Sentences with phrase «as damaging a cell»

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There are tons of foods that are packed with antioxidants — natural compounds that help prevent or stop cell damage and help fend off viruses and microbes — as well as foods filled with vitamins and minerals, which are considered to fight an array of common illnesses like the flu, a cold, or even sinus infections.

But in the lab, when the scientists manipulated human cells to be able to create the water bear shielding protein — called Dsup — they showed about half the DNA damage as normal cells.

Researchers also are developing techniques for assembling living cells into working biodevices — which could mean a solution for damaged internal organs, such as livers, bladders, and kidneys.

As cells age, their mitochondria — the part of a cell that generates the energy it needs to function — can sustain serious damage, fertility specialist Dr. Kutluk Oktay told Business Insider.

The aged egg, which may have had damaged mitochondria that wouldn't work as well, then has fresh mitochondria from the egg precursor cells to generate energy.

As a result, immunotherapy doesn't damage healthy cells.

Now, if we are not going to outlaw abortion, and the doctors / scientists want to take the aborted fetus and do stem cell research on it, well the damage is done and we might as well get all that we can out of it.

This happens when environmental agents damage DNA, or when mistakes occur when a cell copies its DNA prior to cell division, as orchestrated by God.»

@Chad: I. Mutations in DNA sequences generally occur through one of two processes: A. Environmental factors: DNA damage from environmental agents such as ultraviolet light (sunshine), nuclear radiation or certain chemicals B. Mistakes that occur when a cell copies its DNA in preparation for cell division.

As differentiation continues, various genes are «switched off» but stem cells, even in adults, retain a certain pluripotency in order to produce fully differentiated cells lost by damage or ageing.

Also, even if some damage to my foot is responsible for the ache, if the subjective experiences of the cells in my foot in fact bear no relation to the experience I feel as an ache, then there is no truth relation.

Cartenoids act as antioxidants, promoting immune function and the protection against oxidative damage to cells.

They have twice the amount of vitamin C as a Russet, which helps protects your cells from free - radical damage.

ORAC scores measure the ability of antioxidants to absorb free radicals (that come from pollution and toxins in our environment), which cause cell and tissue damage and can lead to diseases such as cancer.

Those chemicals damage cells, promote widespread internal (and invisible) inflammation, and lead to a vast number of health concerns now considered common such as cardiovascular disease and cancer.

I'm using onion in the recipe as it contains significant amounts of quercetin — responsible for the protection and healing of damaged cells, as well as garlic which acts as a natural antibiotic.

The fat in the coconut oil can also help repair damaged skin cells as well.

Eggplant is loaded with phytonutrients that act as antioxidants that help to reduce the number of free radicals in the body which damage cells and may contribute to certain diseases, including some cancers and heart diseases.

Free radicals oxidize and damage our body cells, as a main process causing aging and cancers.

Carrots have high levels of beta carotene, which acts as an antioxidant to help repair the cell damage that occurs through daily living.

In other words, consuming more antioxidants seems to protect your cells from damage as well as enabling them to recover from exercise.

Theoretically, the more antioxidants you consume, the higher your chance of avoiding cell damage and circumventing the problems that can spring from it, such as cancers.

Agave and fructose in general does not spike blood sugar because it goes through your liver damaging it at the same time, glucose is processed by other cells as well and thus it spikes your blood sugar, but fructose is processed just by the liver.

It's now recognised as being a powerhouse of nutrients, particularly antioxidants, that support the immune system, reduce inflammation, stimulate natural detoxifying enzymes, help prevent cancers and heart disease, and protect your cells from damage and skin from ageing.

Vitamin E in the body acts as an antioxidant, protecting the cells from damage caused by free radicals.

Intestinal cell damage may also occur in people with gluten sensitivity (as with celiac disease).

All of which your body uses as antioxidants to prevent damage to your cells.

In addition, your baby doesn't have the ability to metabolize it as quickly as you can, so it can damage its developing cells.

Be sure to wear supportive bras or tops to protect your breasts as bouncing can cause the milk ducts to leak creating potential damage to the cells - leading to an increase in the risk of developing breast infections.

As a result of this, their bodies will release a lot of free radicals that if not eliminated, will cause damage to the surrounding cells and tissues.

However, implanting them can further damage hearing, and electrical currents can spread easily through the neural tissue to stimulate nearby cells, which the patient hears as noise.

But while chemotherapy and radiation are associated with temporary changes, such as hair loss and tissue swelling, the treatments can have an unseen, permanent effect: infertility due to irreparably damaged sperm or egg cells.

Naturally present in bodily secretions such as saliva, milk and tears, these highly reactive substances can cause damage to bacterial cells, resulting in their death.

In the present study, the researchers have discovered a reason for reduced fertility in people with autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 1 (APS1), which increases the risk of developing autoimmune disease (caused by the immune system attacking and damaging healthy cells) and which is often used as a model for autoimmune disease in general.

What's new in the Czech study, explains pathologist Carol Meteyer of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wisc., is the confirmation of tissue damage characteristic of clinical white - nose sydrome: skin being digested by the pathogen as the fungi's fibrous segments enter a bat's wing and begin replacing its cells.

Now David He at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, and colleagues have shown that the same gene can repair guinea pigs» existing, damaged hair cells — as long as you get to them in time.

Nishimura's team proposes that the same process leads to the reduction in stem cells in the follicles of older people, especially as DNA damage accumulates as we age.

Neutrophils are one of the most common types of immune cells and known to engulf microorganisms, but they are not normally associated with peripheral nerve damage, such as that caused by diabetes or trauma.

Free radicals are compounds composed of unstable atoms generated both by the body and environmental sources such as smoking and pollution that damage cells, possibly leading to increased disease susceptibility and aging.

Damage to human chromosome 9 (of the cell's 24 pairs) where the gene that codes for E-NTPDase2 resides is known to cause eye and brain defects, such as microphthalmia — literally, small eyes.

But the methods used to reprogram cells can damage their DNA, and the iPS cells may not behave in exactly the same way as embryonic stem cells.

Among those are proteins that contribute to the production of seeds, as well as proteins involved in defending cells from heavy metal and radiation damage.

But scientists say they may one day be able to insert microscopic carbon nanotubes into injured joints — such as knees — encouraging new, stronger cartilage cells to grow in place damaged or thinning ones.

Defined as the harnessing of living processes to achieve healing and repair of damaged and diseased tissues by Tim Hardingham, director of the UK Centre for Tissue Engineering, it is a field that requires collaborative research involving cell and molecular biologists, chemical engineers, materials scientists, and surgeons.

Also known as the «Guardian of the Genome,» p53 fights cancer by causing damaged cells to die or by halting the growth of mutant cells before they become cancerous and spread to the rest of the body.

The detector developed at UNH, known as DoSEN, short for Dose Spectra from Energetic Particles and Neutrons, measures and calculates the absorbed dose in matter and tissue resulting from the exposure to indirect and direct ionizing radiation, which can change cells at the atomic level and lead to irreparable damage.

To avoid the controversy surrounding these cells, scientists around the world have explored reprogramming mature cells to make them just as potent, with the hope being that such induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells might one day help replace diseased or damaged tissue.

If this environment is harmed by chemicals, such as through damage to gut cells, it could impact the health of the organisms and would lead to a number of fish diseases but this technique will enable us to increase the tests we can carry out and improve our understanding of how to preserve gut health.»

Even though DENV2 infected the cells such as ZIKV, there were no damaging outcomes registered to the neural cells, neurospheres or organoids.

Conventional transplant conditioning employs radiation and / or high - dose cytotoxic drugs (also known as alkylators) to destroy the bone marrow and blood and immune cells; it also causes widespread cellular damage throughout the body.