Sentences with phrase «damage cellular machinery»

These molecules are toxic because they promote free - radical reactions that damage our cellular machinery including mitochondria, enzymes, hormone receptors, and DNA.

Generation of reactive oxygen species, or free radicals such as superoxide and hydrogen peroxide, is a normal byproduct of metabolism, but can damage cellular machinery when excessive and impair the production of cellular energy, which becomes a vicious cycle as energy - intensive repair processes become untenable (25, 26).

Conventional chemotherapy agents work by indiscriminately poisoning and killing rapidly - dividing cells, including cancer cells, by damaging cellular machinery and DNA.

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But just to simplify, it is in these fireworks inside the mitochondria, where the oxygen we breathe may get a hold of an electron we ate that was pumped with energy by plants (thanks to photosynthesis), and transform that oxygen molecule into what's called superoxide, which can damage our delicate cellular machinery — oxidize our cellular machinery.