Westwell praised the director's skill: "The careful mapping of the subtle differences between each bomb, the play with point of view... and the attenuation of key action sequences... lends the film a distinctive quality that can only be attributed to Bigelow's clever, confident direction".
In humans, during cervical ripening and dilation, the presence of the 20α-HSD enzyme results in progesterone inactivation, attenuation of progesterone action, and cervical ripening [ 54].
In the fourth section, we use this model to illustrate the permissive role of sensory attenuation in enabling action by simulating a bird that sings to itself.
It does so by providing the first evidence of an association between phthalate exposure of mothers during pregnancy and attenuation of androgen action in their male babies.
The experiment, thus, also underscores the notion that sensory attenuation of expected action effects is based on mechanisms related to the neural phenomenon of repetition suppression (Waszak et al., 2012).
Ethylene possibly works to control the number of infection sites, so mild attenuation of its action leads to an increased number of nodules without affecting the general system of nodule development [ 11, 28].
This has been directly demonstrated in rats by co-infusion of a STAT-3 inhibitor with leptin which resulted in attenuation of the actions of leptin on food intake and glucose metabolism [23].
Significant effects of the mechanical environment, which may contribute to a load-dependent amplification (or attenuation) of pharmacological actions, may also be explored.
It has been hypothesized that the exercise-induced attenuation of opiate drug action is the result of the development of cross-tolerance between endogenous opioids released during exercise and exogenous opiates.
Hypercapnia attenuates hypoxic-ischemic brain injury in the immature rat [ 52] and protects the porcine brain from reoxygenation injury by attenuation of free radical action.
