Sentence examples for considerable lifespan from inspiring English sources

In particular, GH-receptor knock-out mice (GHR-KO) have elevated serum GH levels, but are growth hormone resistant and exhibit considerable lifespan increases of 38 55% on average [ 15].

Following seminal discoveries in C. elegans (Kenyon et al., 1993), it is now well established that reduced insulin signalling is able to delay age-associated declines in tissue function and produce considerable lifespan extensions in animals (Clancy et al., 2001; Bluher et al., 2003; Holzenberger et al., 2003).

Only in some cases considerable prolongation of lifespan was obtained and in organisms which are evolutionarily quite distant from mammals.

In practice there is considerable variation in the lifespan of human RBC.

In particular, its detrimental effects were small in young mosquitoes and increased with the mosquitoes' age, leading to a considerable reduction in adult lifespan.

The fly brain, fat body (equivalent of mammalian liver and white adipose tissue) and the germ line are important in determination of lifespan, with considerable communication between different tissues.

In conclusion, this study supports previous findings that prolonged TV viewing is independently associated with subsequent metabolic risk and provides some new evidence that this association may stretch over a considerable proportion of the lifespan: from adolescence to mid-adulthood.

Progeroid syndromes are dramatic diseases in which certain features of human aging are prematurely developed, leading to a considerable reduction in the lifespan of patients, although the specific features and impact on longevity are highly dependent on the molecular nature of the disease.

But having outlived Roy's four-year lifespan by a considerable margin, a very different Hauer returns to our screens this week in his first leading role for many years: Hobo With A Shotgun.

Reducing vector lifespan can have considerable effects on transmission because the development time required for malaria parasites to colonize the salivary glands (∼3 weeks for P. berghei; Sinden et al. 2007) is long compared to the average life expectancy of mosquitoes in the wild, which is estimated as low as 1 2 weeks for adult females of the Anopheles complex (Gwadz and Collins 1996).

Male and female longevity are only weakly genetically correlated, thereby providing considerable scope for independent evolution of lifespan in the sexes.