This positive feedback mechanism might function counter to homeostatic mechanisms in the presence of a massive inflammatory insult and hasten death of a severely ill animal.
In an interesting exception to this pattern, the logic function AND evolved counter to its optimum in some populations owing to selection on the EQU function.
We show that septic patients' neutrophils induce profound loss of barrier function, and that, counter to our original hypothesis, this effect is mimicked by experimental activation of normal neutrophils.
Adiponectin functions to counter the metabolic program associated with obesity and hyperleptinemia by modulating glucose metabolism, increasing fatty acid oxidation and insulin sensitivity, and decreasing production of inflammatory cytokines.
The least-squares (LS) method was applied to obtain the conversion function from the PL counter to the NaI counter.
We also found genes that possibly function in countering AGEs to be downregulated (e.g., lysozymes, saposin-like proteins, peptidases); products of these genes may not be required due to the low intrinsic AGEs upon RIF treatment.
Recently and under the administration of President Obama, polices that protect and empower our lives and enhance our health, have functioned to counter some of the negative sequelae, including loneliness, associated with the discrimination and homophobia so many of us experience.
Hence, Ppa-OBI-1 may function to counter the cell membrane permeability changes brought about by ZTDO by interacting with cell membrane lipids.
Subtle acoustic changes in otherwise identical call types may therefore function to counter the physical constraints of the generally inflexible non-human primate vocal tract.
Squalene-hopene cyclase is involved in the synthesis of hopanoids, the prokaryotic equivalent of steroids [ 42] which may function to counter the effect of membrane disrupting agents on bacterial cells.
