Sentences with phrase «by the muscle cells»

BCAAs can be used by muscle cells as an energy source, which may help offset muscle breakdown during endurance exercise and help support recovery and repair after weight training.

For the past several years, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign have been developing a class of walking «bio-bots» powered by muscle cells and controlled with electrical and optical pulses.

Rapsyn is made by our muscle cells and considered a sort of biological anchor that interacts with the acetylcholine receptors to ensure that they are optimally positioned for our muscles to receive orders from our brain.

Scientists know which part to replace, but the real problem, again, is delivery: «We would have to wrap the gene in such a way that it could be picked up by muscle cells and incorporated into them,» Davies said.

When taken after exercise, creatine will boost muscle creatine stores and promote greater protein synthesis during recovery by increasing the amount of water taken up by muscle cells and increasing the release of the anabolic hormone insulin - like growth factor - 1 (IGF - 1).

Beta - Alanine is a non-essential amino acid that is used by muscle cells to synthesize carnosine.

* [Branched chain amino acids are not metabolized by the liver; they are used primarily by muscle cells.]

Researchers from the University of Connecticut found that consuming fast - digested proteins and fast - digested carbs after a workout both increase the amount of protein taken up by the muscle cells and the number of testosterone receptors in muscle cells.

But, that's different than «the delayed onset muscle soreness» that occurs in the days following a bout of extreme physical activity — which is thought to be due to inflammation caused by muscle cell damage, little micro-tears in the muscle.

The conversion of calories from their stored nutrient state to the form that can be burned by your muscle cells is achieved, during aerobic exercise, through the process of cellular respiration, which requires oxygen, and the delivery of oxygen through your bloodstream to your active muscle cells is directly related to your heart rate.

This compound is primarily produced by muscle cells.

Protein combined with carbohydrate stimulates a greater release of insulin, which promotes faster uptake of glucose by the muscle cells and faster glycogen storage.

These are adipose tissue hormone sensitive lipase (HSL) which is responsible for the release of fat from your fat cells, and muscle tissue lipoprotein lipase (LPL) which is responsible for the uptake of fat by your muscle cells where it is used for energy.

[10] In vitro, lipoic acid was found to stimulate glucose uptake by muscle cells in a manner similar to insulin.

Not exact matches

A great study done in 2010 indicated that drinking fat - free milk immediately after whole - body resistance training and again one hour after the workout allowed participants to increase fat loss, gain greater muscle and strength, and strengthen bones by reducing bone cell turnover.

Rather than being used by muscles for energy, the glucose is redirected to fat cells.

Anabolic steroids work by helping the body's muscle cells produce more protein which, as long as the athletes works out, leads to increased muscle size and strength and, at the same time, also allows the body to produce more ATP, the «fuel» muscles need to move.

It is commonly known that calcium is required for strong bones and teeth, but it is little acknowledged that calcium is actually required by every cell in the body to function in a healthful way: from bones to nerves and muscles to blood, calcium serves a significant purpose throughout the body.

The researchers found that they could trigger the same effects in healthy muscle cells by exposing them to the fat palmitate.

Led by researchers at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Heart Institute, the study demonstrates the gene Gm7325 and its protein — which the scientists named «myomerger» — prompt muscle stem cells to fuse and develop skeletal muscles the body needs to move and survive.

Researchers then tested cell cultures and mouse models by using a gene editing process called CRISPR - Cas9 to demonstrate how the presence or absence of myomaker and myomerger — both individually and in unison — affect cell fusion and muscle formation.

«We also study how to control living muscle tissue by electrical stimulation of the cell,» he says.

Because heart cells lose their ability to divide soon after we are born, when the cells die — in a heart attack, say — the dead tissue is replaced by scar tissue rather than new muscle.

It appears to work by adjusting the body's metabolism, allowing muscles to favor burning fat over sugar, researchers report in the May 2 Cell Metabolism.

Common wisdom in this field had held that the endothelial cells must help immune cells squeeze through by contracting themselves like small muscles, but the present study found no evidence for such contraction - based help.

«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.

Action potentials can be created by many types of cells, but are used most extensively by the nervous system for communication between neurons and to transmit information from neurons to other body tissues such as muscles and glands.

The result was the largest deletion ever observed in the dystrophin gene using CRISPR / Cas9, and the study was the first to create corrected human iPS cells that could directly restore functional muscle tissue affected by Duchenne.

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have discovered that muscle cells affected by muscular dystrophy contain high levels of an enzyme that impairs muscle repair.

The 8 July cover story features a nickel - sized artificial string - ray whose swimming is guided by light and powered by heart muscle cells: a «living» robot hailed as a technical tour de force.

This atrophy is prompted by metabolites that purge the muscle cells of mitochondria and sarcoplasmic reticulum (which provide energy and signals), according to the BMC Ecology research.

A-beta is made by cells in the brain, but also by blood platelets, skin cells, muscles and other parts of the body.

Dwarki and Jaime Escobedo improved the AAV's ability to insert genes into chromosomes by adding a gene promoter region from cytomegalovirus, known to be active in the target for their gene therapy, muscle cells.

Then the researchers, led by then - post-doc, now Oregon State University faculty member Matthew Robinson and colleagues, took biopsies from the volunteers» thigh muscles and compared the molecular makeup of their muscle cells to samples from sedentary volunteers.

Pinaverium is a type of antispasmodic, an agent that improves IBS symptoms (abdominal pain, bloating and disturbed defecation) by directly relaxing the colonic smooth muscle cells or antagonizing the excitatory neuromuscular neurotransmission.

By comparing proteomic and RNA - sequencing data from people on different exercise programs, the researchers found evidence that exercise encourages the cell to make more RNA copies of genes coding for mitochondrial proteins and proteins responsible for muscle growth.

Previous research by Lee's lab had shown that p75 is involved in a signaling pathway that regulates the development of sensory neurons — cells which transmit our sensation of pain, touch and muscle tension — in the dorsal root ganglia.

Cohen suspects that the protein triggers off a sequence of events by which the raw stem cells — the «ancestors» of bone, cartilage, skin, ligament, marrow, muscle and tendon cells — are converted into bone cells.

Movement of the third eyelid in cats is also partially regulated by the sympathetic nervous system as well as by smooth muscle cells within the third eyelid.

By this time I knew that Grace had begun to exhibit various signs indicating destruction of the cells of some of her voluntary muscle tissue, a process called rhabdomyolysis.

Muscular Dystrophy is a hereditary condition marked by weakness and progressive wasting of the muscles, while ALS impacts nerve cells that control voluntary muscle movement.

Because muscles form through fusion of cells, the examples they found were all formed by fusion.

The brain controls movement by sending electrical signals to our muscles through nerve cells.

In both muscle and the brain, GDF11 appears to work in part by restoring the function of stem cells.

For the first time, a research team led by Dr. Ralf Gilsbach and Prof. Dr. Lutz Hein from the Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Freiburg have mapped out the gene regulators in the DNA of human cardiac muscle cells.

In two papers published online 16 November by Nature Medicine, Margaret Goodell of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, and her colleagues and Fabio Rossi of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and his colleagues report that the progeny of blood stem cells can indeed contribute to mature muscle tissue.

The same basic proteins used by platelets are also used in movements in muscle and other cells.

The researchers found that too much or too little activity by the autophagy protein BEC - 1 in neurons, muscles and the intestine is detrimental to germline cell proliferation.

Previous research conducted by Dr. Badylak's team suggested that ECM also could be used to regenerate lost muscle by placing the material in the injury site where it signals the body to recruit stem and other progenitor cells to rebuild healthy tissue.

The disease is caused by a genetic mutation that prevents a protein required to keep muscle cells intact from being produced.