Not exact matches
Reactive
oxygen species, also
called free radicals, are chemicals that typically contain
oxygen, are known to be found in cigarette smoke, and cause DNA damage in cells.
At the hearing, Carpenter suggested that cell phones may increase the brain's production of reactive forms of
oxygen called free radicals, which can interact with and damage DNA.
The second method,
called oxidative phosphorylation, produces
free radicals, reactive forms of
oxygen that can be particularly harmful to a cell's DNA.
Like a notorious suspect able to stay one step ahead of the law, corrosive
oxygen compounds
called free radicals are implicated in many diseases but leave little hard evidence of their handiwork.
The surprise to biochemists was that the enzyme,
called FtmOx1, produces a highly reactive «helper» known as a
free radical that assists in putting the
oxygen atoms in the right place.
This metabolic demand makes brain cells particularly vulnerable to damage from oxidative stress, in which reactive
oxygen species (ROS), sometimes
called free radicals, exert toxic effects on cellular components.
One mechanism thought to underlie biological aging involves a molecule vital to our survival —
oxygen — in what is
called the
free radical theory of aging.
This caused oxidative stress — too much
oxygen that damages healthy cells — and allowed the release of harmful molecules,
called free radicals, which resulted in serious illness.
The Einstein team suspected that cysteine was helping to kill TB bacteria by acting as a «reducing agent» that triggers the production of reactive
oxygen species (sometimes
called free radicals), which can damage DNA.
During the normal processes of metabolism the body generates what are
called «reactive
oxygen species» which are commonly referred to as «
free radicals».
Dr Kenneth Cooper, author of Aerobics, believes excessive exercise also produces unstable
oxygen molecules
called free radicals that cause harm to the body.
They are
called «poly», because they contain many double bonds which tend to react with
oxygen when heated and form harmful compounds such as
free radicals.
In the late 1980s, scientists realized that alpha - lipoic acid, a compound initially classified as a vitamin when it was discovered three decades earlier, possessed potent antioxidant properties that could prevent healthy cells from getting damaged by unstable
oxygen molecules
called free radicals.
Antioxidants work by significantly slowing or preventing the oxidative — or damage from
oxygen — process caused by substances
called free radicals that can lead to cell dysfunction and the onset of problems like heart disease and diabetes.
Antioxidants are effective at preventing something
called sebum peroxidation, which is when
free radicals damage the skin's sebum, lowering its
oxygen content, and making it an ideal environment for an anaerobic bacteria, P. acnes, to thrive and reproduce.
Antioxidants work by significantly slowing or preventing the oxidative — or damage from
oxygen — process caused by substances
called free radicals that can lead to cell dysfunction and the onset of problems like heart disease and diabetes, but also of the inflammation underpinning psoriasis.
These
free radicals react with everything and can wreak havoc, this is why they are
called «reactive
oxygen species».
In the human body,
oxygen inevitably generates reactive molecules throughout all the tissues of the body
called free radicals.
When your body is able to burn fat for fuel, your liver creates water - soluble fats
called ketones that burn far more efficiently than carbs, thereby creating fewer reactive
oxygen species (ROS) and secondary
free radicals.
So, the thinking is that lower methionine intake leads to less
free radical production — the so -
called «reactive
oxygen species,» which slows the rate of DNA damage, which then would slow the rate of DNA mutation, slowing the rate of aging and disease — thereby potentially increasing our lifespan.
Oxygen is capable of forming damaging molecules
called «
free radicals.»
An important pathogenetic mechanism involved in chronic hepatitis (regardless of its cause) is the so
called oxidative damage, resulting from the liberation of
oxygen free radicals from inflammatory and immune cells during the inflammatory process.