Sentences with phrase «damaging to our body by»

You may think you're handling it, but that's usually an illusion, supplied by the adrenaline released by the stress response, which masks the damage to your body by giving you a sense you're powering through it.

You may have heard of free radicals, highly reactive and unstable molecules that can be pretty damaging to our body by attacking our cells, protein membranes, and DNA while aiding in the development of a health problems like cancer.

Free radicals are unpaired electrons that go around and cause damage to our bodies by breaking molecular bonds.

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Made of a polymer that has already been approved by the FDA for applications such as biodegradable sutures, InVivo's implant seems to undermine the biological ripple effect that leads to apoptosis, essentially by leading the body to believe that the damage is not that bad, which tones down the immune response and helps the healthier neural tissue survive and heal.

Hurricane Maria delivered a serious body blow to the Puerto Rican economy by severely damaging much of the island's infrastructure.

Man has evolved from being closely connected to our environment, i.e. understanding the lunar and solar cycle, and creating a living off of what this earth offers to us to creating a living off the earth by damaging our environment and less and less of us knowing anything about the celestial bodies that surround us.

They speak of church cultures that treated women's bodies as inherently problematic and seductive, that assigned a woman's worth to her sexual purity or procreative prowess, that questioned women's ability to think rationally or make decisions without the leadership of men, that blamed victims of sexual abuse for inviting the abuse or tempting the abuser, that shamed women who did not «joyfully submit» to their husband and find contentment in their roles as helpers and homemakers, and that effectively silenced victims of abuse by telling women and children that reporting the crime would reflect poorly on the church and thus damage the reputation of Christ.

The damage that is caused by constant high insulin levels can wreak havoc on your cells and lead to your body attacking itself in an effort to correct the situation.

Sweet potatoes are an excellent source of fiber, and unlike regular potatoes they'll provide you with antioxidants that your body needs to help prevent damage being done by free radicals.

Those who are severely affected have an autoimmune disease called celiac where the villi in the small intestine are damaged by the immune system, so food isn't absorbed correctly leading to all sorts of problems within the body.

These are substances that reduce damage caused by free radicals in our bodies, thereby helping to curb diseases such as cancer.

UEFA said in a statement on Thursday, «The charges of acts of damage and crowd disturbances related to incidents involving the Manchester City FC team bus will be dealt with by the UEFA Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body on May 31.»

Kohn cites a body of powerful, and largely unknown, research detailing the damage caused by leading children to believe they must earn our approval.

-LSB-...] The mental and emotional damage done by birth technology to infants in the last century has followed our babies into childhood and right into adulthood, and has made necessary the development of reconstructive therapies for body and mind.»

The presence of the S100B protein triggers the release by the body of antibodies which can then leak back into the brain through the damaged blood - brain barrier, where they are thought to attack brain tissue.

Rather, it stimulates the body's desire to heal the damage that is causing the pain by draining the toxins that build up in an injured area.

The business body fears the move will damage the economic recovery by causing more drastic cuts to capital investment in other areas.

The study adds to a growing body of research highlighting other cognitive functions affected by aphasia, and indicates that the consequences of brain damage in aphasia patients may be more extensive than originally thought.

Produced by the body, free radicals damage DNA, so some people take supplements to mop them up.

One possibility is that they interfere with the beneficial effects of exercise, as there are hints that free radicals might be used by the body to prevent cellular damage after exercise.

Free radicals are compounds composed of unstable atoms generated both by the body and environmental sources such as smoking and pollution that damage cells, possibly leading to increased disease susceptibility and aging.

Oxidative stress is damage to the body caused by an accumulation of unstable molecules called free radicals.

Also known as the «Guardian of the Genome,» p53 fights cancer by causing damaged cells to die or by halting the growth of mutant cells before they become cancerous and spread to the rest of the body.

So if the female animal's body is too much weakened by damage, there is a real threat to her chances of making healthy offspring.

But Frankovich and her Stanford colleagues were dealing with something else: damage caused by the immune response, including antibodies, the large Y - shaped proteins the body produces to fend off infections or other foreign invaders.

Scientists have discovered how compounds produced by the body's immune system help to dampen inflammation and prevent damage to healthy tissues.

Most diseases end by themselves because the body has a healing system, an array of mechanisms designed to repair damage.

The research team, led by Georgia State University and the University of Michigan, wanted to understand how a wound heals in the intestine because in IBD, which includes Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, damage to the intestinal epithelial barrier allows bacteria in the intestine to go across the barrier and stimulate the body's immune system.

Subsequently, the toxic substances enter the body by penetrating the skin and there can give rise to skin damage or even neurotoxic effects.

Researchers worldwide are repurposing discarded fat to repair body parts damaged by injury, disease or age.

Chemotherapies are potent toxins delivered into the bloodstream to kill tumor cells throughout the body by damaging DNA in rapidly dividing 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.

In future, Radisic envisions her lab - grown tissues being implanted into the body to repair organs damaged by disease.

The team found that many of the molecular signals present in the blood of sick, infected patients overlap with sepsis, a condition in which the body — in response to infection by bacteria or other pathogens — mounts a damaging inflammatory reaction.

RIPK1, the researchers found, inflicts damage by directly attacking the body's myelin production plants — nerve cells known as oligodendrocytes, which secrete the soft substance, rich in fat and protein that wraps around axons to support their function and shield them from damage.

The idea is that the drug, being within the nano - hydrogels, is transported directly to cancer cells where it can be released without damaging other parts of the body, because hydrogels offer the possibility of dosing a myriad of active substances on the site desired and can be administered as dry or swollen hydrogels by different routes: oral, nasal, buccal, rectal, transdermal, vaginal, ocular and parental.

This promises to make proton therapy an option for thousands more cancer patients by reducing the risks of healthy tissue being damaged during treatment, particularly in vulnerable parts of the body such as the brain, eye and spinal cord.

The study shows that Vitamin D3 — which is made by the body naturally when skin is exposed to the sun — can significantly restore the damage to the cardiovascular system caused by several diseases, including hypertension, diabetes and atherosclerosis.

Manipulating proteins in the body to compensate for the lack of dystrophin is one of many strategies being investigated to halt or reverse the muscle damage caused by DMD.

The team at Barts Cancer Institute, part of Queen Mary University of London, have found that a molecule, called focal adhesion kinase (FAK), signals the body to repair itself after chemotherapy or radiotherapy, which kill cancer cells by damaging DNA.

The polymer patch could one day lay down a pathway in areas damaged by heart disease for cells to regenerate and regrow, while the mesh itself slowly disintegrates within the body.

By preventing significant damage and inflammation of the appendix during a bacterial attack, ILCs safeguard the organ and help it to perform an important function in the body, as a natural reservoir for «good» bacteria.

Whether burned by the sun, attacked by microbes, nicked by a paper cut or worse, the skin quickly becomes inflamed — red, swollen, and painful — as the body seeks to halt the damage and initiate repair.

Every day, the DNA in each cell in our bodies is damaged up to 1 million times by everything from mutagens in the food we eat to the ultraviolet rays in sunlight.

In a small phase I and II clinical trial, Johns Hopkins researchers and colleagues elsewhere found that the high - fat, low - carbohydrate ketogenic diet was a safe and effective treatment option for the majority of adults experiencing a relatively rare, often fatal and always severe form of epilepsy marked by prolonged seizures that require medically induced comas to prevent them from further damaging the body and the brain.

As DNA damage is often one of the early steps in the development of cancer, the detection of micronuclei by cGAS could therefore be an important early alarm system allowing the human body to detect and remove potentially cancerous cells.

To prevent collateral damage to precious nerve cells during immune skirmishes, the brain and spinal cord are tightly sealed off from the rest of the body by the blood - brain barrieTo prevent collateral damage to precious nerve cells during immune skirmishes, the brain and spinal cord are tightly sealed off from the rest of the body by the blood - brain barrieto precious nerve cells during immune skirmishes, the brain and spinal cord are tightly sealed off from the rest of the body by the blood - brain barrier.

A TROPICAL disease that can fatally damage the heart may take hold in the human body by causing important immune system cells to commit suicide, according to a Brazilian research team.

Superoxide is kept in check by the body's own antioxidants, which combine with superoxide to make it less reactive and prevent oxidative damage to cells.

The adverse effects of epinephrine appeared to be unaffected by the use of post-resuscitation medical treatments, such as techniques to cool the body to reduce tissue damage or interventions to restore the flow of blood through blocked arteries.