Sentences with phrase «skin test measures»

The skin test measures the body's reaction to exposure to a specific food extract or substance.

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So as not to be influenced by patients» discourse and analysis of their eating disorders, the researchers used a «skin conductance test,» which measures the subject's sweating rate when exposed to various images.

Despite having been vaccinated against the disease in 1989, which was 3 years before Sousa and her colleagues examined them, 58 % of the Indians had a weakened or nonexistent immune reaction in skin tests that measure cell response to the tuberculosis bacterium.

To test the physiological effects of tears, Sobel's group measured men's galvanic skin responses (GSR's, basically a fancy measure of sweatiness) as they watched either neutral or sad movie clips.

To test the cooling potential of their three - ply construct versus a cotton fabric of comparable thickness, they placed a small swatch of each material on a surface that was as warm as bare skin and measured how much heat each material trapped.

To detect food allergies, physicians typically use skin prick tests or blood tests that measure levels of allergen - specific IgE (sIgE), a protein made by the immune system.

The scientists used two methods to prove that this pairing of a particular photo and pain was actually anchored in the test subjects» brains: The expectation of an electrical shock was demonstrated by increased cold sweat which was measured via skin conductivity.

Garle and his colleagues have designed a test that measures levels of a chemical to show the «sum effect» of all the cytokines produced by the skin cells.

Michael Garle, the project's supervisor, says that several research teams have tried measuring levels of cytokines as an alternative to traditional tests where chemicals are applied to the skin of an animal such as a rabbit.

The two most commonly used diagnostic tests are the skin prick test and a blood test to measure levels of specific IgE.

A new, non-invasive skin patch made from thin - film graphene could measure glucose levels without the need for a finger - prick blood test.

fMRI is generally thought to be no more or less reliable than the traditional polygraph test, which measures the changes in various physiological parameters — such as heart rate, blood pressure and skin conductance — that can change when someone is lying.

Conventional blood tests, which use blood from a vein, do not accurately measure hormones delivered through the skin.

The specific skin type which they tested was atopic dry skin, and all measures of inflammation were decreased.

Classical skin testing for allergies such as skin - scratch testing only measures IgE - mediated reactions.

This case study evaluated conventional allergy tests (skin prick and serum IgE), tests of other immune - mediated reactions (serum IgG and salivary IgA), and tests that claim to measure the energetic reaction of the whole person to particular foods (kinesiology, Vega, and Carroll testing).

Using a tool called the Trier Social Stress Test to induce psychological stress, and a capsaicin cream to produce inflammation on the skin, immune and endocrine measures were collected before and after training in the two methods.

GH chemists measured a 30 % increase in skin's moisturization levels over six hours — the highest of all creams tested.

If your veterinarian suspects that your pet has atopy, he or she may offer a referral to the dermatologist for intradermal allergy testing where a small amount of test allergens are injected in the skin and a wheal (a bump) response is measured.

The title references two unscientific tests used to determine African heritage: measuring the lightness of an individual's skin tone against a brown paper bag and the coarseness of one's hair based on whether it flows straight back from a fan's breeze.

The guidelines for diagnosis require pinprick sensations to be tested in each dermatome (an area of skin mainly supplied by a single spinal nerve), and further measuring the strength of ten pre-selected muscles on both sides of the body.

By contrast, a second study provides each subject with a wide range of facial images designed specifically to evaluate different dimensions of facial recognition (skin colour, hair colour, ethnicity, facial shape, etc.), each subject is tested over the full range of recall time periods, and a blood sample is taken from which serum concentrations of several well - described stress hormones are measured.

Some of the novel sensors give you the ability to measure UV exposure and a galvanic skin response test to monitor stress.

- Provide fitness assessments, including measuring blood pressure, heart rate, sub maximal bike test, weight, height, skin folds, partial curl up test, strength and flexibility

The relations between independent predictor variables (measures of immunological and psychological function at entry to the trial, age of onset, and duration of illness) and dependent dichotomous outcome variables (self rated global outcome; presence or absence of caseness on the general health questionnaire at follow up; reduced or normal delayed responses to hypersensitivity skin test) were examined in separate logistic regression analyses.