Sentences with phrase «for human physiology»

Graduate Teaching Assistant for Human Physiology and Stress Test Administration / Interpretation courses
The project was conducted during afternoon science time every other day, and focused mainly on science content standards for human physiology.
Sue, who works at Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada, first looked at studies with mice, which he suggests are «good models for human physiology

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My degree in university was in anatomy and physiology, and human physiology hasn't changed for eons.
He obtained such concepts by generalizing «particular factors discerned in particular topics of human interest; for example, in physics, or in physiology, or in psychology» (5).
Indeed, in February, SI posed three basic questions about the nature of 7 - footers (population size, factors responsible for height, and health risks) to the membership of the Human Anatomy and Physiology Society.
Breastfeeding and pacifiers: for breastfeeding families, the decisions how, when or if to use a pacifier can be a bit muddled by cultural mores that are often at odds with the nursing habits of human infants and the physiology of establishing and maintaining a milk supply.
Indeed, the human infant's physiology is not designed to function optimally outside the context by which usually the breastfeeding mother can compensate for the infants developmental (neurological) vulnerabilities.
Our conference for 2018 is packed full of fascinating topics such as the antibacterial properties of human milk carbohydrates, breastmilk as a communication and gene expression tool, management of chronic breast pain, the physiology of the milk ejection reflex, collaboration in high conflict settings, and so much more!
It is important to recognize true medical indications of supplementary feedings as well as the preferred choice and volumes of supplement, which are appropriately outlined in this protocol, re-emphasizing that, while there is a time and place for formula use, a mother's own expressed milk or donated human milk in volumes that mimic normal breastfeeding physiology are preferable to breast milk substitutes.
In 1859, Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory reinforced the conception that animals could serve as models for humans in the study of biology and physiology.
Interactions between these two genomes, which affect everything from health and physiology to fitness, have important consequences for human health and medical interventions such as mitochondrial replacement therapy in embryos.
The advance, reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) journal, for the first time allows scientists to analyze how normal gut microbes and pathogenic bacteria contribute to immune responses, and to investigate IBD mechanisms in a controlled model that recapitulates human intestinal physiology.
«It has profound implications for our understanding of human development and physiology, and gives us a remarkable wealth of resources to examine how disturbances of this system might result in diseases such as cancer.»
With global increase in obesity and diet - related metabolic diseases, interest has intensified in ancestral or «Palaeolithic» diets, not least because — to a first order of approximation — human physiology should be optimized for the nutritional profiles we have experienced during our evolution.
Hence, according to Fitzgerald speaking from his own experience in class rooms, Hawkeye can instigate discussion on the physiology of the human eye, while also allowing for comparison with other species, such as birds of prey, and reflection on advancements related to genetic engineering and wearable technologies.
Berlyne, author of an interesting but very mechanistic theory of experimental aesthetics, finds himself the keynote speaker in a chapter which, after some elementary physiology of the human eye, is almost entirely metaphysical, discussing at length the absolute truths expressed in mathematics and, by analogy, in music, and posing the question as to whether God did or did not put them there for mathematicians and musicians to find.
Center for Human Genetics Research, Molecular Physiology and Biophyscis, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240, USA.
In a study published last fall, researchers showed that male prairie voles that had been separated from their female partners for four days — a much shorter amount of separation time than researchers had previously found to affect the voles» physiology — exhibited depressionlike behavior and had increased levels of corticosterone, the rodent equivalent of the human stress hormone cortisol.
Even ordinary studies of human physiology, for example, suggest that humans are so adapted for intense physical activity that a sedentary lifestyle spawns modern - day scourges like diabetes and heart disease.
So many of the basic processes that govern development and physiology in fish, for example, are the same processes that occur in human beings.
His laboratory develops and deploys new biochemical and computational methods in functional genomics, to elucidate the genetic basis of human disease and human physiology, and to create and deploy novel techniques in next - generation sequencing and algorithms for tumor evolution, genome evolution, DNA and RNA modifications, and genome / epigenome engineering.
The team led by Dr Rubén López — of the UAB's Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology and Institute of Neuroscience, and the Centre for Networked Biomedical Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED)-- used a genetically modified mouse that produces the human form of IL - 37 to study the function of this protein.
It is being instituted as a routine service for research means that all researchers now have the capability to more closely relate research model findings to human health and physiology,» said Jose Barrera, director of the Shimadzu Institute and a co-author on the new paper published by the journal Analytica Chimica Acta.
«Considered in total, this study provides important early archaeological evidence for meat eating, hunting and scavenging behaviors - cornerstone adaptations that likely facilitated brain expansion in human evolution, movement of hominins out of Africa and into Eurasia, as well as important shifts in our social behavior, anatomy and physiology,» Ferraro said.
«The addition of osteocalcin as a metabolic regulator may one day lead to novel therapies, but we need to understand much better how it works and how it fits into physiology before such therapies can be attempted in humans,» says endocrinologist Mitch Lazar, director of the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism at the University of Pennsylvania.
The discovery was a surprise finding for investigators Lori Altmann, an associate professor of speech, language and hearing sciences at the College of Public Health and Health Professions, and Chris Hass, an associate professor of applied physiology and kinesiology in the College of Health and Human Performance.
In a recent study, the research group of Prof. Michael Hall from the Biozentrum of the University of Basel has shed light on the role of hepatic mTORC1 in whole body physiology and the relevance for human liver cancers.
For example, for decades, circadian rhythms in the mammalian gastrointestinal system were studied in the context of human physiology and gene expressiFor example, for decades, circadian rhythms in the mammalian gastrointestinal system were studied in the context of human physiology and gene expressifor decades, circadian rhythms in the mammalian gastrointestinal system were studied in the context of human physiology and gene expression.
Unfortunately, this is not widely appreciated and mammalian models such as mice are generally thought to be the best systems for informing our understanding human physiology and pathophysiology.
Prusiner won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997 for discovering that the neurodegenerative diseases known as spongiform encephalopathies, which include «mad cow disease,» are caused by an infectious form of a protein that exists in all mammals and birds examined, including humans.
1994 — 2000 Diploma degree in Human Biology, Philipps - University Marburg, Institute for Normal and Pathological Physiology, Marburg, Germany
A little less than three decades later, Ohsumi has been awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for what his seemingly arcane research ultimately showed about human health, disease, and aging.
This groundbreaking work influenced many scientists investigating bone marrow transplant for humans, including the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
To ensure device safety for human use, the researchers tested their device in pigs which are a typical analog for humans due to their similar physiology.
Shinya Yamanaka MD, PhD, a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institutes has won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of how to transform ordinary adult skin cells into cells that, like embryonic stem cells, are capable of developing into any cell in the human body.
For this reason, the in vivo studies on the human metabolism must be flanked by in vitro and ex-vivo analyses on organ physiology and cellular mechanisms.
Bonnie Regini is responsible for sponsored research agreements for Child Health and Human Development (CHHD), the Department of Medicine (including Cardiology, Dermatology, Emergency, Endo, Gastro, Laboratory, Internal, Pulmonary, Renal, Rheumatology), Microbiology, Neurosciences, Ophthalmology, Pediatrics, Physiology, Psychiatry, Radiology, Radiation, Pharmacology and the School of Nursing and Health Sciences (SNHS).
Christopher Mason, Ph.D., Institute for Computational Biomedicine Weill Cornell Medical College Department of Physiology and Biophysics «Rapid and accurate cross-kingdom human pathogen identification and detection using Hyb & SeqTM technology»
adapt computer hardware or software for medical science or health care applications (for example, develop expert systems that assist in diagnosing diseases, medical imaging systems, models of different aspects of human physiology or medical data management)
My training includes a five - year undergraduate degree in animal physiology from one of Germany's leading universities for biology (University of Tübingen, Germany), training in the conduct of human psychophysical experiments and in cognitive neuroscience from one of the world's major centres for cognitive neuroscience (Masters on human face recognition at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics under Profs. Nico Troje, Heinrich Bülthoff and Dezsö Varjú) and training in coral reef biology and ecology from the University of Queensland (PhD on visual ecology of reef fish) under Prof. Justin Marshall and Prof. Jack Pettigrew).
THE MOUSE MODEL FOR CYSTIC FIBROSIS, as with models for many diseases, owes its existence to a technique called gene targeting, which was developed in the 1980s by Mario Capecchi, a professor of human genetics and biology at the University of Utah who won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his woFOR CYSTIC FIBROSIS, as with models for many diseases, owes its existence to a technique called gene targeting, which was developed in the 1980s by Mario Capecchi, a professor of human genetics and biology at the University of Utah who won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his wofor many diseases, owes its existence to a technique called gene targeting, which was developed in the 1980s by Mario Capecchi, a professor of human genetics and biology at the University of Utah who won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his wofor his work.
«We hope our human model of ALS will help us to move quickly and effectively to identify promising therapeutic candidates for ALS,» said Gladstone Senior Investigator Steve Finkbeiner, MD, PhD, who is also a professor of neurology and physiology at the University of California, San Francisco, with which Gladstone is affiliated.
To add to the confusion about how to evaluate a diet, I think that human physiology is able to compensate and maintain some kind of balance for an amazingly long time before the ill effects of a particular diet may manifest.
However, herbs are natural so it makes more sense to consider them for your health and wellness due to their affinity with the human physiology.
As our knowledge of the human microbiome increases, including its connection to mental health (for example, anxiety and depression), it is becoming increasingly clear that there are untold connections between our resident microbes and many aspects of physiology.
In fact, the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was recently awarded for discoveries which explain how plants, animals and humans adapt their biological rhythms so that they are synchronized with the Earth's revolutions.
Even if none of us should take it and run with it for ourselves, reading about other people's experiences (especially ones like yours, because you measure and document everything so meticulously) helps me learn * so much * about human physiology and gives me an ever - expanding appreciation for how different one person can be from the next.
I think you do have a great understanding of human physiology and are representing the physical biochemistry and resulting temporary weight loss correctly however I want to impart to you my reasons for taking part in the juice fast phenomena which needless to say is not to loose weight but to become overall healthier.
While the concept of «carb loading,» or the use of sports drinks and gels in endurance events are increasingly popular, human physiology is perfectly set up to use fat as a fuel for endurance exercise.
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