Sentences with phrase «response during exposure»

Attention, heart rate, and startle response during exposure to trauma - relevant pictures: A comparison of recent trauma victims and patients with posttraumatic stress disorder

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It was a long battle with plenty of setbacks, but the U.S. government has finally agreed to compensate New York emergency crews who got cancer from their exposure to toxins during the response to the collapse of the World Trade Center.

In addition to being more highly exposed to As, children appear to be far more sensitive to the potential carcinogenic effects of As49, 50 and have a heightened risk for adverse growth, adverse immune response, and adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes,25,51 - 53 even at relatively low levels of exposure.24, 54 Our results indicate that consumption of rice and rice products increases infants» exposure to As and that regulation could reduce As exposure during this critical phase of development.

In animal models, exposure to cigarette smoke or nicotine during fetal development alters the expression of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in areas of the brainstem important for autonomic function, 28 alters the neuronal excitability of neurons in the nucleus tractus solitarius (a brainstem region important for sensory integration), 29 and alters fetal autonomic activity and medullary neurotransmitter receptors.30 In human infants, there are strong associations between nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and serotonin receptors in the brainstem during development.31 Prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke attenuates recovery from hypoxia in preterm infants, 32 decreases heart rate variability in preterm33 and term34 infants, and abolishes the normal relationship between heart rate and gestational age at birth.33 Moreover, infants of smoking mothers exhibit impaired arousal patterns to trigeminal stimulation in proportion to urinary cotinine levels.35 It is important to note also that prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke alters the normal programming of cardiovascular reflexes such that there is a greater - than - expected increase in blood pressure and heart rate in response to breathing 4 % carbon dioxide or a 60 ° head - up tilt.36 These changes in autonomic function, arousal, and cardiovascular reflexes might all increase an infant's vulnerability to SIDS.

«It's well established that exposure to alcohol - associated cues and to stress can lead to reinstatement of the drug seeking response, which is thought to be a model of craving or relapse in rats,» said Bertholomey, who will present the research at the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) Annual Meeting during Experimental Biology 2015.

During exposure to food antigens or nonpathogenic microbes, inflammation is absent, which results in immune tolerance — the default response.

Dr. Elias and the OCAR primarily focus on understanding why ERP works (e.g., fear tolerance versus fear habituation; the roles of guilt, willingness, and acceptance; patterns of brain activation during exposure; functional connectivity among brain regions), tailoring treatment to the individual (e.g., elucidation of predictors of response and their underlying processes / mechanisms and neural correlates; rigorous diagnostic characterization of obsessive compulsive related disorders), and evaluating innovative treatments and augmentation strategies (e.g., acceptance and commitment therapy; optimization of inhibitory learning; pharmacological augmentation).

Working closely with numerous groups both within and outside the Broad, Livny uses these methods to gain insights into the physiological responses of diverse pathogens to the host environment during infection, uncover inter-species differences in the expression of conserved functions that drive pathogenicity, and define signatures of transcriptional responses to antibiotic exposure that enable rapid diagnosis of antibiotic resistant strains.

While some cortisol is absolutely necessary to live — this is the hormone that is released from your adrenal glands in a cyclic manner during the day or during times of stress — most of us exist in a state of nearly constant exposure to this compound, resulting in lowered blood sugar response, abdominal weight gain, decreased memory, reduced cellular energy production, and diminished immunity.

That's why it's important to ensure your skin technician is qualified and that you ask all the appropriate questions during your initial consultation so that you understand how medications, medical conditions, sun exposure, skin type and hormonal changes can affect your response to the treatments.

Developmental trauma research now argues that trauma exposure during childhood affects children's self - regulatory capacities by disrupting the normal functioning of the body and brain stress - response systems, which can affect emotional and cognitive functioning (Putnam, 2006).

«Based on the responses received on the exposure draft and concerns expressed by various stakeholders during discussions, we have finally notified the revised schedule of premium at about 15 per cent less than what was proposed in the exposure draft for goods carrying and passenger carrying vehicles,» Irda said.

The effect of family influences during youth and early adolescence on later young adult inflammatory processes are anticipated by predictive adaptive response (PAR) models (Gluckman et al., 2005; Rickard and Lummaa, 2007), which note that if earlier family circumstances signal increased probability of future injury and / or pathogen exposure, it is potentially adaptive to prepare a developing young person to have greater inflammatory response potential (cf. Cole et al., 2011).

Stress exposure and psychological stress responses are related to glucose concentrations during pregnancy

Pups that received brief neonatal novelty exposures away from the home environment showed enhancement in spatial working memory, social competition, and corticosterone response to surprise during adulthood compared with their home - staying siblings.