Ghrelin (or a synthetic substitute) may have potential for enhancing appetite in wasting conditions and perhaps even in anorexia nervosa.
A lot of the work I've seen is based more on different additives for enhancing sensation or Viagra substitutes and whatnot.
The fact that other genes can substitute for Myc in enhancing the efficiency of reprogramming [ 70] also suggest that Myc itself is not essential for the process of efficient reprogramming.
Magnetic nanowires are potential candidates for substituting, within enhanced cochlear implants, the role played by hair cilia from the inner ear, which are responsible for the transduction of acoustic vibrations into electric signals.
In previous studies, PPA as the direct precursor of PLA was used as a substitute for Phe to enhance PLA production [21].
We conclude that the formulated bone cement composition is suitable for scaffold production at room temperature and that the established scaffold material can serve as a basis for future bone substitutes to enhance de novo bone formation in critical size defects.
There may be a time when technology permits us to obtain a blood sample, and rapidly create a perfect whole-blood substitute enhanced for the physiologic status of the trauma patient.
For the CIK cells of low spontaneous cytotoxicity, purified BsAb is a more powerful substitute for crude BsAb in enhancing their killing efficacy.
In fact, retinoic acid acting through the related retinoic acid receptor can substitute for thyroid hormone to enhance oligodendrocyte differentiation in vitro (Barres et al., 1994).
It is also known that exogenous CKs can substitute for red light and enhance the germination of certain light-requiring species in the dark [ 24- 27].
Bulky hydrophobic or basic amino acids substituted for serine-375 enhanced Env affinity for rhCD4, virus entry into cells bearing rhCD4, and virus replication in primary rhCD4 T cells without appreciably affecting antigenicity or antibody-mediated neutralization sensitivity.
