Sentences with phrase «trigger for»

In mammals, direct sensing of blood glucose levels by pancreatic β - cells is a major trigger for insulin secretion.

We want to strengthen Europe, improve integration through equal educational opportunities for everyone, drive forward the energy transition as a trigger for global climate change mitigation and firmly anchor cultural education in schools.

Given that the only outlet from the Arctic Basin at this time was via Fram Strait into the Greenland - Iceland - Norwegian Seas, we hypothesize that this pulse was the trigger for the re-organization of thermohaline circulation that is thought to have been responsible for the Younger Dryas cold interval.

More importantly, Tregs isolated from patients» tumors were studded with higher - than - normal levels of the immune molecule CCR8, which serves as a trigger for Tregs.

To test this notion, the researchers put paraquat - exposed mice on a regimen of the drug serving as a trigger for the suicide device now armed in all their senescent cells, rapidly eliminating the excess senescent astrocytes from their brains (Figure 1, (a-c)-RRB-.

Ground shaking: Ground shaking is both a hazard created by earthquakes and the trigger for other hazards such as liquefaction and landslides.

«The ability to [match] the binding of the clam shell to the targeted cell type and use this as a trigger for delivery is a major step beyond the smart drugs of today.»

The combination of global warming and accelerating sea level rise from Greenland could be the trigger for catastrophic collapse in the WAIS (see, for instance, here).

Cox and colleagues hypothesized that breathing in toxins from dust might be a trigger for a doubling of ALS incidence in military personnel after Operation Desert Storm.

Our experiments suggest that these abnormal fat deposits could be a trigger for the disease,» said Karl Fernandes, a researcher at the CRCHUM and a professor at University of Montreal.

Although one often hears people refer to a relationship break - up or a redundancy as the trigger for a suicide, this is far too simplistic and in reality it is often a culmination of different life events rather than one individual»cause».»

It is anticipated that the computational approach developed in this study can also provide important insights on the role of magma degassing as a potential trigger for volcanic eruptions.

The ability of the ITAM sequence to make cells cancerous represents a potential new trigger for breast cancer in humans, say the researchers, and gives further credence to the idea that viruses can cause human breast cancer.

As the trigger for that «tunnelling avalanche» the team identified processes on the surface of the atomic gas.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers Samuel Bowring and Seth Burgess explain in this video how they figured out that the Siberian Traps erupted at the right time, and for the right duration, to have been a likely trigger for this great dying.

While red wine has been identified as a rosacea trigger for those who already have the disease, this study suggests it is not significantly associated with developing rosacea in the first place.

It is still unclear whether the gut flora is altered as a result of heart failure or whether it may be a trigger for this disease.

While flow cues created by tail - beat frequency proved to be a critical trigger for shoaling behavior, coloration proved slightly dominant.

[P. K. Swart et al, The fertilization of the Bahamas by Saharan dust: A trigger for carbonate precipitation?]

It is known that sexual activity may trigger non-fatal cardiac events such as myocardial infarction, but researchers in this study sought to determine if sexual activity is a potential trigger for SCA in the general population.

A suspected trigger for this constriction is adenosine, a chemical messenger found in high amounts in the lung fluid of asthmatics, says Jonathan Nyce, a molecular pharmacologist at EpiGenesis Pharmaceuticals in Greenville, North Carolina.

«Trigger for fatty liver in obesity.»

Crocodiles use a waste product of metabolism — the bicarbonate ions formed when carbon dioxide dissolves in water — as the trigger for haemoglobin to unload the oxygen it carries.

Spong's team engineered mice to have an extra chromosome 16, which causes similar problems to those caused by an extra chromosome 21 in humans, the trigger for Down's (see picture).

The mice were then placed on a calorie - restricted diet, which usually precedes the development of anorexia in adolescent humans and may act as a trigger for eating disorders.

Crucially, obesity, a key trigger for type 2 diabetes, was not an important trigger in women with PCOS.

The main climatic trigger for the droughts was La Niña, a cyclical meteorological phenomenon affecting how much rain falls in Africa and elsewhere.

Scientists are struggling to find the trigger for a disease that appears to be ravaging starfish in record numbers along the U.S.

«And it is also possible that the region may actually be a trigger for magnetic pole reversals, which might happen if the weak field region becomes very large.»

The trigger for the immune response, the molecule interleukin - 33, is concentrated in what is known as «white matter» in the healthy brain and spinal cord.

Hot on the heels of discovering a protective form of immune response to spinal cord injury, researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have pinpointed the biological trigger for that response — a vital step toward being able to harness the body's defenses to improve treatment for spine injuries, brain trauma, Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative conditions.

Recent research has fingered the ocean as a trigger for tidewater glacier retreats.

«Fat is likely a key trigger for pre-diabetes, causing blood sugar to start going up because insulin can't work as efficiently to stop sugar coming from the liver.»

Myelin is the protective sheath that insulates nerve fibers in the brain, and it is the primary site of injury in MS.. What's more, the scientists were able to pinpoint a specific protein in the blood, the blood - clotting factor fibrinogen, as the trigger for the disease - causing process.

A recent study of 422 adults by Robert Nicholson and his colleagues at the St. Louis University School of Medicine found that suppressed psychological stress may be a major trigger for those who are prone to headaches.

«Our research is sufficiently suggestive of an environmental trigger for autism associated with precipitation, of which vitamin D deficiency is one possibility,» says study co-author Michael Waldman, a professor of management and economics at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management.

The trigger for this excitement was the discovery of «M - theory», which may answer those two vital questions about superstrings.

The main trigger for the Quaternary glaciation was the continuing fall in the level of CO2 in the atmosphere due to the weathering of the Himalayas.

«Because smoking may be a trigger for drinking, people who want to cut down on their drinking may find it easier if they also stop smoking,» she said.

«The achievement of ignition on NIF should be an important trigger for the government to decide if it should launch a national coordinated [inertial fusion energy] program,» says committee co-chair Ronald Davidson of Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in New Jersey.

The researchers investigated a total of 189 adults and 24 children with GBS for the presence of antibodies to mycoplasma (as an indication of a recent bacterial infection) and GalC (as the suspected trigger for GBS), and compared them with 677 healthy individuals as controls.

* Clarification 11:20 a.m., 21 February: Davidson thinks «the achievement of ignition on NIF should be an important trigger for the government to decide if it should launch a national coordinated [inertial fusion energy],» not an ICF program, as initially reported.

Excesses in dopamine signaling, for example, have been identified as a trigger for neuropsychiatric disorder symptoms.

The trigger for agriculture is one of the most debated topics in studies of prehistory.

«But you also want to rapidly change their chemical environment, in order to change the trigger for protein production.»

GRP was previously thought to be the original molecular trigger for itch, Hoon says.

Muybridge used a tripwire as a trigger for his cameras, and then put a series of stills together...

His experiment, together with a growing body of research, has revealed the profound power of disgust, showing that this emotion is a much more potent trigger for our behaviour and choices than we ever thought.

He calls the power of the plumes the dominant trigger for global plate tectonics.

But for menopausal women, the slightest uptick in degree can be a trigger for the vessels to dilate, which increases blood flow and sweating.