Sentences with phrase «whole body physiology»

In a recent study, the research group of Prof. Michael Hall from the Biozentrum of the University of Basel has shed light on the role of hepatic mTORC1 in whole body physiology and the relevance for human liver cancers.

In the current issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from the Biozentrum of the University of Basel describe how aberrant mTOR signaling in the liver not only affects hepatic metabolism but also whole body physiology.

Not exact matches

Joslin scientists in the Tseng Laboratory of the Section on Integrative Physiology and Metabolism previously discovered that one type of bone morphogenetic protein, BMP - 7, plays a key role in the control of brown fat formation and its heat - producing activity, which regulates whole body metabolism.

You start holding your breath, and a whole lot of not - so - nice stuff happens in the physiology of your body.

Once considered an inert storage depot for excess energy, adipose tissue has been clearly identified as playing an influential role in cardiometabolic health.3 Adipose tissue functions not only as an important buffer for fatty acids90 but also as a highly active secretory organ, capable of influencing whole - body physiology through the production of an array of bioactive adipokines.

It is a complex function of a whole host of things, the strength of the homeostatic systems of the body, the health of the body, whether the forcings are strong enough to overwhelm the homeostatic systems, whether «one variable in your physiology changes by a fraction of a percentage»... all of which proves my point.

The anatomy and physiology topic looks at the body as a whole, each individual system, and common diseases and pathology that a medical assistant would encounter.

Medical Terminology / Anatomy & Physiology A This course includes discussion of the structure and function of the body as a whole.