Sentences with phrase «acts as an activator»

The BMP protein acts as an activator for cell — surface receptors, and initiates cellular processes and signaling cascades.

Dr. Price discovered that there were sacred foods that were collected and prepared to ensure strong minds, bodies and spirits and in every one of the healthy groups there was a nutrient which was common in their diets that acted as an activator for the other nutrients.

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By studying the mode of action of the interleukin - 33 protein, an alarmin for white blood cells, a team at the Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale (IPBS — CNRS / Université Toulouse III — Paul Sabatier) has been able to evidence truncated forms of the protein that act as potent activators of the cells responsible for triggering allergic reactions.

The key players in this process are the SNAREs (soluble N - ethylmaleimide - sensitive - factor attachment receptors), which drive fusion, and S / M (Sec1 / Munc18) family proteins that act as universal organizers of fusiogenic microcompartments and activators of SNARE - mediated membrane fusion.

A letter from the Price - Pottenger Nutrition Foundation archives suggests that Activator X is similar to or derived from «a special kind of oxygen - containing heterocyclic ring» called 6 - methoxybenzoaxazolinone which «acts as a sex - stimulant in voles.»

Hood is interested in how image forms are used for that purpose in contemporary culture and how they can act as archetypal activators of pictoral and emotional content.