However obnoxious it may seem, somehow it enhances survival.
A natural biological mechanism that is triggered by contact with extremely cold water, known as the mammalian diving reflex, enhances survival during submersion, thus permitting seagoing mammals to hunt for long periods underwater.
Such emotions motivate behaviour, and this enhances survival since these behaviours help maintain an optimal core body temperature, which is the goal of the internal homeostatic process known as thermoregulation.
3b Fitness enhances survival.
Several previous reports support the notion that radical resection of advanced GBC enhances survival [19 21].
VEGF is a master regulator of angiogenesis and enhances survival and differentiation in endothelial cells, which promotes osteogenesis [24].
Fitness is determined by how well the system in its entirety performs, not whether each and every behavior, gauged separately, enhances survival and reproduction.
Recent evidence shows that rapamycin administered both intraperitoneally or in the diet delays disease onset and enhances survival in the Ndufs4 null mouse model of mitochondrial encephalopathy.
Surgical replacement of diseased heart valves by mechanical and tissue valve substitutes is now commonplace and generally enhances survival and quality of life.
Pathogenic Cryptococcus (Wong et al. 1990) and Aspergillus (Wong et al. 1989) have been reported to accumulate high levels of mannitol in response to hyper-osmotic environments, a strategy that enhances survival when infecting host cells.
Thus, routine stent implantation in diabetic patients with AMI significantly reduces restenosis and enhances survival free from TVR, independent of abciximab use, although survival remains reduced compared with survival in nondiabetic patients regardless of reperfusion modality.
