Sentence examples for level of starvation from inspiring English sources

But cannibalism isn't all that strange an idea, given the level of starvation there.

A long-term study of fasting in adult tilapia also showed that myostatin expression was unaffected by fasting (Rodgers et al. 2003) Our findings suggest that the level of starvation in these juveniles was enough to activate an alternative mechanism for regulating muscle growth rather than through myostatin.

This hypothesis is supported by the observations of Mailleux et al. [59]: the recruiting behaviour of foragers does not depend on the level of starvation of the colony; the negative feedback only arises from the difficulty for a forager to find a receiver.

Dominant-negative DRP-1 reduced the level of starvation and tamoxifen-induced autophagy in MCF-7 breast carcinoma cells, whereas reduction of DAPK expression by antisense RNA attenuated interferon-γ-induced autophagy in HeLa cells [71].

There was no difference in the basal Thor/EIF4EBP transcript level between w 1118 control and Mnn1 heterozygous flies, although the level of starvation-induced Thor/EIF4EBP was somewhat lower in the Mnn1 mutants.

But in this northeastern region of Congo -- whose civil war has killed, between bullets and spears and war-spiked levels of starvation and disease, about three million -- fighting had been raging around the Pygmies for over four years.

Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, and other parts of East Africa have all experienced appalling levels of starvation, which, according to one USAID official, could result in the death of hundreds of thousands of children by fall.

These mice showed severe growth retardation, internal starvation characterized by hypoglycaemia, ketonaemia and increased levels of starvation-induced genes.

The levels of starvation-induced autophagy, as assessed by p62 degradation and LC3-II conversion paralleled the levels of Beclin 1 S90 phosphorylation.

It is only when the situation in Madaya reached the level of mass starvation that the international media have paid attention.

We observed an increase in the level of a starvation marker (total ketone bodies) in the blood of the IKO mice (Fig. 5C).