Sentences with phrase «how chemical signals»

C. elegans is a lab - friendly model species for research on how chemical signals affect development and behavior.

Not exact matches

How does matter (molecular structures and electro - chemical signals) create with purpose?

The new study, published online this month in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, is the first to examine how biochar affects the chemical signaling that's routinely used by soil microorganisms that interact with plants.

In the first study of its kind, Rice University scientists have used synthetic biology to study how a popular soil amendment called «biochar» can interfere with the chemical signals that some microbes use to communicate.

Jennifer Barone wrote about how plants detect and respond to changes in the world around them and even communicate with their neighbors through chemical signals.

Among the issues to be resolved there would be, for example, how to identify the environmental factors that control the production of aggressive morphs; what costs and benefits interaction involves for each participant; the taxonomic status of the deceit and the variability level in the chemical signal used for misleading ants; or what happens with related aphid species which also relate with ants.

Ian Baldwin will discuss his studies of how plants use chemical signals to fend off hungry insects or attract helpful pollinators

Though the brain is better understood than it was a generation ago, Vorstman says, how its intricate dance of chemical and electrical signals gives rise to mind and personality remains mysterious.

To see how angelfish behavior changed when those chemical signals were diluted by routine water changes, researchers replaced up to half of the water in tanks holding three angelfish.

Future research will explore how the two different peptide signals are translated by FEA2 into distinct chemical messages.

«How good bacteria control your genes: Chemical signals from gut bacteria influence gene regulation in the gut lining.»

Marta Zaraska revealed how plants communicate by emitting chemical signals (17 February, p 32).

He wants to know how the interplay of structural, chemical, and electrical signals in and between cells of nervous tissue gives rise to behavior.

Seiden, 72, was one of the world's experts on how drugs, especially the amphetamines, could selectively damage certain neurons, particularly those that produced the neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin — chemical signals that relay messages within the brain.

chemical ecology The study of how plants and animals use chemicals and chemical signals in their interactions with each other and their environment.

And how are these mechanical processes linked to the chemical signals that orchestrate tissue development?

During this time, he set out to elucidate the molecular basis of signalling in the nervous system, focusing specifically on how chemicals known as neurotransmitters are released at junctions between neurons called synapses.

Which animal a lab uses will depend on how closely parts of its body or chemical - signaling systems match those in people.

Neurons transmit chemical signals in a fleeting «kiss - and - run» process, which in large part determines how quickly neurons can fire, according to new studies by Howard Hughes Medical Institute...

How exactly the drug works is not understood, although it's believed that it calms down hyperactive neurons and could affect the release of neurotransmitters, which are chemicals in the brain that transmit signals from one neuron to another.

If you want to change how and what you eat, you have to control the signals to your brain The science: Many weight - loss strategies are designed to control food instincts after they have been activated (such as eating your chips mindfully after they have already set off dopamine - addiction chemicals).

That said, there is more and more research coming out each day about how chemical reactions in the gut produce signaling chemicals that effect how our brains work, like seratonin.

Let me see if I can frame your argument accurately: basically you are saying that improper insulin (and leptin) signalling is the root of many diseases (and even aging itself) and that frequent surges in insulin, as caused through carbohydrate consumption will tend to reduce sensitivity, or reduce how effectively these chemicals are «heard» by the cells.

Therefore the purpose of this review is to investigate how cats process and use chemical signals in social contexts, and identify ways this information can be used to improve cat welfare, including additional species - appropriate ways of reinforcing the human - cat bond.

In Stress and Pheromonatherapy in Small Animal Clinical Behaviour, Daniel S. Mills, Maya Braem Dube, and Helen Zulch, write about the effect of stress on animals and how to use chemical signals to ease stress.

, Daniel S. Mills, Maya Braem Dube, and Helen Zulch, write about the effect of stress on animals and how to use chemical signals to ease stress.