Sentences with phrase «certain cell your body»

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It is that human mental experiences «immediately sympathize» with certain subhuman experiences of the cells in the body and that the converse relationship also holds to some extent.

Fetal stem cells, which may turn out to be useful for treating conditions like Parkinson's, need to be cloned — that is, researchers need to take a cell from a body, put it in an embryo, and grow that embryo to a certain small size before harvesting the stem cells.

Eggplant is loaded with phytonutrients that act as antioxidants that help to reduce the number of free radicals in the body which damage cells and may contribute to certain diseases, including some cancers and heart diseases.

Potassium is also very important in a diet as it causes certain immune cells to activate when there is an infection in your body.

This research is still in its infancy so there are no definite conclusions, but it seems that in some cases these cells are helping the woman's body get stronger than it ever was and protecting her against certain diseases.

Triglycerides store unused calories and provide your body with energy, and cholesterol is used to build cells and certain hormones.

In certain cases, transplanting these cells might be able to reboot a person's body and get rid of a disease - related defect.

«That is really the greatest challenge, because many scientists can come up with new materials for certain applications,... but if they don't know how these materials are going to be placed in the body and interact with the cells, interact with biological fluids and so on, they have no appreciation of the total problem,» Peppas says.

Further study revealed that these so - called immune proteins are actually present on the surface of certain nerve cells, but that they functioned differently in the brain than they did in the rest of the body; rather than scouting for germs, they influenced signals sent between neurons.

«If we learn how to control dendritic cells, we could strengthen our immune response to infection when needed, or weaken the action of certain immune cells that attack the body's own tissues in autoimmune disease.»

Bone marrow transplants are sometimes needed to treat immune diseases that attack these stem cells, or in certain types of anaemia, in which the body can't make enough blood cells or clotting factors.

A byproduct of the discovery of RNAi was the finding that although cells in the human body only contain one strand of RNA, they do have micro-RNA — tiny sections of RNA that can act a little like double - stranded RNA and also silence the activity of certain genes.

One advantage of this method is that it only activates a certain type of immune cell, the dendritic cell or T - cell, and only in one part of the body, near the draining lymph nodes or tumor, which helps cut down on the system - wide side effects often seen with chemotherapy.

SAN FRANCISCO — Like switching on a miniature furnace in the body, scientists have created a compound that spurs certain fat cells to burn up calories without forcing them to endure jogging, swimming, or biking.

Agalliu also found that Th17 cells induced by strep opened the BBB only in certain spots: Since strep enters the body through the nose, it made sense that he saw the BBB was pierced near the olfactory bulb, the structure in the front of the brain that processes odors.

[But] all of our cells in our bodies have a certain amount of omega - 3's in them.

The underlying cause of the disease is a malfunction of the chloride channel CFTR, which prevents the secretion of chloride in certain body cells.

In this case, it was not by using a special formula of transcription factors, but by inducing damage to tell the body to repair itself and that it needs new cells of a certain type to do that.

Cells require certain nutrients to perform tasks, he noted, and food preferences may be the body's way of telling us how best to survive different types of infections.

Cincinnati Cancer Center (CCC) and UC Cancer Institute researchers have found that a vaccine, targeting tumors that produce a certain protein and receptor responsible for communication between cells and the body's immune system, could initiate the immune response to fight cancer.

When you're using certain tissue types that can't replicate multiple times outside of the body — liver and nerve cells, for example — «that's where stem cells are most relevant.»

These findings may help explain why some people with mutations in certain ribosomal protein genes develop conditions such as Diamond - Blackfan anemia — a blood disorder in which the bone marrow doesn't make enough red blood cells — but don't have problems in other body tissues, Ware says.

Stromal cells that reside in the lymph nodes throughout the body manufacture proteins identical to those made by gut cells and use them to train T cells to ignore certain proteins.

The federally funded study, published in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology, showed how a stress receptor, known as corticotropin - releasing factor, or CRF1, can send signals to certain immune cells, called mast cells, and control how they defend the body.

However, they may also activate cell death under certain conditions and assist in the removal of damaged cells from the body.

A new Michigan State University study now offers new details showing that a certain protein released from fat in the body can cause a non-cancerous cell to turn into a cancerous one.

Pluripotent cells can become any of the cell types usually found in the body — although there are certain special types of tissue, such as placenta, that they can't form.

Sialyl - Lewisx branches occur on some immune cells, helping direct them to certain locations in the body.

Those antibodies then cause certain cells in the body to release chemicals into the bloodstream, one of which is histamine (pronounced: HIS - tuh - meen).

Contact: 508-685-3525; [email protected] WOODS HOLE, Mass. — How do cells move in a certain direction in the body — go to a wound site and repair it, for example, or hunt down infectious bacteria and kill it?

Certain cancer cells stave off their death with help from a particular molecule in a protein involved in the body's immune system response, a research team at Rush University Medical Center has found.

A better understanding of this master switch regulator may help to understand, how cells that have a common origin take on a specific fate in the body to build an organ and may also help to understand the development of certain leukemias.

When people who carry it encounter certain invading pathogens that produce humanlike proteins, their immune cells might be unusually prone to attacking their own body's cells as they pursue the interloper.

Detecting Cancer Cells Kimmel Cancer Center researchers determine that a method of screening body fluids, for certain kinds of cells and some of their genetic blueprint, is twice as accurate at spotting breast cancer cells as is a pathologist's view with a microsCells Kimmel Cancer Center researchers determine that a method of screening body fluids, for certain kinds of cells and some of their genetic blueprint, is twice as accurate at spotting breast cancer cells as is a pathologist's view with a microscells and some of their genetic blueprint, is twice as accurate at spotting breast cancer cells as is a pathologist's view with a microscells as is a pathologist's view with a microscope.

Sporadic cancer is caused by mutations that randomly occur only in certain cells in the body.

Both diets draw from a growing body of research suggesting that certain nutrients — mostly found in plant - based foods, whole grains, beans, nuts, vegetable oils and fish — help protect cells in the brain while fighting harmful inflammation and oxidation.

A certain amount of the glucose is absorbed by the liver cells and converted to glycogen, which is your body's reserve energy source which is activated when you have low glucose levels.

In this way, insulin sensitivity is defined by how much insulin is needed to store blood glucose within the cells of the body — healthy people need a much smaller amount of insulin to store a certain amount of glucose than insulin resistant individuals, and the latter have higher levels of both blood glucose and insulin.

Scientists don't know why cells in the body become resistant to insulin, but it's clear that certain genetic and lifestyle factors play a role.

As a person gets older and the growth hormone production slows down, and individual notice and begin experiencing certain symptoms like the degeneration of cells and tissues, poor functioning of certain organs in the body, a slow rate of conversion of body fat for energy and a decrease of muscle development, and low energy.

When IL - 15 is present in excess or for long periods of time however, like if the body is chronically inflamed, it can cause certain immune cells (the large granular lymphocytes) to become cancerous.

Certain chemicals applied to your skin or found in the air can be absorbed by your body and may cause harm to your cells and organ systems.

That's not to say that you can't ever be really lean, but you will have to maintain a certain level of leanness for quite a while before your empty fat cells die, and before your body considers your new, leaner body to be homeostasis.

«Bacteria have learned to flip different kinds of switches in our body» Mazmanian mentions, explaining that microbes can induce certain white blood cells (T cells) to promote inflammatory responses, while other microbes can stimulate T cells to inhibit inflammatory responses.

Every day, your body requires a certain amount of energy to perform basic functions, such as muscle movement, cell growth, and energy conversion.

Compounds called polyphenols may protect your body from the type of cell and tissue damage that's linked to heart disease and certain cancers.

Ellagic acid is also known to help the body to deactivate certain carcinogens and slow the reproduction of cancer cells.

In order for your body to stay lean, or continue to build muscle and repair cells, it requires a certain amount of essential amino acids, the building blocks of protein.

As a Nutritionist that's studied the biochemistry of nutrition for over 25 years, and how certain foods affect the cells of your body, there are at least 10 important reasons to be extremely concerned about what cereals are doing inside your body.

We all have fat cells in our body, and a certain amount is very necessary to help your body function properly.