Sentences with phrase «on skeletal growth»

In a 15 - month study, the effects of prepubertal gonadectomy on skeletal growth, weight gain, food intake, body fat, secondary sex characteristics, and behavioral development were investigated in 32 mixed - breed dogs.

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The consequences of pituitary dysfunction are wide ranging and particularly serious in children, who can suffer severe learning disabilities, growth and skeletal problems, as well as effects on puberty and sexual function.

Research interests: Evolutionary developmental biology; physical anthropology including primate evolutionary morphology with a focus on limb and axial skeletal biology, growth, and development

To date, studies of aragonitic, scleractinian CWC responses to ocean acidification have frequently examined short - term acclimation, with effects on coral bio-mineralization, growth, and skeletal strength only becoming evident in experiments run for periods of a year or more (e.g., Tittensor et al., 2010).

Recently, skeletal muscle has been recognized as an endocrine tissue with the capacity to secrete cytokines and growth factors, known as myokines, which can act on distant tissues.

Since you state that a decrease in net calcification could result from a decrease in gross calcification, an increase in dissolution rates, or both, you distinguish between these responses and get to the conclusion that the impact of ocean acidification on a creature's net calcification may be largely controlled by the status of its protective organic cover and that the net slowdown in skeletal growth under increased CO2 occurs not because these organisms are unable to calcify, but rather because their unprotected skeleton is dissolving faster.

The effect on skeletal muscle growth is one of the main reasons for the massive interest for epicatechin in recent years.

Increased Leucine levels signal to mTOR that there is enough dietary protein to synthesize new skeletal muscle protein, so mTOR «turns on» muscle growth.

Influence of dietary protein, energy and corticosteroids on protein turnover, proteoglycan sulphation and growth of long bone and skeletal muscle in the rat.

X-rays have been used to diagnose fractures and strains on the skeletal system, organ size and growth, heart size and even internal bleeding.

We examined changes in coral skeletal growth rates and partial mortality scars [11] to investigate the impact of the bleaching event in 2004 [16] on corals from different temperature variability regimes.