The remarkable specimen — which includes nine
skeletal elements from one individual, including the thoracic vertebrae and the femoral bones — is being heralded as the «best preserved hesperornithiform material from Asia» and to be «the first report of the hesperorinthiforms from the eastern margin of the Eurasian Continent.»
Not exact matches
Tom Atencio sports tribal tattoos,
skeletal silver jewelry and muscles sculpted
from years of practicing mixed martial arts, the violent spectator sport that combines
elements of wrestling, kickboxing and street fighting.
We used different symbols for estimations derived
from footprints vs.
skeletal elements, namely femurs.
In order to contextualise the australopithecine and early Homo stature estimates and range of variability obtained
from the footprints within a broader picture (Figure 12), and to compare them with a larger sample, we extended our analysis to consistent data based on
skeletal elements, namely femurs (see Materials and methods for details).
«Proteins are broken down into amino acids and used by the body for everything
from creating enzymes, immunoprotectors, transporter molecules, and structural
elements, such as
skeletal muscle,» he says.
The recent recognition that de novo lipogenesis might have relevance for lipid homeostasis in
skeletal muscle stems
from the realization that Sterol regulatory
element binding protein - 1c (SREBP - 1c), a member of the family of transcription factors that regulate the expression of genes involved in lipid storage in liver and adipose tissue, is also present in
skeletal muscle at a level close to that observed in the liver, 41,42... [M] ost fascinating are the very recent demonstrations that glucose alone (in the absence of insulin) can stimulate de novo lipogenesis in
skeletal muscle cells....