Sentences with phrase «altering cell metabolism»

Researchers in Brazil have found that mouse skin responds to caloric restriction by stimulating fur growth, increasing blood flow, and altering cell metabolism to increase energy efficiency.

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Carcinogens may cause cancer by altering cellular metabolism or damaging DNA directly in cells, which interferes with normal biological processes.

Components of indoor dust may signal human fat cells to grow and may alter metabolism, potentially contributing to weight problems, researchers report July 14 in Environmental Science & Technology.

As such, the altered metabolism in the bone cells caused the mice to have a beneficial whole - body glucose turnover and a lean body.

Obesity also alters a person's metabolism, causing growth factor and hormone imbalances that help cancer cells thrive.

More work is needed to determine whether the findings on rapamycin hold true in animal models of Leigh syndrome and other neurodegenerative diseases, and to ascertain how exactly rapamycin is altering the metabolism of the cells.

New markers suggested include total mass of hemoglobin, altered expression of genes related to red blood cell metabolism, ironomics, storage lesions, and the presence of plasticizers from blood bags in athlete urine samples.

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.

Cell Phones Alter Brain Metabolism: A 50 - minute phone call boosts metabolism in the brain regions closest to the antenna, including areas involved in language, decision making, and emotional pMetabolism: A 50 - minute phone call boosts metabolism in the brain regions closest to the antenna, including areas involved in language, decision making, and emotional pmetabolism in the brain regions closest to the antenna, including areas involved in language, decision making, and emotional processing.

MYC also profoundly alters the oscillations of glucose metabolism and perturbs the consumption of glutamine, both essential metabolic molecules for cells.

As a result, cancer cells must alter their metabolism to provide the additional fuel needed for them to survive, grow and spread.

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.

In this schematic of the new «liver on a chip» device, adding blood - sugar - raising glucagon to inlet 1 and blood - sugar - lowering insulin to inlet 2 distributes the hormones across the field of hepatocytes (purple box) along opposing gradients, altering the cells» metabolism from glucose release on the left side to glucose uptake on the right.

The altered methionine metabolism leads to activation of oncogenes, while the changes in tryptophan metabolism shield GBM cells from detection by immune cells.

The premature surge of leptin may be altering the development of the hypothalamus, a region of the brain that helps to regulate appetite and metabolism, say the researchers, who report their findings today in Cell Mmetabolism, say the researchers, who report their findings today in Cell MetabolismMetabolism.

Exomeres largely fuse with cells in the bone marrow and liver, where they can alter immune function and metabolism of drugs.

Not only were levels of metabolic compounds different, but the expression of certain genes involved in metabolism was turned up, and the epigenome of the cells — molecular markers on DNA that change gene expression on a broader scale — was altered.

In mice, the anti-angiogenic mTOR inhibitor everolimus did not alter cognitive functions but led to weight loss and modification of cell metabolism in brain regions involved in sleep / wake cycle or food intake, likely connected to fatigue.

Diacylglycerol metabolism attenuates T - cell receptor signaling and alters thymocyte differentiation.

Unlike the case of most gene therapies that are intended to permanently alter their target cells, however, Oisín's senoablative genetic constructs will not be inserted permanently into the patient's genome: instead, its genetic payload will be expressed temporarily from the main body of the cell, following which the construct will be passively degraded by normal cellular metabolism.

We already have, since some approved drugs intervene in cancer cells» specific metabolic needs, but research into how altered metabolism promotes cancer is leading to more directed efforts.

IDH is mutated early in the development of those cancers, supporting the theory that cancer cells evolve toward altered metabolism, «selecting» mutated genes as they develop.

Cancer cells alter their metabolism in the interest of sustaining rapid growth, and high levels of PHGDH appear to drive such metabolic change.

In addition, the DHA and EPA found in fish oil have a powerful ability to enhance the metabolism and increase fat burning by positively altering the gene functioning through various mechanisms which include changing the makeup of cell membranes, altering the transcription of genes and influencing the levels of calcium within the cells.

Growth of the synaptic web is utterly different from concrete physical things which maintain cells» metabolism and alters their structural and functional energetic state.

Namely, cancer cells have been shown to exhibit an altered metabolism.

Trans fats alter the configuration of cell membranes and they block important enzymes that are necessary for the metabolism of fats.

It is a disease of altered carbohydrate metabolism and tolerance, insulin resistance, damaged or death Beta cells, fatty liver disease, metabolic syndrome, altered insulin - glucagon output, and more.

For example, fiber is metabolized by our gut flora into short - chain fatty acids, which bind to and activate receptors on the surface of our cells that alter our metabolism, for example, activating receptors on fat cells to increase the expression of the weight - reducing hormone, leptin.