In addition to conferring structural support to tissues and providing a scaffold for the deposition of elastin during elastogenesis (1– 3), fibrillin microfibrils are involved in multiple interactions with cells and other connective tissue components that function to regulate the production of extracellular matrix.
Considered together, both our longitudinal subcortical findings in PD-MCI confer support to a previous cross-sectional finding that impaired cognition is related to caudate dopaminergic hypofunction as well as hippocampal atrophy (Jokinen et al., 2009).
The point of the initiative — and Relman's work — is to bring investigators together to better understand the "key properties of native microbial communities in the human body" and how they "confer and support health". Relman and his collaborators hope this will allow doctors and scientists to someday create synthetic communities in the lab that can be used therapeutically.
Indeed, the combined testimonies will, in this case, confer more support upon the conclusion than the testimonies did individually.
In comparison to the scaffold-free approach, strategies using biomaterial scaffolds are highly relevant from a functional/mechanical point of view since scaffolds confer mechanical support upon implantation.
It offers hope and opportunities for personal growth, and enhances social support, conferring important benefits for chronically ill people.
The correlation of cold induced modifications in fructan content and the phylogenetic clustering of presence/absence of amino acid motifs conferring fructosyltransferase activity support that B. distachyon does not possess orthologs of the core Pooideae FST enzymes.
As well as being protective, it confers stiffness for support and has joints for flexibility.
Conclusions: Both treatment groups made improvements in walking velocity and clinical measures during rehabilitation, but treadmill training with partial body-weight support conferred no additional benefit compared with conventional training.
RESULTS: In general, evidence suggests that low social support confers a risk of 1.5 to 2.0 in both healthy populations and in patients with established CHD.
