Sentence examples for normal alteration from inspiring English sources

The American Psychiatric Association definition of anorexia nervosa (AN) includes refusal to maintain body weight at or above a minimum normal weight for age and size, an intense fear of gaining weight or becoming large when weight is below normal, alteration of perception of body weight or shape, and amenorrhea in postpubertal women.

As IAH/ACS impacts almost all of the body's organ systems, it is important for intensivists to understand the normal alterations in these systems that occur with pregnancy.

An understanding of these effects is important for various reasons, including to counsel would-be parents on what can be dramatic yet normal alterations in partners' sexual dynamics.

Glucose metabolism of healthy brain tissue is stable and relatively unaffected by normal alterations of cerebral perfusion in contrast to that of injured brain tissue, which is very sensitive to such changes [ 36].

Imaging findings following major pancreatic resections can be broadly divided into "normal postoperative alterations" and real complications.

Normal dietary alterations to similarly increase large intestinal fermentation would probably arise from larger quantities of less rapidly digested carbohydrates.

Thus, the dynamics of nuclear localization of KLF6 seems to be finely tuned in normal cells; alterations of this regulatory mechanism in the context of ductal breast cancer cells might promote constitutive KLF6 expression within the nucleus which is in direct association with a malignant phenotype, as shown here.

These results suggest that the lack of ERα and neonatal DES treatment each blocked the normal developmental alterations in the DNA methylation status of these four specific CpGs (–160, –237, –306, and –367) of the Svs4 gene promoter.

Kawabuchi and colleagues (2001) provide insight into normal aging alterations in NMJs from their study of reinnervation of the crushed sciatic nerve in 64 rats (30 adult and 34 aged).

Older age is always accompanied by normal physiological alterations and/or various metabolic disorders or neoplastic diseases, which disrupt the mucosal and cutaneous barrier and make the organism more vulnerable to Candida infection (Table 2).

Taking into consideration these genetic and epigenetic alterations in adjacent normal urothelia, the alteration on 9q might be a truly tumor-specific event.