Sentences with phrase «across cell membranes»

They are more easily transported across the cell membrane and into the cell.

They use charge in the form of ions to carry energy and information — ion channels control the flow of ions across cell membranes.

When the cell wants to carry out a function like cellular division or transporting molecules across the cell membrane, it breaks this bond, releasing the energy.

During laser therapy the infrared laser light interacts with tissues at the cellular level, and metabolic activity increases within the cell, improving the transport of nutrients across the cell membrane.

As the metabolic activity of the cell increases, nutrients will flow across the cell membranes, increasing cellular function and health.

It helps to regulate the electrical potential across cell membranes, helping cells to properly communicate with one another.

This means that it can get easily transported and absorbed across cell membranes.

Insulin promotes the efficient storage and use of glucose molecules by controlling their transport across cell membranes, permitting cellular uptake and metabolism of glucose.

Reduce time planning as this animated and 3D PowerPoint takes you literally across the cell membrane.

This will help calcium be absorbed across the cell membrane.

While the PS is moving across the cell membrane and looking for a stronger chemical signal, only a few molecules of the breaking protein Cdc24 are present in the machinery.

Sulfur enables the transport of oxygen across cell membranes and not only is oxygen needed for healthy cellular regeneration in humans, it is the lack of oxygen that helps cancer cells to grow.

Like all steroid hormones, estrogens readily diffuse across the cell membrane; inside the cell, they interact with estrogen receptors.

Some 40 % of all approved drugs target the proteins called G protein - coupled receptors (GPCRs), which relay signals across the cell membrane.

Voltage - dependent potassium ion (K +) channels (Kv channels) conduct K + ions across the cell membrane in response to changes in the membrane voltage, thereby regulating neuronal excitability by modulating the shape and frequency of action potentials.

This promotes the speed and the quality of healing, enhances the exchange of nutrients and wastes across the cell membrane and improves elasticity of injured tissues.

P - glycoprotein is a rather larger protein that functions as a pump to transport drugs across cell membranes.

Also, ions are pumped across cell membranes by proteins creating necessary energy reservoirs for the cell.

The electric charge across cell membranes directs many aspects of brain development, scientists report March 11 in the Journal of Neuroscience.

Afterwards, sodium ions are transported back across the cell membrane.

Davis suggests that the muscle cells start extracting fat directly from the blood and somehow transport this fat across the cell membranes and into the cells, where it can be burned as fuel.

Most cancer chemotherapy relies on cells absorbing drugs by diffusion across the cell membrane.

But it's hard in cell culture — and even harder in the body — to smuggle bulky PNAs across cell membranes.

TMEM16A is part of a protein family whose members facilitate the flow of negatively charged chloride ions or lipids across the cell membrane.

To look for a possible protein responsible for transporting iron across cell membranes, postdoctoral researcher Hiromi Gunshin and colleagues at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston began by feeding rats a low - iron diet.

A few years ago, Jihye Yun, then a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, found that colon cancer cells whose growth is driven by mutations in the gene KRAS or a less commonly mutated gene, BRAF, make unusually large amounts of a protein that transports glucose across the cell membrane.

Rikke Holm explains that the sodium - potassium pump creates an electrical current across the cell membrane.

Neurons generate an electrical spike when the flow of ions across the cell membrane rises above a set threshold.

In mammals, the proteins show up in cells in the digestive tract, placenta, liver, kidney, and brain, where they transport metabolic intermediates across the cell membrane.

They found that the gene codes for a protein known as CFTR which normally transports salt across cell membranes in the lungs, gut and sweat glands.

Nerve cells rely on ion channels and pumps to orchestrate the continual ebb and flow of charged particles across the cell membrane, which enables the electrical signaling that nerves use to communicate.

The researchers describe «a finely tuned orchestration of three domain movements» that allows the receptors to elegantly control passageways across cell membranes.

Jochen Zimmer's artistic rendering of a molecule that assembles and secretes the polysaccharide cellulose across the cell membrane.

Humans produce a special protein that delivers nucleosides across cell membranes.

In cancer research, the «Cas -9-sgRNA» complex is an effective genomic editing tool, but its delivery across the cell membrane to the target (tumor) genome has not yet been satisfactorily solved.

During conjugation, plasmid DNA is processed and transported across cell membranes between cells.

The following year, based on experiments in the giant squid axon, British biophysicists Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley described how ion flow across the cell membrane generates the electrical spikes — called action potentials — that constitute these signals.

We examine systems related to horizontal gene transfer which involve the DNA translocation across the cell membranes.

From there, it must sneak across cell membranes, escape the acidic environment of the cell's endosomes to find the nucleus, and then home in on the correct location on the DNA.

The main function of ion channels is the maintenance of ion gradients across the cell membrane, shaping action potentials and other electrical signals, controlling the ion flow across secretary and epithelial cells, and regulating the cell volume.

Scientists now believe that in addition to a small amount of diffusion, heart, liver, muscle, and fat cells also use a transport protein to move fatty acids across the cell membrane.

It helps regulate the correct acid - alkaline balance in the blood and the passage of fluids across cell membranes.

Electrolytes are important because they are what your cells (especially nerve, heart, muscle) use to maintain voltages across their cell membranes and to carry electrical impulses (nerve impulses, muscle contractions) across themselves and to other cells.

Tiny carrier molecules carry various nutrients such as amino acids, glucose and electrolytes across the cell membrane.

Also, from Wikipedia re Sorbitol, the Polyol Pathway and Aldose Reductase: «While most cells require the action of insulin for glucose to gain entry into the cell, the cells of the retina, kidney, and nervous tissues are insulin - INdependent, so glucose moves freely across the cell membrane, regardless of the action of insulin.