Sentences with phrase «other roles in the body»

So sulfur is essential for collagen formation, but it does have other roles in the body as well.
Potassium's other role in the body is to help in the metabolism of sugar to glycogen to provide energy for your daily tasks.
These fats keep our cell membranes healthy, reduce the risk for heart disease, and play other roles in the body.

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Body language plays a big role in how others perceive you.
There's no question that body language plays a huge role in your ability to persuade others to your way of thinking.
In this relational mode, distinctions would be made according to the distinctive roles played by one s own past, one's body, other persons, and God.
These glosses called into question the creation of the world in time, the role of the senses and the imagination in human knowing, the individuality (and personal responsibility) of the human intellect and will, the immortality of the human composite of body and soul, the role of divine Providence, the simple standard of one truth governing both theology and philosophy, and other foundations of both Catholic faith and empirical (as distinct from gnostic) reason.
She asked them first to switch chairs and to close their eyes and imagine themselves in the body and role of the other one.
One other major ingredient for this smoothie is kale, which is recognized as providing comprehensive support for the body's detoxification system.Researchers can now identify over 45 different flavanoids in kale, combining both antioxidant and anti-inflammatory benefits in way that gives kale a leading dietary role.
Jolene covers the different vitamins, minerals, and other compounds found in certain foods — and speaks to their importance and the roles they play in our body (how they affect our hair, skin, nails, digestion, etc).
For a long time, I've talked after conferences with other people about the possibiity of doing something new, something different, something that would be a true fit for those of us who want to see the world become a better place and don't see a role for multinational earth - polluting, body - polluting, profit - above - all corporations in that change.
FNP's wide scope also draws the dads in, since the programme is concerned with far more than just the pregnant woman's body and covers health, parental role, home, neighbourhood, family and friends, parenting, resources and community and other services.
Omega - 3 fatty acids and glycerol have been proven to play a fundamental role in the growth and development of the baby's brain, eyes, and other vital organs in the body.
Protein powder, found in gyms and health stores, delivers energy a body needs, but in addition to other meals and snacks, plays a role in amassing calories.
Zinc plays a role in many key body functions, including immune system response, so it's important to get enough of it, which vegans can do by eating nuts, legumes, miso and other soy products, pumpkin and sunflower seeds, tahini, wheat germ, and whole - grain breads and cereals.
As the Speaker of this House I am of a firm conviction that constitutional bodies must respect each other in the performance of their duties in order to avoid role conflicts,» Mr. Adjaho added.
That is a key role of the body established under royal charter and it is not now within the power of Mrs Miller or any other politician to prevent the charter body operating in that way.»
The plan calls for independent oversight of the city's Housing Preservation Department; establishing a public education campaign to inform tenants about HPD's role; empowering a new body or building inspectors to collect fines against landlords; having HPD make repairs not completed by the landlord in the specified amount of time and then billing the landlord; making inspectors carry citations in multiple languages and send out reports in multiple languages; forcing landlords to make repairs within 24 hours of emergency violations; establishing an East Harlem HPD oversight team as a pilot for other areas with at - risk low - income housing; providing inspections 24 - hours - a-day, 7 - days - a-week; and improving HPD's follow - up on violations.
Hydrogen sulfide, a lethal gas best known for smelling like rotten eggs, turns out to play key roles in the body — a finding that could lead to new treatments for heart attack victims and others
Mutations in the genes that defend the body against cancer - related viruses and other infections may play a larger role in breast cancer than previously thought, according to a study at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Although blood cells serve multiple roles in the body and have complex interactions with other cellular materials, most synthetic blood products have aimed to just stick to the bare basics — shuttling oxygen from the lungs to different vital organs and then bringing carbon dioxide back to the lungs to be exhaled.
Our work and that of other scientists now also suggest a role for differences in the makeup of the individuals» microbiome, the friendly bacteria that inhabit various parts of the body.
The research also raises questions about how bacteria living in other parts of the body may relate to HIV transmission, and whether they play a role in how other vulnerable populations are affected by the disease.
«There is a larger body of behavioural and neuroscience work that supports a role of prediction in language processing, for example of the meaning of an upcoming word, although many of those other results in the existing literature, especially in neuroscience, still need to be replicated.»
The work, funded by national charity Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund, uncovers new evidence that PAK4 plays a key role in enabling cancer cells to grow and to spread from the pancreas into other areas of the body, a process called metastasis.
Importantly, because the Ggamma13 protein plays important roles in other parts of the body, the Ggamma13 «knockout» was confined exclusively to smell receptor cells.
The UPR therefore plays a key role in secretory cells but also protects other cells of the body from the stresses associated with an accumulation of unfolded or misfolded proteins.
Only a few cells in a cancerous tumor are able to break away and spread to other parts of the body, but the curve along the edge of the tumor may play a large role in activating these tumor - seeding cells, according to a new University of Illinois study.
But the researchers think the cowlike microbes may have a functional role, digesting the carbohydrates in whales» diets, including a complex starch called chitin that makes up the shells and other body parts of crustaceans.
Other mechanisms besides the immune system may also play a role in spontaneous remission, according to Caryle Hirshberg, coauthor of Spontaneous Remission: An Annotated Bibliography and a consultant for the Institute of Noetic Sciences (the term «noetic» here relates loosely to mind - body connections).
Determining the similarities of molecular structures now plays an important role in designing all kinds of new molecules — mainly drugs, but also pesticides, fuels, polymers and substitutes for blood and other body fluids.
«We chose to study T cells because of their all - important role in patrolling the body to clear it of germs and such other dangers as cancer cells.»
Regulatory T cells (or «Tregs» for short) play a central role in the human immune system: They guide all of the other immune cells and make sure they are tolerant of the body's own cells and harmless foreign substances.
Dendrites, which branch from the cell body of the neuron, play a key role in the communication between cells of the nervous system, allowing for many neurons to connect with each other.
In humans, dietary proteins are broken down by digestion into amino acids, which serves as metabolic fuel or other functional roles in the bodIn humans, dietary proteins are broken down by digestion into amino acids, which serves as metabolic fuel or other functional roles in the bodin the body.
While this current study primarily focused on the role of Myc and TXNIP in triple negative cancer nutrient uptake and utilization, Ayer said the proteins also appear to play a role in metastasis, the process by which cancer cells spread to other parts of the body.
The problem is that many of the factors driving the hemoglobin switch also have other crucial roles in red blood cells and in other parts of the body; knocking them out creates severe new problems.
It has a fundamental role in the body's metabolism and other functions such as sleep and menstruation.
Importantly, because the Ggamma13 protein plays critical roles in other parts of the body, the Ggamma13 «knockout» was confined exclusively to smell receptor cells.
June 20, 2016 Microbiota affect the rate of transplant acceptance and rejection Researchers from the University of Chicago have shown that microbiota — the bacteria, viruses and other microbes living on the skin and in the digestive system — play an important role in the body's ability to accept transplanted skin and other organs.
Researchers from the University of Chicago have shown that microbiota — the bacteria, viruses and other microbes living on the skin and in the digestive system — play an important role in the body's ability to accept transplanted...
The answers they have discovered so far reveal critical information about gene regulation; specifically, that cells are used to record the positional identity in human tissues, and that the «perturbation,» the disturbance, of such programs plays a major role in cancer progression, especially in metastasis, whereby cancer cells spread to other parts of the body.
Adipose tissue has a central role in whole - body energy metabolism as a dynamic store of triglycerides, and as an endocrine organ that coordinates energy intake and use by other tissues (2).
Researchers from the Universities of York and Texas have discovered that the Golgi apparatus, commonly referred as the «Cellular Post Office» plays an important role in spreading cancer from lungs to other parts of the body.
But in time, a notion congealed — like a vat of warm triglyceride cooling in the breeze — that instead of kvetching about the lack of lipid expertise on the study sections, the lipid community could have a role in helping provide that expertise to the National Institutes of Health and other granting bodies.
SLC16A11 belongs to a family of genes known to transport molecules across cell membranes, but the proteins that genes produce can perform many different roles in the body, and they can be active in some tissue types but not others.
Because PLSCR1 is present throughout the body, not just in the brain, researchers plan to investigate the role of PLSCR1 in other inflammatory conditions.
Even though some of them such as trans fats are indeed bad, other kinds like unsaturated fats play a vital role in many essential body processes.
This is all cool until we get to the interaction of insulin with the fat cells, namely the other vital role of insulin in the organism: insulin inhibits the breakdown of fat cells and stimulates the creation of body fat.
Given its role in our immune and nervous systems, our skin, and every other major bodily system, you should expect this body of research to continue to balloon in the coming years.
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