Sentences with phrase «between cell junctions»

The accumulation of different amounts of cadherins produced different levels of adhesiveness between cell junctions, resulting in a mosaic pattern.

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Nursing mothers can also eat more egg yolk and butter which contains arachidonic acid, a critical ingredient, which facilitates the formation of junctions between skin cells, keeping them firm.

Milk sodium concentration is a marker of tight junction closure between mammary epithelial cells; with the onset of secretory activation (stage II lactogenesis) milk sodium concentrations decrease sharply as potassium concentrations increase [14].

The image, a mysterious, gray blob surrounding a spot of intense red, was based on an electron - microscope photo of a neuromuscular junction (the connection between a nerve cell and a muscle) clipped from a magazine sometime in the 1980s.

Certain changes in synapses — the junctions between nerve cells in the brain — have been linked with brain disorders.

But to be effective, solar cell designers need to ensure the connecting junctions between these stacked cells do not absorb any of the solar energy and do not siphon off the voltage the cells produce — effectively wasting that energy as heat.

In trying to understand the brain, for instance, neuroscientists have focused on synapses — the junctions between nerve - cell endings — as the essential transmitters of thought and feeling.

The mice were found to have an abnormal microbiome, along with damaged junctions between the cells of the intestinal lining.

At the cellular level, learning and memory require continuous readjustment of the strength of synaptic junctions — the functional connections between nerve cells.

These are the junctions between two nerve cells where electrical signals are transmitted.

According to Dr. Bleich and his co-investigators, «Epithelial barrier function is predominantly dependent on tight junction proteins, which regulate transport into and between cells.

The existing photovoltaics market is dominated by modules made of single - junction silicon solar cells, with efficiencies between 17 % and 24 %.

Through further testing, they figured out that when Notch1 is activated and its intracellular domain is released, its TMD assembles a complex in the membrane with the proteins VE - cadherin, Rac1, LAR, and Trio, which collectively assemble and maintain the adherens junctions between cells and distribute actin fibers against the cell membrane to support those junctions.

By interacting with the actin cytoskeleton, underneath the cell outer membrane, and other structural proteins of the tight junctions, Alix ensures the formation of the actomyosin - tight junction complex at a specific position between adjacent cells.

Correct tight junctions between cells labeled in yellow due to the presence of the protein PARD3.

In other cases, fails in the interlocking barrier between cells — the tight junctions — may partly explain why in psoriasis there is an overproduction of epidermal cells, causing thick patches of skin on the surface.

Using colorfully labeled antibodies to light up the new protein under their microscopes, they found that it was present where Listeria entered cells and also present at adherens junctions between epithelial cells.

[31,32] The additional layers protect against tissue abrasion, and the lack of tight junctions allows for the free movement of molecules between cells.

Limbal epithelial stem cells (LESCs) reside in the basal layer of the limbal area, at the vascularised junction between the corneal and conjunctival epithelium.

Stem cells actively bring diseased neurons back from the brink via cross-talk through gap junctions, the connections between cells that allow molecular signals to pass back and forth.

The SPG cell layer, which is adjacent to the neurons of the brain, forms septate junctions, which function as a barrier to separate the humoral space and the brain, analogously to the mammalian tight junctions formed between endothelial cells.

That process, in turn, may generate «synaptic plasticity» allowing the junctions between nerve cells to strengthen and weaken more easily.

Publishing on December 1st in Neuron, researchers used fruit fly larvae to uncover the presence of a molecular pathway that responds to nutrient scarcity and lowers synapse activity at the junctions between neurons and muscle cells.

From numerous studies in the Xenopus paired oocyte system and various cell culture systems, a reasonable assumption might be that if two cells express the same connexin or innexin and lie in close membrane apposition, gap junctions will probably be established between them; this assumption has not been investigated rigorously in vivo.

Since the scientists had eliminated the tight junctions between cells, they concluded that this result was not an indirect effect of the ion's size (as a previous theory had suggested), but instead indicated a direct interaction between the taste cell and the negative ion.

«Zonulin causes junctions to open up between these cells so that the wall of the small intestine becomes «leaky».

High cortisol also alters tight junctions between cells such that small harmful substances may pass through the barrier.

These spaces between your gut's outermost cells are called intestinal tight junctions, and they act as the safeguard between your intestines and your bloodstream.

Improving the strength and health of intestinal walls, preventing leaky gut, and reducing inflammation by maintaining the tight junctions between the cells in the lining of these walls

This irritation causes your tight junctions — the space between your intestinal cells — to widen.

Pathogens, and the toxins they produce, damage cells in your gut and open the spaces between them, which are called the tight junctions.

Its only down side (along with the caloric sugar alcohols) is that it may temporarily weaken tight junctions between epithelial cells, effectively creating short term «leaky gut».

Oleuropein cuts production of matrix metalloproteinase, a substance that helps dissolve the junctions between healthy cells and allows cancer to spread.

Barriers called tight junctions guard the pathways between intestinal epithelial cells.

Diversity of tight junctions (TJs) between gastrointestinal epithelial cells and their function in maintaining the mucosal barrier.

In fact, it metabolizes into prostaglandin E2 (PGE2)-- a small signaling protein that helps regulate junctions between cells.

Bacteria can be used to induce gap junctions between the cancer cells and immune cells, «teaching» the immune system to recognize and kill the tumor cells.»

There are tight junctions present between the network of cellular elements that make up the BBB similar to the tight junctions in the cells that line up the digestive system.

If the gut wall is inflamed and junctions between cells are not tight, then lipopolysaccharides will leak into the circulation.

When the tight junctions between each cell are weakened, large particles of food and bacteria that are not meant to cross the gut wall, enter into the blood stream creating an inflammatory response.

In the small intestine, gluten triggers the release of zonulin, a protein that regulates the tight junctions between epithelial cells and therefore intestinal, but also blood - brain barrier function.

They have tentacle like protrusions that penetrate the tight junctions between the epithelial cells, through to the other side, and use these tentacles to take external surface antigens back in for destruction.

Eating these processed and toxic foods leads to chronic inflammation in the gut affecting the tight junctions between the cells causing them to separate.

Health promoting flavonoids found in fruits and vegetables have poor bioavailability, so many methods have been devised to make them more bioavailable, often involving fat emulsions or liposomes that either fuse with intestinal cells or bypass tight junctions between them and enter via the intestinal lymphatic system.

In the case of Crohn's disease, the inflammation in the intestines is believed to cause the widening of the junctions (TJs or tight junctions) between the cells of the intestinal lining.

However, when the GI tract becomes stressed, the tight junctions between the cells lining of our GI tract or enterocytes become loose.

As explained by Bush, you have tens of thousands of gap junctions between one cell and the next cell — tubules that resemble fiber optic cables when viewed under electron microscopy.

According to the team, quercetin interferes with a process known as EMT, or epithelial - mesenchymal transition, which loosens the junctions between cells and makes it easier for cancer to get a foothold.

Probiotics may help to prevent this by closing the «tight junctions,» the spaces between cells in the small intestines so that these proteins can't escape and cause the immune system to overreact.

Loss of these cartilage cells deep in the cartilage layers leads to formation of a defect at the junction between cartilage and bone.