«Clinically and cognitively
normal individuals with and without AD risk factors, following dietary patterns characterized by high intakes of whole grains, fresh fruits, vegetables, legumes, fish, and low - fat dairy products (which provide higher intakes of vitamin B12, vitamin D, and n - 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids) and by low intakes of refined sugars, French fries, high - fat dairy products, butter, and processed meat, show lower accumulation of Aβ in the brain and higher cerebral glucose metabolism, as evidenced by neuroimaging analysis of gray matter volumes (a marker of brain atrophy), C - Pittsburgh compound B (to measure the accumulation of fibrillar Aβ), and F - fluorodeoxyglucose (to assess brain glucose metabolism.»
The team is now testing both glaucoma patients and
normal individuals with an optimized test to determine possible correlations with the stage of the glaucoma and even with the impact of therapy to restore vision.
Not exact matches
But
individuals who are willing or able to sacrifice some basic aspects of
normal life, such as sleep or friends and family time, to pursue these extreme sports are the ones who have the mettle to succeed when faced
with entrepreneurial challenges.
And since then, following studies and
individual case work, the institution of psychiatry has in fact aligned itself
with the understanding that homosexuality is
normal, is a part of the human understanding of sexuality.
In the recent book, Civil Liberties Under Attack, one of the authors mentions the case of a government official
with an impeccable record who was placed under charges because unidentified informers asserted he «advocated the Communist Party line, such as favoring peace and civil liberties,» and «his convictions concerning equal rights for all races and classes extend slightly beyond the
normal feelings of the average
individual «1
I've seen it happen at a concert, in a
normal individual - use sink
with one faucet and one drain.
Siegel's Special Needs Weekend is the perfect opportunity for
individuals living
with special needs and their families to enjoy participating in the farm's activities without the
normal crowds.
Her work
with her busy doula and birth photography business, Apple Blossom Families has not only helped
individual families to have more positive births, but also has been hugely successful at increasing awareness of
normal birth and breastfeeding practices through her photography.
As
with other neuropsychological testing tools, the value of the SAC in concussion assessment is maximized when
individual baseline test data is available because, without such baselines, the athlete's postinjury performance on neuropsychological testing and other concussion assessment measures, such as the SAC, must be interpreted by comparison
with a generalized «
normal» based on a large population sample.
In
individual cases babies are born
with a visible tooth — don't worry, even this is within
normal boundaries.
Core characteristics include optimizing
normal biological psychological, social, and cultural processes of reproduction and early life; timely prevention and management of complications; consultation
with and referral to other services; respect for women's
individual circumstances and views, and working in partnership
with to strengthen women's own capabilities to care for themselves and their families.»
Sleep debt can also mask an
individual's basic sleep needs — so if it's been busy season
with all - nighters, wait until it's been a week or two of
normal sleeping before trying to note any patterns.
«Many of the hospitals have been able to handle the demand for beds for high risk
individuals with the flu
with their
normal staffing and room allocations.
An estimated 70,000
individuals around the globe suffer from cystic fibrosis (CF), which interferes
with the
normal function of the respiratory and digestive systems.
The study included 121 people from Japan and 252 from Australia, and both groups involved
individuals with normal brain function, mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's.
Tienush Rassaf, MD (University Hospital Essen, Germany) and his colleagues tested the potential of cocoa flavanols, a subgroup of plant - derived polyphenols that are present in cocoa and have been shown to have beneficial effects on blood vessel function in
individuals with normal kidney function.
«Our study showed major disruption of the
normal microbiome ¬ — the organisms in the gut — in
individuals with Parkinson's,» said Haydeh Payami, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Neurology, in the UAB School of Medicine.
When a standard hearing test was performed on these hearing - impaired
individuals, the responses of their auditory sensory cells and neurons, although
normal to begin
with, gradually worsened as the test went on as a result of the sounds used.
Albiges's team followed up on Furberg and Hakimi's work by comparing survival rates of
normal weight and obese
individuals with kidney cancer that had metastasized.
This could explain the poor outcomes for
normal weight
individuals with kidney cancer.
Through analysis of high - resolution anatomical magnetic resonance imaging of brain volumes, taken three times over the two - year study period, the researchers were able to determine that
individuals with MCI or Alzheimer's showed greater losses in gray matter volume in both the basal forebrain and temporal lobe, compared
with cognitively
normal controls.
Klebsiella pneumoniae is usually a
normal resident in the mouth of healthy
individuals, but as demonstrated in an experiment on specific pathogen - free mice treated and untreated
with the antibiotic ampicillin, they can colonize in the gut and activate TH1 cells when antibiotics disturb the gut microbial balance and weaken tolerance for the colonization of oral bacteria reaching the intestine.
To illuminate the process, the Yale team sequenced
normal, primary, and metastatic tumor tissue from multiple
individuals, including subjects
with a range of cancer types.
If someone is having a difficult time losing weight or getting a good night's sleep, wellness coaching helps the
individual feel like a
normal person
with a
normal problem,» he says.
Research conducted by Bianco and other Rush colleagues published Oct. 6 in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism found that
individuals on levothyroxine who had
normal TSH levels were significantly more likely to be taking antidepressants than peers
with normal thyroid function.
«Studies like ours can help those working
with these patients: awareness of the roles played by the different factors is in fact crucial for devising interventions aiming to minimise the effect of the deficits and restore
normal weight levels in
individuals who are already suffering because of the disease.»
Temporary spells of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome may also occur in
individuals who are under the influence of a drug (such as alcohol) that may relax their body tone excessively and interfere
with normal arousal from sleep mechanisms.
Overall,
individuals with ASD have fewer beta waves throughout the brain than
normal, indicating under - connectivity throughout the brain.
If the egg were indelibly etched
with asymmetric information that unequivocably determines development, the argument went, how could two embryonic cells be separated and still produce whole, intact,
normal individuals?
The scientists carried out a battery of face space tests on
normal individuals and on seven people
with prosopagnosia.
... When dopaminergic input comes in, [
individuals with the SNPs on one gene copy] would have a chance of having more transmission» than those
with two
normal copies of the gene.
Future additions to the RM collection may include whole genomes from persons
with Hispanic, African and mixed ancestries, as well as a set containing sequenced genes of both malignant tumor and
normal cells from the same
individual.
Compared to an image taken
with a
normal camera (left), HyperCam images (right) reveal detailed vein and skin texture patterns that are unique to each
individual.
The brains of
individuals with the syndrome look perfectly
normal.
«Because
individuals carrying a single mutant copy of a gene often mate
with an
individual with two
normal copies of gene, defects can be hidden for a generation and then show up in the grandchildren,» Bier adds.
US scientists have successfully generated hypothalamic - like neurons from human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) taken from the blood and skin cells of super-obese
individuals and people
with a
normal body weight.
Isolated by co-culturing PBMCs from a seropositive
individual from Zambia
with PHA - stimulated PBMCs from a
normal donor.
Sequencing of the mouse genome coupled
with the successful development of transgenic and knockout mouse lines allows researchers to investigate the roles that
individual genes play within specific mechanisms of renal physiology under both
normal and pathologic conditions (14).
The ADGC is making great strides
with your help and the NIA asks that you continue to support them by providing the blood samples from patients and cognitively
normal individuals enrolled and receiving the UDS in your Centers.
Bottom Line: Bacterial load was significantly higher in pancreatic tumor samples from patients
with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma compared
with pancreatic tissue from
normal individuals, and in studies using mice, eliminating certain «bad» bacteria slowed the growth of pancreatic cancer, reversed immune suppression, and upregulated the immune checkpoint protein PD1.
Current huntingtin - lowering drugs, called ASOs, are also given as
individual doses separated by several weeks,
with normal protein production expected to bounce back somewhat in between.
In this study, researchers followed some
individuals with SCI and others
with normal cognition for six years.
Tumor analyses commonly employ a correction
with a matched
normal (MN), a sample from healthy tissue of the same
individual, in order to distinguish germline mutations from somatic mutations.
The employment rate declines from 90 % to 20 % to 30 % within five years of diagnosis, and only 35 % of
individuals with documented MS report
normal social and lifestyle activities.
Data from patients
with familial AD
with autosomal dominant mutations4 and longitudinal observation of
individuals with positive Aβ PET scans and
normal cognition led to the observations that amyloid plaque pathology could be present as long as 2 decades prior to the emergence of the first clinical symptoms of AD.
Both
individuals have
normal neurodevelopment
with no extra-ocular signs of Baraitser Winter syndrome.
According to the researcher, this homeostatic state — the tendency to maintain internal stability, due to the mind and body's coordinated responses to any stimulus that disturbs the
normal condition — is altered in
individuals with addictions and psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia or anxiety.
We performed comparative whole CSF proteome analyses between CFS, nPTLS, and healthy
normal controls, and complemented these findings
with label - free quantitative analysis of
individual subject samples.
Although in rare cases,
individuals may have respiratory muscle weakness, CMT is not considered a fatal disease and people
with most forms of CMT have a
normal life expectancy.
Obese people
with central obesity were also at higher risk of death compared to
normal - weight and
normal - waist
individuals.