It appears to stabilize the sarcolemma and protects muscle fibers from long-term contraction-induced damage and necrosis [ 18], though its precise roles at the cellular level are still to be elucidated.
The antioxidant properties of thioredoxin would be expected to protect the schistosome from reactive oxygen species released by host inflammatory responses Calponin is a calcium binding protein that inhibits the ATPase activity of smooth muscle myosin necessary for long-term contractions.
Short-Term Versus Long-Term Contracts.
Or is it a long-term structural contraction, as the industries on which New England's prosperity was built undergo permanent decline?
However, for seagrass meadows that showed no long-term expansion or contraction in spatial cover over one-third of respondents incorrectly assumed changes had occurred.
By looking at a long-term history of contractions and measuring the frequency and severity of those contractions, pregnant women can have a better idea of their progress.
By looking at a long-term history of contractions and measuring the frequency and severity of those contractions, pregnant women can have a better idea of their progress.
The alternative -- staying entrenched in the sunset of the Second Industrial Revolution, with fewer economic opportunities, slowing GDP, diminishing productivity, rising unemployment and an ever-more polluted environment -- is unthinkable, and would set the world on a long-term course of economic contraction and decline in the quality of people's lives.
The paper describes an experimental programme undertaken to investigate the influence of early-age thermal contraction and long-term shrinkage on cracking in four edge-restrained reinforced concrete walls loaded in bending about their major axis.
The long-term trend is one of contraction.
In my opinion, this is an irreversible trend that may have periods of contraction, but long-term, it is tough to argue that China will not continue to consume commodities and grow.
