Sentences with phrase «key roles in the body»

Hydrogen sulfide, a lethal gas best known for smelling like rotten eggs, turns out to play key roles in the body — a finding that could lead to new treatments for heart attack victims and others

Signaling by molecules called prostaglandins plays a key role in the body's response to inflammation.

This protein, called «NFAT,» appears to play a key role in the body's inflammatory response to an infection, which when uncontrolled, can be as bad, if not worse, than the infection itself.

Cortisol, in its normal capacity has several key roles in the body, but none more relevant to this discussion than its ability to raise blood glucose levels when it skyrockets because you're stressed.

In its normal capacity, cortisol has several key roles in the body, but none more relevant to this discussion than its ability to raise blood glucose levels when it skyrockets due to stress.

As an amino acid, lysine plays a key role in the body's synthesis of protein as well as of antibodies.

Arginine's Key Role in the Body Arginine is a semi-essential amino acid.

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The primary reason: Calcium plays a key role in regulating the way the body metabolizes food.

This effect «provides more evidence that the brain's ability to integrate various sensory stimuli plays a key role in locating the self in the body» and of the way it «puts together our autobiographical self».

Better Body Foods obviously played a key role in this recipe (they literally take over all my recipes) with their agave and coconut oil.

A happy tummy is so important as digestive health plays a key role in every aspect of the body's functions.

Every bite of turkey is an excellent source of high quality protein, a nutrient that is key for overall good health; it plays an important role in building, maintaining and repairing your body every day.

Beets also contain folate, a B complex vitamin, with a crucial role in cell regeneration, along with essential and trace minerals (manganese, magnesium, potassium, iron) with key detox activities in the body.

«Water plays a vital role in helping the body perform many essential functions, and making smart hydration choices is a key first step to maintaining a healthy lifestyle,» said Sarah Ladden, a registered dietitian and Director, Nutrition, Health & Wellness at Nestlé Waters North America.

One key component of iron absorption that is commonly overlooked is the necessity of vitamin C. Vitamin C plays a powerful role in assimilation of iron in the body.

A well - established body of research confirms that when men are active and positively engaged in their children's lives early, they play a key role in their child's growth and development.

Nutrition plays a key role in the way your body works post-pregnancy, in the fitness process, and especially where the two overlap!

«This proximity played a key role in enabling human infants, who lack the capacity to fully regulate their bodies, to survive.

Zinc plays a role in many key body functions, including immune system response, so it's important to get enough of it, which vegans can do by eating nuts, legumes, miso and other soy products, pumpkin and sunflower seeds, tahini, wheat germ, and whole - grain breads and cereals.

A growing body of evidence suggests the school food environment plays a key role in influencing childhood dietary behaviors and weight status.

That is a key role of the body established under royal charter and it is not now within the power of Mrs Miller or any other politician to prevent the charter body operating in that way.»

Crowley, along with the leaders of the Bronx and Brooklyn Democratic parties, typically plays a key role in determining the next leader of the body, with the race currently underway.

These cells play a key role in autoimmune disease — in which the immune system mistakenly identifies the body's own tissues as foreign and attack them.

Medium spiny neurons are abundant in the basal ganglia and play a key role in initiating and controlling body movements.

In the course of this work, Burris and Flaveny have explored the roles of the nuclear receptor REV - ERB, which regulates key processes in the body, from sleep to cholesterol, and, most recently, muscle regeneratioIn the course of this work, Burris and Flaveny have explored the roles of the nuclear receptor REV - ERB, which regulates key processes in the body, from sleep to cholesterol, and, most recently, muscle regeneratioin the body, from sleep to cholesterol, and, most recently, muscle regeneration.

The chloride channel TMEM16A can be found in different organs of the body and plays a key role in the secretion of chloride in the lung, the contraction of smooth muscles, and the perception of pain.

The study identified five genes predictive of feeding success representing a range of biological systems: sensory integration (NPHP4, PLXNA1); hypothalamic regulation, a region of the brain that plays a key role in hunger signaling (NPY2R); facial development (WNT3, a gene associated with lip and palate development); and energy expenditure (AMPK, a regulator of whole body energy balance).

The hypothalamus serves as a kind of thermostat, setting not only body temperature but playing a key role in hunger, thirst, fatigue, and sleep cycles.

The work, funded by national charity Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund, uncovers new evidence that PAK4 plays a key role in enabling cancer cells to grow and to spread from the pancreas into other areas of the body, a process called metastasis.

The UPR therefore plays a key role in secretory cells but also protects other cells of the body from the stresses associated with an accumulation of unfolded or misfolded proteins.

Jagged1 plays a key role in a cell signaling pathway involved in many body systems, but it was not previously known to affect Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

It also has a key role to play for the future of radiation vaccine research — called RadVax for short — in which doctors are trying to understand why targeted doses of radiation can boost the body's entire immune system in select cases.

He points out that sugars have a key role to play in the body, and are often what binds proteins to cells.

They studied microRNA expression in the Aedes aegypti fat body — the metabolic center that plays a key role in reproduction.

«Researchers aim to disrupt egg production in dengue - and Zika - spreading mosquito: Study focuses on the Aedes aegypti «fat body» that plays a key role in reproduction.»

Dendrites, which branch from the cell body of the neuron, play a key role in the communication between cells of the nervous system, allowing for many neurons to connect with each other.

«Vital nutrient has key role in keeping body clocks running on time.»

Some scientists suspected that the nucleolus — a small body inside the nucleus that puts together the cell's protein - producing machinery — could play a key role in this remarkable change.

For tumor cells, the lymph nodes are a staging area and play a key role in advancing metastasis throughout the body.

Joslin scientists in the Tseng Laboratory of the Section on Integrative Physiology and Metabolism previously discovered that one type of bone morphogenetic protein, BMP - 7, plays a key role in the control of brown fat formation and its heat - producing activity, which regulates whole body metabolism.

In new research being presented at the meeting, scientists suggest that the blood - brain barrier in the brainstem — the primitive brain area responsible for many of the body's basic functions, such as breathing, heart rate, sleeping, and eating — could play a key role salt - induced baroreflexin regulating blood pressurIn new research being presented at the meeting, scientists suggest that the blood - brain barrier in the brainstem — the primitive brain area responsible for many of the body's basic functions, such as breathing, heart rate, sleeping, and eating — could play a key role salt - induced baroreflexin regulating blood pressurin the brainstem — the primitive brain area responsible for many of the body's basic functions, such as breathing, heart rate, sleeping, and eating — could play a key role salt - induced baroreflexin regulating blood pressure.

Since the liver plays a key role in inducing immune tolerance, that protein increases the production of regulatory T cells, suppressing the immune system's attack on the body.

It's known that stem cells, the key players in regenerative processes in the body, play a key role in continually making new hair.

This is why recent work in the field of cancer research has focused on picking apart the complex cellular pathways involved in the development of different cancers and identifying the roles of key proteins involved, with the goal of being able to discriminately and effectively eliminate cancerous cells from the body.

I then show, using a reef fish as the empirical model, that the signals used during negotiation and commitment phases of the cooperative sex allocation strategy provide symbolic representations of the theoretical model's key functional parameters; individual dominance, individual body size, individual sex (i.e. the functional referents) and individual sex role in the future (i.e. the negotiated cooperative solution).

University of California San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine researchers have identified an enzyme that plays a key role in controlling these metabolic changes, suggesting we could tweak this pathway artificially to help our bodies burn fat more efficiently.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Sept. 23, 1999)-- Scientists at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. have identified a protein in the small intestine that plays a key role in the uptake of dietary fat into the body.

As it turns out, so many of us are deficient in this fundamental substance that plays a key role in keeping our bodies balanced and healthy.

In humans, up to half of body mass is made up of skeletal muscle, which plays a key role in locomotion, posture, and breathinIn humans, up to half of body mass is made up of skeletal muscle, which plays a key role in locomotion, posture, and breathinin locomotion, posture, and breathing.

Fascia helps connect the muscles to the bones and joints and plays a key role in our structural integrity — so in a way it is like the scaffolding of the body.