Sentence examples for digestive mechanisms from inspiring English sources

Solutions based on labelling of foods by calorific content to improve consumer choices belie both human psychology and the complexity of the body's digestive mechanisms.

The designed chitosan microparticles incorporating Au have been successfully applied to track the digestive mechanisms occurring in delicate insects such as live mosquitoes.

Regardless of the underlying nutritional targets and associated digestive mechanisms, however, the pronounced shifts toward non-animal prey evident in many terapontids are clearly associated with significant modification of intestinal length.

It is thought that humans did not evolve to maintain the digestive mechanisms that break down dairy into adulthood - in fact, some studies have shown that the majority of adults can't properly digest milk.

The holes in the cuticle which allow for this digestive mechanism pose a challenge for the plant, since they serve as breaks in the cuticle (waxy layer) that protects the plant from desiccation.

Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved self-digestive mechanism, which involves many steps.

Autophagy is a self-digestive mechanism that regulates protein turnover, and current evidence links impaired autophagy with accumulation of autophagic vacuoles in the β-cells of T2D when compared with nondiabetic islets (4).

Plakobranchus could also selectively digest some plastids faster than others, implying the existence of digestive recognition mechanisms for individual food particles.

Since energetic constraints challenge animals to display digestive compensatory mechanisms, the objective of this study is to determine the physiological and behavioral responses to spatial and seasonal heterogeneity in food quality.

This network of nerves controls the body's "rest and digest" mechanism, which slows the heart rate, moves muscles that squeeze food through the gut and triggers the release of digestive juices.

Selection began to operate not simply on genes for ascorbic acid synthesis but also across a distributed network of sensory biases, behavioural inclinations and digestive-metabolic mechanisms that increased the probability of obtaining ascorbic acid from the environment.