Sentences with phrase «cells lack the energy»

PCOS because of its hormonal effects; hypothyroidism simply because cells lack the energy they need to heal.

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Immune cells are tricked into believing that they are lacking oxygen, leading them to retreat from the site of the inflammation in order to save energy.

They possess a suite of features lacking in their simpler brethren: a nucleus that houses DNA; an energy - producing device known as the mitochondrion; and molecular architecture, known as the cytoskeleton, that controls cell shape and movement.

Indiana University scientists have discovered the first known instance of a plant or animal lacking several key genes involved in energy production in cells.

The answer, we felt, was «No,»» said energy secretary Steven Chu in a briefing on the budget for reporters yesterday, citing the need for better fuel cells and a near complete lack of infrastructure.

Cell - damaging, high - energy particles from interstellar space, which reach the surface because Mars lacks a strong magnetic field

However, even though the Lokiarchaea are relatively complex compared with other known archaea, they lack the large genome and energy - producing mitochondria of true eukaryotic cells.

It also lacks the energy - generating mitochondria present in most living things and digests food with fermentation enzymes found only in bacteria and other very simple single - celled organisms.

«The driving idea behind the research is knowing that AMPK serves as a sensor for low energy loss in cells and that LKB1 - deficient cells lack the ability to activate AMPK and sense energy loss,» says David Shackelford, a postdoctoral researcher at Salk who spearheaded the study in Shaw's lab and is now an assistant professor at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine.

In a previous study, Shaw, an associate professor in Salk's Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory and researcher in the Institute's new Helmsley Center for Genomic Medicine, demonstrated that cells lacking a normal copy of the LKB1 gene fail to activate AMPK in response to low energy levels.

Lack of exercise leads to poor sensitivity of muscle cells to insulin and less energy utilization, which leads to more fat storage.

Each organ in our body is made up of millions of cells and without effective mitochondria in our cells, our organs will lack the energy to do their jobs.

This process of negative energy balance or calorie deficit makes your fat cells release some of their stored energy to make up for the lack of incoming calories.

However, the cells are slow to react to this new fuel source, and the person feels weak or lacking energy.

Because you're on a sugar burning metabolism, your body lacks the ability to convert its own fat cells into energy.

mammography), and those merely «suspected» or probable contributing agents including nutritional, emotional, spiritual factors, cellular oxygen deprivation, fungal pathogens, lymphatic restriction, geopathic stress, viruses, fluorescent lighting, toxic chemicals & pesticides, parasites, aspartame, cell phones, lack (or blockages) of «life force energy» etc..

Red blood cells lack mitochondria and are thus completely unable to fully break down macronutrients for energy using oxygen.

After reading their conclusion it becomes clear that sedentary lifestyle (lack of exercise) and regular consumption of bad refined foods (high in sugar and bad fat), make the cells in our body (including joints) unable to generate enough energy to maintain proper metabolism.

Butyrate, a four - carbon, short - chain fatty acid, is the preferred energy source for colon cells (Roediger, 1982), and lack of butyrate production, absorption, or metabo - lism is thought by some to contribute to ulcerative colitis (Roediger, 1980; Roediger et al., 1993).

Unfortunately, many people lack this conjugated linoleic acid in their diet, and it literally affects their cells» ability to use fat as an energy source, promoting weight loss resistance.

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Once lauded as the future of clean transportation and energy storage in a variety of other applications, hydrogen - based fuel cell systems have a great many barriers to adoption, one of which is lack of hydrogen infrastructure, and the other is the need to develop hydrogen production sources that aren't fossil fuel - based or that require more energy to produce than can be released in the fuel cell.