Sentences with phrase «signaled by conversion»

Sanneh says «syncretism represents the unresolved, unassimilated and tension - filled mixing of Christian ideas with local custom and ritual, and that scarcely results in the kind of fulfilling change signaled by conversion and church membership.

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Aβ is believed to penetrate neuronal plasma membranes, where it leads to lipid peroxidation.10 It has also been implicated in deactivating a subunit of the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, thereby inhibiting conversion of pyruvate to acetyl CoA and the eventual production of cellular energy as ATP.32 Another way Aβ affects glucose metabolism in the brain is that fragments of Aβ disrupt insulin signaling by binding to neuronal synapses, which alters their shape and function.15, 38 Insulin receptors are abundant at synapses, so if the integrity of the synapse itself has been compromised, the receptors won't function effectively.

TSH is just the signal, it doesn't tell us how your thyroid is responding to that signal, trouble with conversion of made thyroid hormone (T4) into active thyroid hormone (T3), how much of that is free and available for action, and a host of other issues are not seen by just looking at TSH.