In addition, increased levels of the hormone estrogen, as a result of pregnancy or hormone therapy, or the use of combined ( estrogen-containing ) forms of hormonal contraception, may increase cholesterol levels in bile and also decrease gallbladder movement, resulting in gallstone formation.

A second investigation-perhaps his most famous-was on the glycogenic function of the liver ; in the course of this he was led to the conclusion, which throws light on the causation of diabetes mellitus, that the liver, in addition to secreting bile, is the seat of an internal secretion, by which it prepares sugar at the expense of the elements of the blood passing through it.

In addition, diarrhea may be caused by excess bile salts entering the colon rather than being absorbed at the end of the small intestine ( the ileum ).

In addition, because bile acid sequestrants are not well-absorbed from the gut ; in general, they are regarded as safe in pregnant women.

In addition to bile acids, bile acid sequestrants may also bind drugs in the GI tract, preventing their absorption into the bloodstream.

and natural waters, in addition, often contain impurities such as calcium salts which can react with soils to make them more difficult to remove.

The term is also used as a verb, to describe carbonation: the process of raising the concentrations of carbonate and bicarbonate ions in water to produce carbonated water and other carbonated beverages — either by the addition of carbon dioxide gas under pressure, or by dissolving carbonate or bicarbonate salts into the water.

The salts listed by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration for reporting purposes, in addition to a few others, are as follows:

In addition to containing small peptides, the resulting spray-dried material includes fats, metals, salts, vitamins and many other biological compounds.

The fact that Lamy was able to work ample quantities of thallium enabled him to determine the properties of several compounds and in addition he prepared a small ingot of metallic thallium which he prepared by remelting thallium he had obtained by electrolysis of thallium salts.

Another example involves the addition of water softeners to washing powders to inhibit the precipitation of salts of magnesium and calcium ions, which are present in hard water, by forming complexes with them.

In addition to mineral weathering, salts are also deposited via dust and precipitation.

Human practices can increase the salinity of soils by the addition of salts in irrigation water.

For example, the addition of inorganic salts causes a moderate linear increase in the surface tension of aqueous solutions ( ca.

1. 5 J / cm² per Mol for NaCl, 2. 5 J / cm² per Mol for ( NH < sub > 4 </ sub >)< sub > 2 </ sub > SO < sub > 4 </ sub >), and because the entropy of the analyte-solvent interface is controlled by surface tension, the addition of salts tend to increase the retention time.

The addition of inorganic coagulants such as aluminum sulfate ( or alum ) or iron ( III ) salts such as iron ( III ) chloride cause several simultaneous chemical and physical interactions on and among the particles.

The addition of small quantities of phosphate ion and increasing the pH slightly both assist in greatly reducing plumbo-solvency by creating insoluble lead salts on the inner surfaces of the pipes.

The addition of Epsom salts to attain the desired specific gravity may have a therapeutic effect on hypertonic muscles.

After the addition, the reaction mixture is treated with aqueous acid to give an alcohol, and the magnesium salts are subsequently discarded.

Milk and soy milk are curdled intentionally to make cheese and tofu by the addition of enzymes ( typically rennet ), acids, or various salts ( magnesium chloride, calcium chloride, or gypsum ); the curds are then pressed.

Losses are compensated by the addition of cobalt salts.

Reactivity and specificity of the Stille reaction can be improved by the addition of stoichiometric amounts of Cu ( I ) or Mn ( II ) salts.

In addition to the utilization of mineral licks, many animals suffer from traffic collisions as they gather to lick salts accumulated on road surfaces.

Infant respiratory distress syndrome is the leading cause of death in preterm infants, and the main treatments are CPAP, in addition to administering surfactant and stabilizing the blood sugar, blood salts, and blood pressure.

The heating of a gas to its plasma state or the addition of other easily ionizable substances like the salts of alkali metals can accomplish this increase.

Although, flocculation may be used, using alum salts or the addition of polyelectrolytes.

Acid salts compounds can act either as an acid or a base: addition of a suitably strong acid will protonate anions, and addition of a suitably strong base will split off H < sup >+</ sup >.

Most milds contain, in addition, a quantity of crystal malt ; dark milds, meanwhile, make use of chocolate malt, black malt or dark brewing sugars.

" It noted, in addition to merchants selling radio sets, " others display mostly accessories ... one shopkeeper last week featured a crystal set small enough to fit into a pocket, and another gave prominent position to a bucket of condensers about an inch in side.

In addition to the Hebrew Bible verses, the tree of life is symbolically described in the Book of Revelation as having curing properties: " the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city.

A supersaturated solution may be induced to come to equilibrium by the addition of a " seed " which may be a tiny crystal of the solute, or a tiny solid particle, which initiates precipitation.

In addition, the lead in the crystal glass can be converted into a soluble form, which could endanger the health of subsequent users.

In inorganic phosphors, these inhomogeneities in the crystal structure are created usually by addition of a trace amount of dopants, impurities called activators.

In addition to its steel factories, Seraing counts a famous crystal manufacture at Val Saint Lambert, which has been operating on the site of an old Cistercian abbey since 1826.

In addition, excellent gemstone material has been found: aquamarine, gold beryl, rock crystal, smoky quartz, citrine, spessartine and amazonite.

This was usually accomplished with the addition of a toggle switch and a crystal that switched one column of a standard phone keypad into the " fourth column " used in the Autovon system.

Many early crystal sets did not have a tuning capacitor, and relied instead on the capacitance inherent in the wire antenna ( in addition to significant parasitic capacitance in the coil itself ) to form the tuned circuit with the coil.

Laser light from gas or crystal lasers is highly collimated because it is formed in an optical cavity between two parallel mirrors, in addition to being coherent.

In addition, there were other Czech and Slovak businesses, such as Praha Restaurant on First Avenue and 73rd street, Vašata Restaurant on Second Avenue and 74th street, as well as Czech butcher shops, poultry and grocery stores, and shops that sold imported goods such as Bohemian books, leather products and crystal.

In addition, the crew also worked on secondary payloads involving Indium crystal growth, electrical storm, and earth observation studies.

The light-scattering properties of this highly refractive glass quickly became a popular addition to the form, leading to the crystal chandelier.

In addition, Leon can combine one of five sub-weapons — a knife, an axe, a cross, a crystal, and holy water — with one of seven orbs to form a special attack.

Since negative climb involves an addition of atoms to the half plane, the crystal grows in the direction perpendicular to the half plane.

Notable additions to the Meeting House have included a Waterford crystal chandelier given by Hope Brown Ives ( 1792 ), a large pipe organ given by her brother Nicholas Brown, Jr., the younger ( 1834 ), the creation of rooms for Sunday school, fellowship hall, and offices on the lower level ( 1819 – 1859 ), and an addition to the east end of the Meeting House to accommodate an indoor baptistery ( 1884 ).

In addition, this symmetrical crystal structure provides a model for NTs-p75 ( NTR ) recognition and signal generation, as well as insights into coordination between p75 ( NTR ) and Trks.

In addition, several of the islands feature unique Pokémon found nowhere else: one island is home to a rare fruit that turns Pokémon pink if they eat it, and another island is home to an Onix whose body is made of crystal rather than rock.

In 1992 the awards were broadcast live for the first time ; in addition, the award statue ( previously a flat crystal heart ) was redesigned to be taller.

In addition to electron microscopy images, it is also possible to use electron diffraction ( ED ) patterns for crystal structure determination.

It has a color, transreflective thin-film transistor liquid crystal display with 211, 000 pixels, in addition to an electronic viewfinder.

In addition, there are several mineral water bottling plants, a traditional paper works and a crystal jewellery producer.

Such a mixture is considered a solution rather than a compound when the crystal structure of the solvent remains unchanged by addition of the solutes, and when the mixture remains in a single homogeneous phase.