The gut is the largest reservoir of bacteria in the body, and under healthy conditions, it maintains a barrier preventing bacteria from translocating out of the intestinal lumen.
Prostasin expression must be tightly regulated in the epithelium to maintain a proper barrier function of the tissue.
The financial cost of dental services has been consistently maintained as a barrier for the use of oral healthcare services worldwide.
Thus, while the relatively simple biochemical protocols of metabolomics maintain a low barrier to entry, new practitioners of metabolomics experiments are forced to either purchase expensive software packages or craft their own data handling solutions from scratch.
Nevertheless, hCMEC/D3 endothelial cells maintain a restrictive barrier with expression of functional transporters and intercellular TJs that can be further enhanced by various stimuli and culture conditions including exposure to astrocytes and shear stress.
Cerebrovascular pathological conditions such as stroke, Alzheimer's, and multiple sclerosis involving a change in brain microenvironment are characteristically accompanied by BBB dysfunction [ 20], thereby emphasizing the necessity of maintaining a proper barrier function and integrity to conserve the brain tissue microenvironment.
One of the most effective ways to keep your home safe from termite damage is to maintain a protective barrier around the exterior perimeter of your home.
This catastrophe galvanized the nation's political and social commitment to mounting and maintaining a sophisticated system of barriers that has set the standard for the rest of the world.
Women with PCOS were more likely to report a lack of confidence regarding their ability to maintain exercise as a barrier (71% of PCOS women, 50% of control women, p = 0.046).
But in the Okinawa islands off Japan, the Red Sea, and the Great Barrier Reef, S. nigricans maintains a monoculture of red algae from a family called Polysiphonia.
