Sentence examples for modifying the sensitivity of from inspiring English sources

Social stress modifies the activity of brain areas involved in the rewarding effects of psychostimulants, inducing neuroadaptations in the dopaminergic mesolimbic system and modifying the sensitivity of dopamine receptors.

These results suggest that dichoptic training modifies the sensitivity of the neural systems that underpin monocular CS.

Supplementation with maize increased the concentrations of insulin, leptin and IGF-1, which could potentially modify the sensitivity of follicles to gonadotrophins and reduce rates of atresia.

Conversely, loss of function of HIF-1/sima which decreases the hypoxic tolerance of the flies [25] does not modify the sensitivity of adult flies to acute anoxia.

To test the hypothesis that γ subunit translocation modifies the sensitivity of a cell's response to an agonist, PIP2 breakdown was measured at various concentrations of agonist.

We found that when eIF4E was depleted, Hsp27 was unable to modify the sensitivity of the cells to gemcitabine, suggesting the relevance of Hsp27-eIF4E association.

However, a recent study by Robledo and co-workers [ 18] using mice has demonstrated that THC modifies the sensitivity of these animals to the behavioral effects of MDMA in different ways (increase/decrease) depending on the dose employed.

Since the number of needle passes may modify the sensitivity of the technique we have done at least four passes per lesion (mean 5.4/lesion) in order to get an adequate sample.

Currently, paclitaxel activity is considered to be independent of p53 status, which is an important aspect as the presence of silent or mutated p53 does not modify the sensitivity of cancer cells to taxane, thus reducing chemoresistance [ 53– 53].

As the role of 53BP1 in tumors has been shown in several studies to modify the sensitivity of BRCA-mutated cells to chemotherapeutic agents (PARP inhibitors, cisplatin) [ 17, 18], future studies examining the role of 53BP1 in BRCA-mutated pancreatic cancer would be of clinical value.

Multi-objective optimisation (MOO) has been used with an equation solver data reconciliation software to develop a tool for sensor system design based on modifying the sensitivity matrix of a simulated process.