Sentences with phrase «cause normal body cells»

Besides the general health decline (cachexia) that tumors can produce, some of them cause normal body cells to take up more cholesterol (upregulation of LDL - receptors).

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The overgrowth of promyelocytes leads to a shortage of normal white and red blood cells and platelets in the body, which causes many of the signs and symptoms of the condition.

Fat cells cultured from the body mass index of a morbidly obese patient cause multiple myeloma cells to anchor to a much greater extent than normal cells and produce a significantly larger number of blood vessels to sustain the cancer cells.

In the absence of pain, morphine interferes with normal body function and is viewed as a pathogen, activating the brain's innate immune cells and causing the release of inflammatory chemicals such as cytokines.

Our body has a system to repair DNA damage (DNA repair mechanism), so why a normal cell turns into a cancer cell and why radiation exposure causes cancer have not been clarified.

When normal, EMSY, BRCA1 and BRCA2 give the body's cells instructions to create proteins that help to repair DNA damage that can cause cancer.

But the protein can also change the genetic sequence of a normal cell, altering the body's blueprint and making mutations that cause cancers.

Affected cats lack an enzyme required to metabolise certain lipids (fats) which means that they accumulate within cells in the body, causing disruption to normal cellular function.

These are characterized by glycosuria (presence of glucose in the urine, which is normally glucose - free), polyuria (excessive production and passage of urine), polydipsia (excessive thirst) and polyfagia (excessive appetite), as well as by a number of serious metabolic alterations caused by the inability of body cells to take up and use blood glucose, which is the main fuel for the body in normal conditions.

This can cause the cells to leak above normal levels of certain body chemicals back into the bloodstream.