Sentences with phrase «damaged cells it breaks»

I don't know how they measure the protein loss but I guess that this recycling process does not recoup 100 % of the damaged cells it breaks down.

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Yeo explained that you need to prepare someone's finger for this process to make sure blood is flowing, but if you end up squeezing the finger too hard or have to prick it too many times, that may damage and break down cells — and this cellular damage could skew various test results.

When nuts are roasted above 170 degrees, the monounsaturated fats can break down and free radicals can form, causing damage to the cells.

Even in winter, the sun's damaging ultraviolet rays can dry your skin, make it look older, break down cells and even cause cancer.

If the tumor that Jobs had removed in 2004 had begun to break down prior to the surgery, White says, the tumor's dead cells could have released protease and lipase enzymes that may have damaged beta cells in the pancreas, which produce insulin.

The «bad» ApoE4 form tends to be broken down into toxic fragments that damage the cell's energy factories — the mitochondria — and alter the cell skeleton.

Intermittent dosing with rapamycin selectively breaks the cascade of inflammatory events that follow cellular senescence, a phenomena in which cells cease to divide in response to DNA damaging agents, including many chemotherapies.

With age, the barrier sequestering the damaged proteins breaks down, spilling cellular garbage into both cells...

But after high - dose damage, too many cells would have double - strand breaks to replace them all, and repair would make more sense.

Instead of trying to fix the double - strand breaks when only a few cells are damaged, the body may simply opt to eliminate them.

Now, Strahl's team found that Set2 also regulates how the broken strands of DNA — the most severe form of DNA damage in cells — are repaired.

Blood cells that have leaked from burst vessels can break down, releasing toxic products like iron that damage surrounding tissues.

To explore the role of DNA repair in translocation formation, the researchers inhibited key components of the DNA damage response machinery within cells and monitored the effects on the repair of DNA breaks and translocation formation.

CD74 is broken into products that fit into the groove of cell surface immune response proteins as part of the chain of events that activates T cells — immune cells that normally attack infected (or damaged) cells in the body.

With age, the barrier sequestering the damaged proteins breaks down, spilling cellular garbage into both cells, the team also discovered.

Without BRCA - induced DNA repair, a molecule called ATM kinase sensed the excessive DNA breaks and activated a chemical pathway that kills off damaged cells.

In the study led by Judith Campbell, professor of chemistry and biology at Caltech, the researchers investigated the relationship between two genes — FANCD2 and DNA2 — both known to play roles in fixing broken or damaged strands of DNA within a cell, called DNA repair.

When such DNA damage occurs, proteins known as PARPs move to the site of damage and begin to mend these broken strands of DNA, allowing cancerous cells and tumors to recover, grow and proliferate, thereby escaping the effects of treatment.

More importantly, depletion of SA1 rendered those SA2 - mutated cells more susceptible to DNA damage, especially double - strand breaks (DSBs), due to reduced functionality of DNA repair.

These data reveal that the tissue damage present in this SIRS model is reflected, in part, by breaks in the vasculature due to endothelial cell necroptosis and thereby predict that RIPK1 kinase inhibitors may provide clinical benefit to shock and / or sepsis patients.

Their compound, which is intended to repair brain damage that has already occurred, is a significant departure from current Alzheimer's treatments, which either slow the process of cell death or inhibit cholinesterase, an enzyme believed to break down a key neurotransmitter involved in learning and memory development.

The de-repressed satellite RNAs induced damage to the chromosomes by fusing them inappropriately and breaking them in what is called genomic instability, a catastrophic event for the cell during cell division, which can lead to cancer.

While we do have a few theories about why we, and other species we share the planet with, have evolved to grow old and die, we understand very little about the mechanism that makes living cells lose their ability to mend broken and damaged DNA.

In dividing cells, BRCA1 helps repair a type of DNA damage known as double - strand breaks that can occur when cells are injured.

In the new work, the Salk team found that when cells are exposed to mitochondria damage, a central cellular fuel gauge, the enzyme AMPK, sends an emergency alert to mitochondria instructing them to break apart into many tiny mitochondrial fragments.

This ground - breaking research could lead to a novel way to repair heart damage after a heart attack using a patient's own cells by converting them within the organ into new muscle.

«Young, healthy cells break down and recycle old or damaged proteins,» he said.

On the other hand, such cells usually accumulate physical and chemical damage in the DNA - chain breaks, oxidized or otherwise modified bases.

They increase immunity via a process called autophagy, which cleans up damaged cells, removes neurotoxins and breaks down toxic chemicals so they are more easily filtered from the body.

The point of this program is to «allow the body to enter a full ketogenic mode, meaning it will break down and kill damaged cells and cellular components, activate stem cells, and preferentially decrease visceral and abdominal fat.»

When our digestive systems are sick or damaged, the host of cells, bacteria, and enzymes that break down food and absorb nutrients, are unable to perform their important functions.

Upon exposure to the sun's UV rays, retinol compounds break down and produce destructive free radicals that are toxic to cells, damage DNA, and can even cause cancer.

Much less common — but more serious — is rhabdomyolysis, in which muscle cells break down and release proteins such as myoglobin that damage kidneys.

This happens when the body doesn't break down the immune cell histamine and it causes a release of superoxide, a nasty free radical that causes a lot of inflammatory damage.

Breaking down foods into nutrients the body can use to create white blood cells and repair damage.

Eat berries: The vitamin C in berries helps to fight free radicals which can damage cells and break down collagen, leading to fine lines.

Fasting also stimulates the process of autophagy, where the body breaks down old, damaged cells and abnormally developing cells to recycle for energy.

Free radicals are responsible for the breaking down of various vital molecules, leading to cell damage and signs of premature aging.

In addition, the liver helps to break down old or damaged blood cells and produces substances that help blood to clot.

Which is a prioritized breakdown of damaged cells allowing unneeded proteins to be broken down and the amino acids salvaged for the synthesis of new protein.

Found in many foods, antioxidants break and reduce the chain reaction of cell damage caused by free radicals.

which then begins the process of dredging up toxins, breaking down damaged cells, and releasing them (which is why you feel like crap, get the flu, or have other symptoms).

For example: Sulforaphane activates phase II enzymes, which operate in cells to break down and eliminate noxious compounds before they do damage to the cell's DNA and set the stage for cancer.

Key ingredients — like vitamins A, C, and E, plus radish root — tackle cell damage, while an anti-redness complex of tea and honey break down irritation to rebalance your complexion.

Over time free radicals damage cells and break down collagen, which causes fine lines.

A dog's kidneys can't break down naproxen like a human's can, and the medication will damage the kidneys» cells as they try to metabolize the drug.

Normally, as red blood cells age or are damaged, they are broken down by other cells, called «macrophages.»