Sentences with phrase «causes cellular death»

Free fatty acids created during the digestion of infant formula cause cellular death that may contribute to necrotizing enterocolitis, a severe intestinal condition that is often fatal and occurs most commonly in premature infants, according to a study by University of California, San Diego bioengineers.

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The Salk team used a partial cellular reprogramming approach that did not cause tumors or death.

Lung cancer causes the most cancer - related deaths in the United States, and researchers are searching for new cellular targets to increase survival rates.

While previous research indicated that the cellular mechanism behind the cell death involved the mitochondria and lysosomes, how these two pathways converge in dopamine neurons to cause cell death remained unknown up until now.

In order to be able to treat neurodegenerative disorders in future, researcher Ulrich Hartl, Head of the Department of Cellular Biochemistry at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, and his team have for many years been studying the cellular causes for the death of nerve cells.

Working with mouse, fly and human cells and tissue, Johns Hopkins researchers report new evidence that disruptions in the movement of cellular materials in and out of a cell's control center — the nucleus — appear to be a direct cause of brain cell death in Huntington's disease, an inherited adult neurodegenerative disorder.

Vacuolating cytotoxin A (VacA) was previously the only main H. pylori factor known to act on mitochondria, causing cellular membrane and organelle dysfunction and leading to cell death.

Their new study points to a biomarker in the cellular machinery that could not only serve as an early warning of colon cancer, but potentially be harnessed to counteract advanced forms of the disease, the second - largest cause of cancer death in the U.S.

March 8, 2006 Scientists provide new evidence for cellular cause of SIDS University of Chicago researchers and colleagues have found strong support that a disturbance of a specific neurochemical can lead to sudden infant death syndrome, the primary cause of death before age 1 in the United States.

Despite the protection offered by the cellular environment, the integrity of DNA is continuously challenged by a variety of endogenous and exogenous agents (e.g. ultraviolet light, cigarette smoke, environmental pollution, oxidative damage, etc...) that cause DNA lesions, interfering with proper cellular functions, such as transcription, inducing premature cellular death and finally premature ageing and organs dysfunctions.

Peroxynitrates results in lipid peroxidation of membranes and cause disturbances in tissue homeostasis that is severe enough to cause cellular damage and eventually cell death (Beattie et al., 2000).

As they die, these cells release proteins, called cytokines, that cause inflammation and that attract healthy cellular targets promoting repeated rounds of infection and cell death.

«In both models, we found that neither IBs nor kinase activity were the direct causes of cellular toxicity leading to neuronal death,» said Dr. Skibinski, who was the paper's lead author.

Antioxidants, like many other natural effective, non-pharmaceutical treatments, not only outsmart cancer cell division and cause cancer cell death, but also help healthy cells maintain optimal cellular viability.

A study found that quercetin helped reduce cellular death that was caused by oxidative stress and helps reduce inflammation of neurons.

found that quercetin helped reduce cellular death that was caused by oxidative stress and helps reduce inflammation of neurons.

It damages cellular DNA and worse, it can cause death by activating latent viral infections (thought to be carried by nearly all phytoplankton).