First of all, it promotes an important
cellular process called autophagy or cellular cleansing, which helps the cells get rid of all their waste, consisting mainly of damaged molecules.
These snippets trigger a natural
cellular process called RNA interference, which dials down the levels of the polyphenol - degrading enzymes and prevents browning.
Recently, researchers led by John Hallenbeck, M.D., an NINDS senior investigator and co-senior author of the study, found that
a cellular process called SUMOylation goes into overdrive in a certain species of ground squirrel during hibernation.
Not exact matches
Now 24, he is a first - year graduate student in the department of
cellular and structural biology at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio (UTHSCSA), where he is studying the role of oxidative damage — the wear and tear inflicted upon the cell by toxic molecules
called free radicals — in the aging
process.
So -
called functional RNA is important for almost all cells and
cellular processes, for example, by binding proteins or performing catalytic
processes.
DiChristina: It is, and then it moves on to a stage
called the bloat stage, which lasts from the first week to about 3 weeks roughly, where those
cellular processes continue and the gases that the cells create, as they continue their digesting and chemical
processes, begin to build up in the body and the body starts to bloat.
Phagocytosis is a
process by which white blood cells
called macrophages digest
cellular debris and foreign bodies and particles.
And last is the so -
called dry stage, which is stage four, from days 51 to 64 or so where tissue is all removed and the bones then begin their own
process of
cellular decay and decomposition.
In a
process called cellular reprogramming, researchers at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have taken mature blood cells from patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and reprogrammed them back into iPSCs to study the genetic origins of this rare blood cancer.
This so -
called microRNA disrupts the expression of two key
cellular genes
called TGF - β and SMAD3, in a
process known as RNA interference (RNAi).
Proteins
called kinesins, for example, are natural nanomotors that support
cellular functions such as mitosis (the chromosomal
process that creates two nuclei from one parent nucleus) and meiosis (when the number of chromosomes per cell is reduced by one half).
Photosynthesis, the
process by which plants, algae, and select bacteria convert the sun's light energy into chemical energy, takes place in a
cellular organelle
called the chloroplast.
Previous studies in the lab showed that once HCMV is inside the cell, it quickly becomes latent by entering the cell's nucleus and co-opting a
cellular protein
called Daxx — part of the intrinsic immune system — to shut down its own replication, the
process of reproducing its genetic material to make more copies of itself.
The research approach is
called multi-scale modeling or MSM, to reflect the ability to study disease
processes at the molecular,
cellular, and tissue levels as well as interactions occurring between the levels.
That is when studies finally convinced scientists that the minuscule RNA snippets they had taken to
calling «microRNA» were regulating
cellular and genetic
processes throughout the human body and were critical factors in the determination of health and disease.
Somatic cells generate their energy in an oxygen - fueled
process called oxidative phosphorylation, which takes place in the mitochondria, also known as
cellular powerhouses.
Because of that, many different components are present in minute quantities, which inevitably leads to random variations in
cellular processes which are also
called «noise» by chemists.
The new enzyme converts A to a base
called inosine, or I. Either a
cellular repair mechanism or the
process of the DNA copying itself then changes the I to a G. «The big deal here is engineering the TadA enzyme to do something fairly unnatural,» says George Church of Harvard, who studies CRISPR.
In 2011, UT Southwestern researchers in Dr. Levine's laboratory identified the protein Smurf1 as important for the elimination of viruses and damaged mitochondria from cells via a
cellular housekeeping
process called autophagy.
Using a
process called cellular reprogramming, the researchers take a patient's skin cells, convert them into so -
called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, which can differentiate into all the cells within the human body.
Pulmonary fibrosis can possibly be attributed to a kind of
cellular aging
process, which is
called senescence.
The researchers discovered that once regulatory T cells are activated to begin their work, they are protected by a kind of
cellular «cleanup»
process called autophagy.
Now, Professor Martin and colleagues have discovered that in response to specific types of cell damage, Parkin can trigger the self - destruction of «injured» nerve cells by switching on a controlled
process of «
cellular suicide»
called apoptosis.
I studied the
process called signal transduction - transmission of the activating mechanical signal from outside the cell, across the
cellular membrane, to FAK inside the cell, leading to the activation of the kinase.
It is caused by a mutation in the ACVR1 gene, which over-activates a
cellular signaling
process that is important for embryo development and involves a protein
called BMP.
In the past 27 years, we have found that this cycling sugar modification of proteins —
called O - linked N - acetylglucosamine, or O - GlcNAc — is nearly as common as protein phosphorylation and often competes with it at the same or proximal sites on proteins to regulate nearly every
cellular process in response to nutrients and stress.
At the Janelia Research Campus, postdoctoral research scientist Mark Cembrowski, who is part of Group Leader Nelson Spruston's lab, has been leading an effort to parse the
cellular, molecular, and behavioral components of this
process,
called spatial recognition.
We hypothesize that upon retinal neuronal damage MG or RPE cells undergo defined and controlled changes in
cellular and molecular phenotype towards a cell with progenitor properties — this
process that we are studying we
call regenerative reprogramming.
One of the most vital components of this
cellular housekeeping is a
process called autophagy, which means, in Greek, «self - eating.»
In the current paper, the shapes are made up of strut - reinforced tripods, which assemble themselves from individual DNA strands in a
process called â $ œDNA origami.â $ Already, at 5 megadaltons, each tripod is more massive than the largest known single protein (titin, involved in muscle contraction) and more massive than a ribosome, one of the
cellular factories in which proteins are made.
Human cells undergo a
process called cellular aging that limits the number of times they can divide, thereby setting the self - renewal capacity of human tissues.
A
cellular recycling
process called autophagy is crucial to getting rid of these harmful chemicals.
Researchers from Harvard and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have developed a tool (
called «CAMERA») that uses CRISPR to tell us what
cellular processes a cell has undergone in the past.
Additionally, there's also another
process that's triggered in the body
called cellular autophagy.
This area of the brain,
called the hypothalamus, contains specialized
cellular sensors that can detect the level of energy available from food and, depending on that level, initiate
processes which either create or conserve energy in the body.
activating a
cellular clean - up
process called autophagy, where the cells break down old and broken parts into reusable nutrients
Ketosis and fasting also activates an anti-aging
cellular cleanup
process called autophagy (auto = self, phagy = eat).
102, 103 One proposed mechanism thought to mediate these effects is an up - regulation of
cellular stress resistance in response to ER, which may occur via a
process called hormesis.
A complex chemical
process within your cells,
called cellular respiration, ultimately converts the energy stored in the foods you eat into a form that is optimized for use at the
cellular level of your muscles.
Your body makes GLA out of omega - 6 linoleic acid and uses it in the production of substances
called prostaglandins, localized tissue hormones that regulate many
processes at the
cellular level.
Rye is also filled with fermentable fiber, contains lignans, which help control sex steroid hormones, and spermidine, often
called the «longevity elixir» because it helps induce autophagy, the
cellular housekeeping
process that sweeps up bad cells.
Fasting sends your body into cell recycling, a
process of self - digestion at the
cellular level
called autophagy.
There are incredible results coming from the doctors around the county who are doing what I
call, «
cellular healing» and «true
cellular detox», and they will attest to this
process working.
In a
process known as photobiomodulation, the energy increases production of a
cellular repair «fuel»
called ATP, allowing cells to repair themselves more efficiently.
Plants use a
process of breathing
called cellular respiration.
Using FaceTime from my laptop, I was able to get a family member to
call the number provided by my
cellular provider's text message and initiate the
process to eventually retake control of my phone number.