Sentences with phrase «skeletal bones»

Vitamin D3 is another critical nutrient that plays an essential role in calcium uptake into skeletal bone tissue.

Puppy food contains more calcium than adult food to aid in the development of the puppy's skeletal bone structure and teeth.

She was 70 years old and a mixed media artist who worked on paper, with metal, marble and animal skeletal bones.

These results mean that the drug is likely safe to use in children with FOP without concerns about affecting normal skeletal bone growth.

«This is the first study to show in a mouse model with the same mutation that causes FOP in people that the drug palovarotene inhibits and abates extra-skeletal bone formation, yet is protective for normal skeletal bone growth,» said senior coauthor Eileen M. Shore, PhD, the Cali / Weldon Professor of Orthopaedics and Genetics at the Center for Research in FOP and Related Disorders in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

The FOP mutation and resulting increased BMP signaling also mildly reduce skeletal bone growth.

By painstakingly reassembling partially crumbled or smashed specimens, analyzing tooth enamel to determine diet and habitat, and peering inside skeletal bone using powerful high - resolution micro-CT scans (like medical CT scans but with much higher radiation than could ever be used on a patient), the researchers have uncovered what White calls «a complex locomotor hybrid, a creature the likes of which had never been seen.»

In that disease, fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), a mutation triggers bone growth in muscles, alters skeletal bone formation, and limits motion, breathing, and swallowing, among a host of progressive symptoms.

The computer program interpolates the connections («edges») between the markers based on human skeletal bones, giving us the movement of the skeletal «rig» through space and time.

Known only through isolated teeth, haramiyids were largely mysterious until the discovery of the remarkably well - preserved jaw of Haramiyavia — with intact molars, nearly complete mandibles and postcranial skeletal bones — in Greenland in 1995 by a team including Shubin, Stephen Gatesy, professor of biology at Brown University, and the late Farish Jenkins, former professor of zoology at Harvard University.

Recently, I blogged about the newly discovered skeletal bones of the Dmanisi hominids (Lordkipanidze et al. 2007, Gibbons 2007, Lieberman 2007), and the Discovery Institute's response to them.

six months old) generally results in less bleeding, quicker recovery, and increased skeletal bone growth.

By early childhood, however, some of the body's connective tissues — including muscles, ligaments and tendons — have begun ossifying into skeletal bone, locking the joints and distorting posture and movement.

The 4 - hectare site has yielded closely packed, beautifully preserved fossils that are the oldest hominins known outside of Africa, including five skulls, about 50 skeletal bones, and an as - yet - unpublished pelvis unearthed 2 years ago.

Both the skulls and skeletal bones are primitive even by Homo erectus standards, and have a number of features reminiscent of Homo habilis:

Lubenow's book doesn't have any discussion of the Dmanisi skulls (the skeletal bones were not then known), but he does put the largest of the 3 Dmanisi skulls in his list of H. erectus fossils (which he considers human, p. 350), and the smaller 2 Dmanisi skulls in his list of H. habilis fossils (p. 352), which he considers to be apes.

Acting as your body's foreman, HGH instructs your skeletal bone and muscle to grow larger and stronger while it speeds the conversion of excess fats into energy.In other words, it's responsible for youth, vitality, energy and all of the health benefits we associate with youth.

Because myasthenia gravis impacts your skeletal bones, it can cause a lot of problems.