The attachment system and physiology in adulthood: normative processes, individual differences, and implications for health. [PDF]
Attachment theory provides a conceptual framework for understanding intersections between personality and close relationships in adulthood. Moreover, attachment has implications for stress-related physiology and physical health.
Ainsworth+88 more
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Homeostasis as the Mechanism of Evolution. [PDF]
Homeostasis is conventionally thought of merely as a synchronic (same time) servo-mechanism that maintains the status quo for organismal physiology. However, when seen from the perspective of developmental physiology, homeostasis is a robust, dynamic ...
Torday, John S
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JUNGBRUNNEN1 confers drought tolerance downstream of the HD-Zip I Transcription factor AtHB13 [PDF]
Low water availability is the major environmental factor limiting growth and productivity of plants and crops and is therefore considered of high importance for agriculture affected by climate change.
Allu, Annapurna D.+6 more
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Variable responses of human and non-human primate gut microbiomes to a Western diet [PDF]
BACKGROUND: The human gut microbiota interacts closely with human diet and physiology. To better understand the mechanisms behind this relationship, gut microbiome research relies on complementing human studies with manipulations of animal models ...
Amato, Katherine R.+13 more
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A re-appraisal of the reliability of the 20 m multi-stage shuttle run test [PDF]
This is the author's PDF version of an article published in European journal of applied physiology in 2007.
A Fairbrother+30 more
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The envenomation of general physiology throughout the last century. [PDF]
Toxins are the poisonous products of organisms. Toxins serve vital defensive and offensive functions for those that harbor them: stinging scorpions, pesticidal plants, sanguinary snakes, fearless frogs, sliming snails, noxious newts, and smarting spiders.
Sack, Jon T
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Challenges for the development of a biotic ligand model predicting copper toxicity in estuaries and seas [PDF]
This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2011 SETAC.An effort is ongoing to develop a biotic ligand model (BLM) that predicts copper (Cu) toxicity in estuarine and marine ...
de Polo, A, Scrimshaw, MD
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HD Physiology Project-Japanese efforts to promote multilevel integrative systems biology and physiome research. [PDF]
The HD Physiology Project is a Japanese research consortium that aimed to develop methods and a computational platform in which physiological and pathological information can be described in high-level definitions across multiple scales of time and size.
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Update on male reproductive endocrinology. [PDF]
Practitioners of male reproductive and sexual medicine must have an intimate understanding of the physiology of male reproductive endocrinology, as such a knowledge is the cornerstone on which hormonal treatments are based.
Clavijo, Raul, Hsiao, Wayland
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Administration of Vitamin D Metabolites Affects RNA Expression of Xenobiotic Metabolising Enzymes and Function of ABC Transporters in Rats [PDF]
From studies on different species and in cell culture systems, it has been suggested that vitamin D metabolites might affect themetabolism and elimination of xenobiotics.
Hansen, Kathrin+7 more
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