Sentences with phrase «uses skeletal»

The car uses a skeletal - like platform to provide flexibility.

As the fuel deficit worsens, actual loss of strength and muscle size can occur as the body uses skeletal muscle in order to fuel essential body functions, like heart function and breathing.

Jess uses a skeletal muscle tissue engineering strategy to culture pork, with major focuses on muscle fiber formation, vascularization, and bioreactor design for scale up of meat production.

People use their skeletal muscles for movement, and therefore to be active requires oxidative metabolism by these muscles.

A second line of research is to use skeletal muscle formation in the chick embryo as a model to understand how cells within tissues display complex behaviours while being exposed to an ever - changing cellular environment.

We used this skeletal framework to analyze the interaction of each teacher.

In this new body of works, Wurm re-imagines the original One Minute Sculptures using skeletal forms to convey the eternity of each pose.

Not exact matches

When considering the protein source, for example, one must not only consider whether an animal - or plant - based protein will be used, but the specific organism from which it is derived (e.g., animal: chicken, beef, lamb, pork, etc.; fish: salmon, menhaden, etc.; plant: corn gluten meal, soybean meal, etc.), what part (s) of that organism will be included (e.g., plant: whole wheat vs. wheat germ vs. wheat bran; animal: entire animal vs. skeletal muscle vs. organ meats), and the form in which it will be added (animals: frozen, fresh, meal), all of which affect the diet in terms of cost, nutrient composition and stability, manufacturing requirements, and ingredient handling, transport, and storage.

In its efforts to diagnose microfractures and abnormal bone that would predispose a horse to a full - blown fracture, researchers at the Equine Sports Medicine Program at Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine have been using scintigraphy, a technique in which a horse is injected with a radioactive isotope that isolates skeletal «hot spots» — places where injured bone is rebuilding itself.

We have previously described studies of pacing strategy using various experimental interventions, including faster and slower starts, higher temperatures, hypoxia, hyperoxia and altered energy substrate availability.1 We have proposed the presence of a complex, regulatory system that mediates changes to skeletal muscle motor unit activation and work rate in order both to optimise performance and prevent potentially harmful changes to homeostasis.

Further, the sucking patterns required for breastfeeding are different from those used when bottle feeding and can have an undesirable e3ffect on the skeletal structure of the palate.

There used to be the concern that corsets could cause skeletal damage, which is now believed to not be a danger.

Without physically evaluating her I can't be sure if this is a «preferred position» for her (i.e. if she already has underlying muscular or skeletal asymmetries) but too much time in this position will likely lead to shortened muscles on the right side of her body (your left when you're looking at her), which can then make it harder for her to use her right hand, to lift her head in Tummy Time, to turn to see objects on her right side, to turn toward sounds or touch sensations on her right side, to roll, to use both arms equally to assume the hands and knees position for crawling, to sit upright.

Patients with early - stage and advanced OA, RA or other inflammatory joint disease were recruited for the study alongside a control group of those with good skeletal health, with plasma and synovial fluid samples from both groups being analysed using mass spectrometry.

Working with Skeletal Biologists at Southampton General Hospital, Catarina is investigating new optical techniques to monitor the development of the cells, used in new regenerative medicine approaches — in this case, to create and grow cartilage from human stem cells.

The fundamental flaw with such tests is that, because children grow at widely different rates, skeletal maturity shown on X-rays — which is used to gauge age — doesn't necessarily match chronological age.

Future genetic studies of bone can use this measure to learn about genes that are important to skeletal health.»

Using advanced sequencing technologies, University of Oklahoma anthropologists demonstrate that human DNA can be significantly enriched from dental calculus (calcified dental plaque) enabling the reconstruction of whole mitochondrial genomes for maternal ancestry analysis — an alternative to skeletal remains in ancient DNA investigations of human ancestry.

It was, however, difficult to exactly determine the age of the human skeletal material using conventional radiocarbon dating, because the collagen in the bones had been completely washed out due to the long period spent in water.

As researchers develop drugs that target the DUX4 protein, the hope is that these mice will be used to determine whether such drugs can reach skeletal muscle and allow muscle damage to be repaired, even in the presence of DUX4.

A team led by Xing Xu at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing used computer software to examine evolutionary relationships among early birds and related dinosaurs, based on 374 skeletal characteristics.

Glass's team next used a combination of chemicals to injure a mouse's skeletal muscles, and then regularly injected the animal with three times as much GDF11 as Wagers and her team had used.

This was done using shRNA technology specific for BRCA1 in human myotubes (skeletal muscle fiber cells).

The hamburger was grown in Post's lab using bovine skeletal muscle stem cells, collected from a piece of fresh beef.

«The protocol teaches every step of building a bio-bot, from 3D printing the skeleton to tissue engineering the skeletal muscle actuator, including manufacturers and part numbers for every single thing we use in the lab,» explained Ritu Raman, now a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Bioengineering and first author of the paper, «A modular approach to the design, fabrication, and characterization of muscle - powered biological machines.»

Archaeologists, anthropologists and forensic doctors use the bone measurements to know the sex of the skeletal remains they are studying in their investigations.

Jantz, using several modern quantitative techniques — including Fordisc, a computer program for estimating sex, ancestry, and stature from skeletal measurements — found that Hoodless had incorrectly determined the sex of the remains.

Research from The Australian National University (ANU) has cast doubt on a method used in forensic science to determine whether skeletal remains are of a person who has given birth.

In skeletal muscle, fast - twitch glycolytic fibers use glycogen as the main energy source for anaerobic metabolism, serving to sustain brief periods of high - intensity activity.

Using new technologies, including XROMM (x-ray reconstruction of moving morphology), which combines 3D skeletal models with x-ray video, as well as micromeasurements of muscle movement taken with thin - walled metal tubes that are visible with x-ray fluoroscope, the team reveals just how stretchy those tendons are.

«People used to think that this region of the medulla was only involved in the paralysis of skeletal muscles during REM sleep,» said lead author Yang Dan, a UC Berkeley professor of molecular and cell biology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

The results suggest that in order to successfully integrate triploid salmon into the industry, some modifications are required to the current protocols used today to prevent heart and skeletal deformities.

Thomas Fraser's thesis is a study of the potential use of triploid salmon in Norwegian aquaculture in relation to culture practices and heart and skeletal deformities.

In this study researchers used a genetically modified mouse with high levels of PGC - 1a1 in skeletal muscle that shows many characteristics of well - trained muscles (even without exercising).

However, previous work has shown triploids to have more skeletal deformities and lower temperature optima than the diploid salmon currently used in Norwegian aquaculture.

Once they were able to isolate skeletal muscle cells using the newly identified surface markers, the research team matured those cells in the lab to create dystrophin - producing muscle fibers.

Using the ERBB3 and NGFR surface markers, the skeletal muscle cells were isolated and then injected into mice at the same time a TGF Beta inhibitor was administered.

Skeletal muscle cells isolated using the ERBB3 and NGFR surface markers (right) restore human dystrophin (green) after transplantation significantly greater than previous methods (left).

These cells can be used in a variety of tissue types, including bone, cartilage, fat, skeletal muscle, smooth muscle and cardiac muscle.

These results support previously published archaeological evidence for stone tool use in australopiths and provide skeletal evidence that our early ancestors used human - like hand postures much earlier and more frequently than previously considered.

We used different symbols for estimations derived from footprints vs. skeletal elements, namely femurs.

NORMAN — Using advanced sequencing technologies, University of Oklahoma anthropologists demonstrate that human DNA can be significantly enriched from dental calculus (calcified dental plaque) enabling the reconstruction of whole mitochondrial genomes for maternal ancestry analysis — an alternative to skeletal remains in ancient DNA investigations of human ancestry.

The approach may one day be used to treat metastatic skeletal cancers, they said.

DNA of ancient skeletal remains of people from southeastern Europe was used to determine migration patterns across Europe during prehistoric times.

We will now have to ensure that methods that use viruses to insert corrective genes not only target skeletal muscle, but also smooth muscle.

Skeletal muscle immunohistochemistry using ab14715.

A genetic approach in the mouse has been used to examine how skeletal muscle stem cells are born, and how they acquire their identity.

Using mouse skeletal muscle stem cells as a model, we show that accumulating transcripts specifying the myogenic program are not translated in quiescent satellite cells, but are repressed by the action of microRNAs and RNA binding proteins.

Furthermore, the model has been used to study the molecular background for the impaired glucose transport and glycogen synthesis associated with insulin resistance in skeletal muscles.

Ongoing T2D research activities at CRGGH include 1) whole - exome sequencing of African families with at least four affected members (data generation is complete and analysis is ongoing), 2) GWAS of 1,200 cases and 1,200 controls from West Africa using the new and more efficient African - centric Affymetrix Axiom genome - wide array with more than 2 million markers, and 3) whole genome expression analysis on skeletal muscle obtained from biopsy from 45 subjects (expression QTL (eQTL) studies on the dataset are complete).