Sentences with phrase «called cytochrome»

In your mitochondria, there's also a specific molecule called cytochrome c oxidase, which is involved in the energy production within the mitochondria.

There's a certain family of carcinogen called pro-carcinogens which to begin causing cancer, must first be metabolised into active carcinogens by enzymes belonging to the so - called cytochrome P450 family.

Light therapy (how we use it) helps activate an important metabolic enzyme called cytochrome c oxidase, which is essential for healthy cellular energy production, and relaxation.

A system of enzymes called cytochrome P450 (CYP), found in the liver, kidney, lungs and the brain do the job.

University of Illinois professor of entomology May Berenbaum, who led the study, said that many organisms use a group of enzymes called cytochrome P450 monooxygenases to break down foreign substances such as pesticides and compounds naturally found in plants, known as phytochemicals.

Called cytochrome P450 2A5, the enzyme is known to increase in people with liver ailments.

Clopidogrel is metabolized in the liver, where it is turned into its active form via a group of enzymes called cytochrome P450, or CYP for short.

Experiments had shown that the gene produced a class of enzymes called cytochrome P450, of which there turned out to be hundreds of different forms.

They secrete a substance called cytochrome c that switches on a messenger protein that latches onto the caspaces and jars them awake.

They also helped to break down the poison, known more precisely as TCDD, by producing powerful enzymes called cytochrome P450s, which are normally confined to the liver.

Chen and his colleagues, postdocs Xiongyi Huang, Jennifer Kan, and graduate student Ruijie Zhang, did this by giving the bacteria a copy of a gene that encodes an enzyme called cytochrome P450.

Not exact matches

Malaria parasites can develop mutations in the cytochrome b gene that make them resistant to a drug called atovaquone, an ingredient in the antimalarial medication Malarone.

Cytochrome conducts electricity and is known to line fine hairs called «nanowires» that are produced by both bacteria.

In recent years, Michel and his research group mainly studied two types of oxygen reductases: the so - called superfamily of «heme - copper oxidases», and the «cytochrome bd oxidase».

Cytochromes are electron - transporting protein pigments concerned with cell respiration that contain an iron - containing molecule called heme, allied to that of hemoglobin.

It's a function of the protein in the intermitochondrial membrane called uh — Cytochrome C Oxidase which I think most people know.

Once ingested, acrylamide can be detoxified in the body if it is processed through our cytochrome P450 enzyme system and converted into glycidamide, or if it is hooked together with the sulfur - containing, antioxidant molecule called glutathione.

First, grapefruit contains a compound called naringenin, which inactivates an enzyme (cytochrome P450 3A4) in the small intestine that metabolizes statin drugs.