Sentences with phrase «cell production by»

The kidneys serve a number of purposes; they produce urine and filter waste products from the body, regulate electrolytes such as potassium and phosphorous, they produce erythropoietin which stimulates red blood cell production by the bone marrow, and they contribute toward regulating blood pressure.

The most common reasons for anemia are reduced or abnormal red blood cell production by the bone marrow or loss or destruction of functioning red cells.

In addition, one study showed that Echinacea extracts can boost T - cell production by up to 30 percent more than immune boosting drugs.

The discovery could significantly reduce the «trial and error» aspect of solar cell production by reducing the time spent on finding the most efficient mixtures.

Researchers say they hastened new cell production by sending electrical surges through the nanotubes, which are also excellent conductors of electricity.

Not exact matches

In fact, Tesla has said that by 2018 the Gigafactory will be able to produce almost as many lithium - ion cells as the rest of the world's battery production combined.

Its drug Niraparib kills cancer cells by inhibiting the production of proteins called PARPs, which help repair damaged DNA strands, thereby hastening the death of some types of cancer cells.

With the acceleration of Tesla's vehicle build plan to 500k cars by 2018, the Gigafactory timeline is also accelerated to prepare cells and packs ahead of vehicle production.

By bringing cell production to the U.S., Tesla will create thousands of more American jobs.

By 2018, we plan to produce 35 GWh of lithium - ion battery cells annually, nearly as much as the rest of the entire world's battery production combined.

Tesla is planning to build the biggest lithium - ion battery plant in the world in an effort to not only reduce cell costs for its electric vehicles but to ramp up production as well to keep up with projections that it will be churning out 100,000 vehicles annually by 2015.

Heat and light, being modes of motion, «phosphorescence» and «incandescence» are phenomena to which consciousness has been likened by the production - theory: «As one sees a metallic rod, placed in a glowing furnace, gradually heat itself, and — as the undulations of the caloric grow more and more frequent — pass successively from the shades of bright red to dark red (sic), to white, and develope, as its temperature rises, heat and light, — so the living sensitive cells, in presence of the incitations that solicit them, exalt themselves progressively as to their most interior sensibility, enter into a phase of erethism, and at a certain number of vibrations, set free (dégagent) pain as a physiological expression of this same sensibility superheated to a red - white.»

Bay area start - up Finless Foods — one of a new wave of cellular agriculture companies producing meat by culturing cells (without raising or slaughtering animals)-- has slashed production costs by 50 % since September and is aiming to achieve price parity...

Producing «clean» meat by culturing cells — instead of raising or slaughtering animals - is a new frontier in food production, but will it require a new regulatory framework, and what should we call it?

Producing «clean» meat by culturing cells — instead of raising or slaughtering animals - is a new frontier in food production that will require consumer education and transparent labeling.

... Researchers at Penn State University have found that three water soluble chemicals in garlic reduced cholesterol production in cultured rat liver cells by 40 - 60 percent.

Omega 3 fatty acids are one of the most beneficial to skin health as they control the oil production, and delay the skin's aging process by nourishing skin cell membranes and preventing wrinkles!

The BBC production method aims to encourage a health dedicated agriculture approach in order to promote diversity and balance within fields, feed containers, on plates and within every cell in the human body echoed by their tagline — «omega - 3 naturally».

Fermentation by intestinal probiotics leads to enhanced production of short - chain fatty acids, including butyrate, which is a major energy source for the intestinal cell membrane; propionate, which is involved in regulating cholesterol; and acetate, which is involved in cholesterol synthesis.

Survival: By week 24, your baby has a 25 percent chance of surviving outside the womb, thanks to the production of white blood cells and the partial development of baby's lungs.

By week 24, your baby has a 25 percent chance of surviving outside the womb, thanks to the production of white blood cells and the partial development of baby's lungs.

It interferes with saliva production, which naturally cleanses the mouth by neutralizing acids caused by plaque and washing away dead cells building up in the mouth.

The scientists further discovered that whenever food enters the bowels, cells in the intestinal lining immediately respond by increasing the production of ribosomes, particularly in the food - facing part of the cell.

Columbia University biologists have revealed a mechanism by which bacterial cells in crowded, oxygen - deprived environments access oxygen for energy production, ensuring survival of the cell.

«We have found that the bone marrow production of immune cells is affected by high blood sugar and have identified a possible molecule mediating this effect.

The most promising chemical — sulforaphane, a naturally occurring compound found in cruciferous vegetables — tamped down glucose production by liver cells growing in culture, and shifted liver gene expression away from a diseased state in diabetic rats.

Production involves genetic engineering and working with live cells, and it is still mostly done by hand, by highly trained technicians.

The researchers found that production of this mucus lining depends upon a single immune system regulator — the NLRP6 inflammasome — that controls mucus secretion by cells in the wall of the intestine, just like turning on a faucet.

By triggering the production of immune cells that curb the inflammatory reaction typical of allergies, M. vaccae may ease that inflammation and hence depression.

Now research in rodents suggests that gut microbes may alter the inventory of microRNAs — molecules that help keep cells in working order by managing protein production — in brain regions involved in controlling anxiety.

CRH, in turn, triggered production of the cell surface protein FasL; trophoblasts expressing FasL then form a protective shield of sorts around the embryo by forcing any attacking immune cells to self - destruct.

Their results demonstrated shared mechanisms by which miR -17-92 mediates cGVHD progression — namely by regulating T helper - cell differentiation, B - cell activation, germinal center responses, and autoantibody production.

This idea was bolstered by the finding that viral DNA production also took place in cells from another natural LCMV host, the hamster, but not in human, monkey, dog, or cow cells, which are not susceptible to the virus.

Professor Rudi Beyaert (VIB / UGent): «We found that pharmacological treatment of human skin cells with drugs that inhibit the activity of MALT1 reduced the production of inflammation promoting proteins caused by mutant variants of CARD14.

The experiments indicated that when dectin - 1 recognizes tropomyosin in house dust mites, shrimp or other common allergy - triggering species it suppresses airway cells» production of an immune molecule, IL - 33, which otherwise would promote an allergic response by immune cells.

One potential way that the penile microbiome can increase HIV risk is by triggering production of immune factors that lure HIV target cells to the penis.

But Acinetobacter also ramped down the production of regulatory T cells, which help prevent autoimmune diseases by dampening the immune response.

But their overriding interest in BPTES, says Slusher, was in how it works: by blocking the production of glutamine, an amino acid that acts as a building block of cells and is used frequently by pancreatic cancers to create more cancer cells.

The copies were made from RNA by the enzyme reverse transcriptase (RT), since an RT inhibitor blocked viral DNA production in infected cells.

When cells that produced IL - 21 were put in culture with synovial fibroblasts (which are the main contributors to joint inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis), they induced the production of proinflammatory cytokines by these synovial fibroblasts, and cells that do not produce IL - 21, did not demonstrate this same outcome.

The monoclonal protein produced by the myeloma cells interferes with normal blood cell production.

In the case of cisplatin - induced hearing loss, kenpaullone appears to protect hair cells by preventing CDK2 from stimulating the production of toxic reactive oxygen species from the cells» mitochondria.

«Our data clearly showed that one of the protein receptors on white blood cells called CXCR3 brings white blood cells to the optic nerve in response to production of its binding partner CXCL10 by damaged nerve tissue,» said Zhang.

By throwing a wrench in the plant cell's lignin assembly line, BESC scientists found they could boost biofuel production by 38 percenBy throwing a wrench in the plant cell's lignin assembly line, BESC scientists found they could boost biofuel production by 38 percenby 38 percent.

To construct the solar cell, the semiconductor molecules are deposited as thin films on glass with the same production methods used by organic light - emitting diode manufacturers.

The third approach turns up production of T regulatory cells, which prevent specific immune cells from copying themselves and can also suppress rejection by secreting biochemicals called cytokines that direct the immune orchestra to change its tune.

To see whether cancer stem cell renewal involves a chain of events similar to that used by embryonic stem cells, and whether the process was affected by oxygen levels, Semenza and graduate student Chuanzhao Zhang focused their studies on two human breast cancer cell lines that responded to low oxygen by ramping up production of the protein ALKBH5, which removes methyl groups from mRNAs.

Xinde Zheng, a research associate in the Hunter lab, was already studying the properties of cells affected by Leigh syndrome, whose inherited neurodegeneration is caused by a mutation in mitochondrial DNA that reduces ATP production.

By combining multiple images, the researchers produced movies correlating the production of hydrogen peroxide to the activities of the immune system cells.

Once inside cells, they are taken up by cellular protein - making machinery and induce the production, over weeks, of the viral proteins they encode.