Sentences with phrase «in humans and other mammals»

Phenylalanine is an essential amino acid in humans and other mammals.

Histidine is an essential amino acid in humans and other mammals.

In humans and other mammals, there are four main families of Gα proteins, each with its own set of downstream signaling partners.

In humans and other mammals, the PLIN family consists of five members (Kimmel et al., 2010)(Perilipin 1 — 5) with diverse tissue distribution, specificity, and partially redundant functions.

Two types of fat tissue are present in humans and other mammals: white adipose tissue (WAT) or white fat, which stores fat; and brown adipose tissue (BAT) or brown fat, which burns fat to produce heat.

Montreal — In humans and other mammals, the female reproductive cells — the eggs or oocytes — need nourishment in order to grow and remain fertile.

Plasmodium parasites progress through two different stages of life in humans and other mammals, the first of which occurs in the liver, and causes no symptoms of disease.

Siegel has studied sleep in humans and other mammals for 40 years.

This means the pathway for immune protection in the multi-cellular slug is similar to that seen in humans and other mammals.

«This process contributes to about 200 different cell types in humans and other mammals, but analyzing them will be difficult, because they will need to be studied in a tissue.»

Scientists have discovered key details of a brain - to - body signaling circuit that enables roundworms to lose weight independently of food intake, and there are reasons to suspect the circuit exists in a similar form in humans and other mammals.

The weight - loss circuit is activated by combined signals from the worm versions of the neurotransmitters serotonin and adrenaline, and there are reasons to suspect that it exists in a similar form in humans and other mammals.

In humans and other mammals, the female reproductive cells — the eggs or oocytes — need nourishment in order to grow and remain fertile.

The same sort of coevolutionary arms race happens in humans and other mammals.

In the wake of Zipursky's discovery, scientists are beginning to search for analogous identity proteins in humans and other mammals.

A better understanding of how the placenta manages the trade - off will eventually enable researchers to reduce pregnancy complications in both humans and other mammals.

«These genes are conserved in humans and other mammals, but their activity is regulated differently after an injury like a heart attack.»

The cells were located in the cortex, the brain region that controls attention and planning in humans and other mammals.

Glutamate receptors are known to be involved in a variety of cognitive traits in humans and other mammals.

Blackshaw says scientists have known for a while that the SCN functions as a master clock to synchronize sleep and other so - called circadian rhythms in humans and other mammals.

At first, the connections are highly approximate; the stripes of the ocular dominance columns are partially formed in humans and other mammals at birth.

There are several brain regions linked to sexual behaviour that differ in size between the sexes in humans and other mammals.

Nature or the creator wouldn't plan for breastmilk to continue on in humans and all other mammals after solids begin if there were no advantage to it.

I had studied current neuroscience, brain research, evolutionary medicine and lactation in humans and other mammals.

Not exact matches

By nature, humans are born and have evolved to be communal beings — for the most part — interested in the survival of themselves foremost, but also to a large degree of other beings (and other mammals) around them.

After all, they biologically expect to breastfeed and the fat content of our human milk is much lower than in other mammals, meaning our babies need to feed frequently to simply stay alive and grow.

In any Introduction to Biological Anthropology class, students learn that the human infant is the most vulnerable, contact dependent, slowest developing and most dependent primate - mammal of all, largely because humans are born neurologically premature, relative to other primate mammals.

It occurs in particular in whales and dolphins, and to a lesser degree in other mammals, including humans.

This evidence is presented in depth in The Mommy Brain, which cites research showing that humans and other mammals respond more readily to their second baby than to their first.

In fact, human milk has a very high concentration of lactose compared to cows» milk and that of other mammals.

Mice, dogs, and most other mammals do it, and now more humans are joining in.

In Breastfeeding Made Simple: Seven Natural Laws for Nursing Mothers, Mohrbacher and Kendall - Tackett explain that human babies are born at less than 50 % of adult brain growth, while most other mammals are born with about 80 %.

It is found in humans, goats, and other mammals where it is produced by the mother for two days following birth.

In humans, other mammals, and many other animals that have been studied — such as fish, birds, ants, and fruit - flies — regular sleep is necessary for survival.

As for your final question, no mammals drink milk into adulthood (except for humans drinking the milk of other species who have produced the milk for their own babies) so the likelihood of a 15 year old wanting to breastfeed because they're in hospital is extremely low and actually non existent in my opinion unless the child has been abused.

An anthropological examination begins by drawing comparisons in infant care across humans and other mammals.

An international team led by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has developed a new technique for identifying gene enhancers — sequences of DNA that act to amplify the expression of a specific gene — in the genomes of humans and other mammals.

Diane Dickel is the lead author of Nature Methods paper describing a new technique for identifying gene enhancers in the genomes of humans and other mammals.

Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and other recent human relatives may have begun hunting large mammal species down to size — by way of extinction — at least 90,000 years earlier than previously thought, says a new study published in the journal Science.

Several species of mammal, including mice, rats and dogs, are able to sniff out disease in humans and other animals.

The unaltered hemagglutinin is akin to a key that unlocks a so - called receptor molecule in cells lining the upper airways of humans and other mammals.

Human babies, other mammals and songbirds use non-linear sounds in their calls, and animals associate such sounds with a sense of urgency.

While the same exact mechanisms are unlikely to be at work in humans, Dr Gilestro thinks that a lot of what they observe in fruit flies is applicable to higher animals: «Sleep is a fundamental process for all animals, and many of the results the community has obtained with fruit flies have been replicated in other animals, including mammals and humans.

Scientists have assumed these tunes are hardwired in their tiny mouse brains and doubted that rodents modify their songs after hearing others — a cognitive feat similar to vocalizations by birds and some mammals, including dolphins, bats and humans.

Since 1956, scientists have identified reward systems involving dopamine neurons in rats, dolphins, monkeys, and humans, among other mammals.

Change in viral levels over time might reveal when and how the bats infect other mammals — and ultimately humans.

When the researchers applied a human form of Ctgf protein to lesions in zebrafish, they observed similar recovery of spinal cord function, hinting that other factors within zebrafish spinal tissue may explain the healing differences between mammals and zebrafish.

Poinar suggested in the journal American Entomologist that the origins of this deadly disease, which today can infect animals ranging from humans and other mammals to birds and reptiles, may have begun in an insect such as the biting midge more than 100 million years ago.

«Rodents, dogs and other mammals commonly sniff themselves, and they sniff one another in social interactions, and it seems that in the course of evolution, humans have retained this practice — only on a subliminal level.»

Vitamin D — and other nutritional factors — are known to influence the severity of TB in humans but its relationship with cattle and other mammals has not been studied until now.