Sentences with phrase «nervous system organs»

The red and yellow betalain pigments found in this food family, their unique epoxyxanthophyll carotenoids, and the special connection between their overall phytonutrients and our nervous system health (including our specialized nervous system organs like the eye) point to the chenopod family of foods as unique in their health value.

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Experiments so far with neural dust motes have only involved the peripheral nervous system, which serves the limbs and organs, and not the central nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.

Its drug development expertise is being applied primarily to the fields of pain management, central nervous system disorders, acute organ injury and metabolic diseases such as nonalcoholic fatty liver disease / nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.

Bu tuntil that point, until the fetus has all of its organs and a functioning nervous system, there is no LIFE to take.

Nonconscious subjectivity is appropriately attributed to creatures lacking in sense organs and central nervous systems.

Plenty of organisms without nervous systems have sense organs.

As Birch notes, what is required physiologically for consciousness to emerge is a specialization of cells leading to a central nervous system with sense organs oriented to messages from the external world.

In Matter and Memory, mind (conceived primarily as memory) is contrasted with body (brain, nervous system, motor and perceptual organs).

It also serves to protect the internal organs, muscles, veins, arteries, capillaries, skeletal system, nervous system.

They activate sympathetic nervous system — which helps control most of the body's internal organs — to expend more energy, so the body burns more calories when the same food is eaten with chili peppers.

MSG is approximately 78 percent free glutamic acid, the same neurotransmitter that your brain, nervous system, eyes, pancreas, and other organs use to initiate certain processes in your body.

Revitalize the body by increasing circulation to the organs and calm the nervous system through breathing exercises.

These internal organ systems include: the circulatory system, nervous system, reproductive system and digestive system.

Early trauma has been shown to affect the development of the fetal and infant brain, nervous system, neuro - chemistry, organs, physiology, psychology, and consciousness.

As a baby grows in the womb, the majority of the time in that «safe» place is spent developing the vital organs - the heart, brain, lungs, and nervous system.

The skeletal structure, along with the circulatory and nervous system will be completely developed, with the internal organs now strengthening themselves to adapt to life outside the womb.

The development of the internal organs is going on, all parts of the body are growing, the head is still bigger than the other parts of the body (at this period it is normal), the nervous system is forming, and within 2 - 3 weeks the baby will be two times bigger than now.

During the first thirteen weeks of your baby's development, his major organs and nervous system form.

Babies grow through the development of their structure, nervous system, senses, and organs.

They help with proper development of the immune system, skin, eyes, nervous system, brain and other organs.

The release of energy in this state is only sufficient for the vital organs such as the heart, lungs, nervous system, and kidneys.

«We've previously understood very little about how these bacteria move through and into our organs, tissues, and central nervous system, but our work sheds light on these processes and could form the basis for novel therapeutics that target the bacterium's ability to invade.»

Among these are evaluation of cardiac function in real time, mapping of water diffusion and temperature in tissue, mapping of organ blood pool and perfusion, functional imaging of the central nervous system, depiction of blood and cerebrospinal fluid flow dynamics, and movie imaging of the mobile fetus in utero.

«If we are to understand the evolution of certain key features of animals, such as their nervous systems, tissue organization and organs, we first have to clarify the early phylogenetic relationships» Wörheide explains.

The two possible solutions have very different consequences for our understanding of central aspects of the early evolution of multicellular animals (Metazoa), such as the origins of nervous systems, tissues and organs.

Placozoans» millimetre - long bodies are just three cells thick and have no muscles, nervous system or organs.

This environmental stress has negative consequences on many organs, systems and functions of the body, including bone, muscle, plus the cardiovascular, respiratory and nervous systems.

The peripheral nervous system or PNS, is part of the nervous system, and consists of the nerves and neurons that reside or extend outside the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord) to serve the limbs and organs, for example.

It is indeed ironic, as Fields describes, that we have long ignored the glial functions of thought processes, thinking of them as merely support for the nervous system, in a manner similar to the ancient Greeks thinking the brain was simply an organ for cooling the blood.

The electric eel generates large electric currents by way of a highly specialized nervous system that has the capacity to synchronize the activity of disc - shaped, electricity - producing cells packed into a specialized electric organ.

The nervous system does this through a command nucleus that decides when the electric organ will fire.

«Neurons outside of the central nervous system have many functions, from relaying sensory information to controlling organ function, but some of these peripheral neural circuits are not yet well understood,» says Ben Deverman, senior research scientist and director of the Beckman Institute's CLOVER Center.

The Hippo signaling pathway, which is highly conserved up to humans, was known to play a critical role in organ size determination, like, for example, in the liver, but has not been demonstrated to influence neural stem cells in the central nervous system.

The peripheral nervous system has no known role in intellectual ability, but it does regulate organ function including heartbeat, blood pressure and blood glucose.

«Research traces cause of organ dysfunction in Down syndrome: Scientists find overload of one gene hinders peripheral nervous system.»

Mercury damages the central nervous system, endocrine system, kidneys, and other organs, and adversely affects the mouth, gums, and teeth.

The nervous system of an animal coordinates the activity of the muscles, monitors the organs, constructs and also stops input from the senses, and initiates actions.

The peripheral nervous system of vertebrate animals includes three kinds of nerve cells: sensory neurons, which transmit impulses from sensory receptor structures to the brain; motor neurons, which innervate the striated, or skeletal, muscles, and autonomic neurons, which regulate the functional activity of the circulatory system, the organs, the glands and the smooth muscles (such as those of the intestine).

A fascinating example is the gut, an organ that is intimately interconnected with the immune system, nervous system, and endocrine system, as well as commensal microbe ecosystems.

«What one has to understand is that where there is poor development of the brain there is undoubtedly poor development of the peripheral nervous system and therefore consequential effects on the balance and functions of any / all peripheral organs and systems affected.

«When we eat fatty foods, our body's response is coordinated between our digestive organs, our nervous system, and the microbes living in our gut,» explained Farber.

Short Talk: Organ - specific regulation of lymphatic vessel function by the autonomic nervous system Samia Bachman, ETH Zurich

But undertstanding the nuts and bolts of how they develop from an undifferentiated cell that gives rise to cells that are specialized such as organs, or bones, and the nervous system, is not well understood.

Neurons of the peripheral nervous system (PNS), which connect the heart, lung, gut, and other organs to the CNS, are also an important target for gene delivery, especially for the study of pain.

In theory, a transplanted organ could hack into its host's nervous system by growing axons that connect with the host's cells.

• Keeping abnormal proteins from building up and potentially shutting down major organs (heart, liver and nervous system, to name a few) • Protecting the brain's functions of learning and memory against neurotransmitter toxicity • Activating or increasing the activity of proteins that promote the initial growth, maintenance and survival of brain neurons • Enhancing the movement of proteins, lipids and other cell parts through the cytoplasm of cell bodies.

Given that the nervous system controls other bodily organs, the effects of neurological disorders are often severe and sometimes devastating.

What makes tau and NF - L, as well as some related proteins, such as S100 - B and GFAP (glial fibrillary acidic protein), stand out is that they are not commonly found in organs other than the brain and central nervous system.

Solvents can damage internal organs like the liver, the kidneys, the nervous system, or the brain.

It is subsequently relayed to other peripheral organs or to the central nervous system (CNS), which generates appropriate physiological and behavioral responses.