Sentences with phrase «laboratory studies suggest»

Most laboratory studies suggest that higher carbon dioxide concentration leads to decreased calcification in coccolithophores, the tiny phytoplankton that contribute to the base of Southern Ocean food webs.

Laboratory studies suggest that supplementation with glucosamine and chondroitin (see below) can stimulate cartilage production and inhibit enzymes that breakdown or damage cartilage.

Laboratory studies suggest that elder flowers have anti-inflammatory effects, and animal models indicate that elder preparations may protect the liver against toxins.

In addition, animal and laboratory studies suggest vitamin D protects neurons and reduces inflammation.

Some scientists have argued that bees may be less susceptible to agricultural chemicals than laboratory studies suggest because the bees might detect potentially toxic chemicals in the environment and avoid them.

Laboratory studies suggest there is a phenomenon called antibody dependent enhancement, in which the presence of pre-existing dengue antibodies would enhance Zika's virulence, increasing risk to the fetus.

Epidemiological surveys backed by laboratory studies suggest that eating soya products can lower the risk of both prostate and colon cancers.

Laboratory studies suggest that explosive development of ice crystals can occur in these conditions, at temperatures between -4 and -8 degrees Celsius, and this «rime - splintering» mechanism is often invoked to explain past observations of the rapid development of large numbers of ice crystals in cumuli.

Frank Gilliland, an environmental epidemiologist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, became intrigued when laboratory studies suggested that certain pollutants in the environment might function as «obesogens,» contributing to weight gain by mimicking or disrupting the action of hormones, or having other effects.

The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory study suggests economic trends means China's emissions may peak between 2030 and 2035, regardless of government efforts to reduce pollution, the New York Times says.

Not exact matches

A few years ago the New England fishing fleets were in despair because the fish were nowhere to be found; a biologist, who had been making a laboratory study of the temperature of fishes» stomachs, combined his data with some ocean temperature data and correctly suggested where the missing creatures might be found.

This fact of our experience is not always given the attention it deserves, and many times descriptions of humankind are produced that suggest a quasi-morphological portrayal, as if human existence were like counting the spots on some insect or were like a diagram of a dead cat as it is studied in a biological laboratory.

Alarmed by DMSO's sudden popularity and worried about misuse of it, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned the substance for medical use in 1965, citing a study that suggested it caused eye damage in laboratory rats.

Some football helmet manufacturers suggest that players who wear their helmets - especially new models - may be at lower risk of concussion than those who wear competitors» models or older helmets, basing their claims on how well the new or newer helmets absorb and lessen some of the impact forces that cause concussion in biomechanical studies performed in the controlled environment of the laboratory.

Dr. James J. McKenna, Director of the M other - Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory, studied on sleep and arousal patterns of co-sleeping mothers and infant and suggested that when babies and mothers sleep together, their sleep cycle will create synchronicity to each other.

«It suggests that the interbreeding event may have happened in the Middle East, and that lineage then migrated east» without additional contact with Europe, says Adam Siepel, a quantitative biologist at New York's Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and a co-team leader for the study.

A raft of studies in laboratory animals, molecular models and cancer patients suggest that pain drugs given during and after cancer surgery stimulate the growth and spread of certain tumors.

«This study suggests that laboratory studies of microbial metabolite processing can help understand the role of these microbes in carbon cycling in the environment.

«The findings of this study suggest that less frequent laboratory monitoring may be safe, with few missed high - risk laboratory changes, for many patents with acne who are receiving typical doses of isotretinoin.

The report in PNAS said laboratory studies of how the virus evolves in response to exposure to neutralizing antibodies suggest that the MERS virus won't easily shape - shift to evade antibody treatments, as some viruses do.

Studies in the laboratory also suggest that sperm with poor morphology also swim less well because their abnormal shape makes them less efficient.

«If human organs on chips can be shown to be robust and consistently recapitulate complex human organ physiology and disease phenotypes in unrelated laboratories around the world, as suggested by early proof - of - concept studies, then we will see them progressively replace one animal model at a time.

Laboratory studies have suggested that it may have anti-cancer properties, although results from human trials have been mixed.

These compounds cause cancer in laboratory animals, and studies of industrial workers strongly suggest they can cause lung cancer in humans too.

Previous laboratory findings as well as estimates of fitness based on genetic clustering of strains in the population suggested a lower relative fitness for MDRTB compared to drug - susceptible tuberculosis, but few studies have directly measured the incidence of second cases of tuberculosis among contacts of both MDRTB and drug - susceptible tuberculosis.

Ewa Chrostek, PhD student at Teixeira's laboratory and first author of this study, says: «We found that some of the most protective Wolbachia variants reduce the survival of their hosts, suggesting that there may be a trade - off between the protection mediated by the symbiotic bacteria and other components of fitness.

Because the duck's touch sensors are similar to mammals» and their bills aren't covered in fur, the authors suggest embryonic duck bills might be a better model than standard laboratory rodents to study touch sensation as it applies to us relatively hairless humans.

«Our results suggest that sialidase could sensitize myeloid cells in tumors to previously ineffective STAT3 inhibitors,» said Vinit Kumar, Ph.D., staff scientist in the Gabrilovich laboratory at The Wistar Institute and first author of the study.

Past research suggests that the mere presence of others seems to have an effect on drinking behaviour, but most of those studies relied on data gathered from experiments performed in artificial laboratory settings or from surveys conducted after drinking sessions have ended, which are notoriously inaccurate.

But prior research on the effects of famine in humans and in laboratory animals suggest that famine does indeed cause such health risks, the study authors said.

«While preliminary, the data suggests the probe could be used not only as a diagnostic tool but also as a therapeutic,» said Kirsten L. Viola, a co-first author of the study and a research manager in Klein's laboratory.

«Our findings suggest new ways of tackling the still - difficult task of working out which patients should receive which drug and how drugs should be combined to maximize therapeutic benefit,» said senior study author Peter Sorger, the Otto Krayer Professor of Systems Pharmacology and director of the Harvard Program in Therapeutic Science and the Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School.

Asst Prof Li, from the Neural Stem Cells Laboratory at NNI, added, «This important study suggests a link between a key neurological disease gene and regulation of microRNAs in the brain.

A study at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory suggests for the first time how scientists might deliberately engineer superconductors that work at higher temperatures.

«Previous studies at a few sites had shown that large trees suffer more than small trees during and after droughts, and our theory suggested this should be a globally consistent pattern, but this project was the first to test this hypothesis globally,» said Los Alamos National Laboratory's Nate McDowell, a renowned forest ecologist and plant physiologist who coauthored a paper in the journal Nature Plants highlighting this research.

«Our work suggests it might be possible to halt cancer development in premalignant cells - those that are just a few divisions away from being normal,» says the study's lead author, Fernando Lopez - Diaz, a researcher in the Regulatory Biology Laboratory at Salk.

A long series of laboratory and epidemiologic studies has suggested that cutting back on sleep has a harmful effect on glucose control, insulin secretion and metabolism in ways that might increase diabetes risk, said Eve Van Cauter, professor of medicine at the University of Chicago and senior author of the study.

However, a new study from the laboratory of James J. Yoo (Wake Forest School of Medicine, North Carolina, USA) now suggests that regeneration may not require exogenous stem cells, and biomaterial alone may suffice to repair damage to the kidney [3]!

The results from the study led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Dr. Dan Cziczo suggest a bad news - good news scenario.

In studying variations within the repeat of each strain, we identified a mutation in the main laboratory strain of EBV that impairs virus function, and suggest that tumour - associated viruses may be more likely to contain DNA mixed from two strains.

Ironically, the reason why there has been so much interest in these fats, particularly CLA, is because there have been numerous studies suggesting that CLA may have health benefits, namely anti-cancer properties in laboratory animals.

While one study suggests that high doses of supplemental vitamin C makes osteoarthritis, a type of degenerative arthritis that occurs with aging, worse in laboratory animals, another indicates that vitamin C - rich foods, such as parsley, provide humans with protection against inflammatory polyarthritis, a form of rheumatoid arthritis involving two or more joints.

Several laboratory and animal studies suggest that echinacea contains active substances that boost immune function, relieve pain, reduce inflammation, and have hormonal, antiviral, and antioxidant effects.

A few studies suggest that curcumin may inhibit the growth of tumors in laboratory rats.

It is unknown whether higher physical exhaustion observed during sleep loss in our study will translate to lower physical activity levels and more positive energy balance in the social — behavioral environment, as suggested by other laboratory findings (37, 38).

While one study suggests that high doses of supplemental vitamin C makes osteoarthritis, a type of degenerative arthritis that occurs with aging, worse in laboratory animals, another indicates that vitamin C - rich foods, such as lemons and limes, provide humans with protection against inflammatory polyarthritis, a form of rheumatoid arthritis involving two or more joints.

And although the research in humans isn't conclusive, some laboratory studies have suggested that its compounds display properties similar to drugs commonly used to treat joint pain.

To scholars, experimentation further suggests: 1) conducting studies in laboratories where external factors can be controlled in order to relate cause more directly to effect; or 2) randomly choosing which schools, classrooms, or students will be exposed to a reform and which will be exposed to the alternative with which the reform is to be compared.

«These results suggest that Ex-miRNA expression changes may be more specific to disease states than total plasma miRNA,» said Andy Hoffman, DVM, Ph.D., professor and director of the Regenerative Medicine Laboratory at Cummings School and corresponding author on the study.

The authors concluded: «This study indicates that a failure to detect abnormalities in the medical history and upon clinical examination suggests that pre-anaesthetic laboratory examination is unnecessary in dogs.