The Essential Role of the Body in the Parent–Infant Relationship: Nonverbal Analysis of Attachment

2012 ◽  
pp. 141-164
Author(s):  
Suzi Tortora
Keyword(s):  
Essential Role ◽  
The Body

scholarly journals The Essential Role of anxA2 in Langerhans Cell Birbeck Granules Formation

Cells ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 974 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shantae M. Thornton ◽  
Varsha D. Samararatne ◽  
Joseph G. Skeate ◽  
Christopher Buser ◽  
Kim P. Lühen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Immune Responses ◽  
Antigen Processing ◽  
Viral Antigen ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
The Body ◽  
Birbeck Granules ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
Antigen Presenting

Langerhans cells (LC) are the resident antigen presenting cells of the mucosal epithelium and play an essential role in initiating immune responses. LC are the only cells in the body to contain Birbeck granules (BG), which are unique cytoplasmic organelles comprised of c-type lectin langerin. Studies of BG have historically focused on morphological characterizations, but BG have also been implicated in viral antigen processing which suggests that they can serve a function in antiviral immunity. This study focused on investigating proteins that could be involved in BG formation to further characterize their structure using transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Here, we report a critical role for the protein annexin A2 (anxA2) in the proper formation of BG structures. When anxA2 expression is downregulated, langerin expression decreases, cytoplasmic BG are nearly ablated, and the presence of malformed BG-like structures increases. Furthermore, in the absence of anxA2, we found langerin was no longer localized to BG or BG-like structures. Taken together, these results indicate an essential role for anxA2 in facilitating the proper formation of BG.

scholarly journals Assessing the Role of Vitamins for COVID-19 Treatment

2021 ◽  
pp. 710-717
Author(s):  
Abhishek Borkhade ◽  
Anupama Sawal
Keyword(s):  
Immune System ◽  
Bacterial Infections ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
The Body ◽  
Global Epidemic ◽  
Low Resistance ◽  
Balanced Diet ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
Precautionary Measures

Acute SARS-Covid-2, also known as a coronavirus (COVID-19), seemed in Wuhan metropolis, China, in December 2019. On March 11, 2020, a global epidemic was announced. As the sector responds to the COVID-19 virus, the less critical clinical remedy, commentary has been shifted to various methods that can help toughen the immune system to fight against various viral and bacterial infections. Considering that the Corona contamination considerably impacts the body defense with many irritative and harmful responses, medicinal corporations are working to develop unique tablets and vaccines in opposition to the Coronavirus, which is beneficial for people to fight corona disease. A properly balanced diet can play a chief role in keeping typical fitness to control persistent infectious illnesses. A nicely balanced diet or food regimen includes nutrients A, B, C, D, E, and vit. K can help with numerous infectious illnesses. This research aims to talk over and gift with the ultra-modern records of the position of nutrients inside the COVID-19 treatment, as these nutrients play an essential role in covid treatment. Deficiency of these nutrients can cause a decrease or low resistance of immune working, which is one of the principal reasons that purpose terrible immune device. that is a story evaluation of the capabilities of Corona virus and facts of getting use vitamins as precautionary measures to convey down the incidence and dying of sufferers struggling with COVID.

“Africanist Presence” and the Role of Black Bodies

2020 ◽  
pp. 97-124
Author(s):  
Angela Alaimo O'Donnell
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Black Body ◽  
Literary Imagination ◽  
The Body ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Mary Douglas ◽  
Black Bodies ◽  
The Difference

Chapter 4, “‘Africanist Presence’ and the Role of Black Bodies,” taking its title and cue from Toni Morrison’s seminal study of race in American Literature, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, examines O’Connor’s exploration of the essential role played by African Americans in the construction of a white consciousness. It also considers the work of womanist theologian M. Shawn Copeland on “enfleshing freedom” in which she meditates on the imaging of the black body in Western culture and its implications in the Christian Church. The chapter considers the difference between what anthropologist Mary Douglas refers to as “physical bodies” and “social bodies” and the ways in which these representations and perceptions of the body enter into O’Connor’s work (73). The chapter includes analysis of “Everything that Rises Must Converge,” “The Artificial Nigger,” and “Judgement Day” (reprise).

scholarly journals The Body Speaks Society, School and Culture

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuela Valentini ◽  
Maria Chiara Mancini ◽  
Ario Federici
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
The Body ◽  
Family Context ◽  
Nonverbal Behaviour ◽  
Cultural Foundations ◽  
The Family ◽  
The One ◽  
Pluralistic World

How can we help all children, since birth, become effective communicators and interpreters? Why should nonverbal behaviour be of interest? The aim of this research is to reflect on the importance of every element of the analogical language, related to a target audience of preschool and school children aged between 0 and 8 years that is always little studied. The ability to communicate is an essential skill that has roots in early childhood; preschool children especially prefer the body as means of communication, from birth. Children learn to know the analogical language by observing the one of the parents and by imitating him. It is worth to underline the essential role of school that, beyond the family context, is the privileged environment for the development and learning of communication, both verbal and non-verbal. However, non-verbal languages are determined by cultures, that is, they are not equal for all regardless of cultures, but they change depending on cultures themselves; understand cultural foundations of the communication, in today’s multicultural and pluralistic world, is an essential help to handle an appropriate conversation.

The Role of Polyphenols in the Modulation of Plasma Non-Enzymatic Antioxidant Capacity (NEAC)

2012 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 228-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauro Serafini ◽  
Giuseppa Morabito
Keyword(s):  
Antioxidant Capacity ◽  
Dietary Intervention ◽  
Ex Vivo ◽  
The Body ◽  
Dietary Polyphenols ◽  
Enzymatic Antioxidant ◽  
Endogenous Antioxidant

Dietary polyphenols have been shown to scavenge free radicals, modulating cellular redox transcription factors in different in vitro and ex vivo models. Dietary intervention studies have shown that consumption of plant foods modulates plasma Non-Enzymatic Antioxidant Capacity (NEAC), a biomarker of the endogenous antioxidant network, in human subjects. However, the identification of the molecules responsible for this effect are yet to be obtained and evidences of an antioxidant in vivo action of polyphenols are conflicting. There is a clear discrepancy between polyphenols (PP) concentration in body fluids and the extent of increase of plasma NEAC. The low degree of absorption and the extensive metabolism of PP within the body have raised questions about their contribution to the endogenous antioxidant network. This work will discuss the role of polyphenols from galenic preparation, food extracts, and selected dietary sources as modulators of plasma NEAC in humans.

Essential role of Sharpin in TNFα dependent NFκB activation in primary hepatocytes

2012 ◽  
Vol 50 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
N Lange ◽  
S Sieber ◽  
A Erhardt ◽  
G Sass ◽  
HJ Kreienkamp ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Essential Role ◽  
Primary Hepatocytes

The Role of Computer Modeling in Electrocardiography

1990 ◽  
Vol 29 (04) ◽  
pp. 282-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. van Oosterom
Keyword(s):  
Electrical Activity ◽  
Computer Modeling ◽  
Body Surface ◽  
Electrical Current ◽  
The Body ◽  
Volume Conductor ◽  
Current Generator ◽  
Cardiac Electrical Activity ◽  
Source Models

AbstractThis paper introduces some levels at which the computer has been incorporated in the research into the basis of electrocardiography. The emphasis lies on the modeling of the heart as an electrical current generator and of the properties of the body as a volume conductor, both playing a major role in the shaping of the electrocardiographic waveforms recorded at the body surface. It is claimed that the Forward-Problem of electrocardiography is no longer a problem. Several source models of cardiac electrical activity are considered, one of which can be directly interpreted in terms of the underlying electrophysiology (the depolarization sequence of the ventricles). The importance of using tailored rather than textbook geometry in inverse procedures is stressed.

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