Sentences with phrase «hormonal signals»

It is also involved in hormonal signaling for a fetus to grow and mature.

In fact, they are not toxins in the strict sense of the word because they behave like ordinary hormonal signals.

The body uses complex hormonal signals to keep the level of salt in the body steady.

When an estrogen molecule occupies a testosterone receptor site on a cell membrane, it blocks the ability of testosterone to induce a healthy hormonal signal.

Hormonal signals of hunger are increased, compelling us to eat.

Title: Proteomic analysis of the maternal protein restriction rat model for schizophrenia: Identification of translational changes in hormonal signaling pathways and glutamate neurotransmission Author: P. C. Guest et al..

Additionally, aging of the organism as a whole is modulated by hormonal signals produced by neurons and other tissues.

Hormonal signals released by neurons affect our moods, emotions, and appetites.

They cautioned that psychology often dictates people's eating habits, and could override hormonal signals produced in the gut or elsewhere.

Hormonal signaling ensures this organ - to - organ communication, and defects in this endocrine regulation in humans often cause diseases including obesity and diabetes.

The nerve cells involved in this integration process and control of hormonal signals reside in an area of the insect brain known as the mid-Ventral Ganglion (mVG), which in turn communicates with a region of the central brain that is akin to the mammalian hypothalamus.

The study also revealed other points of potential failure for the clones, including problems with hormonal signaling between the developing cloned embryo and the pregnant cow.

During pregnancy, hormonal signals cause epithelial cells lining the ducts to proliferate and form ball - like structures called alveoli, which is where milk is made when the baby is born.

A new study of this species, Amphiprion ocellaris, reveals some of the potent hormonal signals that regulate this gallant paternal instinct.

When faced with these daily stressors the PUFAs would be a detriment to all aspects of defending the brain / body from said stressors as they disrupt many vital hormonal signalling pathways, damage lipoproteins, make us more sensitive to sunlight, accelerate glycation, and less resistant to social stress.

In many cases of PCOS there are multiple faulty follicles that don't respond properly to normal hormonal signals and don't release an egg.

With them, you'll burn more calories (if that's a goal) and you'll give your whole system a more impactful hormonal signal to adapt to a big stressor such as a compound exercise.

Eat slower to let hormonal signals get through, letting you know when you're full and avoid over-stressing insulin.

Feline Pheromones have been shown to reduce stress and anxiety in cats by providing calming hormonal signals.

According to Today's Parent, these issues, which often make it difficult to conceive in the first place, may affect your milk supply, since breast milk production relies on hormonal signals to your breasts and brain.

Hormonal signaling ensures this organ - to - organ communication, and the failure of endocrine regulation in humans can cause diseases including obesity and diabetes.

Some of that traffic is intiated by hormonal signals, which in turn can be the work of the billions of bacteria that share our innards.

Male and female cells might respond slightly differently to hormonal signals, which may partially explain differences in male and female behavior and susceptibility to some diseases, Clinton says.

The circuit Hasan's group has discovered consists of three types of nerve cells — one set senses and reports the lack of protein in food, a second set integrates this input with metabolic information and the third set controls the hormonal signals necessary to begin pupation.

How the placenta allocates nutrients in these situations, however, and the hormonal signals that the placenta may be releasing while doing so, is not fully understood.

Researchers from UT Southwestern's Charles and Jane Pak Center for Mineral Metabolism and Clinical Research and Internal Medicine's Division of Nephrology recently published work in Nature that reveals the molecular structure of the so - called «anti-aging» protein alpha Klotho (a-Klotho) and how it transmits a hormonal signal that controls a variety of biologic processes.

Another way of reducing androgen levels is to use drugs that disrupt the hormonal signal from the pituitary gland that stimulates the testes to make androgens.

For Virginia Postrel, writing in The Atlantic back in 2007, it was dramas like CSI and Numb3rs that were making braininess sexy and imparting a «geeky glamour» to the airwaves — and that was before the rise - to - total - dominance of House, a prime - time juggernaut whose climax each week involves a man having a scientific epiphany illustrated by an animated sequence of a corpuscle misinterpreting a hormonal signal from a gland.

«These neurons essentially take sensory and hormonal signals and translate them into motivated social behavior,» said Stuber, who is also a member of the UNC Neuroscience Center.

For his thesis, he studied the hormonal signals that the heart sends to the lungs to regulate the volume of blood in circulation.

However, similarly to the hormonal signals, the downstream effects of these receptors also take a little while to reach the brain and be (consciously) noticeable.

«These neurons essentially take sensory and hormonal signals and translate them into motivated social behavior,» Stuber explained.

Despite the importance of hormonal signaling in aging and other biological processes, surprisingly little is known about how dense - core vesicles are formed and how hormones are packaged into these vesicles.

Finally, we will identify neurons that release hormonal signals that modulate aging, as a step towards identifying the hormones themselves.

Furthermore, few of the hormonal signals that modulate aging have been molecularly identified.

The pill tricks sex hormones into thinking you're already pregnant by stalling ovulation and replicating the hormonal signals of pregnancy.

That calcium - binding protein will then pick up a free calcium ion, transport it through the intestinal mucosa and release it into the blood.1 Manganese and magnesium have similar carriers and their absorption, retention and excretion is likewise governed by complex feedback mechanisms involving other nutrients and hormonal signals.

A drop in progesterone levels is one of the hormonal signals that begins labor.

In a normal menstrual cycle, every 26 to 28 days the ovaries, which hold a woman's eggs, receive a hormonal signal from the brain that it's time to get some eggs ready to be fertilized.

They will work together to either increase or decrease obesity based on the hormonal signals.

The HPA axis relies on a series of hormonal signals to keep the sympathetic nervous system — the «gas pedal» — pressed down.

If we look too closely at the genetic level, we miss the tissue organization level problems — the growth signals, the nutrient sensors, the hormonal signalling.

You will learn how to notice and interpret the hormonal signals your body is sending.

Crucial to calcium balance and bone metabolism, Vitamin K2 also influences the hormonal signals of bone growth.

Experimental gerontology has found multiple benefits from protein restriction, many mediated by the FGF - 21, a hormonal signal of protein restriction.