Sentences with phrase «nutritional conditions»

Paper 1 considers the prevalence and consequences of nutritional conditions during the life course from adolescence (for girls) through pregnancy to childhood and discusses the implications for adult health.

Your veterinarian may examine your cat's eyes to evaluate her past and present nutritional condition.

Biologists at Indiana University have significantly advanced understanding of the genetic pathways that control the appearance of different physical traits in the same species depending on nutritional conditions experienced during development.

A study by researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and colleagues in the Netherlands evaluated the relationship between nutritional conditions in very early life and adult health, and found that famine exposure during the first pregnancy trimester was associated with increases in mortality from a variety of causes other than cancer or cardiovascular disease.

I know what you mean about long trips or other ordeal with substandard nutritional conditions can make you feel so awful that you NEED something fresh, green, and delicious!

In parts of the polar bears» range, the lengthening period of sea ice retreat from shelf waters — caused by increasing temperatures — can reduce their opportunities to hunt seals, leading to declines in bear nutritional condition.

A creature that lacks the gene starves to death much more rapidly than normal under poor nutritional conditions.

Thus, it appears that CCHa2 functions as a short - acting metabolic regulator analogous to the mammalian gut - or stomach - derived hormones described above, and that Drosophila melanogaster CCHa2 might have an important role in the maintenance of energy homeostasis under volatile nutritional conditions.

Dilps are evolutionarily conserved peptide hormones with functions similar to those of mammalian insulin / insulin - like growth factor (IGF), including the control of tissue growth and blood sugar levels in response to nutritional conditions [11,12][13][14][15][16].

Multi-input Dilp regulation might be advantageous under the imbalanced nutritional conditions that arise in the wild, and this could represent a general strategy for animal growth regulation.

Third - instar larvae were raised under the indicated nutritional conditions, and CCHa2 mRNA levels were tested by RT - qPCR using whole - animal RNA extracts.

How nutritional conditions are sensed and relayed to the body's organs to control growth and development remains not well understood.

In 1922 M. Mellanby proceeded to investigate this phenomenon under varying nutritional conditions and found that she could control the secondary dentine laid down in the teeth of animals as a reaction to attrition both in quality and quantity, independently of the original structure of the tooth.

Weakness and emaciation have been associated with canine distemper, but often animals will be acutely affected and be presented in good nutritional condition.

This signaling depends on nutritional conditions and ultimately couples growth and metabolism with nutritional status.

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«Climate is considered a main driver, whether it's direct through warmer winter temperatures causing heat stress and influencing the nutritional condition of moose or indirectly by establishing more favorable habitat for white - tail deer.»

In particular, the influence of warmer temperatures on moose nutritional condition and moose parasites, including a fatal brain worm parasite that is spread by white - tail deer, which have moved farther north into moose territory as the climate has gotten milder.

These results suggest that CCHa2 and CCHa2 - R functionally connect peripheral tissues with the brain, and that CCHa2 / CCHa2 - R signaling coordinates the animal's growth with its nutritional conditions by regulating its production of insulin - like peptides.

There are a variety of medical and nutritional conditions that can cause coprophagia, so a veterinarian is the first professional whose advice you should seek when you notice your pup eating his or her poo.

Reviewed records and assessed the nutritional condition of at - risk residents, including those with unplanned weight changes.