"Synthetic Action" wasn't a dance; it was a portrait of a dance studio with better lighting.
Ms. Lewis's "Synthetic Action" proposes a ready-made inspired by the warm-up, or a series of exercises that prepare the body for action.
In effect, Gilroy has made the decision to turn a character-driven movie into a plot-driven one; he truncates and stifles a fascinating character in order to keep the story moving relentlessly forward on a narrow track of synthetic action.
Given their powerful anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive actions, synthetic glucocorticoids represent one of the most widely used therapeutic compounds employed in the treatment of acute and chronic inflammatory/autoimmune and lymphoproliferative disorders [ 1, 3].
Since many progestins bind not only to the progesterone receptor, but also to the glucocorticoid, androgen, mineralocorticoid, and possibly the estrogen receptors, it is plausible that synthetic progestins exert therapeutic actions as well as side-effects via some of these receptors.
As a first step in determining whether E2 and the synthetic estrogens have similar actions on hippocampal neurons, we measured the field excitatory postsynaptic potential (fEPSP) generated in the CA1 pyramidal cell layer by Schaffer collateral stimulation in hippocampal slices from young OVX female rats.
GCs also exert powerful anti-inflammatory actions, and synthetic analogs are the therapeutic agents of choice for many inflammatory/neuroinflammatory disorders (2– 5).
The way of action is similar to other prostaglandins although various natural and synthetic prostaglandins employ their action using different receptors and different biochemical pathways.
Plotkin, B., Kaidanovich, O., Talior, I. & Eldar-Finkelman, H. Insulin mimetic action of synthetic phosphorylated peptide inhibitors of glycogen synthase kinase-3.
A thoroughly synthetic concoction (with nifty action sequences) that stirs together elements of "The Sixth Sense," "Frequency" and "City of Angels," the movie tosses in an earnest subplot about battered wives.
By quantitatively analyzing BFL1 action in synthetic membrane models and in cells, we found that BFL1 inhibits apoptosis through three distinct mechanisms which are similar but not identical to those of BCLXL, the paradigmatic antiapoptotic BCL2 family protein.
