Sentences with phrase «earlier studies involving»

Earlier studies involving animal models did not translate to humans.

In earlier studies involving animal models and human cancer cell lines, researchers found that breast cancer spreads when three specific cells are in direct contact: an endothelial cell (a type of cell that lines the blood vessels), a perivascular macrophage (a type of immune cell found near blood vessels), and a tumor cell that produces high levels of Mena, a protein that enhances a cancer cell's ability to spread.

Earlier studies involving animal models did not translate to humans.

The results of this study confirm the findings of an earlier study involving 58,000 nurses.

For example, an earlier study involving more children with refractory epilepsy, 317, over a longer period of time, seven years, was one of the other studies cited by the study summarized in this article.

Supporting this logic, the largest human study to date found no significant long - term hormonal changes in chronic marijuana users, and suggested that earlier studies involved insufficient sample sizes.

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As an example, they cited outside research and «early evidence» from a previous study Matias conducted on Internet messaging board Reddit that involved showing readers of Reddit's «r / science» forum rules for commenting.

The first analysis looked at 148 studies involving more than 300,000 people and found that people with social connections had a 50 % lower risk of dying early compared to people who did not have strong social circles.

«In the early days of insurance, [companies] looked at height as an indication of survival,» said David Batty, an epidemiology and public health researcher at the University College London, who was not involved in the study.

There's also a South Korean study from a few years ago involving more than 25,000 people, which found that drinking moderate amounts of coffee each day was associated with having fewer of the early warning signs of heart disease.

While we can't use sterile mice to make any definitive conclusions about humans, the twins study, published in the journal Science last year, provided clear evidence that the microbiome is involved in weight gain — something earlier research had only suggested.

How It Worked: The Story of Clarence H. Snyder and the Early Days of Alcoholics Anonymous in Cleveland, Ohio (NY: AA Big Book Study Group, 1997), pp. 58, 68 - 71; and, from several sources, the evidence about «surrender» strongly indicates it involved the following:

At the beginning of these lectures I said that a study of the meaning of Jesus in the early church would involve a study of both life and dogma, of both Christ and Christology, and that there could be no doubt that life is more important than dogma, Christ than Christology.

At the same time study of that same congregation also involves comparing it with congregations in earlier periods whose enactments of the universally practiced worship of God are markedly different

The fact that both chronological and geographical considerations are involved at almost every point in the study of the early ministry poses a problem as to method.

«Muscle enhancement was particularly high among boys and those involved in sports teams,» said lead author Marla E. Eisenberg, ScD, MPH,, an assistant professor in pediatrics in the division of Adolescent Health and Medicine at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine, findings consistent with earlier studies.

Studies from the early 1980's demonstrated that children in situations where their parents had been involved in multiple divorces earned lower grades than their peers and their peers rated them as less pleasant to be around.

The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study found that children of responsible and involved fathers learned life skills faster and better than children without an involved father in their lives.

Commenting at the time on the 2010 Purdue study for Sports Illustrated [20][15], Randall Benson, a neurologist at Wayne State University in Detroit, speculated that the Purdue researchers may have taken what amounted to a «real - time snapshot» of the early stages of the corrosive creep that wears away at the frontal lobe, a part of the brain involved in navigating social situations.

Moreover, while the basis of Attachment Theory is rooted in studies involving infants and toddlers, research in adult relationships is increasingly showing that attachment quality is an important feature of development and the effects persist over the lifetime, beyond these early years.

A number of studies suggest that, when parents think a child looks more like dad, dad is more involved in its care and upbringing, at least in the early months.

In another study, fathers with children enrolled in Early Head Start employed significantly more complex social play interactions with their 24 - month - olds than did fathers with children in a control group.17 These studies suggest possible benefits to fathers who become involved in Head Start, but more studies are needed to replicate these findings and to demonstrate how fathers and children are affected by participation.

If the new dates for the Spanish cave art are confirmed, they could indicate that Neandertals and H. sapiens exchanged artistic traditions earlier than previously thought, says paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London, who was not involved in the studies.

In a study involving researchers from the Queensland Brain Institute, scientists have shed light on the role that small molecules called microRNAs play in early brain development.

The findings are from the largest study of hominin body sizes, involving 311 specimens dating from earliest upright species of 4.4 m years ago right through to the modern humans that followed the last ice age.

The panels will also be looking for a commitment to the training and study involved in the Grade A and early Grade B posts.

David Anthony, an anthropologist at Hartwick College, who co-authored several of the earlier genetic studies but was not involved in the latest work, calls the new findings very convincing.

An accurate diagnosis can be difficult early in the disease, says immunologist Paul Arnaboldi of New York Medical College in Valhalla, who was not involved in the study.

Neurologists had presented case studies of «acalculic» patients such as CG from the early twentieth century onwards, if not before, but «people hadn't thought a lot about the specific brain areas involved in calculation», says Butterworth.

The neuroprotective effects of nicotine were studied in a randomized clinical trial involving 67 subjects in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, where memory was slightly impaired but decision - making and other cognitive abilities remained intact.

Oral immunotherapy for peanut allergy induces early, distinct changes in immune T - cell populations that potentially may help researchers determine which people will respond well to the therapy and which immune mechanisms are involved in the response, a new study suggests.

«Dust is ubiquitous in nearby and more distant galaxies, but has, until recently, been very difficult to detect in the very early universe,» says University of Edinburgh astrophysicist Michal Michalowski, who was not involved in the study.

He also did a separate study involving elderly people who had a near - death experience in early childhood.

Harington, who was not involved in the study, spent his career studying the ice age fossils of Canada's North and first described the stilt - legged horses in the early 1970s.

Dr. Paul Barrett, dinosaur researcher at the Natural History Museum, London, who was not involved with the study, commented, «Daohugou is proving to be one of the key sites for understanding the evolution of feathered dinosaurs, early mammals, and flying reptiles, due largely to the fantastic levels of preservation.

Leaks and explosions involving natural gas transmission and distribution pipelines in the U.S. cause an average of 17 fatalities, 68 injuries and $ 133 million in property damage annually, according to a study released earlier this year.

Earlier commercially available tests such as SpermCheck and Trak could measure sperm count and sperm concentration, but these were either expensive or offered less detailed results, says Kristian Almstrup, senior scientist at Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen who was not involved with the study.

While there have been advances in early detection and many studies involving the treatment of children with ASD, few efforts to date have focused on interventions for adults.

Lead researcher, Professor Bill Richardson, Director of the UCL Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, said: «From earlier studies of human white matter using advanced MRI technology, we thought OLs and myelin might be involved in some way in skill learning, so we decided to attack this idea experimentally.

One caveat of the study is that the researchers did not control for the early life history of the adult macaques, even though many studies have shown that early life adversity can have lifelong effects on health, says Michael Kobor, an epigeneticist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, who was not involved with the work.

Preclinical studies suggest that Cdk5 is a gene that is important for the normal wiring of the brain during early development and may be involved in some neurodegenerative disorders, including ALS, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease.

«What happens in early development really has a long - term impact,» says Meghan Azad, an epidemiologist at the University of Manitoba in Canada, who was not involved in the study.

The current study, involving 1153 alert adult patients with acute sudden onset headache admitted to 6 university - affiliated hospitals in Canada over 4 years from January 2010 to 2014, validates earlier published research that initially proposed the Ottawa Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Rule.

The study involved 10 men in their early 60s with prostate cancer, who were asked to follow a strict healthy - living regime rather than take a course of drugs.

Early transient hypoglycemia is defined as occurring within the first three hours of life and it involves a single low glucose concentration followed by a second value above a cutoff, according to the study background.

The study, involving 174 couples, is the first long - term investigation to compare different types of early marriage intervention programs.

«It's exciting to find Homo sapiens outside of Africa this early,» says paleoanthropologist Shara Bailey of New York University, an expert on early human teeth, who was not involved in the new Misliya cave study.

The new study is an important step in solving several such mysteries about early Earth, says Brigitte Meyer - Berthaud, a paleobotanist at the University of Montpellier in France who was not involved in the research.

«The next step is to figure out if this is telling us something about what those [altered] connections mean in terms of early brain development,» says Emily Jones, lecturer in the Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development at Birkbeck, University of London, who was not involved in the study.

«We observed that a large number of genes were involved in pathways related to wound healing, immunity, and metabolism, and this is consistent with the idea that the earliest stages of domestication may involve adapting to highly crowded conditions,» said Mark Christie, lead author of the study.