Sentences with phrase «other environmental agents»

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.

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.

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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.

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.

«Patient exposure to toxic environmental chemicals and other stressors is ubiquitous, and preconception and prenatal exposure to toxic environmental agents can have a profound and lasting effect on reproductive health across the life course.»

On the other hand, allergies to environmental agents like pollen or mold can be difficult to avoid, in which case your vet may recommend immunotherapy or treatment with antihistamines.

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.

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Strong knowledge of organizing, and evaluating technologies for detection and analysis of categories A, B and C viral agents, USDA overlap agents as well as environmental contaminates and other human - pathogenic viruses.

While no other studies, to our knowledge, have explored the buffering effects of the caregiving environment in the stress - asthma association, animal studies have shown that environmental enrichment can reverse the effects of early stress experiences on stress reactivity.51 Laviola et al52 and Morley - Fletcher et al53 have shown that environmental enrichment eliminates the outcomes of prenatal stress on corticosterone response and reactivity to an immune - suppressive agent.