Sentences with phrase «organismal response»

Making use of cell and animal models, my laboratory group addresses some of the fundamental questions of how ethanol exposure injures the liver, with a goal ofidentifying the individual targets of ethanol - induced injury and the specific responses of the key cell types within the liver, as well as the integrated, organismal response to this ethanol - induced injury.

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Although no functions could be assigned to three of the proteins, bioinformatics analysis suggested that the remainder are involved in a wide range of biological processes, including reproduction, cellular metabolic processes, multicellular organismal growth, developmental processes, growth, locomotion, response to stimuli, localization and biological regulation.

«Coarse textures are reflected in the spatial pattern of responses by one set of receptors, but that's only a small part of the story,» said the study's senior author, Sliman Bensmaia, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago.

In doing so, specific cell types may activate immune responses to fine tune cell - fate decisions at the organismal level; for instance, DNA damage in germ cells induces an innate immune response in worms that promotes endurance of somatic tissues to allow delay of progeny production when germ cells are hit by DNA damage.

Therefore, signaling from peripheral tissues to the brain appears to be essential for the regulation of organismal growth and metabolism in response to nutrition availability in Drosophila melanogaster.