We may thus hypothesize that aberrant encounters viz infectious insults and/or psychosocial stress early in life may affect neurodevelopmental processes in genetically vulnerable individuals through a common mechanism involving inherited defective innate immune responses (Dickerson et al. 2014; Foldager et al. 2014).
Treatment with tri-iodothyronine (T3) in the BB rat reduced T1DM incidence and increased beta-cell mass in diabetes free Wistar rats [ 162], indicating that modulation of thyroid hormone levels may affect T1DM development in genetically susceptible animals.
In this paper, we describe how socio-psychological and cultural factors may affect public perceptions of the risk of genetically modified (GM) food.
We hypothesized that the combined effect of rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and increasing use of genetically modified (GM) crops in agriculture may affect soil food-webs.
This chapter focuses on considerations that may affect the design, construction, and interpretation of experiments in which genetically engineered rat models are employed.
In the current report, we designed a case-controlled study to evaluate whether a genetically predetermined variation in the VEGF expression may affect susceptibility and prognosis.
Antagonistic interactions (conflict) occurring between different combinations of host and mutualist genotypes, or between genetically different strains of the same mutualist species, may affect and shape the specificity in host-symbiont pairings [8] [14].
Our rationale behind the selection of a lower stringency threshold was intra-tumor heterogeneity, that is, the presence of multiple, genetically diverse clones in a single tumor which may affect tumor growth and patients survival.
The decision may affect not only thousands of patented genes but also pharmaceuticals, vaccines and genetically modified crops.
Limitations of the latter include the rather blunt tool of site-directed mutagenesis which is restricted to the genetically encoded natural amino acids, and the possibility that mutational perturbations may affect the fundamental reaction mechanism of the enzyme.
Furthermore, male gametocytes have been shown to have higher longevity in the blood meal (Reece et al., 2003) and are able to recognize genetically identical kin (Reece et al., 2008), both of which may affect sex ratios.
