Sentences with phrase «by other cells»

Insulin - producing cells (yellow) produce the hormone insulin (green spheres) and are surrounded by other cells in the pancreas.

He has taken a different approach, modeling some of the differences in the ways cells can react when they're being crowded by other cells.

Agave and fructose in general does not spike blood sugar because it goes through your liver damaging it at the same time, glucose is processed by other cells as well and thus it spikes your blood sugar, but fructose is processed just by the liver.

«We die daily»: so it is often said, not only with reference to the death of our bodily cells and their replacement by other cells every few years, but also in respect to our possible human growth.

«At first we were surprised by how rapidly NR was able to reactivate dormant mitochondria in muscle, despite being largely consumed by other cell types,» Frederick said.

The remainder are absorbed by other cells, including those in the liver, spleen and kidneys.

Cancer cells are surrounded by other cells called «stromal cells», which can make up 80 per cent of pancreatic cancer tissue.

Some of the cells in this layer (the photoreceptors) convert light into an electrical signal that is then amplified and processed by other cells before being sent to the brain via the optic nerve.

When they became detached, however, some cells appeared to be enveloped by other cells.

ESC are unique cells with unique properties that may never be duplicated by other cells.

This means that your fat stores are mobilized, releasing free fatty acids into your bloodstream to be used as energy by your other cells

Until now, scientists did not have a method for studying the mechanical characteristics of native cellular environments — that is, cells surrounded by other cells and matrix scaffolds within living tissues.

These ligands are floating around in the extracellular space (the world outside of the cell), having been released (or secreted) by other cells.

Normally, as red blood cells age or are damaged, they are broken down by other cells, called «macrophages.»