Females of many nonhuman primate species exhibit sexually attractive signals during their cycle. The most prominent signals are coloration and/or perineal swelling. The coloration and degree of anogenital swelling size may affect the vulva area, the clitoris, to some extent the perineal region, and ...
Body–electrode interfaces in these cases act as a transducer, converting ionic current in the body to electronic current in the sensing and communication circuits and vice versa. An ideal body–electrode interface should have the characteristics of an electrical short, i.e., the transfer of ...
Insulin is a hormone that regulates the body's blood sugar level. Diabetes is a chronic medical condition in which the individual’s blood glucose or sugar level is high. There are currently two major types of diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is a condition where the beta cells of the pancreas st...
e.g. a loud truck passing the street outside the house. The child will be engaged by the sound, turn his body toward the sound source, perhaps even drop his toys and rush to the window for a better look. Grandma, on the other hand, may not even lift her eyes...
Augmenting the body with artificial limbs controlled concurrently to one’s natural limbs has long appeared in science fiction, but recent technological and neuroscientific advances have begun to make this possible. By allowing individuals to achieve otherwise impossible actions, movement augmentation could...
Computer artist Harold Cohen makes the provocative statement “Living as we do in a culture obsessed by appearances, saturated with photographic imagery for a hundred years, it comes as a shock to realize that 95%—I’m guessing—of all the images ever made follow other paradigms, exhibit virt...
Kamada N, Hisamatsu T, Honda H, Kobayashi T, Chinen H, Kitazume MT, Takayama T, Okamoto S, Koganei K, Sugita A, Kanai T, Hibi T (2009) Human CD14+ macrophages in intestinal lamina propria exhibit potent antigen-presenting ability. J Immunol 183:1724–1731. https://doi.org/10.4049/jim...
The feature that sets the human breast apart is that in relation to the size of the body, there is no other species that retains a breast in such a swollen state. Cattle teats can be proportionately larger, but only so long as the cow is lactating; the same is true of many other ...
Proteolipid complexes containing MtCK and ANT also exhibit a direct protective effect on mitochondrial permeability transition (MPT). This reversible and cyclosporin-sensitive process is caused by a large pore in the inner mitochondrial membrane and triggered by multiple signals, including Ca2+ and ...
As the goal of the current study was to dissect the molecular contribution of adipose and adipocyte biology to traits that can influence the pathophysiology of obesity, we examined GWAS for BMI and the metabolic traits that have previously been shown to exhibit co-morbidities with obesity (e.g....