Sentences with phrase «normal mechanisms for»

He seems to believe that for healthy people at least it's quite safe to consume large quantities of the precursors but playing Russian Roulette to take large quantities of the active forms and thereby bypass the body's normal mechanisms for tightly regulating the levels of the powerful active forms.

Overheating is especially dangerous in these brachycephalic dog breeds, because increased panting (the normal mechanism for cooling in dogs) can cause further swelling and narrowing of the already constricted airways, which will increase your dog's anxiety.

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We may conclude, therefore, that the notion of purpose is logically compatible with the emergent aspects of nature but that the discernment of such purpose can not be achieved by a purely scientific quest for peculiar mechanisms or unusual disturbances of the normal, lawful flow of physical, biotic and conscious activities.

In May 2000, the Archives of Disease in Childhood published research showing that scrotal temperature is increased in boys wearing disposable diapers, and that prolonged use of disposable diapers will blunt or completely abolish the physiological testicular cooling mechanism important for normal spermatogenesis.

I know it's totally normal for toddlers and young kids to do this because their coping mechanisms aren't fully developed yet so, for them, the easiest way to express frustration is by dramatically falling to the ground and either screaming things like, «You touched Rainbow Dash with your hair!»

It seems as though SIDS occurs when a vulnerable baby encounters an external stressor during a critical developmental period and experiences some catastrophic failure of the normal protective physiological mechanisms that kick in for all other babies when they experience the stressor.

Obviously this is a new idea for the UK Parliament, but fixed term Parliaments are perfectly normal around the world and require a mechanism for dissolution.

The advance, reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) journal, for the first time allows scientists to analyze how normal gut microbes and pathogenic bacteria contribute to immune responses, and to investigate IBD mechanisms in a controlled model that recapitulates human intestinal physiology.

Among postmenopausal women with normal body mass index (BMI), those with higher body fat levels had an increased risk for invasive breast cancer, according to data presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Special Conference Obesity and Cancer: Mechanisms Underlying Etiology and Outcomes, held Jan. 27 - 30.

So they need mechanisms to rapidly respond to a stressful event — being eaten by a bug, for example — and then quickly transition back to «normal» conditions when the stress level subsides.

Although bacteria have a seemingly limitless capacity to alter their genes by swapping bits of DNA between strains, this mechanism doesn't seem enough to account for the swift pace of change and the high variability of E. coli and other strains.Thomas Cebula of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wondered if this rapid evolution is being driven by microbes capable of much faster - than - normal variation.

Further insight into the mechanisms by which bladder bacteria and antimicrobial peptides communicate during normal and disease states will facilitate the development of better prevention and / or treatment strategies for UTI - susceptible populations.

The finding that normal fertilization can result in embryos containing cells with different parental sets of chromosomes is a new mechanism for chimerism, which was previously thought to occur only as the result of fertilization errors, for example, the fusion of multiple sperm or eggs to form an embryo.

The team eliminated three of the four known starch synthases by inserting backward copies of the genes for each one into the potato genome, which, through an unknown mechanism, interferes with the translation of the nearby normal gene.

Researchers should stop searching for genetic limits on variation and instead «focus on discovering the mechanisms that allow species to stabilize a «normal» body style,» he said.

To avoid detrimental outcome for the organism, cells with mutations that generate deviations from normal chromosomal number are eliminated by cellular protection mechanisms.

However, none of the normal trigger mechanisms for arsenic contamination seemed to apply.

Founded by Paul F. Glenn in 1965, the mission of the Glenn Foundation For Medical Research is to extend the healthy years of life through research on mechanisms of biology that govern normal human aging and its related physiological decline, with the objective of translating research into interventions that will extend healthspan with lifespan.

These include, for example, the mechanisms behind stem - cell development and what happens when normal cellular growth spirals out of control, such as in cancer.

In particular, the savvy scientists at the renowned Buck Institute for Research on Aging are devoted to geroscience, studying the mechanisms of aging and the connection between normal aging and chronic disease, in the institute's Novato labs.

Ultimately, the reeducation of stromal cells to recover the control mechanisms responsible for normal tissue homeostasis might be an innovative strategy to support the current cancer treatments.

Hunter is known for his 1979 discovery of a mechanism called tyrosine phosphorylation, which is a molecular switch that turns normal cells cancerous.

In a substudy, review outcomes were also compared across different types of clinical research, based in large part on the designations and definitions derived from a number of sources, including a report by Nathan, 14 the Institute of Medicine, 20 the NIH Director's Panel on Clinical Research, 9 the Association of American Medical Colleges and American Medical Association, 21 and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.22 All 3599 R01 applications involving human subjects that were submitted to NIH for the October 2002 council were categorized into 1 of the following: (1) patient - oriented studies of mechanisms of human disease (bench to bedside); (2) clinical trials and other clinical interventions; (3) patient - oriented research focusing on development of new technologies; (4) epidemiological studies; (5) behavioral studies (including studies of normal human behavior); (6) health services research; and (7) use of deidentified human tissue.

Below we report the experimental results for a new selective mechanism of PNB generation around clusters of gold NPs, and the evaluation of the developed mechanism at cell level for the theranostics of prostate cancer cells growing amidst normal stroma.

This DNA becomes damaged in the course of normal cellular processes, and certain forms of mitochondrial DNA damage - to the thirteen genes needed for oxidative phosphorylation - produce malfunctioning mitochondria that can overtake their cells, either by replicating more readily or being more resistant to quality control mechanisms.

Researchers are using stem cells to help them understand normal development of brain tissue and what goes wrong in MS. Stem cells are also enormously useful for testing new drugs and treatments and for learning more about the body's natural repair mechanisms.

Future experiments to validate this model by directly manipulating signaling between conceptus and endometrium will allow for a more precise understanding of the mechanisms of pregnancy failures that occur during the periimplantation period after normal fertilization and SCNT cloning.

When we fight what is normal for our body, we are working against all the hormonal mechanisms that keep us healthy, and that can lead to physical and mental illness such as an eating disorder.»

The balancing of such altered metabolite level may change the adverse effects for some extent because of existence of normal feedback mechanism exists in the body.

If we have a disturbed night or sleep for less time than normal, it is likely the body's repair mechanism will not work as well.

«If we understand how this UV - resistant gene functions and the processes by which cells repair themselves after ultraviolet damage, then we could find targets for drugs to revert a misguided mechanism back to normal conditions,» said Chengyu Liang, the study's senior author and an associate professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

What do you if you're a normal person with a normal job, you got a cubicle with flame retardants [inaudible 00:40:45] in it, you're exposed to stuff in your workplace, you're exposed in your car to whatever the heck is the new car smell which is mostly bad news for your hormones, like you're bathed in this stuff and you got on an airplane, you fly somewhere, what's the protective mechanism?

It's normal, harmless and totally reversible, and part of a mechanism of glucose sparing for the organs that can't do without glucose.

Normally, this mechanism operates for a few days and wears off, restoring normal thyroid function.

As part of this homeostatic mechanism, the initial response of the body to compensate for decreased MAP is to bring it back up to normal by increasing systemic vascular resistance, by vasoconstriction.

This is important in order to maintain the normal self cleaning mechanisms in the mouth that are responsible for controlling plaque.

One can not imagine any actual physical or biological mechanism for (say) nerve damage to the optic nerve, retinal detachment, physically damaged eyes, or even mere cataracts, to spontaneously revert to normal healthy tissue due to the application of filthy mud.

Since 2009, CORE - I (Normal Year Forcing) and CORE - II have become the standard method to evaluate global ocean / sea - ice simulations and to examine mechanisms for forced ocean climate variability.

The mechanism for funding exceptional cases outside of the normal framework of the legal aid scheme is failing to provide a sufficient safety net.

«The difference between narcissistic personality structure and borderline personality organization is that in the narcissistic personality there is an integrated, although highly pathological grandiose self... The integration of this pathological, grandiose self compensates for the lack of integration of the normal self - concept which is part of the underlying borderline personality organization: it explains the paradox of relatively good ego functioning and surface adaptation in the presence of a predominance of splitting mechanisms, a related constellation of primitive defenses, and the lack of integration of object representations in these patients.»

I offer individual counseling for depression, anxiety, self - esteem issues, major life stress or change which disrupts normal coping mechanisms and makes it difficult for a person to cope with new circumstances, mindfulness in our present day life, as well as relationship issues.»

There are a number of factors which make managing A1C particularly difficult for teens including: Social pressures and responsibilities, motivation, personality, nutrition, substance use, sleep habits, brain re-structuring, defence mechanisms (such as denial and avoidance), social justice issues (oppresion — racism), diabetes education, individuation, future - oriented culture, access to health services, family structure and dynamic issues, marital conflict between parents, family and friendship conflict with teen, mental health stigma, academic pressure and responsibility, limited mindfulness and somatic awareness, spirituality (especially concerning death), an under - developed ability to conceptualize long - term cause and effect (this is developmentally normal for teens), co-parenting discrepencies, emotional inteligence, individuation, hormonal changes, the tendency for co-morbidity (people with diabetes can be more prone to additional physical and mental health diagnosis), and many other life / environmental stressors (poverty, grief etc.).