Sentence examples for physiological breakdown from inspiring English sources

Decreasing cellular heat shock protein amounts, however, can be interpreted as signs of a very intense stress response [46] in which case the organism is heading towards physiological breakdown and destruction.

For this reason, they are usually designed with a contact-point (e.g. a button) that requires frequent contact; the idea being that it acts as a safety measure in the event of physiological breakdown (e.g. from malaise, sleep).

One mechanism involved in this balance is fibrinolysis, the physiological breakdown of fibrin, an essential component of blood clots.

In some cases, the extreme selection for a single trait can result in physiological breakdown as resources are channelled towards particular production proteins.

In support of this, in a recent study we demonstrated that controlled exposure to ozone can cause an increase in vascular markers of inflammation and alter markers of fibrinolysis (the physiological breakdown of blood clots) (Devlin et al. 2012).

Probably a continuum exists between the well-functioning rumen and physiology of a healthy, high yielding dairy cow in maximal production and the ecological and physiological breakdown of a cow with full blown acute ruminal and systemic acidosis with the "high-concentrate syndrome" [ 31] /SARA condition, situated in between theses extremes.

As such, the uncertainties of most purported evolutionary insights into human health concerns usually preclude consideration serious enough to warrant clinical evaluation, and the practice of medicine defaults to the perspective of body and mind as organic machines subject to forms of physical, physiological, and psychological breakdown (Williams and Nesse 1991; Nesse and Williams 1994).

Goldberg's major discoveries have concerned the biochemical mechanisms and physiological regulation of protein breakdown in cells and the importance of this process in human disease.

Melon as one of the most consumed fruits, the development and ripening of fruit is known to be a complex developmental process that involves many biochemical and physiological changes including the breakdown of chlorophyll, degradation of the cell wall, increase in sugars content, alteration in pigment biosynthesis, and the accumulation of flavour and aromatic compounds.

7. Cathepsin B1 may provide an alternative route for collagen breakdown in physiological and pathological situations.

We define physiological dysregulation as the breakdown with age in the capacity of the complex regulatory networks to maintain organismal homeostasis due to changes in the state of these networks; we exclude from this definition adaptive changes with age and transient (i.e., reversible) responses to environmental challenges (Yashin et al., 2012).