Sentence examples for maintaining heart function from inspiring English sources

If a membrane rich in n-6 PUFA is necessary for maintaining heart function in hibernating mammals [21], it should be available when an animal undergoes the first bout of torpor.

To ask whether ilk is also critical for maintaining heart function in Drosophila, we examined the effect of cardiac RNAi-mediated knockdown of ilk (using two different drivers, the strong heart-specific hand-Gal4 (that includes some pericardial cells) and the weaker cardiomyocyte-specific GMH5 (Wessells et al., 2004; Han & Olson, 2005).

The salmon shark's ability to maintain cardiac function in cold water has been linked to the up-regulation of proteins required for excitation-contraction coupling and consequently, maintaining heart rate [54].

Taken together, these data demonstrate that supra- or subphysiological levels of ROS in PCs adversely affect cardiac rhythm and morphology, suggesting that physiological levels of ROS within PCs are critical for their paracrine role in maintaining normal heart function.

How long can someone declared brain-dead maintain heart and lung function while on a ventilator?

In contrast, many genes involved in maintaining normal heart functions such as cardiac contraction and heart rate regulation were down-regulated.

Second, stimulation of myocardial β1-receptors enhances contractility and maintains heart rate [24].

Although these results should be confirmed by different groups in different settings, it is interesting to mention that this paper opens our eyes to a new concept that platelets may release, over days, exosomes that induce and maintain alterations of heart function in septic patients.

ECMO maintains tissue oxygenation pending recovery of heart function.

However, this volume changes when left heart function is poor and right heart function is maintained for volume redistribution to the pulmonary circuit [ 10].

These findings suggest that the accumulation of β1-integrin at an older age may mediate in part the declining heart function and that a moderate reduction in integrin/ILK activity maintains youthful heart function with age.