Sentences with phrase «how disease states»

It can also help them better understand how disease states, such as obesity or inflammatory bowel disease are reflected in and affected by the microbiome.

Not exact matches

In richer societies the question becomes: How can one maintain a reasonably effective welfare state without succumbing to the «Swedish disease»?

You can prepare and enjoy disease fighting food knowing exactly how the ingredients are bringing your body into a state of health and wellness.

Accommodating Allergies and Celiac Disease on Campus Tuesday, April 24, 4 - 5 p.m. EST Learn how The Ohio State University involves dietitians, chefs, managers, and current students in helping students from day one to manage their unique dietary needs.

Confirming the second case in NSW, the state health department said it was not sure how many others may be affected given the berries were widely distributed and the potential for people to develop the disease in the coming weeks.

He says he's succeeded in showing his viewers the sorry state of school food and how worried children are about obesity - related diseases (at least in hard - hit communities like West Adams).

At 9 a.m., City & State hosts its Healthy New York Summit on how affordable care, disease, addiction and mental health impact New York's health care policies, National Geographic Encounter, 226 W. 44th St., Manhattan.

As we speak, lives of innocent Kogites are in danger as a result of the enpidemic, which doctors diagnosed as gastroenteritis and what is our governor doing to stop the spread of this deadly disease to other parts of the state; how many people are quarantined now to avoid the scourge?

House sparrows, about as widespread across the United States as artificial lighting itself, make a useful test species for a first - of - its - kind study of how night illumination might contribute to disease spread, said Meredith Kernbach,...

How aldicarb got into watermelons remains unknown, but experts suspected that some melon farmers used low levels of it intentionally and illegally and that some also might have flowed off nearby cotton fields.That summer, a total of 1,350 cases of aldicarb poisoning from watermelon were reported in California, plus another 692 cases in eight other states and Canada, according to a report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Of the nearly 1.7 million people diagnosed with cancer each year in the United States alone, about half have mutated versions of p53 — a sign of how important the normal protein is in preventing the disease.

«By learning how tau spreads, we may be able to stop it from jumping from neuron to neuron,» said Karen Duff, PhD, professor in the department of pathology and cell biology (in the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain) and professor of psychiatry (at New York State Psychiatric Institute.)

«Understanding how wounds can be healed is believed to be very important and a potential therapeutic avenue for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease,» said Dr. Tim Denning, associate professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State.

The researchers caution, however, that it's not yet clear how closely the toxin - induced neural damage in rats mimics the state of diseased neurons in Parkinson's, especially because the mechanism that leads to such damage in humans remains unknown.

The research team, led by Georgia State University and the University of Michigan, wanted to understand how a wound heals in the intestine because in IBD, which includes Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, damage to the intestinal epithelial barrier allows bacteria in the intestine to go across the barrier and stimulate the body's immune system.

Our understanding of how each gene, each cigarette, and the environment interact and how they contribute to disease is comparable to the state of computing in the 1980s.

Rachel Watkins (pictured above), an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at American University in Washington, D.C., is a biocultural anthropologist, which means she studies how people's physiological conditions — their health and disease states — reflect the social, cultural, economic, and political environment in which they lived.

Speakers include Penn State's Peter Hudson, who talks about disease transmission; Oxford's Oliver Pybus, on how genome analysis exonerated health care workers accused of infecting children with HIV; and N.Y.U.'s Martin Blaser on our disappearing stomach flora.

In other words, given the high level of know - how needed to use disease as a weapon to cause mass casualties, the United States should be less concerned that terrorists will become biologists and far more concerned that biologists will become terrorists.

«By learning more about how these cells work, we are one step closer to understanding the disease states in which these cells should be studied,» said Cagla Eroglu, an assistant professor of cell biology and neurobiology at the Duke University Medical Center, who led the research.

As we begin to understand how our brains work, the possibility of using that knowledge to diagnose diseases, assess cognitive and emotional states, use surgery or pharmacology to repair damaged brains, implant preventive and therapeutic devices into the brain, and most controversially, enhance and improve our brains, will become a reality.

Monitoring immune responses by measuring cytokine levels has become an integral part of disease - related research, providing clues to the state of the immune system and how it could be targeted therapeutically.

While doctors, nutritionists and researchers have known for a long time that saturated fats contribute to some of the leading causes of death in the United States, they haven't been able to determine how or why excess saturated fats, such as those released from lard, are toxic to cells and cause a wide variety of lipid - related diseases, while unsaturated fats, such as those from fish and olive oil, can be protective.

House sparrows, about as widespread across the United States as artificial lighting itself, make a useful test species for a first - of - its - kind study of how night illumination might contribute to disease spread, said Meredith Kernbach, an eco-immunologist at the University of South Florida in Tampa.

Our investigations also open a new route for understanding how different physiological states of the body influence stem cells in the brain during health and disease, and opens new ways for thinking about therapy,» says Fiona Doetsch.

Having established some understanding of the open chromatin landscape in healthy mice, the researchers now hope to figure out how these relationships change with disease states.

«We know dysregulation of a protein enzyme called multifunctional CaM kinase II plays a role in disrupting sodium channel function in cardiac disease, but it was a matter of determining how this occurred and whether we could we prevent it for therapeutic benefit,» said Hund, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at The Ohio State University.

For the last decade, neuroscientists have been using the non-invasive brain - mapping technique functional called magnetic resonance imaging or fMRI to examine activity patterns in human and animal brains in the resting state in order to figure out how different parts of the brain are connected and to identify the changes that occur in neurological and psychiatric diseases.

MonarchHealth participants help scientists map the location and infection levels of OE in monarchs throughout the United States and determine how much disease the parasites cause.

Today, Science strives to cover advances that reveal the specific ways in which the microbiota influences the physiology of the host, both in a healthy and in a diseased state and how the microbiota may be manipulated, either at the organismal or molecular level, to improve the health of the host.

and understanding how specific microbes and their products contribute to healthy and diseased states

As scientists and manufacturers develop more tools to analyze metabolomics in more detail, we learn more about biological systems — how they function in healthy and disease states, as well as how they change over time and in different environments.

The statement described a hospital with no clear rules on how to handle Ebola patients, despite months of alerts from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta about the possibility of Ebola coming to the United States.

Research in the Shalek group is directed towards the development and application of new technologies that will facilitate a better understanding of how cells collectively perform systems - level functions in healthy and diseased states.».

Defined basic principles of how skeletal and cardiac muscle cells adapt to changing physiological demands associated with exercise or disease states.

The new study was led by John Gunstad, a psychologist at Kent State University in Ohio who studies how diseases affect thinking abilities.

Building on these extreme examples that emphasize the potential roles played by healthy lysosomes in protecting neurons against the age - dependent accumulation of toxic cellular debris, we ultimately seek to understand how neurons sense and regulate the status of their lysosomes, how lysosomes are affected during age - related disease states and whether lysosomal function can be modulated for therapeutic purposes.

PULLMAN, Wash. — Crop scientists at Washington State University have explained how genes in the barley plant turn on defenses against aging and stressors like drought, heat and disease.

And what the researchers learn could then be used to develop an understanding of how mutations in enzymes like RNAPII lead to specific disease states — and may ultimately inform our ability to correct them.

In particular, we are asking how molecules that are important in eye development both prevent and protect against damage in disease states such as AMD and encourage regeneration of cells and their nerve fibers after injury.

Objective: To use innovative approaches of integrative biology to unravel how lymphocytes process an array of molecular signals arising from contact with dendritic cells, thereby better understanding the mechanisms that underlie immunity and how they are altered in disease states.

She is working on methods that analyze large - scale experimental data compendia in order to improve our understanding of how, and which, genes work together to produce a particular disease state.

So much is different, I think, where we were as scientists but how the field was as a community was at a state of naiveté, that is, we did not understand hardly anything about this disease.

Symposia III: Mechanisms of Baro and Chemoreceptor Sensory Transduction: A Link to Sympatho - excitation in Disease Researchers will discuss how sensory neuronal signals are powerful regulators of the hypertensive state and the role of gaseous messengers in oxygen Sensing by the carotid body.

Plenary Lecture: Muscle Sympathetic Reflexes in Humans Lawrence I. Sinoway, Director of the Penn State Hershey Heart and Vascular Institute, leads the discussion on the exercise pressor reflex and how it is altered in cardiovascular disease, such as heart failure..

Her current research is focused on discovering how normal and disease melanocyte cell states establish distinct regulatory DNA landscapes, and also determining how the combination of both genetic variation within these regulatory regions and environmental cell signals alter gene expression and normal cell function.

Various disease states are associated with deregulation of how cells move and change shape, including notably tumor initiation and cancer cell metastasis.

Understanding how cells migrate in 3D environments in response to chemical cues is thus crucial to understanding directed migration in normal and disease states.

Using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, computer simulations and microscopy, the researchers showed how disease mutations and arginine methylation, a functional modification common to a large family of proteins with low - complexity domains, altered the formation of the liquid droplets and their conversion to solid - like states in disease.

Gage and Ghosh discuss how human skin cells induced to return to an immature state («induced pluripotent stem cells» or IPS cells) are revolutionizing our understanding and treatment of mental and neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson's disease, as well as leading to new models of drug development for all diseases.