Sentences with phrase «destroy cell structures»

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.

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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.
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