Sentence examples for tone alterations from inspiring English sources

Mortality within 72 h was recorded for each group, and the animals then were observed for 7 days for signs of toxicity (body weight variation, consumption of food and water, piloerection, palpebral ptosis, locomotion and muscular tone alterations, trembling, paw paralysis, sedation, ambulation reduction, response to touch and defecation).

CSD induces tone alterations in resistance vessels, causing either transient hyperperfusion (physiological haemodynamic response) in healthy tissue; or hypoperfusion [inverse haemodynamic response = cortical spreading ischaemia (CSI)] in tissue at risk for progressive damage, which has so far only been shown experimentally.

The causality of this association is currently not known, but autonomic hyperactivity/increased sympathetic tone, alterations in the Rho/Rho kinase pathway regulating smooth muscle contraction, endothelial (nitric oxide synthase/nitric oxide) dysfunction, atherosclerosis-induced pelvic ischemia, and age-related hormone imbalances may play a role (Rosen et al 2005; McVary 2006).

The endothelium is a key target of sepsis-induced events, and the sepsis-activated vascular endothelium is responsible for the increase in luminal cell adhesion molecules, leukocyte recruitment, vasomotor tone alteration, microvascular thrombosis formation, and eventually diffuse capillary leakage [ 4, 5].

The potential for volatile anaesthetic agents to modulate vascular tone via alterations in calcium and potassium ion channel function in other circulations is clear.

11 Interestingly, abnormal control of systemic vascular tone, 12 alterations in systemic arterial structure and function 13 and impaired ability to repair systemic endothelial injury 14 have also been reported in migraine patients.

The tone responds to alterations in perfusion pressure in such a way that when the pressure falls the degree of contraction is reduced, preglomerular resistance is lowered, and blood flow is preserved.

Down syndrome (DS) is a genetic disorder resulting from trisomy 21 that causes cognitive impairment, low muscle tone and craniofacial alterations.

The increase in compliance studied in an ex vivo model showed a relaxin-mediated increase in compliance independent of smooth muscle-mediated changes in tone, suggesting that alterations in the extracellular matrix of the vessel wall contributed to increased compliance.

But anyone who has read the book will be struck by the alterations in tone and plot.

Both contain encyclopaedic gatherings of recondite and occult lore, numerous passages of which modern scholarship has yet to explicate satisfactorily, but the poetry is continually energized by minute alterations of tone, startling conjunctions of material, and a unique alertness to the mystery of the commonplace.