Sentences with phrase «study other body parts»

They also suggest applying their methodology to study other body parts represented in the hominin fossil record.

Not exact matches

The lower levels of baseline sugar sweetened drink consumption in the UK compared with the US may in part explain why the effect on obesity that we estimate in the UK is much less than that estimated in the US.12 The differences with respect to other modelling studies may also be partly explained by their use of higher own price elasticity values for sugar sweetened drinks than we have calculated and used here.18 22 52 We can not make direct comparisons between the results of our study and the results of recent studies of the effect of reducing sugar sweetened drink consumption on body weight in children, 5 7 as the relation between energy balance and change in body mass index in children who are growing is different from that in adults.

Dr Claudia Wellbrock, study author and Cancer Research UK scientist at The University of Manchester and a member of the Manchester Cancer Research Centre, said: «We used to think that cancer cells spread by first specialising in invading other parts of the body and then change in order to grow rapidly.

While the Johns Hopkins team studies the likely effects of radiation on the brain during a deep space mission, other NASA - funded research groups are looking at the potential effects of radiation on other parts of the body and on whether it increases cancer risks.

The study involved 1,531 men with newly diagnosed, clinically localized prostate cancer, meaning the disease hadn't spread to other parts of the body.

That's why I think the mechanistic studies are so important to try to only target the TGF - beta receptor signaling in the primary cilia but not in other parts of the body,» says Ogretmen.

Only a few cells in a cancerous tumor are able to break away and spread to other parts of the body, but the curve along the edge of the tumor may play a large role in activating these tumor - seeding cells, according to a new University of Illinois study.

This study used isolated TBI, which means these patients had no injuries in other parts of the body.

The lab finding is «part of a growing body of evidence that ocean acidification alone and combined with other stressors will have effects beyond shell mineralization,» said Terrie Klinger, a University of Washington marine sciences professor studying the impacts of acidification.

The electric fields that build up on honey bees as they fly, flutter their wings, or rub body parts together may allow the insects to talk to each other, a new study suggests.

Studies like these are possible because of technological advances in high - throughput sequencing, which allows scientists to survey microbes in the gut and other parts of the body.

While this current study primarily focused on the role of Myc and TXNIP in triple negative cancer nutrient uptake and utilization, Ayer said the proteins also appear to play a role in metastasis, the process by which cancer cells spread to other parts of the body.

Study author Ros Eeles, professor of oncogenetics at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, and honorary consultant at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, said: «We gained a much broader view of prostate cancer by studying both the original cancer and the cells that had spread to other parts of the body in these men.

Although the study didn't address how the beneficial bacteria swallowed by the volunteers could have affected their respiratory tract, Gebbers and Glück hypothesize that ingesting Lactobacillus GG stimulates intestinal immune cells and causes them to migrate to other parts of the body.

Huganir emphasizes that because this study only focused on the hippocampus and cortex, more research is needed on other parts of the brain — and throughout the body — to better understand the necessity of sleep.

Sometimes the study drug is already known to be effective on cancers in other parts of the body.

The answer to regenerative medicine's most compelling question — why some organisms can regenerate major body parts such as hearts and limbs while others, such as humans, can not — may lie with the body's innate immune system, according to a new study of heart regeneration in the axolotl, or Mexican salamander, an organism that takes the prize as nature's champion of regeneration.

Yet another study found that use of triclosan led to build up of staph aureus bacteria in the nose and other parts of the body.

In an in vitro study, vanillin induced apoptosis and arrested the cell cycle of human colorectal cancer cells, and some researchers think vanillin could reduce the metastatic potential (ability to spread to other parts of the body) of human cancer cells in vivo, too.

In a study featuring college students with various bone densities, it found out that student - athletes with low body weight had were consistent with having high bone density compared to other students who took part in the study.

Other studies show that mirrors, although useful for observing and correcting one's form, prompt women with eating disorders to focus selectively on the parts of their bodies they don't like, rather than the bigger picture.

As someone who also HAD lordosis and suffered many issues in the SI joint and impingement in nerves through the notch, I found that combining principles of Viniyoga (what the site writer studies) and Sadie Nardini's take on moving the human body (hugely inspired by Kaminoff, whose main teacher was Desikichar — now you see the full circle here) saved my back big time, which fed into healing other parts of my body as well.

So what the science tells us is that there truly is no real division between the body and the mind and emotions, it's all part of the same web, and we know this from the research studies that have been done, groups at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, a lot of the big, very reputable universities are now actually doing research on this, and there are even journals, scientific and medical journals exploring what we call psychosomatic medicine, in other words the placebo effect.

Adhering to these traditional concepts the US Department of Agriculture has concluded that diets, which reduce calories, will result in effective weight loss independent of the macronutrient composition, which is considered less important, even irrelevant.14 In contrast with these views, the majority of ad - libitum studies demonstrate that subjects who follow a low - carbohydrate diet lose more weight during the first 3 — 6 months compared with those who follow balanced diets.15, 16, 17 One hypothesis is that the use of energy from proteins in VLCKD is an «expensive» process for the body and so can lead to a «waste of calories», and therefore increased weight loss compared with other «less - expensive» diets.13, 18, 19 The average human body requires 60 — 65 g of glucose per day, and during the first phase of a diet very low in carbohydrates this is partially (16 %) obtained from glycerol, with the major part derived via gluconeogenesis from proteins of either dietary or tissue origin.12 The energy cost of gluconeogenesis has been confirmed in several studies7 and it has been calculated at ∼ 400 — 600 Kcal / day (due to both endogenous and food source proteins.18 Despite this, there is no direct experimental evidence to support this intriguing hypothesis; on the contrary, a recent study reported that there were no changes in resting energy expenditure after a VLCKD.20 A simpler, perhaps more likely, explanation for improved weight loss is a possible appetite - suppressant action of ketosis.

One study found that when mice were fed high - sugar diets, they developed breast cancer, which then spread to other parts of the body (3).

Most of the studies concentrate on the supplements» benefits on joint structure, knee and hip osteoarthritis, and other parts of the body.