Sentences with phrase «cells against stress»

One bonus supplied by wheat is betaine, a substance that protects our cells against stress, and stimulates the body's production of vitamin B12.

There are only 25 selenoproteins in humans but they play critical roles in diverse aspects of human health, including thyroid hormone metabolism, fertility, immunity, development, and protecting cells against stress.

My research focuses on the evolution, physiology and biochemistry of alpha crystallins, a group of small heat shock proteins that protect cells against stress and are implicated in numerous diseases such as lens cataracts, Parkinsons, Alzheimers and cancer.

Her research is shedding light on anti-cancer genes, DNA repair mechanisms that promote longevity, molecular pathways that protect cells against stress, and stem cells and their role in aging and age - related disease.

Other reported effects of PPAM included inhibition of autophagy which is an important survival mechanism that protects cancer cells against stress, impairment of the unfolded protein response (UPR) induced by glucose starvation and decrease of the activity of STAT3 [72, 73].

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With antioxidant properties that protect cells from oxidative stress and free radicals, it is one of the most effective substances against E — coli, and Salmonella.

Generally scientists have thought autophagy protects against cancer, although some evidence suggests it can help tumor cells cope with nutrient scarcity and other stresses.

Jacob's team has transplanted the back - up or «alternative» respiratory machinery from the mitochondria of lower organisms to human cells, showing that it can protect against pathological stresses, and even lethal poisons like cyanide, that target the mitochondria.

Drugs that enhance a process called oxidative stress were found to kill rhabdomyosarcoma tumor cells growing in the laboratory and possibly bolstered the effectiveness of chemotherapy against this aggressive tumor of muscle and other soft tissue.

When researchers screened a library of more than 200 drugs and related compounds for activity against embryonal subtype tumor cells from three patients, the most promising results involved drugs that increased oxidative stress in tumor cells.

In the current issue of Cell, Jing Liu, a graduate student researcher in the Chien lab at UMass Amherst working with the Laub lab at MIT, show that in the bacteria Caulobacter, a particular enzyme, Lon, can help defend against the effects of stress by cutting up and destroying small amounts of misfolded proteins.

Against a background of nematode worms, this graphic depicts the stressed mitochondria (lower right, blue and red) accumulating lipid droplets (red balls) in the interior or cytosol of the cell.

The drug appears to enhance an innate cellular mechanism that protects myelin - producing cells against inflammatory stress.

«It appears that upregulation of FOX01 helps protect the cell against oxidative stress.»

«This is because the stress led to poor function against the cancer by T - cells, which are very important in the immune system's control and surveillance of tumours and are a major target in many immunotherapy treatments.»

On the one hand, the researchers now understand which mechanisms the stressed T cells need to protect themselves against NK cells.

They found that the transplanted cells strongly activate genes that help to guard against damage from ER stress, and suppress other genes that may trigger cellular attempts to self - destruct.

Numerous studies have demonstrated activity of these agents against a wide variety of cancers, especially cancer stem cell - like subpopulations, by a host of different mechanisms which comprise inhibition of signaling pathways, of mitochondrial respiration, as well as of cellular stress responses and others.

Vitamin C has extreme antioxidant activity and antioxidants fight free radicals, re-enforcing your body against the cell - damaging molecules absorbed through pollution, poor diet, injury, or stress.

One of the most significant benefits of foods like spices and cruciferous vegetables is their ability to safely «stress» our cells, signaling to them to put up their defenses against invaders like infections and cancer.

Prolonged increased stress to cells depletes the body's biological abilities to protect against oxidative damage.

Your vitamin C stores are also called upon to defend liver cells against oxidative stress during alcohol metabolization.

3 Antioxidants support the body against oxidative stress by providing a pair for unpaired electrons, subverting the damage that would otherwise be done to bodily cells and tissues.

In a nutshell, whether you're physically stressed, sick, or sleep deprived, your immune system becomes hyperactive, and starts producing white blood cells — your body's first line of defense against foreign invaders like infectious agents.

Coconut oil protects cell mitochondria against stress and injury, both of which suppress thyroid function.

These changes occur as a result of increased oxidative stress, which is an imbalance between free radicals (unstable molecules that damage cells) and the body's ability to defend against them.

Sulforaphane, which showed negligible toxicity, was selected because it upregulates genes that protect aerobic cells against oxidative stress, inflammation, and DNA - damage, all of which are prominent and possibly mechanistic characteristics of ASD.

Myo - inositol and melatonin have shown to enhance, synergistically, oocyte and embryo quality and may even help improve IVF outcomes in women with PCOS by offering protection against cell damage from oxidative stress.

Scientific studies support the Indian herb ashwagandha's ability not only to relieve stress, but also to protect brain cells against the deleterious effects of our modern lifestyles.

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Omega - 3s protect against over-excitation — a primary cause of age - related brain cell damage — while decreasing inflammation and protecting against damage from stress.

Lin, L., et al. «Protective effect of gypenosides against oxidative stress in phagocytes, vascular endothelial cells and liver microsomes,» Cancer Biotherapy, 8 (3): 263 - 72, 1993.

Michael Ristow's research has shown that perhaps increasing ROS production in our mitochondria (the powerhouses of our cells) through intense exercise makes us produce more defenses against free radicals and as a result, this «stress» can be very beneficial.

American Journal of Physiology, Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology, 294 (3): L478ï ¿ 1/2 88, «Resveratrol induces glutathione synthesis by activation of Nrf2 and protects against cigarette smoke - mediated oxidative stress in human lung epithelial cells».

With prolonged drug suppression, stress, or immune system breakdown, the cancerous cells develop into a mass that absorbs vital nutrients, presses against surrounding tissues, and may eventually cause death.

Dietary antioxidants such as vitamin C, vitamin E, carotenoids, and taurine are crucially important for protecting host cells against the oxidative stress produced during inflammatory and immune reactions.