Sentences with phrase «dying cells as»

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Also, they have chosen a cheap populist theme, attacking cell phone, bank and credit - card charges instead of hammering the Conservatives on their dangerous, right - wing deregulation agenda — even though people are still dying as a result of Harper's «self - regulation» changes to food safety.

And we can forget opennes on abortion, stem cell research and let people make their own decisions as to how to die.

The researcher told me it was the sound of a dying cell — a high - frequency discharge as the cell's life ebbed away.

This is the most effective probiotic strain to take when trying to kill candida as it actively punctures the yeast cell walls and causes die off.

Much like our webbed fingers and toes, as your fetus matures the cells between the tongue and the lower jaw mature and some die off, leaving the tongue as a separate muscle in the mouth.

Middle - aged people who eat protein - heavy diets are four times as likely to die of cancer as those who eat only a little protein, according to the study, which was published in the journal Cell Metabolism.

These symptoms arise because nerve cells producing the neurotransmitter dopamine, located in an area of the brain known as the substantia nigra, slowly die.

Lowered density usually means that nerve - cell bodies, known as gray matter, or the material around them, have thinned out or died.

«Amyloid is one of many substances that builds up in plaques as a result of dying cells and atrophy in the brain,» he says.

They found — as they did in the 2016 study — that when these cells expressed SOD1 mutants that predominantly form trimers, the cells died much more quickly than control cells containing normal SOD1.

The main reason why people die of cancer is that the cancer cells spread to form daughter tumours, or metastases, in vital organs, such as the lungs and liver.

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.

As it is normal for skin cells to die and flake off, a small amount of flaking is normal and in fact quite common.

The animals were five times as likely as regular mice to go into shock and die when exposed to bacterial cells, the group reports in the November 15 issue of Genes and Development.

The act of reprogramming cells to make them as capable as ones from embryos apparently can result in aberrant cells that age and die abnormally, suggesting there is a long way to go to prove such cells are really like embryonic stem cells and can find use in therapies.

Using cells from cadavers, doctors have been experimentally transplanting pancreatic islets into humans for decades, but as many as 60 percent of the transplanted islets die immediately because they are cut off from their blood supply and are killed by an immune response due to direct injection into the bloodstream, and those that survive the transplant usually die within several months.

Failure of an enzyme to break down DNA spilling into the bloodstream as cells die may be a major driver of inflammation in lupus.

The tremors and other movement impairments of Parkinson's are triggered by the death of dopamine - producing cells in the brain, so the investigators used flies that had been genetically engineered to have their dopamine cells die off as they age.

«Instead of cleaning up when neurons die, the microglia assume they're under attack when they see too much cell death and kill nerve cells as collateral damage,» says Tanzi, who led the research team.

Now, scientists have a provocative new theory that might explain in part this universal human decline: Dying cells secrete a protein that could trigger others to die as well, accelerating the body's deterioration.

The control mice, with all genes intact, should have lost sight as photo - receptors — the light - sensitive cells in the retina — died.

The retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) is a single layer of cells that accomplishes multiple functions, such as providing survival molecules that prevent photoreceptors from dying.

Following cancer therapy, the dominant cells may die first, and other cells that were originally not as fit may find themselves better able to compete for necessary space and nutrients and continue to grow and take over the tumor.

This led to a gradual increase in Spo0A activity as opposed to a spike, and such cells were several times more likely to fail or die during sporulation.

Researchers used the new therapy to inhibit a pathway in the cancer cells known as mTOR signaling — putting the brakes on this pathway, combined with the current standard therapy, caused more of the cancer cells to die.

Because retinal cells do not divide or die out but remain constant throughout our life, the deposited gene would last as long as the eye itself.

As a result, Katlyn's immune cells were dying.

More recently, however, researchers have suggested that macrophages — specialized immune cells that reside in the dermis — are attracted to the wound inflicted by the tattoo needle and gobble up the tattoo pigment just as they would normally engulf an invading pathogen or piece of a dying cell.

Nearly all of the cancer cells died as a result, but a residual population of tumor cells survived and became dormant.

Known as the phosphatidylserine receptor, or PSR - 1, the molecule can locate and clear out apoptotic cells that are pre-programmed to die as well as necrotic cells that have been injured and are causing inflammation, said CU - Boulder Professor Ding Xue, who led one study and co-authored the other.

Necrosis is virtually the opposite: The cell isn't trying to die, but factors such as blood loss or oxygen deprivation make it swell and explode.

One of them was used to reproduce acquired aplastic anemia: due to various types of damage, some of the stem cells die, and those that remain need to divide more frequently in order to maintain the production of blood cells; as a result of so many divisions, the telomeres shorten and the disease appears.

Optic nerve hypoplasia is closely related to optic nerve atrophy, in which the optic nerve develops normally initially, but later degenerates as its cells die off.

Cardiovascular disease in these young patients develops as vulnerable cells lining the interior of major arteries (vessels that carry blood away from the heart) accumulate the toxic protein and die.

The therapy employs a virus to insert a gene for a common ion channel into normally blind cells of the retina that survive after the light - responsive rod and cone photoreceptor cells die as a result of diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa.

This finding is somewhat counterintuitive with regard to cell growth since EGFR activation functions as a positive growth signal, the researchers note; however, that fact cells die when EGFR is inhibited is not counterintuitive, but shows the cells are now addicted to the EGFR signal.

Researchers from Massachusetts Eye and Ear have, for the first time, identified rapidly proliferating cells (known as «neural crest - derived progenitor cells») in the corneal endothelium of specimens from normal corneas and from corneas with Fuchs» Endothelial Corneal Dystrophy (FECD), a condition in which the cells responsible for keeping the cornea clear die prematurely — often leading to blindness.

«Dying cells in fruit fly alert neighboring cells to protect themselves: As a result, neighbors become harder to kill.»

The consequences, as described in a paper published in Cell this June: The melanocytes that originally went on to rejuvenate instead only matured and died.

Single - celled organisms however can not utilise this strategy, as they only comprise a single cell — hence upon significant damage, they usually die.

We replace our entire bodies as our cells die off and regenerate through the decades.

Much like thermostats that adjust the temperature in a room to make sure it's not too hot or too cold, kinases make sure that the right number of new cells are created as old ones die.

Previous attempts to maintain cultures of the so - called nephron progenitor cells often failed, as the cells died or gradually lost their developmental potential rather than staying in a more medically useful precursor state.

With the passage of time, patches of retinal pigment epithelial cells may die, resulting in bare spots known as geographic atrophy.

Most of the cells died, but as expected, some found a way to survive and multiply.

In other neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson's — which primarily affects a person's motor abilities — scientists know that nerve cells begin to die long before symptoms appear.

An asymmetric cell division in non-stem cells can instead result in two daughter cells with very different fates, such as one large cell that reinitiates cell division prematurely and a much smaller cell that either grows very slowly or dies.

The drug, known as HRX9, works by preventing the cancer cells from avoiding apoptosis — the natural process by which unhealthy and damaged cells close themselves down and die.

Specifically, the dying cells produced seven times as much of the protein as normal brain cells did.

Earlier research had shown that cells surrounding an HIV - infected cell die as a result of apoptosis, or programmed cell suicide, and scientists knew that Nef had a hand in starting that process.