Sentences with phrase «cells use glucose»

A PET scan, which stands for Position Emission Tomography (it looks at glucose metabolism), is used to show how the cells use glucose, as an indication of brain injury or a marker for brain injury.

Cells use glucose to run cellular functions and provide energy to your cat's entire body.

Cells use glucose, a simple sugar, for fuel.

We eat carbohydrate, we secrete insulin, insulin moves the glucose into cells, cells use the glucose.

The pancreas produces a hormone called insulin, which helps the cells use glucose for energy.

Normally, your cells use glucose, or sugar, as their main source of fuel.

«Not only in regard to how the fat is carried, but how their cells use glucose, fatty acids and other nutrients.

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Rather than being used by muscles for energy, the glucose is redirected to fat cells.

As the chlorophyll within this organelle absorbs energy from sunlight, it releases high - energy electrons; vitamin K1 forms a bridge between chlorophyll and several iron - sulfur centers across which these electrons travel, releasing their energy so that the cell can ultimately use it to synthesize glucose..

Insulin is a hormone that helps glucose move from your bloodstream into your body's cells, where it's used as energy.

It is from corn — a natural product that our bodies can digest and use just like glucose to produce cells our bodies need.

Dunsby and colleagues used it to measure glucose uptake, indicated by a fluorescent biosensor, in multicellular kidney cell spheroids.

Using an MRI technique that is sensitive to certain byproducts of cell metabolism, including levels of glucose and acidity, University of Iowa researchers discovered previously unrecognized differences in the brains of patients with bipolar disorder.

Insulin instructs cells to use the extra glucose for energy or turn it into fat.

The metabolism of bone cells determines how much sugar they use; if the bone cells consume more sugar than normal, this can lower the glucose level in the blood.

Schwarz and her colleagues used three different drugs, alone and in combination, to deprive cervical tumors of glucose and block downstream metabolic pathways that help protect cancer cells from building up toxic free radicals.

The system works just like a standard glucose meter: patients test their blood using a traditional lancet, then use a special strip stored in the cell phone to analyze it.

The current research suggests that pancreatic cancer cells that spread to organs that receive a blood supply rich in glucose and other nutrients, such as the liver and lungs, acquire metabolic adaptations to use these «natural resources» to increase their tumorigenic fitness.

If they can attach all ten, the nanobots could potentially use glucose in blood to swim their way to diseased cells.

In such exercise, oxygen is used to «burn» fats and glucose in order to produce adenosine triphosphate, the basic energy carrier for all cells.

The stress this places on cells leads to the overproduction of glucose, which when not used for energy transforms into lactic acid, which is difficult for the body to flush out.

When glucose levels rise, the beta cells release insulin to cue cells throughout the body to squirrel away the sugar for later use.

It also depletes adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-- a molecule that the body uses to transfer glucose - derived energy among cells.

To overcome these problems, Min and his team developed a new modality to visualize glucose uptake activity inside single cells based on stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) imaging, and demonstrated its use in live cancer cells, tumor xenograft tissues, primary neurons and mouse brain tissues.

Although both methods find great use in clinical application, they do not have sufficient spatial resolution to visualize glucose uptake down to single cells.

Medicines used to treat diabetes fall into four groups: those that stimulate the pancreas to put out more insulin; those that lower insulin resistance in cells; those that help the body use insulin; and those that slow down or block the breakdown of starches, which in turn keeps blood - glucose levels lower.

Aware that cancers rewire their metabolism in ways that could change the epigenome and that distant metastases in pancreatic cancer naturally spread to organs fed by a sugar - rich blood supply, the researchers wondered if the tumor cells had altered the way they use the basic form of sugar, glucose.

Insulin tells muscle, organ and even fat cells to take up the glucose and use it for fuel.

Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers have discovered that a particular type of protein (hormone) found in fat cells helps regulate how glucose (blood sugar) is controlled and metabolized (used for energy) in the liver.

Insulin sensitivity refers to insulin's ability to efficiently respond to and regulate glucose in the blood, so that our cells can use it for energy and other functions.

Normally, people who are overweight face a greater risk for insulin resistance, a condition in which the body does not use insulin effectively to shuttle glucose into liver, fat, and muscle cells.

By using the same cellular channels that funnel glucose into a cancer cell, 3BrPA can travel inside the cancer cell and block its glucose metabolic pathway, Geschwind says.

Healthy cells use most of their glucose «fuel» to produce energy, rather than for building components of new cells, such as fats and DNA.

B cells, cytotoxic T cells, and helper T cells boost their use of glucose and increase their reliance on the glycolysis pathway to digest the sugar.

Lead author Nora Volkow, a psychiatrist at the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health, recruited 47 healthy volunteers and used positron emission tomography (PET) scans to measure glucose metabolism in the brain while cell phones were placed over the right or left ear.

Unfortunately, the enzymes used in past glucose biofuel cells were not suitable for implants, because they either required highly acidic conditions to work or were inhibited by a variety of ions found in the body.

The fungus makes the chelator and produces hydrogen peroxide from oxygen, and together they start to digest the cell wall into the sugar found in the basic building block of wood, glucose, which the fungus can use as food.

Because cancer cells grow and divide rapidly, they use a lot of energy, sucking up glucose and giving themselves away; the red coloring denotes disease in the patient's liver and shoulder area.

From a theory dating back to the early 20th century by Nobel Prize laureate Otto Warburg, it has been believed that, in order to support their growth, cancer cells needed to increase their glucose consumption, without using mitochondrial metabolism.

Low WWOX levels will allow more glucose to be used for these cancer cell «building blocks».»

Cancer cells tend to use glucose to make more cell «building blocks» than energy, and this is thought to help them to divide and grow.

Further research showed that the WWOX gene plays a role in the altered metabolism of cancer cells which are known to use glucose differently to normal cells.

Fiumera works in vivo with fruit flies while Mahler works in vitro using a 3 - D cell - culture model of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract to understand how ingesting nanoparticles influences glucose processing and the gut microbiome.

An international team led by metabolism experts Matthias Tschöp (Helmholtz Zentrum München / Technische Universität Müchen), Richard diMarchi (Indiana University) and Timo Müller (Helmholtz Zentrum München) report in the current issue of the journal Cell that liver - specific delivery of the thyroid hormone T3 using glucagon corrects obesity, glucose intolerance, fatty liver disease and atherosclerosis without causing adverse effects in other tissues.

Type 1 diabetes occurs when the pancreas doesn't produce any insulin, which moves glucose from the bloodstream to the body's cells to be used for energy.

The body's cells typically use glucose, a kind of sugar, for their energy.

The pathway then uses the tumor's metabolism to break down glucose and use its energy to reduce cell death and maintain proliferation.

Cells equipped with a gene whose activity is driven by blue light were used to help diabetic mice control glucose levels.

If Lsd1 is inhibited in mice, the animals» cells take up more glucose, their capacities to convert glucose into energy increases, and they use less fatty acid, for example.

In their study Loeken and her group, including Yichao Wu, Marta Viana, and Shoba Thirumangalathu, used mice and cell lines to test their hypothesis that AMPK might be stimulated in the embryo and that stimulation of AMPK was responsible for blocking Pax3 expression and causing neural tube defects in response to high glucose.