Sentences with phrase «highly invasive»

It is a highly invasive plant, which thrives around water sources such as ponds, canals and lakes, in large open spaces and — sadly for us — domestic gardens.

However, because a drug test can be highly invasive, states often require more than just the bare allegation from a former spouse that a parent is using.

The company has been telling part of the truth, then another part of the truth, all while reassuring the public that this highly invasive practice exists for the sake of users who, even if they didn't know it was happening, would have been happy about it if they had.

«Often highly invasive and intimate, when cosmetic procedures go wrong, they can have a profound effect on the patient, both psychologically and physically.

We recall again the fact that two Auditors General for Ontario chastised the government for having implemented a green energy program including highly invasive wind power projects in quiet rural communities against their wishes, with no cost - benefit analysis.

The species populating the vent sites comprise a suite of organisms that are resilient to naturally high concentrations of pCO2 and indicate that ocean acidification may benefit highly invasive non-native algal species.

Quite aware that no ideal viewer exists, he endeavors with his highly invasive works to attack each viewer individually, to shake them up privately, inducing them to reconsider the terms and ideas which have uncritically established the foundations of life.

In an effort to maintain continuous coastal scrub habitat, another key project action was controlling the highly invasive pampas grass that had colonized the cliff faces.

Osteosarcoma is highly invasive, and by the time most dogs are diagnosed, the cancer already has metastasized, or spread, to other areas of the body.

Treatments vary from modified diet and exercise routines to surgical procedures such as hip replacements — which, as you can imagine, are highly invasive and require long recovery times.

Biopsy samples obtained through a colonoscopy are greatly preferred in the veterinary community over biopsies of the colon obtained through abdominal exploratory surgery (laparotomy), which is highly invasive and can expose the animal to a greatly increased risk of intraabdominal infection.

This is a highly invasive procedure, obviously, and infection must be avoided at all costs (no skin disease can be present in the skin over the hips, extra precautions for sterility are used).

They rarely used it until July 2016 when Hope was diagnosed with hemangiosarcoma, a rapidly growing, highly invasive form of cancer.

Melanomas on the toe or in the mouth are highly invasive, spread easily, and might be fatal.

This is a serious and life - threatening condition because these tumors are malignant, grow rapidly, and are highly invasive.

In the Midwest, they're a highly invasive species that's been wreaking havoc on local ecosystems.

Patients with tumors that are highly invasive may require blood transfusions during surgery and more care after surgery.

Fibrosarcoma is a highly invasive tumor that grows rapidly.

In the case of highly invasive tumours, surgery is often done alongside other treatments such as radiation and chemotherapy.

After her first highly invasive biopsy surgery, she was pronounced dead and revived with an emergency tracheotomy.

They're highly invasive and hugely destructive — threatening native bears and deer in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

That's the response from a friend and native seed producer when I mentioned the news that Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri), a highly invasive noxious weed has now appeared in several states across the Midwest.

In a sign that the eat - the - invaders movement continues to gain steam, the University of West Florida's College of Business is offering a course on marketing the highly invasive lionfish to consumers.

«It's highly invasive and has a lot of complications associated with it.»

Characterization of side populations in HNSCC: highly invasive, chemoresistant and abnormal Wnt signaling.

MCF - 7 Cells Expressing Nuclear - associated Lysyl Oxidase - like 2 (LOXL2) Exhibit an Epithelial - to - Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) Phenotype and are Highly Invasive In Vitro.

Unlike SCNT, gameteless reproduction uses easily obtainable adult tissue and does not require donated ova, which can be obtained only through a highly invasive procedure.

The alternative is a liver transplant, a complicated and highly invasive procedure.

That leaves human intervention as the most promising solution to the problem of this highly invasive species, said researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Quinn said most previous studies on potential biofuel plants, or feedstocks, focused on identifying highly invasive ones that should be avoided if possible.

While the USDA Plant Epidemiology and Risk Analysis Laboratory lists the giant reed as highly invasive, it was approved for cultivation under the renewable fuel standard (RFS), administered by U.S. EPA.

The land planarian Platydemus manokwari, or New Guinea flatworm, is a highly invasive species, already reported in many territories in the Pacific area, and as well as in France.

«Beta blockers may lead to new novel triple negative breast cancer treatments: New research suggests that adrenaline can act on tumor cells via a cell surface receptor called the beta2 - adrenoceptor and that changes in signaling within the cell make it highly invasive.»

Native to Japan, the highly invasive fly was first found on the West Coast in 2008 and has now been reported in more than 40 states.

It is a highly invasive form of cancer that is difficult to remove entirely by surgery.

To further test the relationship, the researchers depleted the protein in a line of triple - negative breast cancer known to be highly invasive and metastatic.

Using this biosensor in highly invasive breast cancer cells taken from rodents and humans, the Einstein team discovered that when an individual invadopodium forms and is actively degrading the ECM, its Rac1 levels are low; on the other hand, elevated Rac1 levels coincide with the invadopodium's disappearance.

Deep brain stimulation is used in Parkinson's disease to trigger brain cell activity and prevent the abnormal signalling that causes debilitating tremors, but placing the electrodes required is highly invasive.

Cancer Research UK scientists at The University of Manchester found that some melanoma cells are particularly fast growing, but not very good at invading the surrounding tissue, while other melanoma cells are the opposite — highly invasive but slow - growing.

The bacterial pathogens that cause Lyme disease and syphilis are highly invasive.

Cuomo says the voluntary approach could help communities who are loathe to take the more «highly invasive» step of asking the state to impose a financial control board.

Not exact matches

However, suturing requires either an open operation so surgeons have enough room to maneuver instruments, or highly specialized technical skills in minimally invasive procedures, and it takes time to place multiple layers of sutures during a procedure, said Claire Graves, MD, lead author and research fellow at the University of California San Francisco when the study was conducted.

Joe W. Ramos, PhD, deputy director of the UH Cancer Center and collaborators focused on investigating how these oncogenes and related signals lead to dysregulation of normal processes within the cell and activate highly mobile and invasive cancer cell behavior.

Controlling invasive mammal populations, or removing them entirely from islands, is a highly effective tool for conserving island species and ecosystems, and such actions have contributed greatly to the recovery of many threatened island species.

But other invasive, introduced plants — Oriental bittersweet, European privet, and Morrow's honeysuckle, and a native plant, red maple — were highly preferred by deer.

Still, some invasive plants that deer seemed to highly prefer are increasing in abundance in natural areas.

The nest of the highly territorial fire ant, an invasive species from Brazil and Argentina, ismade up of many identical tunnel - and - chamber arrays, which Tschinkel describes as shish kebabs, densely packed together.

Kiribati Sashimi Lionfish is a voracious, highly poisonous, invasive predator that has been compared with the locust in its destructiveness.

Whereas visible light can not penetrate biological tissues deeply and must be applied to highly specific groups of cells through invasive procedures, magnetic fields are noninvasive and easily penetrate entire organisms.

Kurt Pregitzer, the Thomas Reveley Professor and dean of the College of Natural Resources at the University of Idaho, said this work could be especially useful in combating invasive species, which, in a highly mobile world, increasingly threaten biodiversity.