Sentences with phrase «studied biological markers»

We also studied biological markers of oxidative stress and inflammation in relation to milk intake in humans.

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«The importance of this study is that it establishes a reliable test and a «biological» marker for detecting concussion,» Dr. Grady says.

They specifically studied the length of telomeres (repeated DNA sequences) on the ends of chromosomes in leukocytes (white blood cells); the protective caps are believed to be markers of biological aging, because they shrink over time.

«This opens a new door in identifying biological markers for dementia since we might consider using the brain's processing of speech sounds as a new way to detect the disease earlier,» says Dr. Claude Alain, the study's senior author and senior scientist at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute (RRI) and professor at the University of Toronto's psychology department.

Published in The Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, the new study found that older patients with delirium had significantly elevated levels of the inflammatory marker interleukin - 6 (IL - 6) two days after surgery and also identified elevated levels of interleukin 2 (IL - 2) in delirious patients.

«Even though their exams and lab tests didn't show much in the way of a common or clear biological marker or markers of PTLDS, it's clear these patients don't feel well,» says study co-author Kathleen Bechtold, Ph.D., associate professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

The prospective controlled clinical study tracked biological markers of inflammation in 150 pregnant women who had PCOS and 150 pregnant women of about the same age and body mass index.

There is also the «sister study» of 51,000 women followed for 10 years looking at nutrition, lifestyle, exposure to environmental chemicals and biological markers.

In the study, the children that developed severe disabilities or died from TBM had the highest levels of these biological markers, and the levels increased over time, suggesting that this information could be used to help predict disease outcome.

Dr Becker said, «prospective longitudinal studies in occasional users are of great importance to determine biological vulnerability markers, which can help to identify individuals at greatest risk of developing an addiction.»

This work is part of the ongoing Duke Neurogenetics Study (DNS), a comprehensive study linking genes, brain activity and other biological markers to risk for mental illness in young adStudy (DNS), a comprehensive study linking genes, brain activity and other biological markers to risk for mental illness in young adstudy linking genes, brain activity and other biological markers to risk for mental illness in young adults.

The study is the first to look at these different biological markers, as well has how the gene's impact on dopamine production specifically affects Caucasian populations.

«In the first study to examine the connection, we found women who consumed soy isoflavones regularly saw improvement in biological markers that reflect how effectively the body utilizes insulin to process sugars and had reduced levels of harmful cholesterol.»

In an effort to identify a biological marker to help guide intervention, a new study in Biological Psychiatry reports that postoperative delirium is associated with signs of inflammation — specifically elevations in the inflammatory marker C - reactive protein (CRP)-- in patients 70 years of agebiological marker to help guide intervention, a new study in Biological Psychiatry reports that postoperative delirium is associated with signs of inflammation — specifically elevations in the inflammatory marker C - reactive protein (CRP)-- in patients 70 years of ageBiological Psychiatry reports that postoperative delirium is associated with signs of inflammation — specifically elevations in the inflammatory marker C - reactive protein (CRP)-- in patients 70 years of age or older.

«We've got a marker for biological aging — telomere length — so we're studying whether we can relate it to the increased risk of getting some of these age - associated diseases.

McKee's Boston University colleague Robert Stern has a study underway to classify the symptoms and identify real - time biological markers of CTE in athletes.

Patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) have increased brain levels of a marker of microglial activation, a sign of inflammation, according to a new study in Biological Psychiatry by researchers at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom.

Ultimately, this will provide for current and future studies such as those that evaluate the correlation of biological markers with clinical variables and cancer outcomes, as well as those that identify interactions among biological markers.

For a study published in the journal Biological Psychiatry, Ole Andreassen and colleagues compared genetic information from Neanderthals and modern humans and found an association between markers of human evolution and genetic risk for schizophrenia.

Biological markers of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells as Predictors of response to Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation in Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis; an Investigator - Initiated Trial and in Vivo Study.

Now, in a study published in Stem Cells, the laboratory of Seung Hyun Kim (Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea) report on an open ‐ label, single ‐ arm, investigator ‐ initiated trial to identify biological markers of MSCs to predict response to in patients with ALS [3].

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In addition to increases in the volume of the hippocampus, a part of the brain that can shrink in Alzheimer's patients, the study authors noted other biological changes, including improvements in CRP, a marker of inflammation, as well as glucose metabolism and insulin levels.

Next, Hall and Morey plan to study blood samples of the participants to see whether any biological or genetic markers also related to earlier physical decline.

Non-overweight individuals in their late 60s, 70s, and early 80s who have no outward symptoms of Alzheimer's are more likely than their heavier peers to have biological markers (or biomarkers) of the disease, the study found.

Stress resistance has not been assessed however and so the biological relevance of this finding is currently unknown.32 Several IER trials (75 - 85 % ER on restricted days) in overweight / obese populations have reported reductions in various markers of oxidative stress 37, 41, which in one study was accompanied by a complementary increase in the anti-oxidant uric acid.37 In a direct comparison of IER (75 % ER for two days / week) and CER, both ER strategies displayed equal efficacy in reducing levels of fast - acting advanced oxidation protein products (AOPP) after six months, which displayed a tendency to occur earlier (i.e. at three months) in the IER group.41 Levels of slow - acting (i.e. long term) AOPP tended to decrease in the IER group and increase in the CER group which the authors proposed may have resulted from IER - induced activation of autophagy, a key homeostatic cellular process in which dysfunctional or unnecessary cellular proteins are degraded and recycled.41 On the other hand, a follow - up study using similar IER / CER protocols demonstrated comparable reductions in AOPP in both groups after three months.48 Summary and Future Research Directions

The researchers also measured biological markers that indicate colon cancer risk and studied samples of bacteria taken from the colon.

A study in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology found a brain marker that distinguishes negative thinkers from positive ones providing biological evidence that there may be positive and negative people in the world.

The net effect of this human study was a dramatic reduction in biological markers associated with cardiovascular disease.

Pregnancy is an outcome that is less susceptible to recall bias and was assessed by several measures in our study, including biological markers.

Second, we included some of the most well - studied moderators but excluded several other potentially relevant child and family characteristics such as children's executive functioning (e.g., Matthys et al. 2012) and biological markers of children's differential susceptibility to environmental influences (e.g., Belsky et al. 2007).