What is "biochemical"

Usage examples of "biochemical".

The cellular and biochemical changes which must be translated into behavioural processes such as memory formation must be precisely located in space and time, as the criteria with which I started this chapter have emphasized.

If we then take a biochemical marker, such as, say, increased fucose incorporation in the hours after training, we expect a difference between A and D, due to the training, and between C and F, as the delayed shock group has both tasted the bead and shows the memory.

If the biochemical change is the consequence simply of the experience of tasting the bead, then the level of fucose incorporation in E should be the same as that in D and F, and higher than in all the water groups A-C.

She worked with biochemical signals in the lab: with plants that released ethylene after wounding, to warn other plants that an insect or fungal attack was on the way.

Annette Dolphin, working with Tim Bliss, showed that, when the perforant pathway is stimulated in vivo, there is an increased release of glutamate in the hippocampus, and the biochemical mechanisms of this release were mapped in some detail by Marina Lynch.

Cordelia shuddered, detailed visions of unfavorable biochemical and histamine reactions dancing in a molecular crack-the-whip through her head.

I read the extract half-heartedly and found it sheer gobbledegook, with terms such as capillary beds, adrenaline and noradrenaline, biochemical responses, inhibitory cells and the like.

The biochemical push and pull between them does not always coerce them into synchrony, unlike the firefly species in Southeast Asia that synchronize their flashes all night long, every night of the year.

Virtually any biochemical process, certainly anything that means that neurons are becoming more active or are synthesizing macromolecules, is going to demand energy.

I have tried to identify biochemical, morphological and physiological changes occurring in specific regions of the chick brain m the minutes to hours following training on a simple task, to show that the changes are not the results of other aspects of training than memory, to show that blocking the changes prevents the memory, and vice versa, and, finally, to examine the consequences of removing the brain sites of change, either before or after the chick has been trained.

It was a large effect, specific, reproducible and, above all, very amenable to physiological - and later biochemical, pharmacological and morphological - investigation.

Granted all the earlier biochemical and morphological results, the obvious place to look was LPO.

The whole burden of the decade of biochemical and morphological work that occupied the last chapter was that, as a result of learning to avoid the bitter bead, there were lasting changes in the chemistry and structure of the cells of the left IMHV and of the LPO.

Looking at Penn Brown, who has refused, despite her new status as a scientific consultant contracted to Cytex, to divulge any of the results of the DNA sequencing and biochemical analysis of the slick.

These channels make the membrane permeable to ions or molecules, which can then enter the cell and act as signals for the initiation of the biochemical cascades which ultimately lead, in ways that I shall describe in the next chapter, to the synthesis of new synaptic membrane components and hence to synaptic remodeling.