Sentences with phrase «stress responses»

Numerous studies have demonstrated activity of these agents against a wide variety of cancers, especially cancer stem cell - like subpopulations, by a host of different mechanisms which comprise inhibition of signaling pathways, of mitochondrial respiration, as well as of cellular stress responses and others.

Deficiency of BrpB causes major defects in cell division, stress responses and biofilm formation by Streptococcus mutans.

Knowledge of biological characteristics of individual corals enhances the ability to predict stress responses to a bleaching event.

Certain anaesthetics apparently induce mutant protein aggregation in neurons and cause stress responses in those brain cells.

And the new research published this week leans towards the latter: Certain anaesthetics apparently induce mutant protein aggregation in neurons and cause stress responses in those brain cells.

Discovery that induced stress responses underlie inter-individual variation in isogenic animals and promiscuously reduce the effects of inherited detrimental mutations (Lehner group, Science 2012).

Identification of genes and molecular mechanisms which determine the development, light perception and utilization, as well as environmental stress responses of plants.

Until recently, GRXs were known to be mainly involved in oxidative stress responses in plants.

We are also interested in other neuronal functions of the TSC signaling network, such as the control of neuron size, myelination, survival and stress responses.

These proteins are involved in plant stress responses in general, particularly in defense against pathogen attack.

Researchers investigating adaptive stress responses aren't the only ones interested in effects at low doses.

Michael Romero of Tufts University, who studies stress responses in wildlife and was not involved in the study, says, «The neat thing about this paper is that it showed environmental stress lowered [reproductive success].»

The changes might be related to the animals» heightened stress responses.

The second study, which looked at second - to sixth - grade students in the United States, found that being victimized by peers alters the development of children's stress responses.

Further highlighting the relationships between peer victimization and children's developing stress responses, the study found that when peer victimization decreased during elementary school, girls» effortful engagement rose significantly and their involuntary disengagement fell.

Mansuy says the behavioral changes were associated with an increased level of the glucocorticoid receptor in the hippocampus — the part of the brain that contributes to stress responses.

In the second study, researchers looked at how the development of children's stress responses is affected when they are the targets of peer victimization.

The Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research (CGA) in Germany is a joint venture of the University of Cologne Excellence Cluster on Stress Responses in Aging - Associated Diseases (CECAD), the University Hospital Cologne, the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research and the Center of Advanced European Studies and Research (caesar).

For adolescents with a history of early and prolonged adversity from peers, programs should be implemented that bolster the development of adaptive stress responses, the authors suggest.

From animal studies, we know that this system is involved in stress responses and it's also involved in the reinforcement from nicotine.

«They also point to middle childhood and early adolescence as a critical period for implementing programs that foster socio - emotional learning skills before long - term trajectories of peer victimization or maladaptive stress responses have been established.»

Consistent with other data, these findings suggest that physical proximity is often a potent predictor of stress responses.

These findings have broad implications not only for the potential treatment of neurodegenerative disorders, but for further understanding the impact of neurological disease on metabolism and stress responses throughout the body.

«Different stressors may have different stress responses,» she says.

In one experiment, Dangl's team found that Arabidopsis plants with mutant versions of the PHR1 gene not only had impaired phosphate stress responses, but also developed different communities of microbes in and around their roots when grown in a local native North Carolina soil.

To regulate mood, the prefrontal cortex acts as a pacemaker to coordinate the actions of the amygdala, which governs stress responses, and the ventral tegmental area, which plays a role in the brain's reward circuitry.

All my research had been in some way connected to the biological adaptation to extreme conditions and to stress responses.

Ferris claims the realism of VirTra helps prepare trainees to cope with sometimes lethal stress responses like «tunnel vision,» a natural tendency to ignore potential threats in the periphery.

It's a first step in mechanistically understanding how cellular stress responses are wired in specific contexts.»

Just watching television footage of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, was enough to cause clinically diagnosable stress responses in some people who did not even live near the attacks — let alone the millions of people who did.

«Because we know that learning to deal with stress in childhood has lifelong consequences for emotional health and well - being, we need to better understand what works to buffer those stress responses early in life.»

More important, oxytocin's effects are heightened by estrogen and dampened by androgens like testosterone, which may help explain differences between male and female stress responses.

These stress responses are managed by the brain.

It lies in going back to the source of the body's stress responses, with evaluation of brainwave asymmetry between the left and right sides of the brain's temporal lobe.

«Other studies have seen a relationship between tameness and stress responses in animals,» said Jessica Hekman, the first author of the paper who worked on the study as a graduate student in the laboratory of University of Illinois animal sciences professor Anna Kukekova.

Thomason and her team plan to further investigate this as a possible mechanism for the stress responses they observed.

The cerebellum has the highest density of glucocorticoid receptors, which are involved in stress responses, than any other place in the brain.

During the free - play sessions, mothers with hyperactive stress responses engaged in the highest levels of hostility with their toddler, including derogatory comments, angry tone of voice, and rough physical interaction.

In mothers with higher depressive symptoms, stress responses were «hyperactive,» the researchers found.

Children growing up in chaotic and dangerous circumstances without responsive caregivers develop stress responses to normal life that impede later learning and social adjustment; they lack perseverance and focus.

In addition, research shows that kangaroo'ed babies spend more time in quiet sleep, which enhances organizational patterns in the brain and decreases baby's stress responses.

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There is increasing evidence that some approaches to «teaching babies to sleep» that advise leaving babies to cry, can cause stress responses that may lead to long term, adverse changes to a baby's developing brain.

It defines 3 types of stress responses in children: Read more

Violence can trigger stress responses in mom, and get passed onto the unborn child, triggering physiological and biochemical responses that can cause problems later in that child's life.

Despite decades of research on sleep training, most studies have focused on outcomes related to sleep and daytime behavior, but few have examined babies» stress responses to this change.

While there are lots of variables beyond infancy that can affect the development of healthy stress responses and this evidence may not be «proof» of harm, it certainly suggests we don't have «proof of no harm».

It is scientifically plausible that our entire hypothalamic - pituatary - adrenal (HPA) axis, which mediates long - term stress responses and immune function, as well as short - term fight - or - flight reaction, is permanently mis - set by the continuing high stress hormone levels that ensue when newborn babies are routinely separated from their mothers.

In another recent study, newborns at high risk for developing abnormal stress responses showed no evidence of such problems at 7 months — not if their mothers reported giving their babies lots of caresses (Sharp et al 2012).

First, the infant has experienced higher levels of cortisol from the mother's depression during pregnancy, thus changing their developing stress responses system.