When the septal region is stimulated in conscious patients undergoing neurosurgery, they experience feelings of pleasure, optimism, euphoria, and happiness.
For the Siberian hamster, it's more a question of the right time of the year: reproduction is stimulated in the summer, when days are long, and inhibited in short winter days.
When it is stimulated in a monkey, the animal turns its head and eyes as though it is looking in a particular direction.
For example, the production of melatonin is inhibited when the retina detects light and is stimulated in the absence of light.
In his Nature essay, Dr. Young speculates that human love is set off by a "biochemical chain of events" that originally evolved in ancient brain circuits involving mother-child bonding, which is stimulated in mammals by the release of oxytocin during labor, delivery and nursing.
The extrinsic pathway is generally the first pathway activated in the coagulation process and is stimulated in response to a protein called tissue factor, which is expressed by cells that are normally found external to blood vessels.
It is stimulated in the hope that the cell can then be reprogrammed and develop into an embryo, from which stem cells (which can turn themselves into any sort of cell) can be removed.
Repeated immunization may not be required if resistance is stimulated in rodent hosts.
The biosynthesis of some of these compounds is stimulated in injured plants and plants under the attack of herbivores.
In contrast, replication is stimulated in cholesterol-elevated cells like those lacking caveolins or those from Niemann-Pick disease patients.
Our hypothesis assumes that increased blood circulation is stimulated in order to improve the metabolism and blood flow of the treated structures.
