Sentences with phrase «of smaller compounds»

However, the protein we call «gluten» actually consists of hundreds of smaller compounds.

Green vegetables contain much more than vitamin C, calcium and all the rest; they also contain tons of smaller compounds and it is them that account for many of their reported health benefits.

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Find ways to reconfigure pieces of our daily lives, combining and compounding small changes to create big impacts.

Just moments after leaving Sallyport's compound, they saw a small four - door sedan parked on the side of the road ahead, its hood raised.

One of the reasons we're pretty okay with this idea is that though we'd be giving up some of the compounding, the required distributions would still be small enough that a reasonably aggressive portfolio would outperform it.

While many investors go in search of the magic triple - digit stock gain, Naples says young investors shouldn't overlook the power of consistent contributions that take advantage of compound interest — even if the contributions begin very small.

Even the smallest amount — through the power of compounding — makes for a significant sum in a 20 or 30 year period.

Paul Singer's profound understanding of markets and risk has allowed Elliot Associates to compound capital successfully over 40 years with only two small down years.

This is one of the things Heap's Komanoff over and over again is developing good habits and then doing them consistently over and over and optimizing those habits and that's how he starts off the book and he says in short the compound effect is the principle of reaping huge rewards from a series of small almost minuscule Smart Choices day in and day out.

Also because of regulations, smaller retail investors have effectively been blocked from participating in higher - yielding investments — namely, private equity and venture capital, whose 10 - year compound annual growth rates have averaged 11.8 and 11 percent, quite a bit more than Treasuries, equities and other common asset classes.

«Thanks to the power of compounding, if you start regularly setting aside even small amounts as soon as you start working, you could easily have enough for a comfortable retirement.»

But just as the power of compounded interest can help small early - career contributions balloon over the decades, small losses due to taxes can snowball over a lifetime.

«When we study the best compounding records, the vast majority of successful records were produced by a single manager or a small team where process, skill, intelligence and control were coupled with a value philosophy.

This synthetic power of transforming small «building stones» into the complicated compounds specific for each organism is the «secret of life» or rather one of the secrets of life.6

Hartshorne focuses on atoms and cells as clear instances of individuals.26 He notes that «all individuals apparent to the senses are compounded of numerous much smaller individuals.

Leclerc pictures the world as composed of a hierarchy of individuals each of which is compounded of smaller individuals until the ultimate stratum is reached.

Autoimmunity is commonly caused by bacterial infections or overgrowth in the small intestine, in which partially digested food compounds are incorporated into bacterial cell walls and then the immune system, reacting to the bacteria, forms antibodies that also recognize food compounds, some of which might cross-react with human counterparts.

Despite being primarily sugar (about 66 percent by weight, mostly in the form of sucrose), maple syrup contains a variety of nutrients and potentially beneficial natural compounds, including small amounts of amino acids as well as polyphenols.

A small quantity of compound butter, seasoned with garlic and herbs, makes a simple but delicious finish for a tender steak.

Proteins are made of much smaller compounds, called amino acids.

Compound fractures and shattered ribs are small discomforts in the credo of Kansas City Linebacker Sherrill Headrick, a man of joyous recklessness and a high pain threshold

Kraft Foods Inc, whose brands include Chips Ahoy cookies and Velveeta cheese, is one company that uses very small amounts of ammonium compounds in some of its products.

Proteins are made of numerous amino acid compounds linked together to form long chains.6 The immune system of a baby with cow's milk allergy mistakenly sees some cow's milk protein chains as harmful, and allergic reactions occur as it tries to fight them off.7 Imagine breaking apart these long protein chains into lots of smaller chains composed of only a handful of linked amino acids.8 That's what the cow's milk protein in Nutramigen ® with Enflora ™ LGG ® * looks like.

All it takes is a small amount of subtle changes to create a compounded snowball effect seen later in life.

In the past several years, there's been a rash of mergers among hospitals, a pre-emptive defense against a system in which larger hospitals with more patients will have a compounded advantage over smaller ones.

The impact that Superstorm Sandy had on small businesses, he said, compounded concerns about the ongoing effects of a four - year recession.

The technology is allowing basic scientists and small companies to generate impressive libraries of molecules, on a scale once reserved for big pharma, and select from them the most useful compounds.

By breaking up petroleum into smaller droplets that dissolved faster in the deep ocean, the dispersants decreased the amounts of volatile toxic compounds that rose to the surface and outgassed into the air.

Now one team reports in ACS» journal Environmental Science & Technology that small amounts of house dust containing many of these compounds can spur fat cells to accumulate more triglycerides, or fat, in a lab dish.

«We have discovered a small molecule compound that shows a profound and prolonged effect on autism - like social deficits without obvious side effects, while many currently used compounds for treating a variety of psychiatric diseases have failed to exhibit the therapeutic efficacy for this core symptom of autism,» said Zhen Yan, PhD, professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB, and senior author on the paper.

To try to develop a more sensitive probe for isolating individual peptides — short strands of amino acids — from a pool of similar molecules, a team led by chemist Clark Still of Columbia University 4 years ago synthesized small organic compounds that selectively fish out peptides dissolved in chloroform.

A synthetic drug — modeled after the alkaloid cytisine from the small flowering Laburnum trees of Europe chemically combined with a compound from the poppy plant — it also curbed drinking in seven rats with continuous access to alcohol and 30 rats trained to self - administer liquor when stressed.

The SMU researchers discovered the three hit compounds after virtually screening more than 15 million small drug - like compounds made publically available in digital form from the pharmacology database Zinc at the University of California, San Francisco.

Despite such glowing testimonials, some researchers worry about the potential for serious psychic damage if these compounds are used by hundreds of therapists on thousands of patients, instead of by a small cadre of dedicated scientists testing carefully screened volunteers in tightly controlled situations.

On the extremely small scale, however, the push and pull of electrons and protons is what controls chemical reactions, including every compound and every process in your body.

To see if the thalamus is the source of corollary discharges, they injected a small part of it with a compound that blocks neuron firing.

3BP, part of a class of compounds known as small molecule drugs, was first studied as an anti-cancer agent more than a decade ago at Johns Hopkins by biochemists Young Hee Ko and Peter Pedersen, together with radiologist Jeff Geschwind.

When the team fed small groups of mice gliadin — a component of gluten — they found that mice produced two to three times as many antibodies against the compound over the next two days if they were also infected with reovirus.

In this study, the researchers screened a library of 200,000 small molecule compounds to identify potential inhibitors of Ebola virus RNA synthesis.

Our guide is a small, «elegant» molecule called carbon disulfide — a compound that is a key ingredient in the making of viscose (better known as rayon) and is also insidiously toxic, having devastated the minds and bodies.

These conjugates are currently in human trials; however, the only way to obtain α - amanitin so far has been to harvest mushrooms, which is time - consuming and results in relatively small amounts of the compound.

In the heyday of antibiotic development in the mid-20th century many different chemical compounds with antibacterial properties were examined, but only a small proportion were selected for development into drugs.

«A long - standing dream of cancer biology is to find small molecule drug compounds to restore the activity of p53,» Amaro says.

Eyes in arthropods use compound designs, in which arrays of smaller eyes act together to provide image perception.

They hit upon a small organic compound called SB 247464 that stimulated the growth of mouse white blood cells in culture and in living mice.

While these compounds did not reduce the amount of protein aggregates, they were found to reduce the protein's toxicity and to increase the stability of amyloid fibrils — a finding that lends further evidence to the theory that smaller assemblies of amyloid - beta known as oligomers, and not the fibrils themselves, are the toxic agents responsible for Alzheimer's symptoms.

This compound binds to the inner lining of the small intestine and allows passage of the toxin into the bloodstream.

The researchers were surprised by the compounds» shared mode of action because unlike the small sized TDA, polyether compounds are quite large.

After analyzing thousands of compounds in the samples, the researchers determined that the presence of small metabolites called aromatics, which vary depending on a person's diet, also contributed to variations in bacterial growth.

The researchers dosed β2AR - containing discs with a small druglike compound that normally binds to the portion of the receptor facing out of the cell.