Sentences with phrase «studying system functioning»

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Some studies even show it can lower blood pressure and improve immune system function.

Studies show that this gluten - free food could help prevent and relieve hypertension and heart disease, boost our immune system, prevent osteoporosis, improve brain function and prevent anemia.

Among the specialized neurologic evaluations were videonystagmography (VNG), which is designed to test inner ear and central motor functions, and computerized dynamic postural studies (CAPS), which assess the interaction of vestibular, somatosensory and visual systems for patients undergoing neurorehabilitation

The Management of Reflux in the First Year by Anke Tillman September 2015 Physiology (/ ˌfɪziˈɒlədʒi /; from Ancient Greek φύσις (physis), meaning «nature, origin», and - λογία -LRB-- logia), meaning «study of» [1]-RRB- is the scientific study of the normal function in living systems.

The fields within biology are further divided based on the scale at which organisms are studied and the methods used to study them: biochemistry examines the fundamental chemistry of life; molecular biology studies the complex interactions of systems of biological molecules; cellular biology examines the basic building block of all life, the cell; physiology examines the physical and chemical functions of the tissues and organ systems of an organism; and ecology examines how various organisms interrelate.

The research is part of a growing field called ecoimmunology, which aims to push the study of immunology beyond lab animals like fruit flies and mice and understand how immune systems function in real - world settings outside the lab.

Our study found no evidence of benefit for nervous system or cognitive function from 12 months of supplementation among older people with moderate vitamin B12 deficiency.

[1] At the end of the study after 12 months of supplementation, participants undertook clinical tests to assess their nervous system function including measures of muscle strength, coordination, mobility, tests of cognitive function including memory, and of psychological health.

«Containers are just now being studied as part of the cloud infrastructure, but our research indicates that how they function in the cloud is critical to developing and distributing future computer systems that maximize efficiency,» said Ali Anwar, lead author on the paper that details the research and a Ph.D. candidate in Virginia Tech's Department of Computer Science in the College of Engineering.

«This opens the door to studies of atomic - level motions in many systems — structural dynamics that are at the heart of the correlation between structure and function in matter.»

«One of the key principles of geology is that the past is the key to the present: records of past climate inform us of how the Earth system functions,» says Michael Hren, assistant professor of chemistry and geosciences at the University of Connecticut and the study's lead author.

There's also a more recent foray into the study of complex biological systems, from the population - wide dynamics of a disease outbreak to the way human bodies align their functions to a biological clock.

The first study used fruit flies as an in vivo test system to reveal new evidence about the function of a key influenza protein called NS1, which has evolved to target molecular pathways in the host.

«This study provides the first objective evidence suggesting that physical activity behavior is related to the functioning of the endogenous pain modulatory systems in older adults,» the researchers write.

Another study on this device will be presented on Monday and will review the initial results of a 30 subject study, adverse events post-implant, system reliability and visual function results.

It uses something called the wave function to describe the system you are studying — an atom, an electron, whatever — and all the possible ways that system can evolve.

In many respects, synthetic biology — a field that «aims to apply standardized engineering techniques to biology and thereby create organisms or biological systems with novel or specialized functions to address countless needs,» as the U.S. Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues defined it — is still very much in its infancy.

And on the basic research front, says William Snider, a neuroscientist at the Center for the Study of Nervous System Injury at Washington University in St. Louis, the results «are really going to broaden people's thinking about the functions of Bcl - 2 and its family members.»

«Study explores how immune system functions during sleep.»

As an example, the current study identified and provided insight into the function of several genes, not previously known to be involved in the taste system, related to cell motility.

Lacin and Truman believe the insights from their study will now make it possible to investigate how molecular events, which occur from embryonic to adult stages, control the formation and function of the nervous system in fruit flies, with possible translation to humans.

The findings are consistent with some other studies about the impact of fat and sugar on cognitive function and behavior, and suggest that some of these problems may be linked to alteration of the microbiome — a complex mixture in the digestive system of about 100 trillion microorganisms.

«Our study looks at how compounds isolated from marijuana can be used to regulate inflammation to protect the nervous system and its functions.»

There the rover will stay until its batteries die or its systems experience a catastrophic failure.If Spirit can survive the coming martian winter, it will begin functioning as a stationary platform, conducting science studies that had not been part of its original itinerary but will be important nevertheless.

Prior to Gouaux's study, scientists had only a limited view of how those subtypes were arranged in the NMDA receptor complex and how they interacted to carry out specific functions within the brain and central nervous system.

Nicholas Brereton, a research fellow at Université de Montréal's Plant Biology Research Institute and senior author of the study, adds that «our initial mind - set was that bioinformatics and biology could be more profoundly integrated to see the diversity of function within a challenged root system.

«What we realize is that in almost any quantum system, including on quantum computers, if you just let it evolve and you start to study what happens as a function of time, it's going to thermalize,» added Neill, referring to the quantum - level equilibration.

Transfer RNA (tRNA) suppression of nonsense mutations in prokaryotic systems has been widely used to study the structure and function of different prokaryotic genes.

This study found that certain urinary bacteria and antimicrobial peptides, which normally help the bladder immune system function, may identify women at increased risk for a UTI following pelvic - floor surgery.

Chang got a genetic foothold on this sensory system by labeling GPCRs in mice and engineering them to produce channelrhodopsin, a molecule that allowed the scientists to use light to manipulate the cells» function and study the neurons sorted by different GPCRs.

«Those species had particular traits that made them so abundant, and therefore critical to a functioning healthy reef system,» continues Dr Julian Caley a co-author of the study from the Australian Institute of Marine Studies (AIMS).

The elegant feedback system discovered in this study links the regulation of contraction to the shape and function of epithelial tubes via mechanical and biochemical signalling.

«Knowing this mechanism that underlies IL - 37's effect on the immune system now allows us to study IL - 37 function and perhaps dysfunction in a wide range of diseases,» says Mayumi Fujita, MD, PhD, investigator at the University of Colorado Cancer Center, associate professor in the CU School of Medicine Department of Dermatology, and the paper's senior author.

Studies have found that kelp forests are one of the most productive systems in the ocean with high biodiversity and ecological function.

Using this «subdued» CRISPR / Cas9 system, the researchers were able to disrupt each of T. gondii's 8,158 genes and study their individual functions.

«The vocal learning system is embedded within [an] ancient pathway»» designed to handle motor function that, in birds, controls their wings and legs, says study co-author Erich Jarvis, an associate professor of neurobiology at Duke University.

Jarvis says the new study «points us more firmly in a direction that vocal learning ability is functioning in a specialized motor system.

The Heidelberg researchers study the function and molecular structure of these «weapons systems» at the Centre for Organismal Studies.

«Now that we have the cellular and molecular information, the future promises to be very exciting when this knowledge can be used to understand how this system is formed during gestation and how the different neuron types go about controlling the body's functions,» says study leader Patrik Ernfors, professor of tissue biology

Neuroscience can range from studying psychology or behavior to investigating how the nervous system functions at a cellular or molecular level.

Earlier research has been limited to the study of certain organs or a handful of cells, and has therefore not been able to definitively demonstrate the presence of specificity in the system, whereby different cell types would have different functions.

«We've shown that the sympathetic system consists of many types of neuron that regulate specific functions in the body,» says the study's lead author Alessandro Furlan at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics.

As part of their regular reassessment of the study population in 2011, the team measured the functions of kidneys, liver, lungs, metabolic and immune systems.

Subjects with higher CPM at baseline, representing better functioning endogenous pain - inhibitory systems, reported lower pain intensity and neuropathic pain symptoms at the study's end (p <.05).

«The goal was to really develop a material system that can function very similar to our human skin,» says Ali Javey, an electrical engineer at the University of California, Berkeley, and an author of one of the new studies.

«And many studies of the brain and central nervous system, using imaging, EEG and other objective measures of brain structure and function, add to the existing evidence that central nervous system dysfunction is a critical element in the disorder.

Lo's laboratory has for more than a dozen years studied immune responses in the gut and airways, focusing particularly on cells which function as an early warning in the immune system.

The paper's careful study of fish phylogeny supports an existing notion that Nogo - A may be a recent evolutionary development that correlates with more complex nervous systems and more complex functions, says Stephen Strittmatter, a neurologist at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

Neuroscience is a field of study that deals with the structure, function, development, genetics, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, and pathology of the nervous system, divided into the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord), and the peripheral nervous system, consisting of the myriad nerve pathways running throughout the body.

In a series of studies published since 2009, researchers in Wells» laboratory used human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) to grow embryonic - stage small intestines with a functioning nervous system, and the antrum and fundus regions of the human stomach.