Sentences with phrase «process chemical signals»

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However, if you don't see those [Earth - like] signals, you can't conclude that there isn't life, because the life may be completely different; it may proceed in some chemical pathway that we might mistake for nonbiotic processes, for geologic processes.

Once thought to be a sign of disease processes, hydrogen peroxide is now understood to be a critical signaling chemical inside cells, Kemp noted.

Yeast cells have a very fine, adjustable multitool that recognises chemical signals, processes them accordingly, and initiates the correct response — growth towards the source of the signal.

When attractant or repellant chemicals attach themselves to receptor sites on the surface membrane of a bacterium, it triggers a process within the cell that leads to the modification of the signal protein, CheY (pronounced «Key - Y»), enabling it to bind to the switch and change the bacteria's direction of movement.

Several long - lived worms carry mutations in a gene involved in a process that appears to use chemical signals to trigger activities inside cells.

Gangliosides are lipid molecules that were proposed to play key roles in numerous biological processes, including the formation of raft domains, the entry of toxins into cells and chemical signal reception.

Depression is associated with a multitude of pathological processes, including inflammation of the peripheral immune system, a set of biological structures and processes in the lymph nodes and other tissues that protect against disease and abnormalities involving synapses, the structures that permit neurons to pass an electrical or chemical signal to other neurons.

When an electrical signal arrives at a nerve terminal and needs to be passed along to the next neuron, neurotransmitters, or chemical messengers, packed in vesicles mediate this process.

Knox developed a chemical compound that can be injected into the gland to mimic the signals from the nerve cells and reactivate the repair process with the stem cells.

Chemosensing is an active process, and for a cell to follow a chemical gradient, it must coordinate the activity of a swarm of protein «signals» that lead to the cell's movement.

And how are these mechanical processes linked to the chemical signals that orchestrate tissue development?

Ongoing research focuses on chemicals that alter Ca2 + signaling pathways essential physiological processes including neurodevelopment, striated muscle function and oocyte fertilization.

By defining the processes behind these cellular signals, the blueprint for the heart, we hope to one day recreate them through chemical methods — using drug cocktails to coax stem cells into becoming heart cells at just the right time and place.

She also partly means that this signal must be one that no chemical or geologic process alone could have left behind.

The translation of extracellular, chemical information into the correct cellular response is a process known as signal transduction.

Neurons transmit chemical signals in a fleeting «kiss - and - run» process, which in large part determines how quickly neurons can fire, according to new studies by Howard Hughes Medical Institute...

The translation of extracellular, chemical information into a cellular state change is a process known as signal transduction.

And while omega - 3 essential fatty acids signal the chemical messengers that turn off the inflammatory process, the average person consumes 10 to 15 times more omega - 6s than omega - 3s.

Everything in your body, from the tissue that supports your skeleton to the neurons that fire signals from your brain to your feet run on the energy that's created by the food we eat, and I personally would prefer to have body tissue made from real, whole foods than tissue constantly bombarded by chemical byproducts of food processing from something that came out of a box and went through a factory full of chemicals and processes I'd never even see or hear about.

We can move beyond the chemical theories, the complex analysis, and simply be in the process of sending the bodymind a signal of safety.

Essentially every process in our bodies is governed by a complex network of signaling chemicals.

First, dietary phosphorus can influence the production of bone by helping with phosphorylation — a chemical process by which phosphorus is linked to an amino acid — of signaling proteins that stimulate bone growth.

Therefore the purpose of this review is to investigate how cats process and use chemical signals in social contexts, and identify ways this information can be used to improve cat welfare, including additional species - appropriate ways of reinforcing the human - cat bond.

Although the production of chemical signals, their perception through olfactory processes, and the behavioral response to these signals plays a central role in domesticated cat communication and behavior (especially social behavior), the function, scope and importance of these abilities are often not given the same level of attention dedicated to other domesticated species (e.g. dogs or pigs), which may lead some to erroneously underestimate the significance of this communication modality in cats.

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