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Instead, it may be that the short, regular intervals of complete caloric deprivation, as practiced by FEAST participants, provided a more potent stimulus for triggering the necessary changes in serum constituents than either the CR or CREX regimens practiced by the CALERIE participants.

Except for IL-6 and TNF-α, Pam3CSK4 was the more potent stimulus than FSL-1.

Both TNFα and IL-1α increased phosphorylation of p38α and p38γ, with IL-1α being the more potent stimulus (Fig. 2B and C).

Together they account for the finding that oral glucose is a more potent stimulus for insulin secretion than intravenous glucose the so-called 'incretin' effect [ 1].

These results are consistent with the hypothesis that, while TNF-α may be effective at an early stage of degeneration, IL-1β is a more potent stimulus as degeneration becomes prolonged and plays a greater role in established pathological degradation.

In the present study a much higher peak ammonia efflux was observed (1500 μmol min-1 100 g-1 versus 314 μmol per min per leg) indicating that a relative lack of blood flow may be a more potent stimulus to adenine nucleotide loss than the intensity of muscle contraction (absolute ATP turn-over).

Sketches were used in addition to written vignettes to generate more potent stimuli for the fMRI experiment.

Each macronutrient has the capacity to stimulate GLP-1 and GIP release, although the mechanisms underlying secretion differ, and fat and carbohydrate may be more potent stimuli than protein (8).

Alternatively, it could be argued that dexamethasone, in contrast to corticosterone, will not be susceptible to conversion into inactive steroid by 11 β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase in the placenta and will almost certainly provide a more potent glucocorticoid stimulus to the developing adrenal than maternal corticosterone could do.

Oral administration of glucose is a more potent secretory stimulus for insulin than its intravenous infusion (1).

However, ligation with CD4 is not required, and of the coreceptors, gp120 signaling through CXCR4 is a more potent apoptotic stimulus than CCR5.