Sentences with phrase «different cellular roles»

Each form of the enzyme appears to have different cellular roles — i.e., allows the organism to use carbon monoxide in a different way.

Not exact matches

Although blood cells serve multiple roles in the body and have complex interactions with other cellular materials, most synthetic blood products have aimed to just stick to the bare basics — shuttling oxygen from the lungs to different vital organs and then bringing carbon dioxide back to the lungs to be exhaled.

Understanding the best ways to work with RNA and the various RNA detection methods can help scientists advance our understanding of gene expression patterns and elucidate the roles of different genomic elements in cellular function and dysfunction.

Instead, these tails have taken on a very different role as cellular sensors.

We investigated the role of Srf in two cellular compartments of mouse skeletal muscle (myofibers and adult muscle stem cells) upon different perturbation of muscle homeostasis (hypertrophy, atrophy, regeneration).

Adiposity and insulin resistance in humans: the role of the different tissue and cellular lipid depots

This is why recent work in the field of cancer research has focused on picking apart the complex cellular pathways involved in the development of different cancers and identifying the roles of key proteins involved, with the goal of being able to discriminately and effectively eliminate cancerous cells from the body.

Therefore the group studies with sophisticated imaging technology in vitro and ex vivo: i) the molecular mechanism driving the migration of HIV through the intestinal epithelial barrier; ii) the cellular targets in the mucosa, in specific macrophages and DCs, to identify the possible pathways to invade the tissue and disseminate to other organs; iii) the involvement of DCs and their functional properties in mediating adaptive immune responses at mucosal level; and iv) the role of antibodies with different effector functions in changing the pathways of the virus.

In addition, creatine helps to stabilize cellular pH (acidity) and plays an important role in balancing the different aerobic and anaerobic energy sources (eg glycolysis) which are available to the cells.

Melatonin has roles in cancer prevention, strengthening your immune system, and may even slow down cellular aging; in fact, it has been the subject of preclinical research on over 100 different disease applications.1 It's your body's «Superhero of the Night,» and light is his number one nemesis.