Sentence examples for long term fasting from inspiring English sources

The role of NPY neurons may not be limited to the feeding circuits, per se, since GHRH neurons express NPY Y2 receptors which mediate the downregulation of GHRH mRNA induced by long term fasting in rodents [25], [26].

The changes show the shifts in activity of the liver, kidneys, pancreas and overall metabolic processes that characterizes long term fasting and hypometabolism.

CRP is an acute phase protein and its elevation after this short term fasting might therefore be expected, although after long term fasting or caloric restriction CRP is usually down-regulated [ 32].

The cDNA fragments isolated in this study provide a novel molecular tool for revealing new aspects in fish nutrition and can provide additional information regarding the pattern of expression of intestinal genes following long-term fasting in fish.

For example, short-term fasting restores the leptin transport deficit in obese mice, whereas long-term fasting (starvation) inhibits transport.

Long-term fasting involves three phases based on changes in body tissue utilization as energy sources [ 27].

Gene expression changes in the liver are related to the overall inhibition of metabolism, mechanisms of differential fuel use, and long-term fasting during hibernation.

Although the hemorrhage was transient, this patient needed to undertake long-term fasting and intravenous hyperalimentation, but later died of severe bile duct hemorrhage because of primary tumor progression.

To live in such a harsh environment, penguins have developed a complicated system in the head, wing, and legs for enhanced thermoregulation [ 14, 15], and an effective management of energy storage for long-term fasting [ 16– 16].

The notion that KDs mimic the beneficial response to long-term fasting [ 30, 31] suggests the possibility to apply this dietary method to the oncological setting when weight loss must be avoided [ 22].

This 2-year study demonstrated that patients with Type 1 diabetes who continued insulin degludec therapy experienced similar long-term fasting plasma glucose and HbA1c to that of patients treated with insulin glargine, but with lower risk of nocturnal hypoglycaemia.