Sentences with phrase «cells use fat»

The reason pet parents want to feed their pets a diet high in fat is due to the way tumor cells, unlike healthy cells use fat.

In our bodies, brown fat cells serve as thermogenic, meaning the brown fat cells use fat as energy and procuce heat in our body.

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Rather than being used by muscles for energy, the glucose is redirected to fat cells.

In a rare appearance Dr. Chandan Sen, Director, OSU Center for Regenerative Medicine & Cell - Based Therapies will explain how this breakthrough came about and how the technology is leading to other medical discoveries and how the principle can be used to generate any tissue out of skin or fat which is abundant in human body.

It also forces the body to use stored fuel (fat) and kills off the older cells in our bodies — which is the explanation for the youthful appearance of those who fast.

Loosing weight is a very important for diabetics, because fat cells reduce your body's ability to move sugar into cells and use it as energy.

All cell membranes are made of fat, but the only polyunsaturated fats the cell membranes in the brain can use are DHA (a type of omega 3) and arachadonic acid.

When you breast - feed, you use fat cells stored in your body during pregnancy — along with calories from your diet — to fuel your milk production and feed your baby.

The laser used by the intervention pulses to destroy the fat cells by using a fine cannula.

CoolScultping, for instance, uses an applicator to target, cool and eliminate fat cells without damaging your skin.

The researchers collected samples of indoor dust from 11 homes in North Carolina and tested extracts from the samples in a mouse pre-adipocyte cell model, 3T3 - L1 cells, often used to test compounds for potential effects on the accumulation of triglycerides, a type of fat.

«Using fat to help wounds heal without scars: Breaking ground on method to transform cells.»

Fat - derived stem cells can heal nasty wounds associated with Crohn's disease, and could be the first mass stem cell treatment to be used in Europe

Insulin instructs cells to use the extra glucose for energy or turn it into fat.

A virus containing the gene that codes for two molecular «switches» essential for turning skin cells into brown fat was used to trigger the change (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature08262).

According to Raymond Geor, an exercise physiologist at Michigan State University, sled dog muscle cells are well equipped to use this fat because they have a higher mitochondrial density — more cellular power plants — than other animals.

Normally, the collagen cells that appear green on Catarina's tree (and also a wreath image) would be bluer in colour but, she says, the fat cells would certainly appear red with the lasers used.

Using human - derived glioblastoma cells in a mouse models, researchers found that the modified high - fat, low - carbohydrate diet increased life expectancy by 50 percent while also reducing tumor progression by a similar amount.

Other research groups are also generating promising results through the use of drugs to convert white fat cells into brown fat and through discoveries of the pathways and hormones that control brown fat metabolism.

The plant compounds used by the UGA researchers — resveratrol, found in grapes; genistein, found in soybeans; and quercetin, found in apple peels and onions — have all been shown in previous studies to be fat - busters, causing fat cells to burst and release their contents.

Marth is using the simulation version of the human body to examine the makeup and behavior of critical cell components, such as proteins, lipids (fats) and glycans (sugars).

IRS1 contains the code for a protein that's involved in mediating cells» sensitivity to insulin, a hormone that helps the body use sugar and store fats.

The cells used to build the organs could be cultured from stem cells taken from fat or bone - marrow tissue, he says: «We could engineer a blood vessel from your own cells.»

Whether investigating fat cells, immunotherapy or use of the CRISPR - Cas 9 gene - editing tool, which a federal panel recently approved for a select number of patients suffering from three types of cancers, including multiple myeloma, approaches beyond attacking cancer cells are needed in the fight against many cancers.

In such exercise, oxygen is used to «burn» fats and glucose in order to produce adenosine triphosphate, the basic energy carrier for all cells.

In mice, this form of lipodystrophy was also characterized by «whitening» of brown fat cells, a loss of white fat, and signs of metabolic syndrome, including insulin resistance, fat tissue inflammation, dyslipidemia (elevated cholesterol and fat), increased resting energy use, and increased markers of cardiovascular disease.

We stimulated browning in human white adipocytes by a drug used to treat type II diabetes and compared white and «brite» fat cells.

Finally, using live mice, the scientists injected 1,000 triple - negative breast cancer cells into their mammary fat pads, where the mouse version of breast cancer forms.

Clinical studies reveal that all that extra sugar gets stuffed into the fat cells our ancestors used to store energy for times of hunger.

The UI researchers used immortalized fat cells to show that bacterial toxins stimulate fat cells to release molecules called cytokines, which promote inflammation.

Insulin tells muscle, organ and even fat cells to take up the glucose and use it for fuel.

The bile - acid mimetics also triggered lipolysis, the first step in fat degradation, allowing the fat cells to use fatty acids as their main fuel source.

The researchers used the new lab - on - a-chip to study how adult stem cells in adipose tissue develop into mature fat cells, conducting their investigations outside the body.

To answer this question, the research team now wants to systematically use the chip technology to study the association between human eating habits and the formation of fat cells.

Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers have discovered that a particular type of protein (hormone) found in fat cells helps regulate how glucose (blood sugar) is controlled and metabolized (used for energy) in the liver.

In the new paper, Kajimura's team collaborated with the laboratory of Yasushi Ishihama, PhD, of the University of Kyoto, Japan, to search for differences in how white and brown fat cells respond to the cold using a technique called phosphoproteomics.

The researchers tested two anti-CK2 drugs for their ability to stimulate the production of new brown fat in mice: a new small - molecule CK2 - blocker called silmitasertib (CX - 4945), which is already in clinical trials as a cancer therapeutic; and a more precise next - generation antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) drug developed in collaboration with Isis Pharmaceuticals, which eliminates CK2 by blocking the RNA instructions cells use to produce it.

• News from the World of Adult - Stem Cell Research • At the University of California at Los Angeles, Marc Hedrick's team used human adult fat cells extracted during liposuction to make cells resembling cartilage, bone, and muscle.

Bruce Buchholz of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory used cellular markers for a study in which he concluded that we're more or less stuck with the number of fat cells we have at about age 20.

And perhaps, one fine day, scientists will find a way to interfere with whatever mechanism our body uses to know it's time to create new fat cells when the old ones die.

Since the facial rejuvenation results are the same, the simpler approach using fat cells plus the «stromal vascular fraction» has advantages over the more time - consuming stem cell fat technique.

Normally, people who are overweight face a greater risk for insulin resistance, a condition in which the body does not use insulin effectively to shuttle glucose into liver, fat, and muscle cells.

Healthy cells use most of their glucose «fuel» to produce energy, rather than for building components of new cells, such as fats and DNA.

The defect in the creation of the fat cells means that the women's bodies are more likely to have problems using blood sugar, the researchers found.

Using newly discovered information, the researchers made significant advances in developing a family of drug candidates that target a receptor known as peroxisome proliferator - activated receptors gamma (PPARγ), a key regulator of stem cells controlling bone formation and bone resorption and a master regulator of fat.

A drug commonly used to moderate diabetes that induces fat cell production in the bone marrow was used and was found to help foster red blood cell production as well as suppress leukemic disease.

Recently, however, ephrins and Eph receptors have also been found in extracellular vesicles / exosomes — small droplets of fat released by cells, used as transport vehicles, signal transmitters or for eliminating cell components.

Lipolysis is the breakdown of fat in fat cells, for use as fuel, and ongoing lipolysis can prevent the buildup of excess fat in those cells, Liew said.

Using flies, mice and patient cells, the team focused on cardiolipin, a fat unique to cells» mitochondria, organelles that produce energy.

He and a colleague took samples of both visceral and subcutaneous fat from the mice and, using gene chips, identified the genes in the fat cells as well as in precursor fat cells.