Sentences with phrase «how cellular mechanisms»

The sea slug was the model organism for Kreiner's thesis research, which explored how cellular mechanisms mediate simple behaviors and led to a publication in Science.

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The meta - analysis describes how obesity has shifted certain cancers to younger age groups, and intensified cellular mechanisms promoting the diseases.

This LTP mechanism is how the brain operates at the cellular level to allow us to learn and remember.

The report, which drew heavily on two Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) workshops held in 1995, also recommends more research on such topics as DNA biomarkers that can gauge an organism's exposure to endocrine disruptors; models for predicting how endocrine disruptors are metabolized; mechanisms of how endocrine disruptors act at a cellular level; and the effects of mixtures.

However, the researchers found that a well - known cellular mechanism — one that controls how proteins acquire new functions — also plays a major role.

While previous research indicated that the cellular mechanism behind the cell death involved the mitochondria and lysosomes, how these two pathways converge in dopamine neurons to cause cell death remained unknown up until now.

They found a mechanism explaining how, in the case of pathological cardiac hypertrophy, cardiomyocytes lose their adult cellular state and regress back towards their fetal form, switching on genes that were originally expressed as the heart develops in the embryo and usually permanently switched off after birth.

He and his colleagues at the University of Wisconsin — Madison have begun to explore how fruit flies could help uncover the cellular mechanisms behind traumatic brain injury (TBI) in humans.

We also investigate the homeostatic mechanisms of ceramide biogenesis in a microcompartment of the ER and how these mechanisms are integrated in cellular life - death decisions.

The critical molecular and cellular mechanisms that the T cells use to sense their environment and how this sensing is relayed into a particular functional response are still unclear.

At Weizmann, Dr. Spiegel will be establishing his own independent research group which will attempt to identify the molecular and cellular mechanisms through which experience alters the structure and function of neural circuits in the brain in behaviorally relevant ways and to understand how these processes, when they go awry, might give rise to psychiatric disorders.

This includes cellular mechanisms such as photosynthesis and transpiration, and how plant processes are affected by environmental factors or natural variations.

The question of how cellular behavior is controlled is at the center of stem cell biology, and understanding the mechanisms of cell fate regulation is key for treating diseases that occur upon dysregulation, such as cancer or diabetes.

She has pioneered the intergration of large - scale genome and transcriptome sequencing data to understand how genetic variation affects gene expression, providing insight to cellular mechanisms underlying genetic risk for disease.

Scott Henderson, who has been directing microscopy core facilities for nearly 25 years, loves to talk about how such facilities help scientists explore essential cellular functions and gain a better understanding of the mechanisms associated with disease.

In particular, they are focused on studying the functional role and molecular mechanisms of cellular senescence in both of these events, and how a deregulation of normal epithelial stem cell proliferation is involved.

The Sarma laboratory is interested in the mechanisms of epigenetic gene regulation, or how the dynamic modifications of the architecture of chromatin, the complex of DNA and proteins within the nucleus of our cells, impacts gene expression and cellular function.

By this way, they unravelled the mechanisms of cellular fate during developmental growth of dermal skin, and especially investigated how fibroblast of the upper and lower dermal lineages contribute to the wound healing in adult skin.

Our group focuses on this question and uses the cnidarian Nematostella vectensis as a model organism to study how such morphological plasticity mechanisms are encoded at the molecular and cellular level.

To understand the mechanism (s) underlying the MELK function in BBC cells, we examined how inducible shRNA - mediated MELK depletion affects various cellular processes.

A just - published new study pulls back the curtain to show how quercetin operates at a cellular level to foil cancer - promoting mechanisms in the body.

Molecular medicine and molecular biochemistry provide the what and how these changes, especially deleterious ones may be treated, cured, suppressed, or understood in context with other gene regulatory mechanisms and transcription and translation coupled systems within the actual cellular environment.