Sentences with word «mechanosensitive»

Researchers at the Mechanobiology Institute (MBI), National University of Singapore (NUS) have identified a novel mechanosensitive regulation of epithelial tube contraction.

This finding confirmed that SPV - 1 is indeed mechanosensitive.

There are also a number of mechanosensitive receptors that detect when your stomach walls distend, and you have eaten enough.

Being mechanosensitive tissues (Reeves et al., 2005; Rosager et al., 2002), tendons may adjust both their size and their material properties (Wren et al., 1998) to maintain constant strain when the forces acting on them increase or decrease.

The researchers found that puffing activated a mechanosensitive channel protein called TRPV4, which is enriched in the membrane of neuronal axons and allows calcium ions to enter the cell.

The valve consists of a channel protein, the mechanosensitive channel of large conductance (MscL) from Escherichia coli, modified by attachment of synthetic compounds that undergo light - induced charge separation to reversibly open and close a 3 - nanometer pore.

Concurrently, this dermal cell aggregation triggers the mechanosensitive activation of β - catenin in adjacent epidermal cells, initiating the follicle gene expression program.

Thus, the proposed work directly tackles the mechanosensitive disease mechanism in the posterior eye but also aims at developing new neuroprotective strategies.

Together, the observations that E-cadherin turnover, and its local symmetry or asymmetry at each side of the junction, are mechanosensitive, support the hypothesis that E-cadherin turnover could be involved in mechanical homeostasis of epithelia.

Mechanically, cupping increases blood circulation, whereas physiologically it activates the immune system and stimulates the mechanosensitive fibers, thus leading to reduction in pain.