Sentences with phrase «as cell metabolism»

Magnesium has numerous roles in the body, such as cell metabolism, DNA and RNA synthesis, cell growth and reproduction.

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«As fat cells grow larger, they begin to overexpress a protein that acts as a metabolic brake that slows down fat cell metabolism, making it harder for these cells to burn accumulating fat,» he said in a statemenAs fat cells grow larger, they begin to overexpress a protein that acts as a metabolic brake that slows down fat cell metabolism, making it harder for these cells to burn accumulating fat,» he said in a statemenas a metabolic brake that slows down fat cell metabolism, making it harder for these cells to burn accumulating fat,» he said in a statement.

Solve for us the question of the reasonableness of athiesm, where you get something (big bang) from nothing — there must be a first cause of everything; explain implications of the anthropic principle and the wildly unprobablistic likelihood that our universe could even form in such a fashion as to be capable of sustaining life (which has, interestingly, your athiest heavy hitters (i.e. Dawkins, Schwartz, etc.) necessarily positing multiple universe theories to get around the near probablistic impossibility of all conditions be present at time of big bang for life to be possible without acknowledgement of a divine designing hand guiding the process); explain The probablistic impossibility of non-irreducibly complex basic cells (life) coming together spontaneously (DNA, cell membrane, etc), even the most basic, simple forms of life allowing for reproduction, metabolism, etc...

Adiponectin is a protein hormone produced by our fat cells, and it serves as an important modifier of insulin metabolism.

Copper — is also found in shredded coconut which works together with iron to fuel your metabolism, support energy function, as well as to make functional red blood cells.

Because cancer cells in general are metabolically inflexible, we are able to take advantage of ketone metabolism as a way of placing cancer cells in a weakened state.

Alzheimer's is considered more as diabetes type 3 because the brain cells have become insulin resistant, disabling glucose / oxygen metabolism.

Yeast extract gives us lots of health benefits to our healthy lifestyle such as: rich source of B vitamins, B vitamins are all involved in the metabolism of carbohydrates, fats and proteins into usable energy, but some are also important for digestion, immunity and red blood cell production within bone marrow.

In a nutshell, the metabolism refers to the essential biochemical reactions (such as digestion and production of hormones) that regulate how our cells use and store energy.

In a way, you could picture the metabolism as an ongoing «discussion» between your brain and the cells throughout your body.

Middle - aged people who eat protein - heavy diets are four times as likely to die of cancer as those who eat only a little protein, according to the study, which was published in the journal Cell Metabolism.

The researchers explain that a high fat diet boosts cell metabolism, including the release of inflammatory chemicals, as well as influencing the gut microbiome and associated immunity.

They all use RNA molecules as messengers to transfer the information from DNA to cellular factories called ribosomes, which then build proteins, which in turn drive our metabolisms and form the structures of our cells.

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

These techniques include: human tissue created by reprogramming cells from people with the relevant disease (dubbed «patient in a dish»); «body on a chip» devices, where human tissue samples on a silicon chip are linked by a circulating blood substitute; many computer modelling approaches, such as virtual organs, virtual patients and virtual clinical trials; and microdosing studies, where tiny doses of drugs given to volunteers allow scientists to study their metabolism in humans, safely and with unsurpassed accuracy.

Other proteins work as muscles, control metabolism and immune response, or transport oxygen in the red blood cells.

Kim and his colleagues are planning to continue their studies of pancreatic and islet - cell development as part of a Stanford focus on diabetes and metabolism research.

When activated by inflammatory markers in the gut, it sends a signal to the brain, where immune cells produce proteins such as IL - 6, leading to increased metabolism (and hence decreased levels) of the «happiness hormone» serotonin in the brain.

The capsule creates the biotechnical condition for it, because it separates the donator's cells from the body of the receiver and transfers the hormones which are important for the metabolism exclusively «In the eyes of Dresden scientists this kind of transplantation will be suitable for patients with adrenal insufficiency but also with congenital diseases such as the lack of 21 - hydroxylase.

One possibility for how that happens, says Hekimi, is that slow cellular metabolism delays the normal buildup of metabolic byproducts, such as reactive compounds known as free radicals, that are toxic to cells.

To find out why, computational biologists came up with a computer model to predict how microbial metabolism and cellular composition change as cell size varies, using details about how much space a bacterium needs for its components — DNA, proteins, and the molecular factories called ribosomes — to function.

«The nematode has been able to employ a breakdown product of its own metabolism as a plant hormone to control the development of plant cells,» said lead author and research group leader Dr Shahid Siddique.

As the cells age, they lose SIRT1, which changes their basic metabolism.

«We know that the pathway is important for normal cells to carry their activities as it is involved in regulating metabolism, that is, how cells process nutrients to obtain energy and how cells use energy to grow.

«Oxygen by - products produced during normal metabolism can cause oxidative damage to biomolecules in cells, such as DNA and RNA,» explains Jian - Ping Cai, a researcher involved in the study.

Subsequent RNA sequencing suggested that digoxin inhibits HIV - 1 gene expression as well as the activation and metabolism of CD4 + T cells.

The assay can measure the lag times and growth rates of as many as 80,000 individual microcolonies in a single 24 - hour experiment, opening up a powerful new high - throughput tool to study the complex interplay between cell growth, division and metabolism under environmental conditions that are likely to be ecologically relevant but had previously been difficult to study in the laboratory.

They further established that the protein produced by the BRCA 1 gene binds with a protein known to play an important role in the metabolism of fat in muscle cells known as Acetyl - CoA carboxylase or ACC.

For example, the camera could be used to visualize energy metabolism as it occurs within a cell's mitochondria or the way light passes through tissue, an important consideration for therapies that use lasers to destroy diseased tissue with the goal of leaving healthy tissue unharmed.

The patterns of a type of molecule that influences epigenetic inheritance, called small noncoding RNA, differed between the two groups, as did methylation patterns in the sperm DNA in the two groups, the team reports today in Cell Metabolism.

«Boosting serotonin signaling has been seen as a viable strategy for weight loss in people, but our results hint that boosting serotonin plus adrenaline should produce more potent effects — and there is already some evidence that that's the case,» said TSRI Assistant Professor Supriya Srinivasan, who was principal investigator for the study, published online before print on October 10, 2013 by the journal Cell Metabolism.

For example, when there is no oxygen (a likely scenario in underground disposal vaults) to help these bacteria «breath» and break down the ISA, these simple single - cell microorganisms are able to switch their metabolism to breath using other chemicals in the water, such as nitrate or iron.

Mice lacking the receptors also retain some youthful features into old age, such as efficient oxygen metabolism (Cell, doi.org/swb).

«It's surprising,» that the cold seep worm churns out new cells so fast, says François Lallier, an animal physiologist at the Roscoff Biological Station, France, as long - lived organisms tend to have slow metabolism, and it seems the worm has limited resources to work with.

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

The surprising thing is that these cells are still capable of metabolism as long as they have a microfilm of liquid water around their surface.

But little is known about how B cell metabolism adapts to each of these environments, insights that may improve our understanding of B cell diseases, such as non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

This name can cause problems; in biology the word «respiration» can mean cellular respiration or metabolism (ATP generation inside cells), however sometimes (such as here) it can also refer to breathing (which is how the word is most often used by non-biologists).

«How B cell metabolism is controlled: GSK3 acts as a metabolic checkpoint regulator in B cells.»

At the same time, other switches get flipped throughout the body, modifying everything from metabolism to cell growth, via other cytokines, such as IL - 6 and tumor necrosis factor — a, and things like CRP, which mark bacteria for destruction.

Scientists, led by Ottar Rolfssonat the University of Iceland, have built a mathematical model to examine the metabolism of breast epithelium — as the majority of breast cancers originate from these cells.

«Exercise - induced irisin may not only act as an endocrine factor capable of promoting the browning of white adipose tissue, but could also regulate bone metabolism by autocrine mechanisms,» said Chen, who also serves as faculty in the Cell, Molecular & Developmental Biology program at the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts.

Molecules known to affect FGFR3 signaling and / or the metabolism of chondrocytes, the cells responsible for growing cartilage, were identified as good candidates.

Here, we exploited microfluidics to control the metabolism of liver cells down to a resolution of a few cells, allowing us to create liver tissue that shows the same patterns of toxicity caused by differences in drug metabolism as the liver in your body.»

The protocol described in the Cell Metabolism paper is likely to help such studies, as it is the most precise way to measure the hormone to date.

Also, in both cell culture and a mouse model of the condition, blocking the excessive splintering reduced production of reactive oxygen species, a potentially harmful byproduct of metabolism, as well as cell death.

MicroRNAs regulate gene expression and play key roles in many biological processes, such as cell death and metabolism.

Infants with more methylation of a gene known as retinoid X receptor - α (RXRα), which codes for a protein involved in the development of fat cells and fat metabolism, were more likely to be obese at age 9.

Cancer cells are well - known as voracious energy consumers, but even veteran cancer - metabolism researcher Deepak Nagrath was surprised by their latest exploit: Experiments in his lab at Rice University show that some cancer cells get 30 - 60 percent of their fuel from eating their neighbors» «words.»

Further, they present two new hallmarks — reprogramming of energy metabolism and evasion of immune destruction — that have emerged as critical capabilities of cancer cells.