Sentences with phrase «cellular components known»

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In addition, Red Star Nutritional Yeast contains other beneficial components, such as beta - 1,3 glucan and mannan, complex carbohydrates known to improve the immune response and help maintain cholesterol levels that are already within a healthy range; trehalose, a disaccharide that helps maintain the health of brain cells; and glutathione, an antioxidant that plays an important role in cellular defense mechanisms.

The vesicles the researchers saw were part of a process known as autophagy, a natural mechanism that breaks down and recycles unwanted cellular components.

Though much is known about the cellular and molecular components of the clock, the connections that link clock cells to overt behaviors, such as rest / activity behavior, have not been identified.

Glutathione is a well - known antioxidant that prevents damage to important cellular components by ROS.

Although some of the key molecular components involved in the formation of cellular structures and tissue formation are known, we currently lack a bottoms up understanding of how the behavior of these molecules gives rise to the formation of large structures, partly because of the lack of tools for both studying the spatial regulation of soluble proteins and biophysically characterizing the behavior of large structures and tissues.

When the cell is damaged or no longer necessary, it undergoes an orderly disposal of its cellular contents, which are reabsorbed and its components may be reused for other purposes.

Such effects may occur through a process of «neurohormesis» in which cellular components of the CNS respond to exogenous and endogenous toxic agents (e.g. - H2S, NO, CO, glutamate, calcium) that act as mild stressors to facilitate neuronal resistance against stronger insults.»

Through advances in science we now know these points are areas where a high density of free nerve endings, blood vessels and immune system cellular components are found.