Sentences with phrase «nervous system uses»

Interestingly, our brain and nervous system uses about 80 per cent of the glucose utilised by our whole body, but glucose uptake by our brain and nervous system is not regulated by insulin.

The central nervous system uses the information to calculate the body's current position.

Sympathetic nervous system uses pre - and post-ganglionic neurons to transmit the signals in the body, the first ones originate from thoraco - lumbar region of the spine (T1 — L2) and further join the latter ones, which in turn spread through the entire body (go higher up and compare with the origins of the diaphragm).

Bacteria can also change how the central nervous system uses these chemicals.

Exactly how asthma begins and progresses remain a mystery, but a team led by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has uncovered a fundamental molecular cue that the nervous system uses to communicate with the immune system, and may potentially trigger allergic lung inflammation leading to asthma.

Stylized representation of a newly - discovered signaling pathway active after spinal cord injury, which sees the injured central nervous system use adrenal hormone production to potentially disrupt the immune system in a way that lead to severe infections.

The goal of the FlyEM Project is to produce and analyze connectomes of behaviorally - relevant neural circuits in the entire Drosophila nervous system using electron microscopy.

EFT, also known as Emotional Freedom Technique or tapping is a method of relieving stress and stimulating the nervous system using acupressure points.

She is trained in «neuroanotomic acupuncture», which has less emphasis on the «energy» and more emphasis on the nervous system using an evidence based approach.

Not exact matches

According to the company's website, Taser technology is designed to target the body's nervous system and motor movement, making the weapon «an alternative far superior to using firearms in many contexts.»

And, perhaps most strikingly, a team at a gaggle of New York research institutions published a paper showing how they'd used hPSCs to cook up — in just days, rather than several months — cortical neurons (critical central nervous system cells) that had normal electrophysiological signaling properties.

One day, scientists hope to use sensors in the central nervous system, including the brain and spinal cord.

I can either express this directly by using an expression like «momentary selves,» supplemented by a speculative device designed to give some sort of unity to the otherwise unacceptable implication of a crumbling of each «momentary self» into a dust of pure momentary «events,» or I can go the way of many neurologists who see the «momentary self» as the result of successive integrations of the nervous system in its constant reactions to internal and external stimuli.

Gates's new book, The Speed of Thought: Using a Digital Nervous System, cashes in on McLuhan's romantic, quasi-theological vision of humankind's power to overcome space and time.

Habitual patterns of response, such as getting dressed, riding a bicycle, using a typewriter, so painfully and self - consciously learned at the time, become quite unconscious.37 A centralized nervous system or its close analogue may be the necessary basis for consciousness, but consciousness itself is the inner concomitant of the presence of some novelty which has not yet faded into the background through incessant repetition.

Though lavender has some mild anti-bacterial properties, this is one I use for its magnificent effect on the nervous system.

With the ingredients I used, this recipe has 25 grams of protein, it's loaded iron containing 50 % of your daily iron needs, it's rich in magnesium with 70 % of your daily magnesium needs, it's full of B vitamins, including folate and vitamin B6 which are important for your nervous system, heart, and brain.

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.

I have tried so many things and do many of the things you do to calm my nervous system (i.e. meditate, yoga, breath work...), but what I found most helpful in terms of easing an anxiety attack is to use grounding techniques, like moving awareness to my feet or anywhere in my body that feels calm, even if it's just a toe — and then adding self soothing talk of «I'm safe» or anything positive for that matter.

The Anat Baniel Method, based on the work of Moshe Feldenkrais, uses gentle touch and movement to access the nervous system and brain.

«Successfully treating a child with mood dysregulation today requires methodically eliminating all electronics use for several weeks — an «electronics fast» — to allow the nervous system to reset.

Evidence suggests that the use of lavender may slow the activity of the nervous system, improve sleep quality, promote relaxation, and lift mood in people suffering from sleep disorders.

Girls develop some early nervous system maturation earlier, particularly in regards to picking up on clues that they are needing to use the bathroom.

Using marijuana and cannabis products when breastfeeding brings concerns that the neurotransmitter effects of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) can affect the child's nervous system.

Love the play on the concept of time - in, and using soothing sensory play to engage the parasympathetic nervous system.

She is challenged to use her nervous system to figure out space and her relationship to it, to breathe by herself, to circulate oxygen and nutrients to her entire body, to eat, digest, and eliminate.

She will use her nervous system to find out about her environment and her place in it.

NIACIN: (as Niacinamide): Aids normal functioning of tissues, particularly skin, gastrointestinal tract and nervous system; used with other vitamins in converting carbohydrates to energy.NATURAL SOURCES: Liver, lean meat, whole wheat, brewer's yeast, wheat germ, fish, eggs, roasted peanuts, poultry, sesame seeds, nuts.

Both galactose and glucose can also be used by the brain for energy, and galactose in particular is critical for the production of galactolipids (cerebroside), which are essential for the baby's developing central nervous system.

Its leaves and roots are used to block some functions of the body's nervous system.

They are being fed an indigestible food in place of a nutrient - dense meal, something their body can't use and depriving them of the nutrients they need to grow a healthy brain, nervous system, and bone structure.

It is in this third trimester that stretch marks begin to show on your bellyl In addition, 38 weeks pregnant signs include swelling in your ankles and feete This is quite normal, but if there is excessive swelling or puffiness in your face or around your eyes, you should call you doctor without any delaya Also let your doctor know if you have any headaches that persist or visual changes such as blurred vision, flashing lights, or spots or loss of vision (temporary) y Using a 38 weeks symptoms pregnancy calendar gives you all information you need to know about being 38 weeks pregnantn Some other symptoms include diarrhea, itchy abdomen, difficulty sleeping, enlarged breasts and colostrum, and fatigue or extra energyg In the 38 weeks, baby symptoms include the baby shedding its skin - protecting lanugo and vernixi Also, 38 weeks fetus signs include the fetus producing a substance called surfactantn Your baby is not so little by now and weighs almost 7 pounds and is about 20 inches in lengtht Around this time your baby is also fine - tuning its nervous system and brain and also adding on body fata

People within the «restricted area» will not be able to «ingest, inhale, inject, smoke, possess or otherwise use»... «substances with the capacity to stimulate or depress the central nervous system» according to the order.

Under the definition of psychoactivity the Home Office is using - «something which affects a person's mental functioning or emotional state by stimulating or depressing their nervous system» - these products are plainly psychoactive and their regulation does not go anywhere near the level of a ban.

Take Kellie Ann Jurado, a postdoctoral scientist in immunobiology at Yale University, who will use the funding for research on the effects of the Zika virus on the nervous system.

The million - dollar question was whether the rest of the animals» central nervous system could reprogram itself to make use of this additional information.

In this web exclusive, the author offers a longer version of his December 2010 Scientific American article on how researchers can probe how the nervous system works in unprecedented detail, using a technique called optogenetics

A version of Corexit was widely used after the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill and, according to a literature review performed by the group the Alaska Community Action on Toxics, was later linked with health impacts in people including respiratory, nervous system, liver, kidney and blood disorders.

Indeed, our bodies use endo - cannabinoids in much the same way as they use opioids in the central nervous system: as synapse agonists and antagonists.

Normally, the cells Nobel used for the test would divide and give rise to a specialized type of cell in the central nervous system called an oligodendrocyte.

Action potentials can be created by many types of cells, but are used most extensively by the nervous system for communication between neurons and to transmit information from neurons to other body tissues such as muscles and glands.

However, they determined the blood levels of SMN are not altered when SMN levels are altered in motor neurons using a gene therapy approach delivered directly into the cerebrospinal fluid to target the central nervous system.

Pleasure, who is research director at Shriner's Hospital for Children Northern California and also directs the Institute for Pediatric Regenerative Medicine, noted that considerable research interest has arisen about the use of minocycline for diseases of the central nervous system because of the increasing evidence about its neuroprotective effects.

A team of researchers at the University of Central Florida is using breakthrough gene - editing technology to develop a new screening tool for Parkinson's disease, a debilitating degenerative disorder of the nervous system.

The research team, led by Bosch, use the freshwater polyp Hydra as the model organism to elucidate the fundamental principles of nervous system structure and function.

Using the freshwater polyp Hydra as a model organism, the Kiel - based researchers and their international colleagues investigated how the simple nervous system of these animals interacts with the microbiome.

«Drugs like morphine hijack the body's natural painkilling mechanisms, such as those used by endorphins, but because they act within the central nervous system, they can affect other brain cells that use similar pathways, leading to side effects such as addiction or sleepiness,» says Professor Gamper.

«This means that when drugs were used in trials to suppress Substance P's action in the central nervous system, they may have also prevented it from acting as a painkiller in the peripheral system.

Using a mouse model of HSV - 1 as well as autopsied samples of human adult and fetal tissues, investigators from Dartmouth College's Geisel School of Medicine found that antibodies against HSV - 1 produced by adult women or female mice could travel to the nervous systems of their yet unborn babies, preventing the development and spread of infection during birth.

Using electrophysiology and pharmacological tools, the research has shown that a potassium channel, specifically the BK channel, in the central nervous system can be regulated with drugs to increase or decrease these disruptions in animal models.