Sentences with phrase «serve as disease»

Good or bad, antibodies serve as disease markers.

Importantly, newly identified proteins will serve as disease biomarkers and will contribute to the development of novel therapeutic strategies.

The goal is to find reliable and robust cellular features that segregate with disease then can serve as disease signatures.

In the end, the identification of microbial species or metabolites that are altered in Parkinson's disease may serve as disease biomarkers or even drug targets, and interventions that correct microbial imbalances may provide safe and effective treatments to slow or halt the progression of often debilitating motor symptoms.

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I wish I had served as an example of how improving your health now, by losing weight, gaining fitness, and improving your cholesterol might just help you avoid a heart attack or heart disease — and, if you do have a heart problem, might just help mitigate the damage and possibly even save your life.

One serving of matcha tea has the nutritional equivalent of 10 cups of regularly brewed green tea, as well as 137 times more antioxidants, which protect against heart disease and cancer, lower cholesterol, and prevent stoke.

The outbreak of Ebola virus in West Africa in 2014, and the worldwide panic it caused, served as a wake - up call: We as a human race are still extremely vulnerable to fast - spreading, infectious diseases.

In late 2013 his father, Riley Bechtel, who had served for 24 years as CEO, retired four years early at 61 after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

Although bearing the same gay stigma in the public mind as does the disease, these groups typically are broadly based, receive public as well as private foundation funds, and seek to serve without discrimination all who are affected by AIDS.

First, on the negative side, it is quite likely that there will be some sort of rampant disease, catastrophe, or war which will serve as the final catalyst for the future changes.

History is known as the Living Buddha of Mongolia's largest served «Religious leader» life is not long, the short - lived on the third world die before the age of 16 baffling disease.

Two factors above all have contributed to implant and to foster this hesitancy: on the one hand, the very structure of the discipline which serves as a sort of introduction or preparation, to the science of religions (one knows that the majority of historians of religions are former philologists, archeologists, historians, orientalists, or ethnologists); on the other hand, the inhibition created by the lamentable failure of the vast theoretical improvisations of the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth (mythology considered a «disease of language,» astral and naturist mythologies, pan-Babylonism, animism and pre-animism, etc.).

«Taken together with previously established benefits of egg intake on HDL profiles, these findings further support the notion that eggs serve as a functional food to reduce cardiovascular disease risk in individuals with metabolic syndrome,» says Catherine Andersen, lead study author and PhD candidate at the University of Connecticut.

Weeds serve as hosts for insects, diseases, viruses, and nematodes.

«Studies show that eating whole grains lowers the risk of many chronic diseases, including heart disease and diabetes, with some studies showing reduced risks from as little as one serving daily.

We are happy to serve you either as your primary care provider or to offer a functional perspective for your chronic disease.

Originally, the resin has served these trees as a type of antibiotic to protect against plant diseases.

For more than 10 years now she has served as the president of the Italian Parkinson's disease organization, advocating and representing those affected by PD.

Not only that, it's also good for the mother and keeps her safe from developing various conditions and diseases, and it serves as a factor for bonding between mother and child.

She's already been blown away by the number of people willing to run and serve as our cheerleaders, as well as the people who have offered their love and support as she conquers this life moment as she conquers the disease — one day at a time.

NY1 story on BP Adams» Type 2 diabetes diagnosis serving as an unexpected wake - up call and a push to combat the disease on a grander scale (part 2 here).

Paladino, the 2010 Republican candidate for governor who served as honorary co-chairman of Trump's 2016 campaign in New York, has received international condemnation after he told the alternative newspaper Artvoice that he wished President Obama would die of mad cow disease and suggested Michelle Obama live with a gorilla.

The response in Newburgh was crafted in consultation with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and will serve as a national model for understanding PFOS exposure, state Department of Health spokesman James Plastiras said.

A vector is an organism that transmits disease by conveying pathogens from one host to another, serving as a route of transmission.

Wadsworth is one of the best - known state - run public health labs in the country and works on fighting diseases and other public health concerns in addition to serving as a general lab for the Department of Health.

Dogs already serve as models for diseases such as narcolepsy, certain cancers and blindness.

The consumption of bushmeat in Guinea may possibly serve as the transmission point from wildlife to human populations for the disease.

Could a fatalistic attitude toward cervical cancer serve as a barrier to prevention of the disease?

Crowded hospital emergency rooms, where very ill people would be brought, could serve as transitory disease factories, as they did with SARS.

And the enrichments may make the animals better at what they do: serving as important models for human disease.

If the results are right, and if certain gut bacteria are necessary for MS, they could serve as the basis for microbiome - based therapy or even prevention of the disease.

The researchers tested OCA in three groups of patients: 10 with primary BAD, where the intestine is otherwise healthy; 10 with secondary BAD, where malabsorption can occur as a result of another disease such as Crohn's; and eight with other causes of chronic diarrhea, who served as a control group.

Hunting and deforestation have already brought chimpanzees to the brink of extinction, but «diseases such as anthrax, Ebola, or introduced human respiratory viruses may serve as the final nail in their coffin,» says disease ecologist Tom Gillespie of Emory University in Atlanta.

Although tau imaging is still in its earliest stages, Ryan hopes that such imaging will accelerate drug development and that finding a blood - based biomarker for Alzheimer's to reveal risk (much like cholesterol serves as a marker for cardiovascular risk) will change the field dramatically in terms of how doctors can diagnose the disease.

The fact that TAS - 102 temporarily halted the disease in many of these patients suggests that it operates through a different biochemical pathway than 5 - FU, and therefore may serve as an alternative to standard therapy.

This approach will allow in - depth study of these diseases and may serve as a valuable system for drug discovery and screening.

Sukel, however, is quick to caution that although today's studies on the subject of love may indeed explain a thing or two about one's patterns in relationships, they can not serve as an instruction manual any more than DNA discoveries can predict the diseases you will contract.

«Since these touchscreens can detect very small capacitance changes we thought they could serve as highly sensitive detection platforms for disease biomarkers,» says Park.

Researchers note these tiny artificial tubes could one day serve as conduits for regenerating nerves severed in accidents or damaged by disease.

Last year the National Institutes of Health announced plans to put some 180 ex-Coulston chimps currently housed at the Alamogordo Primate Facility back in service, to rejoin the roughly 800 other chimps that serve as subjects for studies of human diseases, therapies and vaccines in the U.S., which is the only country apart from Gabon to maintain chimps for this purpose.

More recently, researchers have induced stem cells from diseased human somatic cells, which may serve as new model systems for various illnesses.

In nature, the resilient lignin polymer helps provide the scaffolding for plants, reinforcing slender cellulosic fibers — the primary raw ingredient of cellulosic ethanol — and serving as a protective barrier against disease and predators.

«This study may serve as a starting point for future research on how other inflammatory diseases may predispose patients for increased metastasis.»

Developing broad - spectrum drugs for the battlefield has proved difficult because regulators are more accustomed to evaluating drugs that target one specific disease, and drug companies prefer to focus on diseases that affect many people rather than on obscure pathogens that could serve as bioweapons.

Like humans, songbirds such as zebra finches (above) can learn vocalizations, and this similarity suggests they could serve as models for research on Huntington's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders that affect speech and vocalization.

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have now shown that the social media platform has another use: Twitter can serve as a dashboard indicator of a community's psychological well being and can predict rates of heart disease.

Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will hand over his Atlanta - based agency to an acting director, a career civil servant named Anne Schuchat who has been serving as Frieden's principal deputy director.

Plasma levels of this biomarker rose with kidney deterioration in patients with MMA, and may serve as a valuable indicator of MMA kidney disease progression in the clinic.

Overall the findings suggest that granzyme A could serve as a potential drug target for anti-inflammatory treatments for chikungunya — and perhaps also for other inflammatory diseases.

Research from Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey shows that the RUNX2 protein, which regulates the transcription of genetic messages responsible for the different functions of cells, may play a role in melanoma cell growth and spread and could serve as a therapeutic target for the disease.