The hope is that the stem cells will transform themselves into the kind of cells that normally line the windpipe and carry out important functions such as clearing mucus out of the airway.
Anyone looking up food additives on the FSA's website will find the reassurance that they are not a recent invention, and perform important functions such as stopping food going off.
Any irreversible damage to the airway compromises different important functions, such as speech, swallowing, respiration, mucociliary clearance, and immune protection, from inhaled or ingested antigens.
Other than their traditional supportive role, glial cells perform a variety of important functions such as myelination, synapse formation and plasticity, and establishment of blood brain and blood nerve barriers in the nervous system.
Important functions such as nutritional uptake and immune evasion are suspected functions of the tegument and this review discusses these aspects and presents some insights into some of these crucial functions.
The availability of structures of SARS coronavirus macromolecules has enabled the elucidation of their important functions, such as mediating the fusion of viral and host cellular membranes, and in replication and transcription.
The levels of mRNA CXCL8 were significantly associated with the levels of osteopontin, a matrix‐associated protein that shares with chemokines important functions such as induction of cell migration and survival, and modulation of the neoangiogenesis.
While the fishery is healthy now, widespread changes in the ecosystem — including the proposed construction of numerous dams and the development of riparian forests and wetlands — could mean that key fish species might not be around to carry out important functions, such as keeping prey numbers in check or recycling nutrients.
It is known that proteins with important functions such as ribosomal proteins have highly conserved sequences.
Soils also have important functions such as water storage and plant support roles.
It has important functions, such as switching genes on and off and setting the timing for changes in gene activity. .
