Sentences with phrase «cells produce excess»

However, if you have too much stored fat, your fat cells produce excess leptin, causing leptin's normal function to shut down because it's been overwhelmed.

Dr. Klauber - DeMore's lab was the first to discover that angiosarcoma cells produce an excess of SFRP2.

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«Because brain cells release amyloid beta during activity, we think if the brain cells can't rest the way they're supposed to and get that deep sleep, they produce a relative excess of amyloid,» Dr. Yo - El Ju of Washington University, an author of that study, told Reuters.

Their little bodies produce the extra bilirubin to help pass these extra cells but often due to a bit of a traffic jam at the liver, the excess bilirubin is transferred to the blood and stored in the skin, thus resulting in the yellow tint.

If an individual's turbines or panels produce an excess of energy, it can be transferred to other customers in the grid or stored in fuel cells until it is needed.

This monocyte production created a vicious cycle whereby high blood sugar levels boosted neutrophil numbers, leading to excess secretion of S100A8 / S100A9, which in turn stimulated bone marrow cells to produce more monocytes.

With each pulse, a bit of the excess contents were released and a cyclical breathing - like change in the artificial cell's texture was produced.

Obesity is a key driver of Type 2 Diabetes, given that excess abdominal fat causes fat cells to release a «pro-inflammatory» chemical which can make the body less sensitive to the insulin it produces and disrupt the ability of insulin - responsive cells to fulfill their function.

The results could only mean that the hot electrons produced in the tin - based solar cells took about a thousand times longer than usual to dissipate their excess energy.

People with Type 2 diabetes have an excess of a protein called islet amyloid polypeptide, or IAPP, and the accumulation of this protein is linked to the loss of insulin - producing pancreatic beta cells.

In separate experiments, they produced iPSCs with too much or too little APOBEC3B and PIWIL2, finding --- as expected --- that an excess of the two proteins dampened the mobility and reduced the appearance of newly inserted DNA in the non-human primate cells.

In goblet cell metaplasia, exposure to allergens such as pollen, mold and dust mites initiates a series of biochemical reactions that causes the cells that line the air passages of the lungs to change from their normal state into so - called «goblet cells,» which produce substantial amounts of excess mucus.

These symptoms are the result of the loss of specialized cells in an area of the brain called the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc) that specialize in producing the chemical signal - molecule dopamine and are responsible for turning off excess firing of neurons that control muscles.

The differences between the lipoproteins secreted by astrocytes and those found in the CSF suggest that the astrocytes produce particles that help the brain rid itself of excess cholesterol in addition to helping deliver membrane components to the nerve cells.

In doing so, phosphatidic acid accumulated and cells began to produce an excess of membrane lipids.

She has psoriasis (a chronic inflammatory skin condition where your body produces excess skin cells) and has learned to love and accept her skin.

But in the overflow model, the DNL would be enhanced because the cell is trying to rid itself of the excess glucose by producing extra fat.

When the body is functioning properly, excess fat cells will produce leptin, which will trigger the hypothalamus to lower the appetite, allowing the body to dip into the fat stores to feed itself.

Researchers can produce this effect simply by incubating liver cells with PUFAs, and can abolish the effect by removing excess iron from the cells (31).

In instances of higher turnover of cells seen with excess oxidative damage due to iodine excess and selenium deficiency, more antibodies are produced, and an immune system shift can be induced, resulting in the failure to recognize self from non-self.

The pancreas produces insulin to help get your cells the glucose they need to give you a boost of energy when under stress, while the liver clears away excess metabolites generated as a result of metabolism.

But when we produce too much insulin (like when we overload our diets in sugar) the body's cells stop accepting all the excess glucose — they become resistant.

If you eat a diet high in sugar - forming foods, the excess insulin that is being produced each time causes your cells to eventually become unable to properly «smell» the insulin.»

When you eat bread, pasta, cakes, lollies, ice cream, sugars the pancreas secretes insulin which is a hormone to help move excess glucose from the blood into the cells were glucose is used to produce energy.

«It might have an oily film on the skin since dehydrated skin can be mistaken for dryness by skin cells, causing them to produce excess oil as a result.»

This, in turn, can cause your sebaceous glands to overcompensate by producing excess oil that can combine with dead skin cells and bacteria on the skin's surface, clog your pores, and cause additional breakouts.

Thus, the protein HER - 2 is produced in excess, causing an excessive proliferation of cancer cells.

The tumors release excess amounts of the biological chemicals heparin and histamine, which are normally produced by mast cells.

A careful balance exists where there are the same number of new cells are produced as there are dying off - and if this balance is disrupted, extra cells begin to replicate, undergo genetic changes, and it is these excess, mutated cells that gather together to form masses and tumors.