Sentences with phrase «biochemical cascade»

However, these plant oestrogens do not set off the entire biochemical cascade that normally follows the binding of oestrogen proper.

When similar analysis was performed on the db mice, it was found that the disrupted db gene was responsible for encoding a protein that functions as a leptin receptor: When it binds circulating leptin at the cell surface, it sets in motion a biochemical cascade inside the cell.

Insulin is critical to cognitive health because it kicks off a biochemical cascade that protects brain cells, and when the cells become insulin - resistant, they may begin to falter.

They added the modified adrenaline compound, called CP - 331679, to cultured human fat cells, and saw that the receptors were activated and were triggering a biochemical cascade inside the cell.

Zwiebel and colleagues scanned the mosquito genome looking for genes similar to those that generate fruit fly odorant receptors, proteins that project from nerve cells and initiate a biochemical cascade when they encounter certain molecules in the air.

Whenever researchers ask themselves whether microRNA might play a role in a particular disease or health problem, these days the answer is almost invariably yes, because microRNAs appear to be everywhere, part of the underlying health of organs and crucial to biochemical cascades we only thought we understood.

Forward - looking studies are examining other possible information couriers: glial cells (poorly understood brain cells that are 10 times as common as neurons), other kinds of signaling mechanisms between cells (such as newly discovered gases and peptides), and the biochemical cascades that take place inside cells.

One piece of this puzzle that has emerged in recent years is a biochemical cascade called the mTOR pathway that regulates growth in the developing brain.

The trigger (s) initiating the biochemical cascades that underpin these hallmarks have yet to be fully elucidated.

«There is good evidence from animal data that the release of certain neurotransmitters — dopamine and norepinephrine — leads to a biochemical cascade leading to the production of so called plasticity related proteins,» says study author Guillén Fernández, director of the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour at Radboud University Medical Center in an email to TIME.

A 2012 study published in the International Journal of Obesity found that BPA causes a biochemical cascade within fat cells that increases inflammation and promotes fat - cell growth.

Understand the biochemical cascade of events that takes place during photobiomodulation therapy.