Sentences with phrase «role in the human body»

The hormone estrogen plays an important role in the human body and has been linked to everything from tumor growth to neuron loss during Alzheimer's disease.

Dietary fat plays many important roles in the human body, and one of them is hormone production.

Betalains play another critical role in human body.

The thyroid plays an essential role in the human body which includes cell reproduction, general nerves functioning, metabolism, growth and how cellular oxygen use.

But we now know that insulin plays many more very important roles in the human body — ones they don't teach you in high - school.

However, recent studies suggest that gut microbes play another crucial role in the human body by regulating circulating estrogen levels.

It has numerous roles in the human body, but its main one for acne is manufacturing the key homemade antioxidant in humans — glutathione.

Toxic metals do not have a single positive role in the human body either.

Cortisol's most important roles in the human body are regulating blood pressure and cardiovascular function.

Glutathione has another major role in the human body — detoxification.

Insulin's basic role in the human body is to shuttle nutrients into cells, and by far the most important nutrient it controls is the carbohydrate.

These two nutrients play an important role in the human body to develop and grow.

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In the first instance, this meant that the aesthetic quality of the human body, both male and female, played a role in Greek culture hardly paralleled elsewherIn the first instance, this meant that the aesthetic quality of the human body, both male and female, played a role in Greek culture hardly paralleled elsewherin Greek culture hardly paralleled elsewhere.

However, attitudes about proper roles for men and women were further complicated for any theologian in the early years of Christianity by differences in Gentile and Jewish attitudes about the human body.

Several themes stand out in Mayernik's accounts of these cities: the persistence of a humanist sensibility grounded in sacred order (including what can only be regarded as a sacramental sense of the relationships among the human body, the city, and the cosmos); the role of memory in the life of traditional cities; the relationship between memory and artistic action; and the city as the physical embodiment of shared aspirations rather than «reality.»

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.

It makes up about 30 % of all the protein in the human body, and is found in your bones, tendons, ligaments, connective tissues and skin, and plays various roles in your overall health.

It is found in both men and women, and although it performs many functions in the human body, it is known as the breastfeeding hormone because of its role in the production of breast milk.

«This proximity played a key role in enabling human infants, who lack the capacity to fully regulate their bodies, to survive.

The discoveries reported in two independent studies in the American Journal of Human Genetics on January 7 add to evidence for an important role for interspecies relations in human evolution and specifically in the evolution of the innate immune system, which serves as the body's first line of defense against infecHuman Genetics on January 7 add to evidence for an important role for interspecies relations in human evolution and specifically in the evolution of the innate immune system, which serves as the body's first line of defense against infechuman evolution and specifically in the evolution of the innate immune system, which serves as the body's first line of defense against infection.

«This is really good evidence for an intentional role for humans in the accumulation of bodies at the bottom of this pit and suggests the hominins from this time period were already engaging in complex cognitive behaviors,» said Quam.

Chemical modifications of DNA play a big role in how genes turn on and off in the human body (SN: 2/14/09, p. 5).

Ironically, because of its pivotal role in coordinating a range of cancer - fighting mechanisms in the human body, it is also one of the most important cancer - causing genes when mutated.

Earlier studies have linked the human microbiome — that is, the collection of microbes living in and on the human body — to a variety of health conditions, but little is known about the role of the penile microbiome as it relates to men's health.

Human milk's most important role could be preventing infant disease and boosting immunity by cultivating a balance of microbes in the gut and the rest of the body, a kind of internal ecosystem called the microbiome.

The experiments were carried out in mice, but since there are also time - of - the - day dependent differences in body temperature in humans, it is to be expected that the mechanism also plays an important role in human physiology.

A single gene appears to play a crucial role in coordinating the immune system and metabolism, and deleting the gene in mice reduces body fat and extends lifespan, according to new research by scientists at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center (USDA HNRCA) on Aging at Tufts University and Yale University School of Medicine.

By analyzing genetic samples for over half a million individuals as part of the GIANT research project, which aims to identify genes that regulate human body and size, researchers found more than 100 locations across the genome that play roles in various obesity traits.

«This study adds to an important body of work that has shown the ubiquity of a circadian clock across species, including humans, and its role in metabolic regulation in cells, organs, and organisms,» said Dr. Michael Sesma, Program Director in the Division of Genetics and Developmental Biology at the of the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of General Medical Sciences, which partially funded the research.

While genetics play a role in the development of Lupus, a systemic autoimmune disease that can attack any organ system in the human body, so do environmental triggers, such as particulates in air pollution and ultraviolet light, explains Gaurav Gulati, MD, a physician - researcher at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine.

But in the past decade, researchers have come to appreciate that the bacteria living in and on our bodies — collectively called the human microbiome — play a role in how our bodies work, affecting everything from allergies to obesity.

Though the findings were made in mice, not humans, the researchers say the crucial role of calcium may help explain another mystery: Why some hospital patients and nursing home residents have a much higher risk of contracting C. diff infections and the resulting diarrhea that carries its spores out of the body.

Terence Hines, a professor of psychology at Pace University in New York and author of the book «Pseudoscience and the Paranormal» (Prometheus Books, 2003), told Live Science that the new study makes sense given the role of the vestibular system in the human body.

Researchers are still piecing together the complex role that microbes in and on human bodies play in human immunity, and how those microbes respond to stress.

The revelation that plant microRNAs play a role in controlling human physiology highlights the fact that our bodies are highly integrated ecosystems.

Cardin asked whether there were any safe levels of lead that could be taken into the human body and what role Pruitt believed the Clean Air and Water Act played in regulating lead.

Given that adipose tissue (which makes up between 15 and 20 % of the body weight in healthy people) is a source of inflammation in obese individuals, Christine Bourgeois and Olivier Lambotte, from the University Paris SUD, France, and colleagues, decided to investigate a possible role of the adipose tissue in humans infected with HIV and in macaques infected with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV, an HIV relative that causes AIDS - like disease in some non-human primates).

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.

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.

In a recent study, the research group of Prof. Michael Hall from the Biozentrum of the University of Basel has shed light on the role of hepatic mTORC1 in whole body physiology and the relevance for human liver cancerIn a recent study, the research group of Prof. Michael Hall from the Biozentrum of the University of Basel has shed light on the role of hepatic mTORC1 in whole body physiology and the relevance for human liver cancerin whole body physiology and the relevance for human liver cancers.

In the past decade there has been growing awareness of the important role of the human microbiome — all the bacteria, viruses and fungi that live on and in our bodieIn the past decade there has been growing awareness of the important role of the human microbiome — all the bacteria, viruses and fungi that live on and in our bodiein our bodies.

Some of the most profound insights in the crucial role of microbes for human well - being have emerged from analyses of the microbes on and in our bodies — their genomes, transcriptomes, proteomes and metabolomes.

According to new research led by scientists at The Salk Institute, the vitamin plays a critical role in helping to guide the embryonic heart to its final destination in the left side of the body of all vertebrates, including humans.

Also in humans, both insulin and leptin play important roles in regulation of energy metabolism and body weight via central and peripheral effects.

Using blood collected from elderly persons aged up to one hundred and demonstrating no cognitive impairment, the researchers isolated precisely those immune cells whose antibodies are able to identify toxic beta - amyloid plaques but not the amyloid precursor protein that is present throughout the human body and that presumably plays an important role in the growth of nerve cells.

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.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes today are announcing their role in an unprecedented collaboration organized by the National Institutes of Health, which used groundbreaking methods to vastly improve our understanding of bacteria that reside in and on the human body.

Studies in mice and humans have suggested that BAT also plays a role in regulating body weight and metabolism.

Growing interest in the microbiome, the community of microorganisms and viruses that inhabit the human body, has led researchers to investigate the role of the human microbiome in the initiation and progression of tumors.

The human microbiome plays a role in processes as diverse as body composition, immune function, and mental health.