Sentences with phrase «of environmental agents»

While it has been generally accepted that exposure to harmful environmental factors increase the susceptibility of the brain to neurological and psychiatric disorders, new types of environmental agents are continuingly added to the mix, requiring evolving studies, Hasimoto - Torii says.

Most experts, he notes, think these brain afflictions have multiple causes, including genes, poor diet, lack of exercise, and a variety of environmental agents, including pathogens and pesticides.

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The poster features a photograph of ethologist Jane Goodall and one of the many chimpanzees in whose company she has spent much of her adult life (and who have inspired her passion for environmental care), accompanied by the caption «Even Mother Nature has an agent.

@Chad: I. Mutations in DNA sequences generally occur through one of two processes: A. Environmental factors: DNA damage from environmental agents such as ultraviolet light (sunshine), nuclear radiation or certain chemicals B. Mistakes that occur when a cell copies its DNA in preparation for cEnvironmental factors: DNA damage from environmental agents such as ultraviolet light (sunshine), nuclear radiation or certain chemicals B. Mistakes that occur when a cell copies its DNA in preparation for cenvironmental agents such as ultraviolet light (sunshine), nuclear radiation or certain chemicals B. Mistakes that occur when a cell copies its DNA in preparation for cell division.

Another environmental agent that may be associated with a higher risk of ADHD is high levels of lead in the bodies of young preschool children.

As the countdown begins for us to join people from across the globe to celebrate WED on 5 June 2016, we all need to take part in environmental action and become agents of change for positive impacts on the planet.

The PBA of New York State is the exclusive bargaining agent for the New York State University (SUNY) Police, the New York State Environmental Conservation Police, the New York State Park Police, and the New York State Forest Rangers.

Speakers will discuss the contributions of the environmental and health communities to mitigating the effects of the release of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear agents, recognizing that the role of these disciplines varies based on the agent and release method.

This may be down to a variety of causes, such as genetic abnormalities, infectious disease, environmental agents or certain behaviors.

She said the role of the ob / gyn is changing as environmental chemicals are gaining more attention as agents of defects and disease.

New avenues of research could include the effects of reducing environmental stress, as well as whether pharmacological agents might be able to reverse the genetic alternations in vulnerable children before the disorder develops.

«This is important research to identify the causative agents of these environmental scourges,» says marine ecologist James Porter of the University of Georgia, Athens.

But the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-- empowered by the federal Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) of 1974 (and amended in 1986 and 1996) to set national safety standards — has urged communities since 1996 to cut back on chlorine, which produces harmful by - products when added to water, including trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids, known cancer - causing agents.

Alongside health risk maps, the online atlas provides a series of maps of four environmental agents: air pollution, agricultural pesticides, disinfection by - products in drinking water and sunshine duration.

Alongside this it provides maps of geographical variations of selected environmental agents such as air pollution, sunshine and pesticides.

«There have been some human studies of how mothers» exposure to various environmental agents affects the couple's success in conceiving a child and on the child's health.

«The idea is that when fat cells (adipocytes) interact with environmental agents — in this case, bacterial toxins — they then trigger a chronic inflammatory process,» says Patrick Schlievert, Ph.D., UI professor and head of microbiology and co-senior author of a new study published in the journal PLOS ONE.

The increased use of synthetic chemicals, including pesticides and pharmaceuticals to attack unwanted organisms, has outpaced the rates of change in rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations and other agents of global environmental change over the past 45 years, a new Duke - led analysis reveals.

Speaking on the importance of the study, Professor Bill Keevil, co-author and Chair in Environmental Healthcare at the University of Southampton, said: «Respiratory viruses are responsible for more deaths, globally, than any other infectious agent.

In particular, the environmental, chemical and medical samples we have collected, provide clear and convincing evidence that surface - to - surface rockets containing the nerve agent sarin were used... in the Ghouta area of Damascus.

We can test what effects environmental impacts such as pollutants have on the onset of the disease, whether there are new active agents that could possibly relieve the symptoms of Parkinson's — or whether the disease could even be cured from its very cause.

The Environmental Toxicology degree options in the University of Washington Department of Environmental and Occupational Health prepares students to investigate and communicate the effects of toxic agents on human health and the environment.

This protein proved to be a powerful protein remodeling agent that saved yeast from sudden high - temperature heat shocks and all sorts of other stressful environmental conditions her lab could conjure.

This new study, published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, furthered this research by examining the changes in physical properties of these aerosols due to aging, or oxidation, provoked by ozone or other oxidizing agents.

Despite the protection offered by the cellular environment, the integrity of DNA is continuously challenged by a variety of endogenous and exogenous agents (e.g. ultraviolet light, cigarette smoke, environmental pollution, oxidative damage, etc...) that cause DNA lesions, interfering with proper cellular functions, such as transcription, inducing premature cellular death and finally premature ageing and organs dysfunctions.

DNA is constantly exposed to a variety of damaging factors such as genotoxic agents, environmental factors (e.g. UV light, irradiation) or normal metabolic activities (e.g. nucleotide misincorporation during DNA replication, reactive oxygen species) that causes a range of lesions.

Manuscripts typical of this section would describe experiments generating and analyzing lists of genes and studies of how those genes combine to regulate: differentiation of a particular cell type; cellular, tissue, or organ response to toxic / pathogenic agents; adaptation to environmental stresses.

«The OPCW had access to blood samples, which were consistent with exposure of the patients to a nerve agent which got into the bloodstream and caused the reported effects, and also conducted on - site sampling of environmental samples, which was consistent with presence of the same nerve agent at these sites.

Legionella pneumophila is an environmental bacterium and the causative agent of Legionnaires» disease.

«For agents that cause disease — such as rodents or fleas — call a professional who knows how to properly fumigate and air out your home,» says Douglas A. Swift, MD, associate clinical professor in the departments of medicine and environmental health at Tulane University.

Generally, Chelation Therapy is a major component of Environmental / Detoxification Medicine which is completed by introducing an intravenous (IV) chelation solution (generally EDTA) into the vascular system via venipuncture or by taking oral chelating agents.

Free radicals are naturally produced in the body through the normal functioning of body systems and various physiochemical conditions, or through exposure to external sources such as pollutants and chemicals, and other environmental agents.

The cleaning agents are now nontoxic, says Gene Cole, PhD, professor of environmental health science at Brigham Young University; find a certified cleaner near you at CertifiedCleaners.org.

A 2009 scientific review about environmental chemicals and thyroid function concluded, «Available evidence suggests that governing agencies need to regulate the use of thyroid - disrupting chemicals, particularly as such uses relate exposures of pregnant women, neonates and small children to the agents».

Reduce your environmental chemical load We are exposed to a plethora of human - made chemicals every day in our food, beverages, drinking water, toiletries, cosmetics and cleaning agents, as well as in the air we breathe.

For, as with so many aspects of human physiology that occupy a responsive role to environmental stressors, with short term stressors, microglia function as health promoting agents by, as noted above, removing cellular debris and promoting neurologic repair.

Many herbs can act as a natural laxatives and cleansing agents to help rid your body of the various detrimental environmental toxins we encounter on a daily basis.

Although both scientists and lay people alike may frequently identify a single dietary element as the cause of chronic disease (eg, saturated fat causes heart disease and salt causes high blood pressure), evidence gleaned over the past 3 decades now indicates that virtually all so - called diseases of civilization have multifactorial dietary elements that underlie their etiology, along with other environmental agents and genetic susceptibility.

Formulated with a hydrating botanical complex, antioxidant protection, and light - diverting agents, this concealer can hide under - eye circles, reduce the appearance of wrinkles, and help to neutralize environmental aggressors — A.K.A. free radicals, pollution, and sun damage.

As for turning students into positive agents of environmental change, Mr. Kawamoto explained: «There are many examples of this program being inherited from brothers and sisters, or from teachers.

Change Agents, a graduate - level environmental engagement and employment network, works with NUS and the Environmental Association of Universities and Colleges (EAUC) to promote sustainability within environmental engagement and employment network, works with NUS and the Environmental Association of Universities and Colleges (EAUC) to promote sustainability within Environmental Association of Universities and Colleges (EAUC) to promote sustainability within universities.

These ideas laid the foundation for the Green Lane Environmental Diary, which from humble beginnings in Japan in 1999, has gone onto inspire more than one million students across Asia and the Pacific to become agents of change for a sustainable future.

Abstract: The Green Lane Environmental Diary program, founded in 1999 by Green Cross, is a school - based educational initiative promoting sustainable development and inspiring students to become agents of transformative change in their own communities.

After a week of training (in biomedical engineering, environmental protection, and expressive technologies) the girls come to the final day of camp only to learn that the Senior Click agents have been called away on various missions.

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The students were briefed about the institute and informed that it continues to walk the legacy of Prof. Wangari Maathai and therefore keen on training transformative leaders and change agents with a multidisciplinary practical knowledge on resource economy, policy, legal pluralism, community mobilization skills and appropriate participatory approaches handy in assisting communities to sustainably utilize resources besides developing policy and generating research data that would guide integrated environmental governance and management.

The course provides hands - on experience in identifying and characterizing disease - causing agents of humans and animals; participants also visit the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital, the school's veterinary anatomy laboratory, Sacramento Zoo, UC Davis Medical Center and other sites to learn how their biology studies connect with animal, human and environmental health.

Likewise, while links between external cancer - causing agents — such as environmental carcinogens, exposure to sunlight, viruses, and vaccine injections — have been established in relation to various other forms of feline cancer, these factors do not appear relevant to the onset of mammary cancer in cats.

With a giant spaghetti arm sprouting from the top of his head, Ray uses his newfound abilities to evade government agents and solve puzzles, making Stick it to The Man a delightful environmental puzzle platformer that carefully blends the weird with the unexpected.

Since 2005 he has concentrated on studio based abstract work, as well as collaborating on large - scale environmental projects with the collective Agents of Change.