Alveolar type II epithelial cells, the major components of maintaining structure and function of pulmonary alveoli, are primarily responsible for producing, secreting and recycling surfactant.
Starting in the left hand corner of the model in Figure 1 and going clockwise, medication side effects from HAART (eg, diabetes, high cholesterol, heart disease); unhealthy lifestyle choices (eg, smoking, substance abuse); and increased multi-morbidity with HIV compromise the components of maintaining and maximizing cognitive and physical functioning and the prevention of disease and disability.
"Our sanctions on Iran's oil sales are a critically important component of maintaining pressure on the Iranian government," David S. Cohen, the under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence at the Treasury, said in a statement.
Weirdly, not living up to expectations is a pretty important component of maintaining friendship homeostasis - i.e., letting someone down one weekend provides the other party a get out of jail free card to use at their convenience.
But that only lasted as long as the football season did, and once those parents' children graduated, Kalb found it difficult to find a replacement for what she feels is a critical component of maintaining athletes' health.
The adhesion of cells within the extracellular matrix is an important component of maintaining correct multicellular structure, with dysfunction of this process associated with metastasis.
The synthesis of new proteins to replace damaged, and subsequently removed, proteins is an essential component of maintaining proteostasis (Mortimore & Poso, 1987; Mary et al., 2004).
An adequate system of post-implementation surveillance to detect and evaluate (potentially rare and serious) adverse effects and will be an essential component of maintaining public confidence.
Because the medical chart of the primary care provider (PCP) is a critical component of maintaining quality care, medication documentation errors in the PCP chart may present a risk for medication errors [ 3, 4].
This improvement was sustained at twelve months post-project curriculum with the completion of the residents' team-based QI projects, suggesting experiential learning may be a helpful component of maintaining knowledge.
The role of Pde1 is less well understood, though genetic studies in both S. cerevisiae and the distantly related yeast Candida albicans suggests that Pde1 is a target of PKA, and that PKA-mediated feedback on Pde1 is an important component of maintaining tight regulation of cAMP levels [ 35, 38].
