Sentences with phrase «of genes involved»

The germ - free and antibiotic - treated mice also had reduced expression of genes involved in inflammation.

The researchers found that when these flies were moved to colder temperatures, they doubled the expression of genes involved in fatty acid synthesis.

A new Finnish study found that listening to classical music enhances the activity of genes involved in memory.

This list is fascinating as it includes a number of genes involved in the development of muscle and bones.

For example, four strains carry a unique set of genes involved in producing a class of aromatic chemicals.

Though hundreds of genes involved in face shape remain to be identified, the findings represent an early step toward facial reconstruction with DNA.

Instead we can use models to look at the functions of genes involved in maintaining healthy organisms in order to obtain vital clues about the causes and progression of human diseases.

The syndrome can be genetically transmitted to a child when both parents possess at least one dysfunctional copy of a gene involved in eye development.

In patients with heart disease, eating a plant - based diet for three months was found to alter the activity of genes involved with artery inflammation and damage.

Researchers had already identified a handful of genes involved in this transformation.

Each tumor is rather unique because of the various genetic mutations of the genes involved.

And researchers will have to discover many more of the genes involved before they can fully understand their collective impact on health, he says.

The researchers identified differences in the expression of genes involved in various aspects of the injury response and recovery, including the proliferation and migration of new brain cells, compared to control fish.

From these comparisons we should be able to identify a narrow set of genes involved in the immune system to fight plague.

Such relaxation techniques can boost the activity of genes involved in several processes beneficial to health, and they only take a few minutes each day to show results.

For example, the study found down - regulation of genes involved in interferon tau, the major signal of pregnancy recognition.

Mice, the researchers found, have expanded families of genes involved in producing hormones related to sex and pheromones compared to humans.

Panels B and C. mRNA expression analysis of genes involved in blood cholesterol regulation and fatty acid metabolism, as quantified by transcriptome analysis, was performed in enhanced hiPS - HEP cells from C12, C18, and C22 on Day 12 post-thawing (n = 2 batches per cell line) and compared to hphep cells on Day 1 post-thawing (n = 3 donors).

CBX2 overexpression in breast tumors was associated with the upregulation of genes involved in cell cycle progression and is associated with poorer 5 - year survival.

The researchers developed a model of Alzheimer's disease and were surprised to find that increased levels of a gene involved in the production of toxic proteins in the brain not only led to Alzheimer's - like symptoms, but also to the development of diabetic complications.

Although the majority of genes related to energy production, cell division, and metabolism in M. jannaschii are most similar to those found in Bacteria, most of the genes involved in transcription, translation, and replication in M. jannaschii are more similar to those found in Eukaryotes.

The research team found that compared to bony fishes, the species of sharks and ray examined not only had a much higher proportion of genes involved in antibody - mediated immunity, but also that several of the infection immunity - related genes were expressed only in the sharks and rays.

Tremblaya and its counterparts have shed many of the genes involved in DNA repair, further accelerating their rates of evolution.

«We identified networks of genes involved in critical - period vocal learning, including human speech - related genes,» White said.

The analysis also showed that the preponderance of host responses shifted rapidly from activation of genes involved in cell damage and inflammation toward those linked to promotion of cellular and organ repair.

miR - 184 is known to suppress tumor development by regulating a variety of genes involved in cancer growth, while SND1 has been shown to play a significant role in the development of breast, colon, prostate and liver cancers.

«Consuming the phytochemical p - coumaric acid, which is ubiquitous in beebread and honey, alters the expression of a whole suite of genes involved in caste determination,» said University of Illinois entomology professor and department head May Berenbaum, who conducted the study with research scientist Wenfu Mao and cell and developmental biology professor Mary Schuler.

«We found a series of genes involved in regulating autophagy, which accelerate the ageing process.»

PEL cells can be defined by the overexpression of genes involved in inflammation, cell adhesion, and invasion, which may be responsible for their presentation in body cavities.

In Class I engagement, Sox9 binds indirectly to the DNA and regulates the transcription of genes involved in basal cell activities.

One of these featured the absence of a gene involved in sensing the hormones leptin and insulin, which play critical roles in both metabolism and appetite (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature08689).

Hamer had just published a study that claimed not only to have finally proved that male homosexuality was at least partially genetic but also to have pinpointed the stretch of chromosome where one of the genes involved resided.

In particular, the researchers found evidence for amplification of genes involved in metabolizing typical beer sugars and selection against production of 4VG, an undesirable flavor compound produced by most natural yeasts.

Killary and colleagues earlier identified a cluster of genes involved in cancer migration and then analyzed the proteins produced by those genes.

If southern plants needed to flower early in order to survive, for example, Sheth may be able to see noticeable selection of genes involved in early flowering, thereby limiting the genetic variability of this important trait in those southern plants.

The scientists found that if they replaced MYC with LIN41 in the cocktail of genes involved in reprogramming — meaning if they used O, S, K and LIN41 — they could convert adult cells into iPSCs with the same efficiency.

As a courtesy, Vogelstein, whose lab had already uncovered a fistful of genes involved in the disease, offered to test the 39 - year - old man for known mutations.

«We have also found in this bird an expansion of genes involved in fatty acid metabolism in ground tits apparently to withstand the extreme cold,» he said.

The researchers hypothesized that epigenetic modification of genes involved in learning and memory might be responsible for the diminished response of treatment for older memories.

We will use what we've learned in this species in a broader comparative study of genes involved in these diverse behaviors.»

Vertebrate gene families are typically found in simplified form in Ciona, suggesting that ascidians contain the basic ancestral complement of genes involved in cell signaling and development.

But this genetic diversity has never before been shown to include the loss of genes involved in the mitochondria's primary genetic function of respiration.

The latest findings open the prospect to identifying the whole pathway of genes involved in both homosexual and heterosexual orientation, says Dean Hamer at the US National Institutes of Health, who led the study that pinpointed chromosome X back in 1993.

The infection rapidly turned on a wide range of genes involved in immune system activation and cell death, they conclude, bolstering the hypothesis that the greatest harm may not have been done by the virus itself, but by an over-reactive immune system.

But to work, to build proteins or whatever else it does, the DNA requires the rest of the metabolic apparatus of the cell — or of the whole blood - forming system in the case of genes involved in the synthesis of haemoglobin.