Sentences with phrase «different cell types of the body»

July 2009 - Switching on the power of stem cells Cambridge scientists reveal how the protein Nanog gives stem cells their unique abilities Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research at the University of Cambridge have pinpointed the role of the protein Nanog in a complex process that gives stem cells pluripotency: the ability to produce all the different cell types of the body.

In the different cell types of the body, different protein producing genes are active or inactive, and many medical conditions also depend on altered activity of specific genes.

Not exact matches

The researchers studied two types of cells called effector T cells, which activate the immune system to defend our body against different pathogens, and regulatory T cells, which help control the immune system and prevent it from attacking healthy parts of its environment.

The majority of cells in the human body are blood cells, which comprise many different types that are continuously produced during the life of an organism.

Embryonic stem cells: They can turn into any of the body's 220 different cell types, meaning they are pluripotent.

Now a UC Santa Barbara researcher has added to that body of knowledge by determining how stem cells produce different types of «daughter» cells in Drosophila (fruit flies).

Cells require certain nutrients to perform tasks, he noted, and food preferences may be the body's way of telling us how best to survive different types of infections.

«From a health perspective, oxidative stress in the cells causes different types of damage in the body, for example, skin ageing or various infections, contributing to illnesses such as arthritis and Alzheimer's,» says Harri Latva - Mäenpää.

As «immature» somatic cells, stem cells can mature into different types of cells, thus making them responsible for the development of all the tissues and organs in the body.

«Our next step is to find out more about how we can vary the size of the embryoid body by changing the printing and structural parameters, and how varying the embryoid body size leads to «manufacture» of different cell types» adds Rui Yao, another author on the paper.

While it is present on a number of different types of cells in the body, it is expressed at higher levels on metastatic tumour cells, including those which have spread from the lung.

So, at the dawn of our universe — and I have to emphasize our universe, because there could be others — so, dawn of our universe, physicists think there was one type of force, one type of matter and that as the cosmos expanded, as space expanded, it cooled and things started to condense out like snow flakes, and over time that single force broke, it differentiated; and something similar happens in the human body as we develop from a single cell; we differentiate, different tissues form in our bodies, different layers of tissues.

A number of different cell types release these little sacs of proteins and genetic material into the body's fluids.

Because stem cells have the unique ability to develop into many different types of cells, they are an important part of the mechanism for repairing body tissue.

iPSCs are cells that have been genetically reprogrammed to an embryonic stem - cell - like state, meaning that they can differentiate into virtually any of the body's different cell types.

Because stem cells have the ability to develop into many different cell types in the body, researchers at USF's Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, Department of Neurosurgery & Brain Repair have focused on using stem cells to restore function lost through neurodegenerative disorders or injuries.

This causes the body's white blood cells to release type 1 interferon - alpha, a small cytokine protein that acts as a systemic alarm, triggering a cascade of additional immune activity as it binds with receptors in different tissues.

The organization of these tissues let different cell types work together, to enable organs in the body to perform their functions.

«All epithelial cells — and that's the cells that make up most of the organs in our bodies — can do this, so you could imagine that this type of local chamber could be forming transiently in many different parts of the body, whenever cells need to self - organise and communicate,» Gilmour says.

The body needs many different types of stem cells to replace sick, aging or dying cells in its many different tissues.

stem cell Special cells in the body that can make any of several different types of new cells, including blood cells.

Although mostly red blood cells, our bodies comprise about 200 different types of cells.

Origins of Muscle Stem Cells: During development, the embryo has three different tissue types that, together with the germ cells, will make up the animal's entire Cells: During development, the embryo has three different tissue types that, together with the germ cells, will make up the animal's entire cells, will make up the animal's entire body.

Pluripotent stem cells — those, like embryonic stem cells, that give rise to almost every type of cell in the body — can be converted into the different classes of retinal cells necessary for vision, according to a new, RPB - supported study from researchers at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, N.Y.

Hematopoiesis is the process by which the different types of blood cells are generated in the body (the term literally means «to make blood»).

Our bodies are comprised of several hundred different cell types, yet each cell possesses the same genetic material.

The human immune system contains a collection of different cell types and molecules that help to protect the body from toxins, viral infections, bacteria, and parasites.

They can turn into all the different types of blood cells in the body.

Myofibroblasts can proliferate elsewhere in the body as well — although they may arise from different cell types in different tissues — and fibrotic remodeling of the kidney, liver (cirrhosis of the liver) and lungs follows a similar progression, Genin says.

SLC16A11 belongs to a family of genes known to transport molecules across cell membranes, but the proteins that genes produce can perform many different roles in the body, and they can be active in some tissue types but not others.

Despite the enormity of the dataset described in this historic collection of publications, it does not comprehensively describe all of the functional genomic elements in all of the different types of cells in the human body.

In humans, there are many different types of stem cells that come from different places in the body or are formed at different times in our lives.

But it would allow so - called therapeutic cloning in which a patient's cells are coaxed to an embryonic state where they regain the potential to create all of the body's different tissue types.

It would allow us to identify which genes associated with disease are active in our bodies and where, and analyze the regulatory mechanisms that govern the production of different cell types.

Without maps of different cell types and where they are located in the body, we can not describe all their functions and understand the biological networks that direct their activities.

The human body is made up of nearly 40 trillion cells and roughly 200 different cell types.

There are over 200 different types of cells in the human body, many of which can become neoplastic.

Other types of stem cells are capable of creating multiple different cell types, but not all the cell types in the body.

Your body actually contains two different types of white blood cells, called TH1 and TH2.

You know, you can have like the turmeric that blocks something and there's also antihistamine, you know, as you explained there's many different types of inflame — inflammatory cells in our body and you know --

The immune system is made up of a team of different types of cells that, while each having their own specific function, work together to protect the body from foreign invaders: B - cells produce antibodies; T - cells conduct surveillance for potentially dangerous molecules and kills dangerous cells such as disease - causing bacteria; and macrophages are the scavenger cells of your body acting like garbage trucks, cleaning up residue and removing potentially dangerous substances.

While all types are helpful in preventing unwanted oxygen damage to our cells and body systems, different types of antioxidants go about this task in different ways, and it is the combination of these types in cruciferous vegetables — including bok choy — that make them so valuable in terms of their antioxidant support.

While there are many different types of cancer, all of them stem from the abnormal growth of cells that invade numerous body sites, quickly leading to the formation of tumours that are either benign (restricted to a local area and removable) or malignant (invasive, spreading throughout the body).

They have the ability to divide and differentiate into many different types of cells based on where they are needed throughout the body.

There are five different types of white blood cells found within mammals, and the primary goal of each is to assist in protecting the body from invaders like bacteria and parasites.