Sentences with phrase «similar studies involving»

Similar studies involving 20,000 women found that talcum powder use is linked to a 24 percent increase for ovarian cancer risk.

The reduction in pain ratings was substantially greater than those seen in similar studies involving placebo pills, hypnosis, and even morphine and other painkilling drugs, he adds.

Not exact matches

This new research will be part of a major project involving similar studies on South Korea (Prof. Dr. Christine Lienemann - Perrin) and South Africa (Katrin Kusmierz, MTh).

A related paper, involving Svendsen, his colleague Gad Vatine, PhD, and a team from University of California, Irvine, published the same day in the journal Cell Reports, used a similar approach to study Huntington's disease.

A new study involving biologists from Monash University Australia has found that despite their very different ancestors, dolphins and crocodiles evolved similarly - shaped skulls to feed on similar prey.

To see whether cancer stem cell renewal involves a chain of events similar to that used by embryonic stem cells, and whether the process was affected by oxygen levels, Semenza and graduate student Chuanzhao Zhang focused their studies on two human breast cancer cell lines that responded to low oxygen by ramping up production of the protein ALKBH5, which removes methyl groups from mRNAs.

Hannah Horowitz from Harvard University, who was not involved in the study, was surprised to see a similar — albeit less detailed — trend in her own work.

In February, a similar study of PRO 2000 that only involved about one - third as many women found 30 % fewer HIV infections in the treated group, but with a p - value of 0.10 — a positive trend that did not reach statistical significance.

The second case study was similar to the first, but involved predicting the «handedness» of chemicals made when a catalyst was used to convert a double carbon - carbon bond to a single carbon - carbon bond in a chemical named diarylalkene.

Diamond acknowledges that many other factors are involved in the long history of this island but that the comparative method, he writes, consists of comparing — preferably quantitatively and aided by statistical analyses — different systems that are similar in many respects but that differ with respect to the factors whose influence one wishes to study.

Gambetti, who was not involved in the new study, is co-author on a second NEJM paper appearing online today that shows that an assay similar to the CSF — based RT - QuIC test can pick up very small amounts of abnormal prion protein in the urine of people who have contracted a rare variant of CJD that is transmitted by consuming contaminated meat.

Previous studies had suggested that meditation does something similar for parts of the brain involved in focused attention.

«The duration of support is outstanding,» said Dr. George Mychaliska, a pediatric and fetal surgeon at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, who has spent the past 10 years researching similar systems, and was not involved in this study.

Past studies have shown that this brain region is involved in judging one's own traits and thinking about oneself and similar others.

The study, which will involve 16 000 women, could be under way before a similar trial in Britain, which has become entangled in a controversy over the drug's safety.

Because the mice involved in the study were genetically similar, researchers ruled out a genetic link to the different responses.

NIH also has similar expectations for studies that involve the use of de-identified cell lines or clinical specimens.

The white paper recommends that practitioners follow relevant guidance documents and that deviation from consensus recommendations should be supported by clinical studies or pursued in the setting of a clinical trial approved by an institutional review board; that practitioners receive training in a new procedure before beginning its practice, that the training should include a practical, «hands - on» component and that all team members directly involved with the radiation therapy decisions should participate in at least five proctored cases before performing similar procedures independently; and that professional societies should accelerate the generation of new or updated guidance documents for the following disease sites and techniques: skin, central nervous system, gastrointestinal, lung or endobronchial and esophagus, and, while outside the charge of this panel, assess the need for updated guidance documents for accelerated partial breast irradiation using electronic brachytherapy.

The work and other similar, recent studies could also help «redefine» how vaccines are developed to make them more effective and less likely to have side effects, says Wayne Koff, the chief scientific officer at the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative in New York City, who was not involved with the research.

A new study led by scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) shows that an HIV - 1 vaccine regimen, involving a viral vector boosted with a purified envelope protein, provided complete protection in half of the vaccinated non-human primates (NHPs) against a series of six repeated challenges with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), a virus similar to HIV that infects NHPs.

The analysis reveals that «as these systems get larger and more mature, they converge on a similar topology,» says David Levinson, a transportation engineer at the University of Minnesota, who was not involved in the study.

Unlike other mice used to study the virus, the Hopkins mice have completely intact immune systems more similar to humans, which enable researchers to see all that is involved in mounting an immune response.

«Although birds in this study were shown to compensate by switching to other seed types, the findings suggest that the capacity of grazed lands to support similar numbers of birds as ungrazed lands may be compromised,» according to the Vermont Center for Ecostudies» Rosalind Renfrew, an expert on grassland bird conservation who was not involved in the study.

Alterations in ΔFV0.1 in the present study are parallel to similar changes in sensitivity to G6P (ΔA0.5), indicating that phosphorylation / dephosphorylation - dependent mechanisms are involved in the changes of FV0.1.

The results showed that the mutational spectrum of these genes in PTCL - NOS was similar to that in B - cell lymphoma, in which predominantly missense mutations were found.17, 18 Importantly, our study provided clinical evidence that histone modifier gene mutations, particularly those involved in histone methylation and acetylation, are significantly associated with tumor chemoresistance and disease progression of PTCL - NOS.

He was not involved in this study, but he is wrapping up a similar one in mice.

They decided to explore whether AIM2's protective role might involve gut bacteria, based on studies from Kanneganti's lab and others indicating that microbial sensors similar to AIM2 contributed to healthy gut microbiota.

Here my research will involve the investigation of prokaryotes, which live in similar anoxic environments to the protists that I studied during my PhD, but I will be trying to understand their biological processes on a wider community - scale.

Perkins wasn't involved in the new study, but he has conducted similar research on the effect of peer behavior and attitudes on alcohol use in teenagers and young adults.

In a pilot study involving 36 patients with type 2 diabetes, researchers found that three months of treatment with berberine had a similar hypoglycemic effect as the popular diabetes drug metformin.

A similar study in the same journal last October involving 181 male prisoners found a 47 percent reduction in total trauma symptoms, including anxiety, depression, dissociation, and sleep disturbance, and a significant decrease in perceived stress, compared to a non-meditating control group.

Another study involving 16 athletes, released just a couple of weeks ago, found similar results.

And in one study of diabetics, a high - protein, high - cholesterol diet improved HDL more than a similar high - protein diet with a low cholesterol content (though it was likely other components of the foods involved, rather than the dietary cholesterol itself, that caused this).

A similar study came to similar conclusions, but also looked at a number of additional enzymes involved in vitamin D metabolism (5).

Another study involving trained males, probiotics, and protein supplementation delivered similar results.

In fact, in one study, a dose of mercury sufficient to kill 1 percent of lab rats (lethal dose «LD01»), when combined with a dose of lead sufficient to kill 1 percent, killed 100 percent of the rats.13 A similar test involving mercury and aluminum in cultured neurons killed 60 percent of the cells when the two low - dose toxicants (LD01) were combined.14 Even antibiotics have been shown to enhance the uptake, retention and toxicity of mercury.14 Additionally, testosterone appears to aggravate mercury toxicity during development, while estrogen protects against it.15 This may explain why more boys than girls are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders and attention deficit disorders.

A subsequent study involving overweight non-insulin dependent diabetic patients found similar results.

And a study involving 79 obese adults showed that vibration has a similar effect in humans:

After hearing the story some scientists were inspired to conduct a study involving thousands of similar «bus pairs» of London Transit workers.

Using student - level data, they are able to surmount a criticism of the Skiba et al. study by limiting the analysis of students involved in the same fight to a sample in which neither student had a previous suspensions — so the only comparisons involve students with similar disciplinary records.

Experimental studies, although few and involving small numbers of children, show similar effects.

She is also involved as co-investigator in a number of similar evaluation studies conducted in early childhood educational settings including Chicago School Readiness Project, Foundations of Learning, and Head Start CARES.

She is also involved as co-investigator in a number of similar evaluation studies conducted in early childhood educational settings including Chicago School Readiness Project, Foundations of Learning, Head Start CARES.

All of us involved in the case — recall that Jesse Rothstein and I served as the expert witnesses on behalf of the plaintiffs, and Thomas Kane of the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Project and John Friedman of the infamous Chetty et al. studies (see here and here) served as the expert witnesses on behalf of the defendants — knew that all of the plaintiffs» claims would be tough to win given all of the constitutional legal standards would be difficult for plaintiffs to satisfy (e.g., that evaluating teachers using their value - added scores was not «unreasonable» was difficult to prove, as it was in the Tennessee case we also fought and was then dismissed on similar grounds (see here)-RRB-.

The current study involves 2010 - 12 Volvos and is the first to look at City Safety, which, because it comes standard, could be more likely to include respondents whose attitude toward safety is similar to the average driver.

[14] The subsequent 12 - month study (this time involving 186 Bristol households, 275 cats, and 495 prey items) found a similar level of apparent non-hunters: roughly 61 percent.

While Mass was not involved with the new study, his prior research reached similar conclusions regarding a strong influence of Pacific Ocean cycles on changes in annual snowpack levels in the Cascade mountains.

In addition to these mid-ocean ridge studies I am also involved in the application of similar marine geophysical techniques to study sedimentary processes and characterize benthic habitats in the near shore setting.

Although research findings on prevalence are inconclusive, they generally find that women and men report similar levels of violence when the contexts, motives and consequences are not considered.6 When they are considered, studies assessing IPV perpetrated by men compared to women often report gender differences regarding the types of violence, reasons for the violence, context in which the violence occurs and consequences of the violence.6, 7 For example, studies assessing differences in IPV find men's violence against women to be more severe, threatening and controlling8 — 10 and involve longer - lasting victimisation, fear of bodily injury or death, more injuries and more adverse health effects.5, 11, 12 It has also been found that women tend to use physical violence out of anger, not being able to get the partner's attention or in self - defence and retaliation, 11 whereas men often use it as a means to exercise coercive control.13, 14

The study, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, involved in - depth interviews with 130 newlywed couples, 49 of which became pregnant, and it confirmed similar research findings about marital happiness after children are born.