Sentences with phrase «from calcifying»

After bandits surgery the dr recommended this to keep him healthy and help prevent his urine from calcifying.

One found that a chemical compound caused valve fibroblasts to become active, similar to what is observed during valve disease, but the other study indicated that the same compound prevented the cells from calcifying, indicating that a key piece of the valve disease puzzle was missing.

In some people, pieces from the calcified artery can break away — if the artery supplies the brain or heart with blood, this can lead to stroke or heart attack.

DNA recovered from calcified plaque on teeth from four Neandertal individuals suggest that those from the grasslands around Beligum's Spy cave ate woolly rhinoceros and wild sheep, while their counterparts from the forested El Sidrón cave in Spain consumed a menu of moss, mushrooms and pine nuts.

The evolution of vision in vertebrates is an important theme in the history of animal life, however, aside from the calcified lenses of fossilised arthropods, other parts of the visual system are not usually preserved in the fossil record because the soft tissue of the eye and brain decays rapidly days after death.

Not exact matches

The bulk of those players came in baseball's early days before defensive roles had calcified and lefties were kept from non-first-base infield positions.

Calcific aortic valve disease (CAVD)-- a disease that leaves the aortic valve stiff and calcified, preventing blood flow from the heart into the aorta — affects one quarter of the U.S. population aged 65 and over.

Most studies have concluded that sea animals with calcified shells or skeletons, such as starfish, will suffer as carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels dissolves in the sea, making the water more acidic and destroying the calcium carbonate on which the creatures depend.

In an unprecedented evolution experiment scientists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and the Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries have demonstrated for the first time, that the single most important calcifying algae of the world's oceans, Emiliania huxleyi, can adapt simultaneously to ocean acidification and rising water temperatures.

Using advanced sequencing technologies, University of Oklahoma anthropologists demonstrate that human DNA can be significantly enriched from dental calculus (calcified dental plaque) enabling the reconstruction of whole mitochondrial genomes for maternal ancestry analysis — an alternative to skeletal remains in ancient DNA investigations of human ancestry.

Human DNA can be significantly enriched from dental calculus (calcified dental plaque) enabling the reconstruction of whole mitochondrial genomes for maternal ancestry analysis — an alternative to skeletal remains in ancient DNA investigations of human ancestry.

Although nanobacteria may not cause kidney stone disease, Coe notes additional circumstantial evidence: At least four teams have reported tiny spherical deposits in the calcified plaques that often appear in the kidneys of patients who suffer from kidney stones.

More than 100 marine benthic calcifying taxa, from the coastal zone to the deep sea, from tropical, temperate and polar regions, were included in this comprehensive study.

«These calcifying algae evidence two rapid decreases in the salt content, at approximately 8,400 and again 7,600 years ago, which can only be explained by the fact that a higher volume of low - saline surface water flowed from the Black Sea into the northern Aegean at these times.

In an unprecedented evolutionary experiment, scientists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and the Thünen Institute of Fisheries Ecology demonstrated that the most important single - celled calcifying alga of world's oceans, Emiliania huxleyi, is only able to adapt to ocean acidification to a certain extent.

«Calcium scoring measures how much calcified plaque a person has, but it doesn't measure the component that's not calcified, and that's the component that tends to be dangerous,» said João A. C. Lima, M.D., from the cardiology division at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md..

The study is based on a single cell of the calcifying alga from Raunefjord in Norway.

Eight weeks after the Northwestern researchers implanted the hyperelastic bone, they found that new blood vessels had grown into their scaffold — a necessary step to keep bone - forming tissue alive — and calcified bone started to form from the rats» existing stem cells.

Adults with moderate scores of 100 - 399 were 80 % more likely to die from heart disease than those with a score of zero, and those with scores of 400 or more were three times more likely to die from heart disease, when compared to adults with no calcified plaque buildup, or a score of zero.

NORMAN — Using advanced sequencing technologies, University of Oklahoma anthropologists demonstrate that human DNA can be significantly enriched from dental calculus (calcified dental plaque) enabling the reconstruction of whole mitochondrial genomes for maternal ancestry analysis — an alternative to skeletal remains in ancient DNA investigations of human ancestry.

In a field experiment, some tiny phytoplankton species benefitted from extra carbon dioxide in the water, while many calcifying organisms appeared to suffer.

One of the striking findings from laboratory experiments was that calcifying algae, which first suffer particularly in terms of growth and carbonate production from ocean acidification, can partly restore their functioning via evolution.

Since you state that a decrease in net calcification could result from a decrease in gross calcification, an increase in dissolution rates, or both, you distinguish between these responses and get to the conclusion that the impact of ocean acidification on a creature's net calcification may be largely controlled by the status of its protective organic cover and that the net slowdown in skeletal growth under increased CO2 occurs not because these organisms are unable to calcify, but rather because their unprotected skeleton is dissolving faster.

The teething is hell, and there is nothing more comforting to her than to feed when she wakes up screaming from vicious hunks of calcified tissue and enamel sawing through her gums.

For babies, MGP protects their nasal septal cartilage from prematurely calcifying in the womb.

Principals are almost entirely drawn from the ranks of former teachers, and almost all receive their leadership training in schools of education where inclinations toward a consensus - driven worldview can calcify into dogma.

«The message is always the same: The essential concept behind the charter school movement is that, freed from the three Rs — restraints, rules and regulations — these schools could innovate and get the kinds of results that calcified, logy public schools could only dream about.

The entire Baja 1000 is held on a rat's nest of roads that range from heavily trafficked dust farm roads to mountainous ridges that were nearly calcified over thanks to fallen rock and gravel.

Before these changes calcify, driving enthusiasts get to experience this sweet spot where well - refined trucks benefit from the driving dynamics and fuel economy standards set by the crossover while retaining everything we've learned to love about trucks.

If cartilage does not calcify properly, it thickens and prevents synovial fluid from reaching cartilage cells beneath it.

That way, you can «start from scratch» as trying to brush teeth that are already diseased and covered in calcified plaque won't do your pet much good.

You said you didn't know, and I imagined calcified bones of leviathans, who, tired from their years of ghosting about the high seas, finally lay supine and became a part of the landscape.

Expect to find a 25 - foot wide trench cradling thousands of calcified «artifacts» excavated from 20th century media devices.

In doing so, he excavates a historical perspective that is psychologically and personally nuanced, asking history to retell its story, piece by piece, isolated from the often calcified narrative of our collective experience.

We analysed responses of the calcifying larvae of sea urchins, an ecologically important group, to ocean change stressors in a synthesis of data from species from tropical to polar environments and from intertidal to subtidal habitats.

Seaweeds create a chemical microenvironment at their surface, providing refuge for calcifying organisms that are at risk from decreasing oceanic pH.

''... worked with two sediment cores they extracted from the seabed of the eastern Norwegian Sea, developing a 1000 - year proxy temperature record «based on measurements of δ18O in Neogloboquadrina pachyderma, a planktonic foraminifer that calcifies at relatively shallow depths within the Atlantic waters of the eastern Norwegian Sea during late summer,» which they compared with the temporal histories of various proxies of concomitant solar activity... This work revealed, as the seven scientists describe it, that «the lowest isotope values (highest temperatures) of the last millennium are seen ~ 1100 - 1300 A.D., during the Medieval Climate Anomaly, and again after ~ 1950 A.D.» In between these two warm intervals, of course, were the colder temperatures of the Little Ice Age, when oscillatory thermal minima occurred at the times of the Dalton, Maunder, Sporer and Wolf solar minima, such that the δ18O proxy record of near - surface water temperature was found to be «robustly and near - synchronously correlated with various proxies of solar variability spanning the last millennium,» with decade - to century - scale temperature variability of 1 to 2 °C magnitude.»

All calcifying organisms have a protective organic layer that minimizes sensitivity to any changes in seawater pH and all isolate their calcifying chambers from ambient water conditions.

The above quote from it references a 2007 study, «Climate - related increases in jellyfish frequency suggest a more gelatinous future for the North Sea,» that points out acidification will «severely affect calcifying plankton and other skeleton - forming organisms, so would potentially favor noncalcifying organisms such as jellyfish.»