Sentences with phrase «damaging other cells»

One of the body's first lines of defense, the cells antioxidant response system is supposed to prevent these harmful invaders from causing a domino effect and damaging other cells.

Not exact matches

Other research has found cell - phone overuse can damage teenagers» mental health and sap people of their productivity.

They neutralize cell - damaging free radicals that may help lower the risk of heart disease, cancer, and other diseases.

In other words, consuming more antioxidants seems to protect your cells from damage as well as enabling them to recover from exercise.

Astaxanthin can protects cells and the nervous system from oxidative damage and is beneficial to joints and skin amongst many other health benefits.

Agave and fructose in general does not spike blood sugar because it goes through your liver damaging it at the same time, glucose is processed by other cells as well and thus it spikes your blood sugar, but fructose is processed just by the liver.

It helps in protecting cells from DNA damage and has some other benefits.

Other essential nutrients in onions are antioxidants that promote cellular structuring, increase immunity, and protect from free radical damage to the cells.

Others note that shear forces from shaking are not the only issue — bursting of bubbles caused by shaking may also damage cells or denature proteins.

Following an initial brain injury, the dying cells produce substances that go on to damage other brain cells.

NASA and other space agencies have known for decades that this radiation can cause cancer and other cell damage.

Although other neuronal cell types are affected, medium spiny neurons bear the brunt of the damage caused by Huntington's disease.

One appears to protect brain cells from damage, while the other can stop the virus replicating (Nature Medicine, doi.org/bp4b).

«The study culminates years of work and provides physical evidence that sleep deprivation injures cells and that sleep recovery restores the balance between, among other parameters, DNA damage and repair,» Dr. Everson said.

The purpose of catalase in living cells is to protect them from oxidative damage, which can occur when cells or other molecules in the body come into contact with oxidative compounds.

In a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience, researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine showed certain immune cells — neutrophils — can clean up nerve debris, while previous models have attributed nerve cell damage control to other cells entirely.

Other mice, with robust beta cells that were good at repairing DNA damage, were able to stay non-diabetic for life, even when those islets were placed under severe cellular stress.

The study found that carfilzomib and irinotecan have a potential synergistic effect in SCLC and other Irinotecan - sensitive cancers by allowing normal DNA damage repair and enabling normal cell - cycle death.

We know that they are under stress when they are fighting cancer or other diseases, so I wondered whether anything measureable could be seen if we put them under further stress with UVA light.We found that people with cancer have DNA which is more easily damaged by ultraviolet light than other people, so the test shows the sensitivity to damage of all the DNA — the genome — in a cell.»

Mochly - Rosen and colleagues identified several other potential biomarkers that were elevated in HD model mice, including the levels of 8 - hydroxy - deoxy - guanosine, a product of oxidative DNA damage, in the urine and the presence of mutant huntingtin aggregates and oxidative damage in muscle and skin cells.

If that damage is deemed too extensive by other cellular actors that interact with p53, it triggers p53 to launch the call for the cell to commit suicide.

Last month, researchers led by Beth Stevens of Boston Children's Hospital reported that a process in which microglia prune excess synapses in the brain during early life can turn on inappropriately later on, possibly triggering Alzheimer's or other disorders marked by damage to connections between brain cells.

Only a decade later was it confirmed to bind to DNA and turn on the expression of other genes aimed at healing cell damage.

The other is that the virus itself directly attacks neural cells and destabilizes the myelin sheath around them or damages axons to cause GBS.

Raising concerns about potential harm to human health, other recent research has shown that some metal nanoparticles can damage DNA or kill cells.

However, this damages the axons — the arms that protrude from neurons to make connections with other cells — making it difficult to see exactly how brain cells link up.

The transplanted cells would flourish into healthy blood cells, immune cells, or other elements the fetus lacked, the thinking went, thereby halting damage that a disease was already inflicting in the womb.

By measuring levels of the stress hormone cortisol, plus other chemical markers, the team found that the task caused more cell damage in the women who were already stressed.

The enzyme, called tankyrase, may prove useful for extending the lives of cultured cells grown to repair burned skin and other damaged tissue.

And according to a third theory, as organisms age they deteriorate and must spend more energy to repair cell damage — to the detriment of other essential physical functions.

Others include transplanting so - called Schwann cells from peripheral nerves, using growth factors to stimulate nerve growth, and boosting the immune system in the damaged area (New Scientist magazine, 14 August 1999, p 36).

A postmortem revealed structural damage, increased cell death, and other abnormalities in the mice's brains.

Other researchers have shown that the ability of microglia to engulf dead neurons depends on adenosine triphosphate (ATP), a ubiquitous energy source and signalling molecule that is released from damaged cells.

Now, with new kinds of technologies that are coming up, new types of tissue engineering and, you know, some of the hopes that people have for stem cells and [the] like, it may be interesting to see if there are other ways, alternatives to dealing with really badly damaged hearts that would involve growing a new heart or replacing or repairing the damage d to a badly damaged heart that might make artificial hearts less important in the somewhat more distant future.

Rather than looking out only for themselves like other bacterial species, the individual myxobacteria cells band together as a social group to assist their kin that become damaged.

The research team confirmed in other studies that eating strawberries also protects against ultraviolet radiation, reduces the damage that alcohol can have on the gastric mucosa, strengthens erythrocytes, or red blood cells, and improves the antioxidant capacity of the blood.

If we introduced stem cells with nice, long telomeres in the first place, we could let them wind down and eventually be lost to apoptosis, senescence, or other sources of damage — and just top our tissues up with more stem cells before enough of those cells were lost to begin to impair tissue function.

Other scientists have shown that tamoxifen and similar drugs might also reduce nerve cell damage in the spinal cord and brain.

But the molecules also affect the cells of the animal ingesting the food, by damaging the DNA, proteins, and other critical parts of the cells in their body.

This animation guides us through the immune pathways involved in the disease, from the first signs of self - reactive immune cells to joint damage and other symptoms.This article was reproduced with permission and was first published on January 25, 2016.

«In other words, at that moment of cell division, the cell miss - identified its own telomeres as damaged DNA, which it then «repaired,» Dr. Orthwein says.

In a previous study, his team worked with other collaborators to identify the potential role of extra copies of the tumor suppressor gene (p53) that increase the elephant's ability to eliminate pre-cancerous cells with DNA damage.

The successful growth of human skin cells in culture has made it possible to restore epidermis after severe burns and other forms of damage

Because our cells are made up of mostly water, if we dehydrated them to the point of having no fluid, they would be damaged by so - called solution effects, which result from the cell being too concentrated and not having its water replaced by some other compound.

In a boost for a controversial theory of aging, mice engineered to make a human protein that sponges up cell - damaging molecules live 19 % longer than other mice.

«The cells have a kind of sensor that detects damage to DNA and other cellular material,» he says.

It can sense the presence of DNA damage, signal to other proteins that damage exists, aid in the repair of damage and stimulate cell death if the damage can not be repaired.

Most MGUS cases are never diagnosed; MGUS is characterized by a detectable M protein without evidence for end - organ damage or other related plasma cell or lymphoproliferative disorders.

Stem cells hold tremendous promise for medicine; their ability to metamorphose into other kinds of cells make them useful for repairing injuries — from heart attacks to brain damage.

Copeland's team also noted that these mice suffered from a host of immune - related problems, the most crippling being a flood of macrophages — a type of white blood cell — damaging the lungs and other organs.