Sentences with phrase «biochemical pathways»

The study also describes a new biochemical pathway in the malaria parasite that could be the target of several other drugs.

Additional animal studies are needed to identify the range of biochemical pathways involved in reducing the progression of kidney disease.

Although there are many complex biochemical pathways involved, one other to understand is the role of our major stress hormone, cortisol, with respect to insulin.

The discovery reveals an unexpected biochemical pathway leading to diabetes and suggests novel approaches to prevention, diagnosis and treatment.

Furthermore, different foods go through different biochemical pathways, some more efficient than others, and have different effect on our hormones.

The research team is currently working to find biochemical pathways that could be used to block mosquito - borne viruses.

However, these will be overshadowed by «functional medicine» which its focus on restoring normal cell physiology with natural substances found in the human biochemical pathways.

In this study, the researchers identified what biochemical pathways are active during infection.

And they have both confirmed the importance of some previously suspected biochemical pathways in cancer and pointed toward new ones, such as cell metabolism and specific types of epigenetic regulation.

And only a fraction of those two percent are on known biochemical pathways.

The purpose of this paper was to provide the reader with an understanding of this newly discovered unique female biochemical pathway, which is expressed under conditions of stress.

In the past five years, studies of tens of thousands of people are beginning to pin down some of the genes and biochemical pathways involved.

Like progesterone, vitamin D is a steroid hormone that is inexpensive, has good safety properties and acts on many different biochemical pathways.

Dr. Longo is recognized as a leading expert on longevity (if not the expert) and has done great work in describing the basic biochemical pathways by which cells age.

Dogs and cats evolved to consume living, unprocessed foods, and once you remove the raw food, you disrupt nearly every important biochemical pathway in their body.

A watershed in biochemistry — Melvin Calvin's scientific paper detailing the complete biochemical pathway through which plants convert carbon dioxide from the atmosphere into carbohydrates — was published 35 years ago, in the 16 March 1962 issue of Science.

Next, Brody plans to study the same biochemical pathway in a different group of people: the elderly.

Formate may also have served as the first step toward forming reduced carbon compounds that were central to primitive biochemical pathways on early Earth.

«Phenolic compounds have good antioxidant activity, and there is increasing evidence that this antioxidant activity affects biochemical pathways affiliated with inflammation in mammals.

The memory - boosting chemical was singled out from among 100,000 chemicals screened at the Small Molecule Discovery Center at UCSF for their potential to perturb a protective biochemical pathway within cells that is activated when cells are unable to keep up with the need to fold proteins into their working forms.

The scientists said in their paper that to develop the growing membrane they substituted a «complex network of biochemical pathways used in nature with a single autocatalyst that simultaneously drives membrane growth.»

But these photosynthetic organisms activate other biochemical pathways at night, when they generate energy by breaking down the sugars, starches, and oils that they created during the day.

«Phenolic compounds have good antioxidant activity, and there is increasing evidence that this antioxidant activity affects biochemical pathways affiliated with inflammation in mammals.

New work from a team led by Carnegie's Wolf Frommer identifies biochemical pathways necessary for stocking the seed's food supplies.

The diet has not yet been proven to have these effects in humans, although we have biochemical pathways similar to those that are implicated in the CR effect in mice.

If you are craving some grapefruit or orange juice, your body may be communicating that you are deficient in vitamin C. Vitamin C boost immune health by supporting biochemical pathways which reduces oxidative damage and assist in destroying pathogens (24).

«We explore new drugs, new biochemical pathways, new applications for isotopes.»

In this response, several biochemical pathways converge on a single molecular lynchpin, a protein called eIF2 alpha.

This book, unlike many and most others of its kind, wonderfully accomplishes a technical and scientific discussion of the complex biochemical pathways involved in AFS as well as bringing to light all of the practical applications and effective protocols, so that anyone with a desire to learn can access it.

Biologists at Washington University in St. Louis have exposed one such interloper by characterizing the unique biochemical pathway it uses to synthesize auxin, a central hormone in plant development.

Some scientists study cells, called primary human trophoblasts, that are isolated from placentas obtained after childbirth, but such cells do not divide, can be more difficult to obtain, and are more difficult to genetically manipulate to learn about biochemical pathways that have a role in placental function, Dr. Coyne said.

The latest findings «move us closer to identifying underlying biochemical pathways involved in autism and set us up to develop better treatments,» says Bryan King, director of the Autism Center at Seattle Children's Hospital.

The researchers are now working to optimize the fungi's hydrocarbon production and improve biochemical pathways through genetic engineering.

The mTOR protein is part of a different biochemical pathway controlling protein production and metabolism, one that also often takes a crooked turn in tumors.

Color and scent involve intricate biochemical pathways, says Cornish, who has gone on to become deputy vice chancellor of research at Monash University in Victoria, Australia.

Future work can focus on tracing the physiological and biochemical pathways suggested by these multidimensional interactions, Rand said.

Patterns are already beginning to emerge, showing abnormalities in common biochemical pathways that regulate functions such as synaptic plasticity and immune function, said Eric Lander, president of the Broad Institute, in a press conference this morning.

Genes from the original plant source and two other organisms were inserted, and a preexisting biochemical pathway was carefully adjusted.

The Nature Communications paper covers lung cancer cells; a similar phenomenon of collective invasion led by distinctive cells has been observed in breast cancer, but different genes and biochemical pathways appear to be important in each system.

The team's final experiments demonstrated that these unbound integrin tails, indeed, get up to no good: they participate in the activation of two key biochemical pathways (PI3K and Rac1) that are necessary and sufficient to induce malignant cell behaviors in the in vitro epithelial tissue.

A genetically conserved biochemical pathway produces the vivid blue pigments that they found to mutate over time to produce red.

In contrast, stem cells have small mitochondria and use glycolysis as an alternative biochemical pathway to generate energy.

With the understanding that some diseases such as obesity are metabolic syndromes in which multiple biochemical pathways interact to cause complex symptoms, metabolic testing offers a way to gauge health over a lifetime.

(C) Biochemical pathway impact analysis — males, The top five pathway disturbances in males were responsible for 82 % of the metabolic impact.

The nine biochemical pathway disturbances that were common to both males and females with CFS were visualized in a Venn diagram (Fig. 1E).

Samples of 5 — 15 of the top 60 metabolites were manually selected to broadly interrogate several of the discriminating biochemical pathways (Tables 2 and 3) in males and females.