Osteoblasts can be stimulated to increase bone mass through increased secretion of osteoid and by inhibiting the ability of osteoclasts to break down osseous tissue.

* Gene therapy also plays a major role in the plot of the James Bond movie Die Another Day, where a scientist has developed a means of altering peoples ' entire appearances through the use of DNA samples acquired from others-generally homeless people that would not be missed-that are subsequently injected into the bone marrow, the resulting transformation apparently depriving the subjects of the ability to sleep.

Haematopoietic stem cells ( HSCs ) reside in the medulla of the bone ( bone marrow ) and have the unique ability to give rise to all of the different mature blood cell types.

Osteoprotegerin ( OPG ) binds RANKL before it has an opportunity to bind to RANK, and hence suppresses its ability to increase bone resorption.

For example, the defining test for a bone marrow or hematopoietic stem cell ( HSC ) is the ability to transplant one cell and save an individual without HSCs.

Emergency physicians must have the skills of many specialists — the ability to resuscitate a patient ( critical care medicine ), manage a difficult airway ( anesthesia ), suture a complex laceration ( plastic surgery ), reduce ( set ) a fractured bone or dislocated joint ( orthopedic surgery ), treat a heart attack ( cardiology ), work-up a pregnant patient with vaginal bleeding ( Obstetrics and Gynecology ), stop a bad nosebleed ( ENT ), place a chest tube ( cardiothoracic surgery ), and to conduct and interpret x-rays and ultrasounds ( radiology ).

In these cases, the stapes either is also missing or, in the absence of an eardrum, connects to the quadrate bone in the skull, although, it is presumed, it still has some ability to transmit vibrations to the inner ear.

* TAR syndrome, Thrombocytopenia with Absent radius, a genetic disorder in which the radius bone is absent and blood clotting ability is greatly reduced

They frequently result in death, permanent disability or personality change and, unlike bone, neurological tissue has very limited ability to recover after an injury.

However, if a person has anemia, his / her reticulocyte percentage should be higher than " normal " if the bone marrow's ability to produce new blood cells remains intact.

When Evan returned later in the series, he had mutated even further, and now most of his upper body was covered by armadillo-type bone-plates except for his face and below the waist, and with the new ability to heat up the bone spikes he creates.

Unfortunately, it results in a penis that has no ability to become flaccid again without breaking the internal bone graft.

In snakes, the quadrate bone has become elongated and very mobile, and contributes greatly to their ability to swallow very large prey items.

Gemma was decapitated by Jubei prior to the film's events, but has the ability to reincarnate himself, which is to control his body down to the tiniest bone and blood, allowing him to reconnect any and all severed body parts, even his head or if he is split from top to bottom ; Gemma can also shapeshift, as he disguised himself as the chamberlain by morphing his flesh, and wears an armored plate on his left arm.

These cells have demonstrated the ability to differentiate into a number of different cell-types, including brain, liver and bone.

Although immuno-cytochemistry using tumor-associated monoclonal antibodies has led to an improved ability to detect occult breast cancer cells in bone marrow aspirates and peripheral blood, further development of this method is necessary before it can be used routinely.

The Sami knife has a long, wide, and strong blade that is suited for light chopping tasks such as de-limbing, cutting small trees for shelter poles ( See Lavvu ), brush clearing, bone breaking and butchering tasks, and is sometimes used as a substitute for an axe for chopping and splitting small amounts of firewood from standing dead trees-an essential ability when all dead and fallen wood is buried underneath many layers of snow.

In sensorineural hearing loss the ability to sense the tuning fork by both bone and air conduction is equally diminished and therefore air conduction will still be greater than bone conduction.

Users can give each " bone " the ability to rotate on all 3 axes within certain limits and attach individual objects to each bone.

The bone marrow is replaced by collagen fibrosis, impairing the patient's ability to generate new blood cells resulting in a progressive pancytopenia.

Originally discovered by their ability to induce the formation of bone and cartilage, BMPs are now considered to constitute a group of pivotal morphogenetic signals, orchestrating tissue architecture throughout the body.

Inflammatory cytokines also appear to affect other important elements of iron metabolism, including decreasing ferroportin expression, and probably directly blunting erythropoiesis by decreasing the ability of the bone marrow to respond to erythropoietin.

However, if inflammation continues, the effect of locking up iron stores is to reduce the ability of the bone marrow to produce red blood cells.

's bone marrow is able to produce diamond shards of varying quality, giving her skin a crystalline appearance and the ability to expel shards from her body at high velocity and grants her enhanced durability.

There is currently significant data suggesting that IGFBPs play important roles in addition to their ability to regulate IGFs.

The clear and present danger test was established by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in the unanimous opinion for the case Schenck v. United States, concerning the ability of the government to regulate speech against the draft during World War I:

A similar problem occurs when accessing legislative or parliamentary sovereignty, which holds a specific legal institution to be omnipotent in legal power, and in particular such an institution's ability to regulate itself.

From this, laws were enacted to restrict the actions of prelates whether it was to regulate their need to travel to the Roman Court or their ability to purchase Scottish benefices while there.

When the body temperature is significantly elevated, mechanical methods of cooling are used to remove heat from the body and to restore the body's ability to regulate its own temperatures.

Originally the concept simply referred to society ’ s ability to regulate itself.

Following their continuing research, their initial definition of EI was revised to " The ability to perceive emotion, integrate emotion to facilitate thought, understand emotions and to regulate emotions to promote personal growth.

# Managing emotions – the ability to regulate emotions in both ourselves and in others.

This form of psoriasis can be fatal, as the extreme inflammation and exfoliation disrupt the body's ability to regulate temperature and for the skin to perform barrier functions.

They have mitigation effects through their ability to sink carbon, and adaptation effects through their ability to store and regulate water.

Discussing the legislation, Time referred to the DSHEA as " ill-conceived and reprehensible ", that " gives the industry virtually to market products defined as dietary supplements, while severely limiting the FDA's ability to regulate them ".

These connections help regulate the hypothalamus ’ ability to secrete hormones into the body ’ s blood stream, having far-reaching and long-lasting effects on physiological processes such as metabolism.

This marked the start of a 40-year period of history during which the Supreme Court limited the federal government's ability to regulate under the Interstate Commerce Clause.

The latest research indicates that exposure to these substances can upset the body's ability to regulate hormone production, damage reproduction, and can cause liver and kidney defects.

" The Commerce Clause significantly limits the ability of States and localities to regulate or otherwise burden the flow of interstate commerce, but it does not elevate free trade above all other values.

Some activist groups consider that GATS risks undermining the ability and authority of governments to regulate commercial activities within their own boundaries, with the effect of ceding power to business interests ahead of the interests of citizens.

In this paper it is shown that inclusion of these factors actually improves Daisyworld's ability to regulate its climate.

Demands for production on a local system by an external one may destabilize the local ability to regulate human environment relations.

Here Fairbairn delineated four central schizoid themes: ( 1 ) the need to regulate interpersonal distance as a central focus of concern ; ( 2 ) the ability to mobilize self preservative defenses and self-reliance ; ( 3 ) a pervasive tension between the anxiety laden need for attachment and the defensive need for distance, manifesting in observable behavior as indifference ; and ( 4 ) an overvaluation of the inner world at the expense of the outer world.

An ideal control system should regulate both motivation and ability.

It was thought for a long time that H. ergaster was restricted in the physical ability to regulate breathing and produce complex sounds.

Lastly, using DES as an " environmental estrogen ", a 2009 animal study determined prenatal exposure disrupts specialized brain cells and their ability to regulate brain chemistry, specifically altering the way cells release and reabsorb dopamine, an important chemical messenger that governs movement and pleasure.

In Grollo v Palmer ( 1995 ) and Wilson v Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs ( 1998 ), the court developed the persona designata doctrine, and in Kable v DPP ( 1997 ), the court rejected attempts by the Parliament of New South Wales to establish a system of preventative detention, and found that the states do not have unlimited ability to regulate their courts, given the place of the courts in the Australian court hierarchy.