Sentences with phrase «physiological activity»

Sleep is the single most important physiological activity of the human brain.

Both greens stand equal as rich sources of essential vitamins and minerals necessary to fight disease and maintain proper physiological activity.

For the better part of the next decade, Gottman invited thousands of couples to «The Love Lab» and hooked them up to electrodes to measure physiological activity.

Using these cultures, an excitatory Ca2 + - influx assay was employed as an indicator of neural physiological activity.

A state of suppressed physiological activity is known as torpor, and a handful of mice, bats, and birds employ it on a daily basis.

While vitamin A is best known for its vital role in vision, the retinoid forms of this vitamin also participate in physiological activities related to the immune system, inflammatory system, maintenance of epithelial and mucosal tissues, growth, reproduction, bone development, creation of red blood cells, and production of spermatozoa (male reproductive cells).

Biofeedback is a process that enables an individual to learn how to change physiological activity for the purpose of improving health and performance.

We compared the effects of ACE and IMI on mammalian nAChRs with those of nicotine, using an excitatory Ca2 + - influx assay as an index of neural physiological activity.

What has happened is that a male model of physiological activity is being imposed on women in childbirth.

Although scientists can detect REM activity in fetuses, they can not know for certain whether this physiological activity, specifically eye movements, indicates that the fetus is dreaming.

Burger and his colleagues built a computer simulation of low frequency and high frequency neurons, based on observations of physiological activity.

However, floral scent is an important indicator of the presence of nectar because it provides information about the age and physiological activity of a flower, which is strongly correlated with its nectar production.

The sensors have considerable power and capability to monitor sensitive neural and physiological activity, Varadan said.

They said the biofeedback system has potential applications in controlled environment agriculture, as well as basic plant physiology studies, where the system can be used to maintain specific levels of physiological activity.

LED light levels are automatically adjusted to maintain specific levels of physiological activity.

To date, there is no commonly accepted assay which has been established to measure the physiological activity of MSCs in vivo.

Cyanobacteria possess one of the simplest known circadian clocks — the KaiABC system, a complex of proteins that undergoes a 24 - hour biochemical cycle, which triggers oscillations in gene expression and physiological activity.

This combination of tonic herbs work together to promote health by supporting balance within the body's physiological activities (especially the hormone system and menstrual cycle), generating blood, increasing blood circulation, enhancing immunity, and eliminating free - radicals thus, slowing down the aging process.