Sentences with phrase «blood by molecules»

Cholesterol is most commonly transported in the blood by molecules composed of fat and protein called lipoproteins.

Not exact matches

For it is demonstrable that our bodies of flesh and blood will be dissolved, and that in whatever mode of existence we may be raised from death it will not be by either the resuscitation of this mortal body or its transformation — unless, indeed, we follow the speculations of some of the Fathers concerning the reassembling, by God, of the dispersed molecules of the flesh, which I am not inclined to do.

First x object was created out of nothing, then combined with other things created out of nothing, then magically an atom, yhen a cell, a molecule, then bacteria, single cell creatures, followed by simple sea creatures with organs, then more advanced creatures, next red blooded mammals, then primates, and finally human.

Plants are not like us with pumping mechanism that pushes our blood around, so water moves up the vessel by adhesion (being attracted to the side of the vessel) and cohesion (water molecules being attracted to each other).

These molecules are absorbed by your blood, and when they get close to the breast they are transported into the milk making cells of the breast via diffusion.

The test, which could be available to patients within two years, identifies the chemical signatures found in the plasma of blood joint proteins damaged by oxidation, nitration and glycation; the modification of proteins with oxygen, nitrogen and sugar molecules.

«We have found that the bone marrow production of immune cells is affected by high blood sugar and have identified a possible molecule mediating this effect.

A collaborative study by Elodie Ghedin, of the New York University, Sara Lustigman of New York Blood Center, and Thomas Unnasch of The University of South Florida measured levels of RNA molecules in both B. malayi and Wolbachia throughout the lifecycles of male and female worms.

Two protein molecules that fit together as lock and key seem to promote the abnormal formation of blood vessels in joints affected by rheumatoid arthritis, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, who found that the substances are present at higher levels in the joints of patients affected by the disease.

One of the ways the liver purifies blood is by adding the equivalent of a «chuck this out» label to molecules, but this label is made of a kind of sugar — and the bugs in our gut have a sweet tooth.

The drug lowers blood pressure by altering the flow of calcium molecules in and out of cells.

That initial color is influenced by the loss of oxygen from hemoglobin, the molecule in blood that ferries oxygen from the lungs through the body.

Other inflammatory molecules that provoke the microglia are made by the white blood cells that gobble up bacteria and other sources of infection in the body.

The single molecule array (Simoa) technology developed by Quanterix, and the fully automated HD - 1 analyzer, offers unprecedented improvement in sensitivity proteins over current technologies for the detection of blood - based biomarkers — as much as 1000 times more sensitive than conventional immunoassays.

By the early 1990s, Swedo and the NIMH team were treating the Sydenham group and pioneering some of the same types of treatments used for patients like Paul Michael today: steroids such as prednisone to stanch the tide of immune molecules; plasmapheresis, a technique to filter the blood, cleanse it of autoantibodies, and return it intact to the patient; and intravenous delivery of a new, healthy immune system with IVIG.

In a separate laboratory experiment, they found the same JK - 31 molecule also blocked a specific growth factor (VEGF - A) produced by the cancer to attract the growth of blood vessels.

«We were really surprised when we found molecules in the blood that others had reported could only be generated by gut bacteria,» Maher says.

Excessive or uncontrolled inflammation can actually make injuries worse and contribute to disease in a couple of different ways — by activating cell death processes, clogging and rupturing blood vessels and producing toxic molecules like free radicals.

In green, capillaries that form part of the blood - brain barrier; in red, molecules attached to the shuttle patented by IRB Barcelona have managed to cross the barrier and reach the brain (black background).

Cytokines can reach the brain several ways: directly through the blood - brain barrier or indirectly by binding to nerve fibers elsewhere, which send signals to the brain to produce the inflammation molecules.

Platelet - rich plasma (PRP) is made by centrifuging a sample of a person's blood to isolate growth factors — molecules that trigger the growth of tissue and blood vessels.

By inducing cells that line the capillaries to keep a tight seal, astrocytes maintain the blood - brain barrier, which protects the brain from many circulating molecules.

One avenue being studied by the CDC aims to create a Lyme «signature» of small molecules in the blood — an approach that, in early testing, catches a dramatically higher share of early infections.

In the current study, being published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, the international interdisciplinary research team demonstrates that the transport of molecules across the blood - brain barrier can be modulated by gut microbes — which therefore play an important role in the protection of the brain.

He also had extremely high levels of creatinine (a by - product of the breakdown of phosphocreatine, an energy - storage molecule in muscle) normally eliminated by the kidneys and extremely elevated levels of BUN (blood urea nitrogen), which measures the amount of the waste product urea (a by - product of protein digestion).

By engineering red blood cells to have «sticky» proteins on their surface, a team of researchers has given the cells the ability to carry anything from drugs to treat immune disorders or cancer to radioactive molecules used in imaging of blood vessels.

Molecules produced by some of the bacteria may increase glucose production in the body and push blood glucose levels out of balance, the researchers suggest.

Previously, researchers have loaded red blood cells with drugs by pushing the molecules through the cell's membrane into its interior, but the process weakens the cell, and the molecules are released only when the cell reaches its final destination.

Active pertussis toxin works by entering white blood cells and chemically modifying a category of G proteins, which are essential signaling molecules.

This is a problem, says Frangioni, because when fluorescent molecules are injected into the blood, only a small fraction is taken up by the tissue of interest; the rest continue to circulate through the blood until filtered either by the kidneys or liver and excreted from the body.

By forcing adult mice with sickle cell disease to produce a fetal version of the hemoglobin molecule that carries oxygen in blood, a research team has eliminated symptoms of disorder in the animals.

Moffitt researchers want to develop a fast, cost - effective blood test that can accurately differentiate low - risk IPMNs that can be monitored from high - risk IPMNs that need to be surgically removed by studying microRNAs (miRNAs), a class of small molecules that regulate key genes involved in the development and progression of cancer.

They identified signals that white blood cells use to control their behaviour, then one by one disabled those signals — discovering that one particular molecule called ERK5 could be manipulated to encourage white blood cells either to throw out pathogens better or to keep them inside and try to kill them for longer.

Although with this the peptide initially loses its ability to bind to the target molecule, if the right protective groups are selected, they are split off again by enzymes that are ubiquitous in the blood.

LSHTM will provide a whole - blood assay to compare the potency of vaccine candidates based on their ability to induce innate and adaptive cytokine and chemokine responses, detected by capturing the signalling molecules on customised or commercial Luminex bead arrays.

These particular «robots» are rolled sheets made of DNA and they are «programmed» by attaching another molecule to them that will recognize the inside of growing blood vessels.

This means it can trigger fluorescent molecules that are circulating in the blood, and this fluorescence can be picked up by an external monitoring device.

In a new study, scientists led by Selvi C. Jeyaraj of the Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital have identified a biological mechanism that may be responsible for icy extremities: an interaction between a series of molecules and receptors on smooth muscle cells that line the skin's tiny blood vessels.

Nature's Own Medicine for Vision Loss: Inhibitor of Angiogenesis Found by TSRI Biologists A potentially potent inhibitor of angiogenesis, the process whereby new blood vessels are formed from existing ones, can be found in one of the very molecules involved in the same process.

So now we were able to by observing nature, to reconstitute the active part of the molecule without the need of the blood derived protein.

Oxidized lipids promote arterial plaque formation by activating the immune response, which promotes inflammation and attracts white blood cells to engulf and contain the damaged molecules.

They can state «no sugar» or «low sugar» on the nutrition label because maltodextrin is a complex carbohydrate, but it will impact blood sugar more than table sugar (table sugar is sucrose, which, by the way, is not a simple sugar — it is two molecules, glucose and fructose, bonded together).

Albumin normally constitutes about 60 % of human plasma protein and plays an important role in regulating blood volume by maintaining the oncoosmotic pressure of blood needed to avoid edema, and by serving as the carrier for hydrophobic molecules, including lipid soluble hormones, bile salts, unconjugated bilirubin, free fatty acids (apoprotein), calcium, ions (transferrin), and some drugs (e.g., warfarin, phenobutazone, clofibrate & phenytoin).

The capacity of HDL to do its job has been shown recently by scientific research that there is no relationship between the capacity of the HDL molecule to function optimally and its blood level.

The patients themselves logged in their blood sugar and ketone (molecules produced by the liver from fatty acids during low carb diet) levels in an app devised for the purpose of this study.The investigators monitored the patient's levels and made adjustments accordingly to avoid hypoglycemic events (where blood sugar levels drop below normal).

If you were a really keen student in high school, you may remember that insulin takes sugar away from your blood and stores it in your liver and muscles by converting it to a molecule called «glycogen».

In addition, a functional BBB is manifested by a number of permanently active transport mechanisms, specifically expressed by brain capillary endothelial cells that ensure the transport of nutrients into the CNS and exclusion of blood - borne molecules that could be detrimental to the milieu required for neural transmission.

When ingested, carbohydrates cause the body to respond by releasing insulin into the blood stream — a hormone responsible for shuttling the broken down carbohydrates (which break into molecules of sugar) into the cells to be used for energy production (immediate or stored energy depending on what the body needs at the time).

High - glycemic carbs are mostly simple carbohydrates that digest rapidly and create a quick hike in the blood glucose levels, followed by a hike of insulin to pack those glucose molecules into the fat cells.

At a mechanistic level, curcumin mitigates inflammation by inhibiting an array of pro-inflammatory signaling molecules, such as the eicosanoids known as leukotrienes, thromboxanes, and prostaglandins, which elicit deleterious effects ranging from pain to blood clotting to airway constriction (Chainani, 2003).