Sentences with word «tuberous»

A tool intended to detect signs of autism in high - risk infants can be used to help identify and treat patients with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC), a genetic disorder, who most need early intervention.

The He Shou Wu He Shou Wu is superfood extract made from tuberous root of a plant known as Polygonum multiflorum that grows in China.

In a new study, researchers at Boston Children's Hospital used stem cell technology to create cerebellar cells known as Purkinje cells from patients with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC), a genetic syndrome that often includes ASD - like features.

Regulation of YAP by mTOR and autophagy reveals a therapeutic target of tuberous sclerosis complex.

some seeds and tuberous plants such as freshwater chestnuts, lotus root and the fern root, the addition of starch from palms was totally unexpected and very exciting.»

in this study, the beans were compared to grains, cereals and pasta, breakfast cereals, biscuits, and tuberous vegetables [of the tubers, the sweet potatoes had similar GIs to the beans]

She will be having brain surgery to remove brain tumors from Tuberous Sclerosis Complex to hopefully cure her medically refractory epilepsy.

Our research centers upon the proteins affected in tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) and spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)-- two neurological disorders whose genetic basis is well understood but whose cell biology remains unknown.

Establishment of Tsc1flox / flox - GFAP - Cre (Tsc1GFAP CKO) mice for evaluating potential new antiepileptic therapies for tuberous sclerosis complex S. C. LEISER, A GHAVAMI, M KWAN, J BELTRAN, D SONG, D. M. DEVILBISS, M WONG, N RENSING, S. L. ROBERDS, D BRUNNER... Abstract / Posters

Sweet potatoes are part of the morning glory family and originate from tropical countries such as Peru and Ecuador, while yams are actually tuberous vines that are closely related to lilies — some of which can grown up to 4.5 feet long!

Extracted from a sweet potato - like tuberous roots grown in South America, yacon syrup is a sugar substitute that has a slight caramel taste.

If you are missing bread, eat more tuberous veggies and squashes: sweet, white, red potatoes, rutabagas, turnips, kohlrabi, pumpkin and all the winter and summer squash.

- Combined Basic and Clinical Approaches to Successfully Treat Tuberous Sclerosis and Lymphangioleiomyomatosis; Francis McCormack, University of Cincinnati.

They are called root vegetables for lack of a better generic term, but include both true roots such as tuberous roots and taproots, as well as non-roots such as tubers, rhizomes, corms, and bulbs.

After publishing my first cookbook Haute Potato (75 gourmet potato recipes) and feeding our family our favorite potato dishes for years, I thought I had come up with all of the possible ways to cook the starchy, tuberous crop.

It's a large tuberous root with a hard dark brown...

At about 25 - weeks doctors discovered an irregular heartbeat and a tumor caused by a genetic condition called Tuberous Sclerosis.

The goal is to understand why tuberous sclerosis causes epilepsy, which would help scientists develop drugs to treat the disease.

Dr Joseph Bateman from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London has been awarded a $ 484,000 grant from the US Department of Defense for a study into Tuberous Sclerosis Complex, a rare genetic disease.

Cassava flour is made from a tropical starchy tuberous root that goes by many names depending on where in the world you are.

This «Mexican turnip» or «Mexican potato» as it's also called is an edible tuberous root vegetable native to South America that's rich in probiotics.

The Zingiberaceae family includes flowering plants, mostly aromatic perennial herbs, such as turmeric, ginger, and cardamom, which have tuberous rhizomes (underground stems with roots and nodes) that are often used to color condiments, used as a spice in South Asian and Middle Eastern cooking, used in textile dyes, used in religious ceremonies, or used medicinally.

In «Carroll Dunham Prints: A Survey,» curator Allison Kemmerer presented, in approximately chronological order, some 120 such works — a selection that demonstrated the artist's fascination with various techniques as well as his evolution from creating automatic drawings and abstract tuberous biomorphic shapes to portraying representational kitschy box - people and his naughty signature character, the «dick - nosed» man.

Fragrance makes scents: In addition to the delicate creamy peach glow of their petals, Sentiment Sunrise flowers carry a sweet, subtle scent, a trait plant breeders have finally succeeded in establishing in tuberous begonias.

Climbing lily, commonly known as gloriosa, is a rooted, tuberous plant within the family Colchicaceae.

Against this narrative frame, the backroom has been transformed into a miniature landscape of dimly lit herds of tuberous roots and orange peel cast in bronze, an atmosphere reminiscent of the abject fantasy world of the Polish master Alina Szapocznikow.

The other two quarters of the plate are divided into starches: grains, legumes, tuberous vegetables, and proteins: meat, dairy, eggs, fish, or legumes.

about FDA approves everolimus for tuberous sclerosis complex - associated partial - onset seizures

«Lab - grown human cerebellar cells yield clues to autism: Purkinje cells derived from patients with tuberous sclerosis enable study of autism disorders.»

It's difficult to gather brain tissue samples from humans, so studying diseases like tuberous sclerosis is maddening, he said.

Each painting glows and pops with a sharp, delicious design, even if it's depicting a face that's more tuberous than human.

Research on IGT (also called breast hypoplasia and tuberous breasts) and its effect on lactation is almost nonexistent, with the most widely quoted study cobbled together in 2000 by enterprising nurses and lactation consultants who assembled 33 breast - feeding women with breast characteristics that they suspected were linked to low milk production.

May 21 David Kwiatkowski Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Title: Mosaicism, Novel Therapies, and Epigenetics in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Host: Leif Andersson More information

Combined Basic and Clinical Approaches to Successfully Treat Tuberous Sclerosis and Lymphangioleiomyomatosis; Francis McCormack, University of Cincinnati.

One answer came in the late 1990s when Harvard University primatologist Richard Wrangham proposed that the brain began to expand rapidly 1.6 million to 1.8 million years ago in our ancestor, Homo erectus, because this early human learned how to roast meat and tuberous root vegetables over a fire.

We provide personalized care for patients in all stages of life and with varying courses of tuberous sclerosis.

Yuca is a tuberous root with a thick, hard, smooth, dark brown skin with a pinkish layer just underneath.

Yacon is a tuberous plant from South America, and the syrup is made via an evaporation process similar to maple syrup.

Structural Characterization and Hypoglycemic Effects of Arabinogalactan - Protein from the Tuberous Cortex of the White - Skinned Sweet Potato (Ipomoea batatas L.).

Dioscorea alata, known as purple yam and many other names, is a species of yam, a tuberous root vegetable, that is bright lavender in color.

Cassava flour is made from the tuberous root Yuca.

Yacon is a crisp, sweet - tasting, tuberous root originating in the Northern and central Andes, from Ecuador to Argentina.

Sunchokes are actually the tuberous roots of a sunflower plant.

I might also look for skin stigmata or spots on the skin that might make me think they have a condition such as neurofibromatosis or tuberous sclerosis that's contributing to the patient's symptoms.

I need to stress that having neurofibromatosis or tuberous sclerosis or even fragile X is exceptionally rare.

Called tubular (or tuberous) breast deformity in the plastic surgery literature, hypoplasia of the mammary gland (also called insufficient glandular tissue or IGT) was previously thought to be a simple issue of cosmetics.

The multidisciplinary clinic team follows more than 1,000 children and adults with tuberous sclerosis and manages every aspect of the disorder.

In an international study, the drug everolimus has been shown to significantly reduce the frequency of seizures in patients with treatment - resistant epilepsy and tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC)-- a genetic disease that causes malformations and tumors in the brain and other vital organs.