Sentences with phrase «activity by the cell»

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They found that elderly women who sit for more than 10 hours a day with low physical activity have cells that are biologically older by eight years compared to women who are less sedentary.

Regarding the first: I do not care to defend here Hartshorne's psychicalism against the criticism that it commits the pathetic fallacy (or «fallacy of mislocation,» as Shalom contends) by attributing to nature human - like feelings, actions, etc. 3 But I do wish to argue that he is innocent of trying to move from (a human - like) nature («event - cells,» etc.) to human beings and characteristically human activities.

But when dominant occasions in animals and the occasions in empty space in cells are included in the animal and cellular societies, then the activities of the societies can be explained by the activities of the components when they are components of those societies.

Or consider Berlin's definition by negation: «The basic sense of unfreedom is that in which we ascribe it to the man in jail, or the man tied to a tree; all that such a man seeks is the breaking of his chains, escape from the cell, without necessarily aiming at a particular activity once he is liberated.»

It is considered an inhibitory neurotransmitter, which means it regulates brain and nerve cell activity by inhibiting the number of neurons firing in the brain.

Cinnamon helps our body to stabilize blood sugar by de-inflaming the cell membranes and enhancing insulin receptor activity.

Goji's are reported to have anti-aging properties and show anti-tumor activities against various types of skin cancer cells by inhibiting tumor growth and inducing apoptosis.

Curcumin in turmeric has the ability to modulate genetic activity and expression — both by destroying cancer cells and by promoting healthy cell function.

The Omega 3 fatty acids found in oily fish — such as salmon, trout, halibut, and tuna — help boost our immune systems, by increasing the activity of phagocytes, which are white blood cells that combat harmful bacteria.

Some years ago, Britain's security services were accused of «lying and burgling their way across London», an activity it would appear which has been aped by some of Mr Murdoch's newspapers — although their journos didn't actually have to physically walk off with the cell phones.

The process takes place by means of a mechanism — unveiled in this study — that inhibits the activity of the osteoblasts, the cells that produce the bone matrix so that bones can grow during childhood and youth, and remain in good condition in adulthood.

By comparing the results to cells from paired normal tissue, researchers get a detailed molecular picture of the tumor environment, including the types and activity levels of T cells that are critical to the immunotherapy response.

Furthermore, by making use of embryonic stem cells and in vitro differentiation, SIF - seq can be used to assess enhancer activity in a wide variety of disease - relevant cell types.»

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Neuronal activity typically requires sensory input — for example, a taste or smell — that gets received by neurons» dendrites and then transmitted as an electrochemical message to other cells via long axons.

And a new analysis of the STEP trial, published last November in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, provides a warning that the very vectors (adenoviruses, which are also employed in other vaccine development work) used to distribute the inactive HIV strains can actually make the immune system more vulnerable to infection by recruiting susceptible T cells to mucous membranes, where they are more likely to be infected during sexual activity.

The researchers observed the worms» behaviors through stages of maturity by recording the activity patterns of each cell in the circuit.

Other teams are trying to introduce the proteins encoded by the genes directly into cells, while Yamanaka is experimenting with «microRNAs» — snippets of RNA that help regulate gene activity.

The protein that copies viral RNA is polymerase protein L, which conducts all the enzymatic activities needed to synthesize RNA and then add a cap structure to its end to ensure it doesn't get destroyed by the cell — and to ensure that it can be translated into protein.

The trouble is that recording activity within neurons is a more delicate process, which gets disrupted by the physical movement necessary to trigger place - cell activity.

Following the dose, the activity of caspase — an «executioner» enzyme that causes cells to self destruct — increased by between 120 and 720 per cent, confirming that people respond differently to treatment.

He then administered a compound that helps to facilitate activity by receptors that sit on nerve cells and direct the cells» responses to GABA, and the abnormality was reversed.

The scientists observed that transmission of chemical signals between the nerve cells are facilitated by AMPA - receptors and the activity occurs on the brain cell surface.

They identified 56 hits that inhibited Ebola virus activity by more than 70 percent, while showing less than a 20 percent chance of being toxic to cells.

Researchers at the Humboldt and Charité Universities in Berlin, led by Dr Julie Seibt from the University of Surrey, used cutting edge techniques to record activity in a particular region of brain cells that is responsible for holding new information — the dendrites.

One of the genes Deisseroth uses triggers the cell to fire in response to blue light; another responds to yellow light by suppressing activity in the cell.

Professor Rudi Beyaert (VIB / UGent): «We found that pharmacological treatment of human skin cells with drugs that inhibit the activity of MALT1 reduced the production of inflammation promoting proteins caused by mutant variants of CARD14.

«Our stem cell - based studies indicate that low - calorie sweeteners promote additional fat accumulation within cells compared with cells not exposed to these substances, in a dose - dependent fashion — meaning that as the dose of sucralose is increased more cells showed increased fat droplet accumulation,» said Sabyasachi Sen, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. «This most likely occurs by increasing glucose entry into cells through increased activity of genes called glucose transporters.»

By reactivating telomerase activity in stem - cell derived tissue transplants, Geron could provide patients with a life - time warranty on their new parts.

Neurons that turn off brain circuits do so by decreasing electrical activity to target nerve cells.

Fluorescing proteins accurately predict the demise of nematode worms, by measuring the activity of free radicals within their cells

For his part, Collins, who has led NIH since 2009 and been kept on by the Trump administration, pointed to an array of promising NIH activities, including the development of new technologies to provide insights into human brain circuitry and function through the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neuroethologies (BRAIN initiative) and the use of the gene - editing tool CRISPR - Cas9 to correct mutations and clear the way to develop and test a «curative therapy» for the first molecular disease: sickle cell disease.

SOCE is a process by which Calcium ions slowly enter cells to refill Calcium stores that have been depleted by various activities.

They began by characterizing the cell composition, protein expression, metabolism, and electrical activity of neurons from each region in vitro.

They showed how ANG maintains stem cells by inducing a state of quiescence, or cellular dormancy, the first known evidence of ANG's suppressive activity.

«All of the cells of the brain are constantly active and are participating, by a sort of algebraic summation, in every activity.

In the study published in the journal Science Signaling, the team led by LLuís Espinosa, investigator of IMIM's research group into stem cells and cancer, have shown that inhibition of endosomal activity is a potential therapeutic strategy for the treatment of cancers with the BRAF mutated gene.

Igoshin said that when the researchers set out to find how sporulation decisions were timed to the cell cycle, several studies including prior work by team members, provided a significant clue: Under starvation conditions, the activity of the master regulator gene had been shown to spike once per cell cycle.

Because mice lacking both genes would not be born alive, the scientists followed up this lead by making «conditional knockout mice,» in which Esrp1 and Esrp2 activity was normal early in fetal development, but then was switched off in skin epithelial cells.

By filtering out noise, cells are able to accurately determine if Spo0A activity is above the threshold that triggers sporulation.

By combining multiple images, the researchers produced movies correlating the production of hydrogen peroxide to the activities of the immune system cells.

The electric eel generates large electric currents by way of a highly specialized nervous system that has the capacity to synchronize the activity of disc - shaped, electricity - producing cells packed into a specialized electric organ.

But scientists at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University (LKSOM) now think they can help overcome that problem, thanks to their discovery of a small molecule that selectively kills BRCA - deficient cancer cells by blocking the activity of an alternative DNA repair pathway.

Researchers at Columbia University have reported a new approach to visualize glucose uptake activity in single living cells by light microscopy with minimum disturbance.

In fact, by knocking out specific genes through CRISPR gene - editing technology, Julie Mathieu, acting instructor in Ruohola - Baker laboratory, demonstrated that it was possible to stabilize the cells in either the primed or naive state by manipulating NNMT activity alone.

The protein sits on the surface of T cells and helps dampen the activity of the cells after an immune response, but tumors have found ways to hide from T cell attack by flipping on the PD - 1 switch themselves.

By destroying tryptophan, the enzyme then suppresses the activity of maternal T cells that would otherwise make their way through the placenta and destroy the fetus.

After initiating photoreceptor loss in the fish retinas, the researchers monitored the immune system's response by tracking the activity of three types of fluorescently labeled immune cells in and around the eye: neutrophils, microglia and peripheral macrophages.

The new study shows that the synthetic compound is capable of inhibiting the activities of several DNA - processing enzymes, including the «integrase» used by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) to insert its genome into that of its host cell.

Plaque hinders neuronal activity by gumming up synapses (spaces between cells through which chemical or electrical information is transmitted), eventually damaging nerve cell branches and leading to neuronal death.