant as well.

«After five minutes a person's chance of survival decreases by 10 percent per minute.

Human evolution, particularly through social change following brain modification, decreased extrinsic causes of mortality, and such modifications would account for survival beyond the (assumed) fixed decline in female fertility.

SMA is caused by a loss of, or defect in, the survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene leading to a decrease in the protein, survival motor neuron (SMN).

Other reported effects of PPAM included inhibition of autophagy which is an important survival mechanism that protects cancer cells against stress, impairment of the unfolded protein response (UPR) induced by glucose starvation and decrease of the activity of STAT3 [72, 73].

Now, in a new study in the journal Cancer Cell, Shaw and a team of scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies found that phenformin, a derivative of the widely - used diabetes drug metformin, decreased the size of lung tumors in mice and increased the animals» survival.

«Our results show that, in an era in which high - resolution molecular typing for class I and class II HLA [human leukocyte antigen] loci has significantly improved the clinical outcome of unrelated donor HSCT by decreasing the risk of immunological complications, lowering the ATLG dose to 15 mg / kg did not affect the time to engraftment and, more importantly, the incidence of acute or chronic GVHD [graft - vs - host disease], and was associated with an improved probability of event - free survival, mainly due to a reduced risk of nonrelapse mortality,» wrote Franco Locatelli, MD, of the department of oncoematologia pediatrica, IRCCS Ospedale «Bambino Gesù» in Rome, and colleagues.

We have recently shown that blockade of the IL - 33 receptor ST2 leads to a decrease in the cytokine storm and enhanced survival in naive FHL2 mice (5).

Also, it is suggested that at least 20 % of Mg is lost from continents by chemical weathering (Mg being extremely mobile during weathering), which is one of the primary controls for finally leaving behind a Si - rich and Mg - poor continental mass, thereby decreasing crustal recycling by subduction (Lee et al. 2008), important for continental survival.

Using a TCGA data set with 971 invasive breast cancer patients, we found that patients with alterations in the expression of ABL2 and eight validated downstream targets (TAZ, AXL, CTGF, STAT5A, STAT5B, TNC, IL6, and MMP1) exhibited decreased disease - free survival (Fig. 8A).

Second, many frog - eating predators die when the toads arrive (after all, cane toads are basically acting as booby - trapped frogs, from a predator's point of view)-- and so, survival rates of frogs tend to increase not decrease when the toads arrive.

Clinical studies identify FLT3 ITD mutations associated with higher numbers of leukemic cells, increased incidence of relapse and decreased overall survival.

Advances in immunosuppression have decreased the incidence of acute rejection, but the survival of all organ transplants continues to be limited by chronic rejection.

Conditional expression of fascin led to decrease in mice survival and increase in tumor burden compared to control animals.

His research addresses the question of why a decreased amount of Survival Motor Neuron (SMN) protein leads to SMA and provides an opportunity to test the drugs that Dr. Stockwell identifies.

Many clinical studies have found that FLT3 ITD mutations are associated with higher concentrations of leukemic cells in both blood and bone marrow, increased incidence of relapse and decreased overall survival.

In absence of WDR47, the exhaustion of late cortical progenitors and the consequent decrease of neurogenesis together with the impaired survival of late - born neurons are likely yielding to the worsening of the microcephaly phenotype postnatally.

«Studies have shown that something as simple as walking 30 minutes per day will decrease your breast cancer risk and increase the chances of survival if you have breast cancer,» she says.

Dysbiosis, or a preponderance of bad gut flora, can «lower circulating lymphocytes, and increase neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio, a finding which has been associated with a decreased survival in women with breast cancer,» researchers argue in a study published in ISRN Oncology.

If we live in a chronic state of survival, then our brains will be surrounded by high levels of cortisol and adrenaline which can eventually cause the size of our hippocampus (memory center) to decrease, and can even shrink our muscles.

However, recent studies show a correlation between low levels of DHT and decreased survival in prostate cancer patients, rendering this assumption highly questionable.16, 17, 18, 19 According to one recent paper, «Low dihydrotestosterone in the prostate is probably sufficient to propagate the growth of aggressive prostate cancer.»

So a decrease in collagen turnover, although it is a mechanism to allow survival of the organism, has important secondary effects, including ageing.

If their muscle mass - as a result of the disease or the treatment - decreases, their chances of survival decrease as well.

When diagnosed late (distant stage) instead of early (local stage), five - year survival rate decreases by 75 percent, so it is essential to know the signs of breast cancer and be aware of your risk factors.

This is consistent with reports associating regular exercise with reduced incidence of dementia3 and several cancer types.26 - 28 Potential reasons for improved functional status and survival among regular exercisers may include increased cardiovascular fitness and improved aerobic capacity and organ reserve,29 - 31 increases in skeletal mass and metabolic adaptations of muscle with decreased frailty,29 - 31 lower levels of circulating inflammatory markers, 32 improved response to vaccinations, 33 and improved higher - order cognitive functions.34