Sentences with phrase «signalling chemical influences»

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The chemical tells individual neurons to fire off a signal or not, influencing other brain signals and pathways, and essentially serves as a traffic cop of motivation, emotion, and social behavior.

Recent research has shown that the cascade of signals in the proinflammatory immune response tend to cause the amino acid tryptophan to break down into kynurenic acid rather than serotonin, a brain chemical that influences mood.

Preti is hot on the scent of the human armpit because he believes that secretions from the so - called axillary region harbor pheromones, airborne chemical signals that influence mating, dominance, familyties, and maturation in other species of the animal kingdom.

When light hits cryptochromes, they undergo chemical reactions that may be influenced by the direction of Earth's magnetic field, providing a signal of the bird's orientation.

Although the scientists can't assume hospitalization is directly causing suicide, they say their work backs up a hot theory that inflammation — one of the body's main defenses against infection — influences depression by generating a chemical that interferes with brain signaling.

«How good bacteria control your genes: Chemical signals from gut bacteria influence gene regulation in the gut lining.»

Visual signaling from biologically - inspired robots has been used to investigate the behavior of birds [27]--[31], dogs [32], lizards [33], fish [22], [34]--[42], and rats [43]; salient chemical cues have been implemented on a miniature mobile robot to investigate social behavior of cockroaches [44]; audio feedback has been integrated in a model of a robotic squirrel to influence squirrels» behavior [45]; pulsing air currents created by robotic honeybees have been used to investigate honeybees» dance [46]; and hydrodynamic cues from a swimming robotic fish have been considered in [20] to modulate fish behavior in a water tunnel.

Hi Paul - I keep reading more and more that gut bacteria sends out chemical signals that influence thinking in various and sometimes surprising ways.

But the one most cited is that the chemical signaling influences both the frequency of appetite and what to eat.

Estrogen influences serotonin, an important brain chemical that transmits signals, including to the tongue and palate.

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.

Animals produce natural hormones that carry chemical signals capable of influencing the behavior of other animals within the same species.

Vitale Shreve, Kristyn R., Udell, Monique A.R., Stress, Security, and Scent: The influence of chemical signals on the social lives of domestic cats and implications for applied settings.