Sentences with phrase «cell damage leading»

They have a higher antioxidant capacity (ORAC) than most other fruits and vegetables, which helps neutralize free radicals that can cause cell damage leading to cancer, heart disease, and other age - related conditions.

Other times, however, the cell damage leads to mutations that then become cancer or other illnesses.

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Drawing on Toronto's leading stem cell and tissue engineering expertise, one group will focus on new models for repairing damaged hearts.

The damage that is caused by constant high insulin levels can wreak havoc on your cells and lead to your body attacking itself in an effort to correct the situation.

ORAC scores measure the ability of antioxidants to absorb free radicals (that come from pollution and toxins in our environment), which cause cell and tissue damage and can lead to diseases such as cancer.

Those chemicals damage cells, promote widespread internal (and invisible) inflammation, and lead to a vast number of health concerns now considered common such as cardiovascular disease and cancer.

Toxins can build up in your body leading to cell damage which causes early aging.

This exceptional food offers antioxidant and anti-inflammatory protection to your cells, preventing DNA damage caused by free radicals and reduces oxidative stress which leads to premature aging.

When used on the skin, it balances oil production, unblocks sebaceous glands, which can lead to blackheads and whiteheads, destroys bacteria, and removes damaged skin cells.

This unnatural and forced movement of water changes vaginal cell shape and biology for the worse and can lead to tissue damage, irritation, and general disruptions to the vaginal ecosystem.

Be sure to wear supportive bras or tops to protect your breasts as bouncing can cause the milk ducts to leak creating potential damage to the cells - leading to an increase in the risk of developing breast infections.

In wet AMD, fluid leakage damages the RPE, leading to the death of light - sensitive cells and loss of vision.

Low - power laser light shined on damaged rat teeth activates growth factors that cue stem cells to generate the tooth constituent dentin, leading to regeneration.

Nishimura's team proposes that the same process leads to the reduction in stem cells in the follicles of older people, especially as DNA damage accumulates as we age.

Free radicals are compounds composed of unstable atoms generated both by the body and environmental sources such as smoking and pollution that damage cells, possibly leading to increased disease susceptibility and aging.

When this level was high enough, stress signals can lead to DNA damage and then trigger a form of cell death called parthanatos.

Now researchers led by neurologist Michelle L. Monje of Harvard University have found the root of these cognitive difficulties: damaged stem cells.

«We found that a particular vaginal bacterium, Gardnerella vaginalis, did not cause infection during exposure to the urinary tract, but it damaged the cells on the surface of the bladder and caused E. coli from a previous UTI to start multiplying, leading to another bout of disease,» said the study's senior author, Amanda Lewis, PhD, an assistant professor of molecular microbiology and of obstetrics and gynecology at Washington University.

«Before this study, it was not known if it is possible to produce sufficient numbers of these cells and successfully use them to remuscularize damaged hearts in a large animal whose heart size and physiology is similar to that of the human heart,» said Dr. Charles Murry, UW professor of pathology and bioengineering, who led the research team that conducted the experiment.

The detector developed at UNH, known as DoSEN, short for Dose Spectra from Energetic Particles and Neutrons, measures and calculates the absorbed dose in matter and tissue resulting from the exposure to indirect and direct ionizing radiation, which can change cells at the atomic level and lead to irreparable damage.

Last month, researchers led by Beth Stevens of Boston Children's Hospital reported that a process in which microglia prune excess synapses in the brain during early life can turn on inappropriately later on, possibly triggering Alzheimer's or other disorders marked by damage to connections between brain cells.

«The compounds identified in this study, when administered orally, both reduced the inflammation that is a hallmark of multiple sclerosis and protected against the nerve cell damage seen in mouse models of the disease,» said Jeffery Haines, PhD, a post-doctoral fellow at Mount Sinai and the study's lead author.

If this environment is harmed by chemicals, such as through damage to gut cells, it could impact the health of the organisms and would lead to a number of fish diseases but this technique will enable us to increase the tests we can carry out and improve our understanding of how to preserve gut health.»

This leads to massive DNA damage that can not be repaired, and the cancer cells self - destruct.

To determine how aggregates can arise in mitochondria and cause damage to cells, they cooperated with the team led by F. - Ulrich Hartl at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.

«Instead of cleaning up when neurons die, the microglia assume they're under attack when they see too much cell death and kill nerve cells as collateral damage,» says Tanzi, who led the research team.

The discovery, made possible through a combination of cutting - edge stem cell and gene - editing technologies, could lead to ways of countering age - related physiological declines by preventing or reversing damage to heterochromatin.

Studies in rats and dogs have already demonstrated that olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs), which insulate bundles of nerve cells, can help repair damage to the spinal cord and nerves leading to animals» paws.

In the disease state, the blood cells are sickle - shaped instead of round, leading to stabs of pain and eventual organ damage.

Mouse studies published this week in Cell and its sister journal Cell Stem Cell and in Nature show precisely how the virus slows fetal growth, damages the brain, and leads to miscarriage.

Now, results described in tomorrow's issue of Nature suggest that BRCA2 mutations could lead to cancer by interfering with cells» ability to repair damaged DNA.

The treatment not only led the spinal cord cells to produce and secrete ChABC in large quantities over areas spanning the injury epicenter, it helped to maintain the overall health of the damaged spinal cord and restored hind limb function in the animals within 12 weeks.

But Jorn Olsen, chair of epidemiology at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health says that unlike microwaves, cell phones do not release enough radiation or energy to damage DNA or genetic material, which can lead to cancer.

The researchers» work, published in the journal Cell Reports, suggests that Rif1 plays a role in the prevention of «DNA replication stress,» a process causing DNA damage that can lead to genome instability.

These proteasomes usually rapidly stop functioning, leading to the accumulation of damaged proteins that further impair cell function, contributing to the vicious cycle that leads to cell death.

A University of Wyoming faculty member led a research team that discovered a certain type of soil bacteria can use their social behavior of outer membrane exchange (OME) to repair damaged cells and improve the fitness of the bacteria population as a whole.

In sickle cell anemia, a single genetic mutation leads to abnormal, crescent - shaped red blood cells that clot in tiny blood vessels throughout the body, causing severe pain and eventual organ damage.

The scientists, led by Dr Paul Genever in the Arthritis Research UK Tissue Engineering Centre in the University's Department of Biology, have developed a technique to rejuvenate cells from older people with osteoarthritis to repair worn or damaged cartilage thus reducing pain.

«Single gene encourages growth of intestinal stem cells, supporting «niche» cells, and cancer: Finding in mice could lead to new therapies for damaged organs, cancer.»

Xue is the lead author on a paper being published Jan. 7 in Nature Communications that details how PSR - 1 recognizes and removes cells that are pre-programmed to die or damaged.

Plaque hinders neuronal activity by gumming up synapses (spaces between cells through which chemical or electrical information is transmitted), eventually damaging nerve cell branches and leading to neuronal death.

Now, a team led by neurotransplant researcher Ole Isacson of Harvard Medical School in Boston reports that stem cells can compensate for some Parkinson's - like damage in animals.

Long - term brain damage caused by stroke could be reduced by saving cells called pericytes that control blood flow in capillaries, reports a new study led by scientists from UCL (University College London).

«RYBP would make cancer cells more sensitive to DNA damage, which would make chemo or radiation therapy more effective,» said Mohammad Ali, a postdoctoral fellow and the lead author of the study.

A study led by researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has found for the first time that thirdhand smoke — the noxious residue that clings to virtually all surfaces long after the secondhand smoke from a cigarette has cleared out — causes significant genetic damage in human cells.

She previously showed that when blood leaks into the brain, fibrinogen causes inflammation by acting in brain immune cells, which can lead to brain damage.

Johan Auwerx's team showed that the disease leads to a second cycle of events inside the cells, a series of reactions that exacerbate the disease's damaging effects.

«We need to see how these stem cells are both working together to heal, or how they are damaged that leads to the development of colon cancer.»

Arising from the Schwann cells of the vestibular (balance) nerve, these tumors can grow to the point of damaging nearby structures — and can lead to death by compressing the brainstem.

In a study led by Duke Health and published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, scientists demonstrate in rats that a short duration of the drug donepezil can reverse both structural and genetic damage that bouts of alcohol use causes in neurons, or nerve cells, in the young brain.