Sentences with phrase «induced widespread changes»

BDNF induces widespread changes in synaptic protein content and up - regulates components of the translation machinery: an analysis using high - throughput proteomics.

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Hormone changes due to induced abortion may indeed be related to breast cancer, but there are other known causes of hormone changes that we should worry about, including the widespread use of chemical contraceptives, fertility drugs that cause hormone surges, increased obesity and fat content in the diet that change the body's estrogen metabolism, and last but not least, chemical contaminants in the environment that mimic estrogen....
Western Wildfires — The increasingly destructive and widespread fire seasons of recent years are likely to continue due to a combination of increased drought and land development encroaching on naturally burning landscapes, along with a climate changeinduced fuel boom (enhanced plant growth and a shift to more woody species) exacerbated by fire - suppression efforts leading to more abundant plant matter to fuel violent blazes, according to ecologist Dominique Bachelet of Oregon State University in Corvallis and The Nature Conservancy.
The paper suggests that these physicists joined the environmental backlash to stem changing tides in science and society, and to defend their preferred understandings of science, modernity, and of themselves as a physicist elite — understandings challenged by on - going transformations encapsulated by the widespread concern about human - induced climate change.
Some of these assumptions include that: all corals live close to their thermal limits, corals can not adapt / acclimatize to rapid rates of change, physiological trade - offs resulting from ocean acidification will lead to reduced fecundity, and that climate - induced coral loss leads to widespread fisheries collapse.
These changes and trends suggest a widespread drying of forests and an increasing risk of uncharacteristic fire and competition - induced water stress and mortality.
«This is not a case of thicker ice appearing in one region simultaneously with thinner ice appearing in another, induced perhaps by a change in surface winds or other transient conditions,» Dr. Rothrock said, noting that the decrease was widespread in the central Arctic Ocean, and most pronounced in the eastern Arctic.
«Recent climate changes in this region may have had substantial impact on the carbon balance of Canadian boreal forests as a result of increased fire frequency, an unprecedented expansion of insect outbreaks, and widespread drought - induced tree mortality,» the authors write, but focused their study on drought.
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