Sentences with phrase «by cell stress»

Changes in Bni4 localization induced by cell stress in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

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The researchers experimented with inducing oxidative stress in a human cell line culture with and without VCOP (virgin coconut oil polyphenols) to observe how VCOP positively promoted catalase, a very important enzyme in protecting the cell from oxidative damage, and glutathione (GSH), a self - recycling antioxidant produced by the liver.

Although much less research exists on monk fruit and its components, preliminary studies show promise for improving insulin signaling by protecting the pancreatic insulin - releasing cells from oxidative stress (3, 4).

This exceptional food offers antioxidant and anti-inflammatory protection to your cells, preventing DNA damage caused by free radicals and reduces oxidative stress which leads to premature aging.

They found that exercise may help cognition by increasing blood and oxygen to the brain, increasing levels of norepinephrine, and endorphins to decrease stress and improve mood, and increasing growth factors that help create new nerve cells and support synaptic plasticity.

Inflammation in response to the Salmonella stressed the pathogens themselves, and the resulting damage promoted bacteriophage replication, followed by rupture of the bacterial cell wall and release of the bacteriophages.

Mice with fragile beta cells that were poor at repairing DNA damage would rapidly develop diabetes when those beta cells were challenged by cellular stress.

We know that they are under stress when they are fighting cancer or other diseases, so I wondered whether anything measureable could be seen if we put them under further stress with UVA light.We found that people with cancer have DNA which is more easily damaged by ultraviolet light than other people, so the test shows the sensitivity to damage of all the DNA — the genome — in a cell.»

When it reaches the brain, Zika virus infects neuronal stem cells, which will generate fewer neurons, and by inducing chronic stress in the endoplasmic reticulum, it promotes apoptosis, i.e. the early death of these neuronal cells.

• Scrutiny continued this week for Haruko Obokata, the Japanese stem - cell scientist whose apparent stunning advance — reprogramming adult stem cells by stressing them in acid — has proved difficult to reproduce, even by her own collaborators.

Further animal studies by Kipnis and others show that learning new tasks triggers a mild stress response within the brain, which prompts CD4 cells to rally to the meninges, the membranes that surround the brain.

The neurotransmitter acetylcholine is released by nerve cells in the brain when people or mice are under mild stress or concentrating on learning something new.

In this research, the scientists disturbed endoplasmic reticulum function by introducing saturated fatty acids into cells to induce lipotoxic stress.

By measuring levels of the stress hormone cortisol, plus other chemical markers, the team found that the task caused more cell damage in the women who were already stressed.

Normally, plants adapt to drought - related stress by producing osmoprotectants — molecules like soluble sugars that help prevent water from leaving cells.

«By focusing on changing how infected cells respond to the resulting metabolic stress rather than targeting a component of the virus itself, there is less risk that the virus will become resistant to the drugs,» Thomas said.

The researchers also examined BRAF mutant melanoma cell lines, and found that BRAF inhibition induced autophagy by way of an endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress response.

When a cell gets stressed, either by overheating or starvation, its proteins no longer fold properly.

In the current issue of Cell, Jing Liu, a graduate student researcher in the Chien lab at UMass Amherst working with the Laub lab at MIT, show that in the bacteria Caulobacter, a particular enzyme, Lon, can help defend against the effects of stress by cutting up and destroying small amounts of misfolded proteins.

Weinberg, who is also a professor of biology at MIT, says he has created cancer cells in culture by adding oncogenes — as, he stresses, have hundreds of others.

«By understanding how stress accelerates invasion in aggressive breast tumor cells, this work will inform future studies into whether beta - blockers could be a useful adjuvant therapy in the treatment of some aggressive breast cancers.»

In a study appearing February 18 in Cell Metabolism, researchers link this difference to an epigenetic change in the stressed dad's sperm — a change that they could prevent by blocking the father's stress hormones.

They showed that stress in pancreatic cells due to sleep deprivation may contribute to the loss or dysfunction of these cells important to maintaining proper blood sugar levels, and that these functions may be exacerbated by normal aging.

While changes in insulin secretion are unlikely to play a major role in the acute effects of SD, cellular stress in pancreatic tissue suggests that chronic SD may contribute to the loss or dysfunction of endocrine cells, and that these effects may be exacerbated by normal aging, say the researchers.

Pancreas tissue from acutely sleep - deprived aged animals exhibited a marked increase in CHOP, a protein associated with cell death, suggesting a maladaptive response to cellular stress with age that was amplified by sleep deprivation.

A preclinical study in mice published by Cell Press January 16th in the journal Cell reveals that drugs known as histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACis) can enhance the brain's ability to permanently replace old traumatic memories with new memories, opening promising avenues for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other anxiety disorders.

The researchers were surprised to find that knockdown of one specific mitochondrial chaperone, mtHSP70, elicited a unique stress response mediated by fat accumulation, resulting in improved protein folding in the interior or cytosol of the cell.

Writing in 2014 in the European Journal of Neuroscience, Leuner and colleagues reported that in rats with symptoms of postpartum depression (induced by stress during pregnancy, a major risk factor for postpartum depression in women), nerve cells in the nucleus accumbens atrophied and showed fewer protrusions called dendritic spines — suggesting weaker connections to surrounding nerve cells compared with healthy rats.

«Although there are advantages to living in cities, such as the access to food, they seem to be outweighed by the disadvantages, such as stress — at least in terms of how quickly the cells of the great tits age,» says biologist Pablo Salmón who conducts research in the field of evolutionary ecology at the Faculty of Science, Lund University.

An over-burdened — or «stressed» — ER can result in proteins becoming disorganized, a condition which cells seek to rectify by undertaking «unfolded protein response», or UPR.

Kenichi Miharada, researcher at the Department of Laboratory Medicine, has previously shown that it is possible to reduce ER stress chemically by adding bile acids to the cell culture.

The scientists discovered that dinaciclib, by interfering with UPR activation, caused multiple myeloma and myeloid leukemia cells to initiate a form of cell suicide known as apoptosis when exposed to agents that induced ER stress.

«These findings build on a long history of work in our laboratory investigating mechanisms by which cancer cells respond to environmental stresses,» says Grant.

In a new study published in Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, researchers found that inosine, a naturally occurring purine nucleoside that is released by cells in response to metabolic stress, can help to restore motor control after brain injury.

The results challenge accepted ideas about how stem cells age and may eventually lead to new ways to prevent graying and treat the more serious conditions caused by genotoxic stress, such as cancer.

In a series of cell - based studies, they showed that it both blocked a family of iron - containing, oxygen - sensing enzymes called hypoxia - inducible factor prolyl - hydroxylases (HIF - PHD) and, critically, protected neurons by activating genes that protect them from oxidative stress.

Kipnis suggests that T cells keep this process in check, differentiating between disease and ordinary stress and, when warranted, telling other immune cells to stand down by releasing antagonist molecules that prevent misguided inflammation.

In a promising trial run, Wind and his colleagues observed how a living cell responds to stress caused by rising temperatures.

A study led by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago points blame at a regulatory molecule in cells called TRIP - Br2 that is produced in response to overeating's stress on the machinery cells use to produce proteins.

Researchers have found that pregnancy - related stress hormones shield the fetus by causing attacking immune system cells, or T cells, to self - destruct.

Using both computer modeling and laboratory experiments, they discovered that it was possible to enhance the production of individual components of the cell wall under certain stress conditions by regulating different transcription factors.

Immediately after the subjects viewed the slide shows, researchers drew their blood, exposed each sample to bacteria and then measured the levels of a substance known as interleukin - 6 (IL - 6), which is secreted by white blood cells as a response to stress or trauma.

Professor Howell, based at the Genesis Breast Cancer Prevention Centre at University Hospital of South Manchester, and at The University of Manchester, said: said: «At least 50 per cent of cancer risk is genetic, but activated cell stress signalling could potentially be reduced by dietary or lifestyle intervention.

Oxidative states are generally considered to be indicative of cellular stress; however, cells inherently release harmful reactive oxygen species during energy production, neutralized by intracellular antioxidative buffering systems.

To find out the specific metabolic pathways affected by disease or stress, the Tufts scientists looked at three parameters: the ratio of FAD to NADH, the fluorescence «fade» of NADH, and the organization of the mitochondria as revealed by the spatial distribution of NADH within a cell (the energy producing «batteries» of the cell).

A protein that normally protects cells from environmental stresses has been shown to interact Marburg virus VP24, allowing the deadly Marburg virus to live longer and replicate better, according to a cell culture study led by scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Psychological stress boosts a person's risk of cardiovascular disease by altering levels of immune cells in the blood

«This pathway of molecular events appears to be intrinsically tied to the levels of stress experienced by the cell and ensures the rapid, programmed destruction of both the cell and its contents.»

Specifically, under stress, caused by uncontrolled ingestion of fats for example, the endoplasmic reticulum — a cell organelle associated with protein synthesis and folding and lipid metabolism — stops its activity in order to re-establish cell equilibrium.