Sentences with phrase «abundant type of protein»

It's the most abundant type of protein, accounting for roughly 35 % to 50 % of all protein in your body.

Your body produces collagen and it is the most abundant type of protein in your body.

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IL - 17 attracted other immune cells called neutrophils — the most abundant type of white blood cell — to the conjunctiva and induced the release of anti-microbial proteins into the tears.

The protein built from the gene was abundant while the cells were proliferating but abruptly disappeared when the cells began to differentiate, or turn into other types of cells.

Kirstine Lavrsen and colleagues at the University of Copenhagen discovered that GalNAc - transferase 6, known as GalNAc - T6, one of 20 polypeptides that initiate GalNAc - type O - glycosylation of proteins, was absent in healthy colon tissue but abundant in colon cancer tissue.

A study has shown that the increase of the brain enzyme called puromycin - sensitive aminopeptidase, which is the most abundant brain peptidase seen in mammals, can slow the harmful accumulation of toxic tau proteins, which ultimately result in neurofibrillary tangles, a key pathological characteristic of Alzheimer's and other types of dementia.

«Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) is necessary for the synthesis of type II collagen, the most abundant protein in cartilage.