Sentences with phrase «in a particular tissue»

Not surprisingly, the sequencing also revealed hundreds of other genes specific to the octopus and highly expressed in particular tissues.

If mitochondrial DNA with a harmful mutation becomes the predominant type in a particular tissue, serious symptoms will emerge.

Gene set enrichment analysis — A limitation of GO analysis is that the predetermined categories may not match the ones of functional interest in a particular tissue.

Degenerative aging is a consequence of the progressive accumulation of damage to tissue cellular and molecular structures over time; specific diseases of aging emerge when the cumulative burden of such damage in a particular tissue exceeds the minimum required to sustain its core biological functions.

Unfortunately, serum thyroid levels often do not accurately reflect intracellular tissue levels or levels in a particular tissue.

To investigate this question, Fallin and her colleagues started by surveying four different tissue types — blood and cord blood from their own collections, as well as lung and fetal brain tissue from public collections — to find small variations in the genetic code of each sample that appear to be responsible for DNA methylation state, a type of epigenetic modification, in that particular tissue.