Antioxidants help protect the bodies against free radicals that
destroy cell structures in the body, thus a food like blueberries is praised for their disease preventative property.
Overcooking the fruit makes the fruit lighter by
destroying the cell structure.
The trees «exploded» when the sap froze and
destroyed the cell structure causing large slits in the trunk.
Not exact matches
The protein that copies viral RNA is polymerase protein L, which conducts all the enzymatic activities needed to synthesize RNA and then add a cap
structure to its end to ensure it doesn't get
destroyed by the
cell — and to ensure that it can be translated into protein.
In patients with colitis, inflammatory T
cells in the lower intestines mistake the molecular
structures of food or healthy gut bacteria for dangerous pathogens that must be
destroyed.
«We don't know for certain if the damage is irreversible, but I expect so, because the
cells that hold the internal
structure in place have been infected and
destroyed,» said Diamond, who is also a professor of pathology and immunology, and of molecular microbiology.
Lucia and John both agree that bacteria can not build up a resistance to silver nanoparticles as they can to antibiotics, because of the way the it attacks —
destroying the physical
structure of the
cells, which kills them.
* In type 1 diabetes, the insulin - producing
cells in the Langerhans islets of the pancreas are
destroyed because they are attacked by the body's immune system (formation of islet autoantibodies against
structures of the beta
cells).
Researchers have developed an artificial
structure that mimics the
cell membrane, which can switch on immune
cells to attack and
destroy a designated target.
They pack a powerful punch to fight free radicals (highly reactive forms of oxygen that can
destroy cell membranes, and other
structures including DNA and collagen).
Acetic acid can also kill harmful bacteria like E.coli by binding to its
cell membrane and completely
destroying the
structure.