Sentences with phrase «called myosin»
«Future studies are focusing on the molecular mechanisms underlying the ageing - related changes in skeletal muscle and the specific effects of HRT on the structure and function of the dominant protein in skeletal muscle, called myosin, which generates force and movement.»
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The team has identified that aggressively spreading cancer cells express a protein called Myosin - 10 which drives cancer cell motility.
The French team and a British group that discovered the mouse gene both decided to see if the mutation — which hampers the production of a protein called myosin VIIA — might, as in the mice, explain inherited deafness without other sensory loss.
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- Myosin - 10 expressing cancers have a large number of structures called filopodia.
«Sarcomeres are mainly made up of actin and myosin protein strands called filaments.
Other motor proteins, called kinesins and myosins, are much smaller and have specific functions, but dynein can turn its hand to a lot of different of functions,» Professor Knight said.
«Through further functional studies we found that myosin IIa is also required for activation of the main guardian of the genome — a tumor suppressor protein called p53.»
Researchers in the lab of Myra Lipes, M.D., have shown in both mice and people that myocarditis can be triggered by a protein called alpha - myosin heavy chain, which is found only in heart muscle and in especially low quantities in human heart tissue.
Scientists are interested in the timing of the movement of myosin along actin filaments which is driven by the power stroke — a process called lever arm swing.
When you are able to increase the number of contractile proteins called actin and myosin, it increases the ability of muscles to contract and perform physical work.