Sentences with phrase «for cell damage»

Free radicals are responsible for the cell damage that can lead to a whole host of health problems, ranging from arthritis all the way to dementia and diabetes.

The antioxidants in blueberries boost the dog's health and reduce the risk of illnesses by destroying the free radicals in the body, which are responsible for cell damage which often leads serious diseases like cancer, heart diseases, and various other chronic and life threatening illnesses.

Ironically, this energy - generation mechanism which is so essential to life can also set the stage for cell damage.

Not exact matches

Yeo explained that you need to prepare someone's finger for this process to make sure blood is flowing, but if you end up squeezing the finger too hard or have to prick it too many times, that may damage and break down cells — and this cellular damage could skew various test results.

By paying your monthly cell phone bill with the Uber credit card, you will be reimbursed for up to $ 600 in losses if your phone is damaged or stolen.

Researchers also are developing techniques for assembling living cells into working biodevices — which could mean a solution for damaged internal organs, such as livers, bladders, and kidneys.

Drawing on Toronto's leading stem cell and tissue engineering expertise, one group will focus on new models for repairing damaged hearts.

This makes me happy: Microglia cells migrate into tumors and supply cancer cells with a substance needed for the repair of DNA damage.

@Chad: I. Mutations in DNA sequences generally occur through one of two processes: A. Environmental factors: DNA damage from environmental agents such as ultraviolet light (sunshine), nuclear radiation or certain chemicals B. Mistakes that occur when a cell copies its DNA in preparation for cell division.

Also, even if some damage to my foot is responsible for the ache, if the subjective experiences of the cells in my foot in fact bear no relation to the experience I feel as an ache, then there is no truth relation.

Sunflower seeds were also added because they are packed full of selenium, which can help to prevent cell damage and are full of magnesium which is good for bones and they taste really good to boot

Anthocyanins, the antioxidants responsible for giving blueberries their color, protect cells from the damaging effects of oxidation, which is often linked to chronic conditions like heart disease and cancer.

I'm using onion in the recipe as it contains significant amounts of quercetin — responsible for the protection and healing of damaged cells, as well as garlic which acts as a natural antibiotic.

Foods rich in anti-oxidants are very important for the body to balance the oxidative stress is encounters each day and protect the skin cells from free radical damage.

Peanut butter only contains 1 milligram, so your cells won't be getting much protection from oxidative damage if you are opting for that nut butter all the time.

These antioxidants are partly responsible for halting DNA damage, which means cancerous cells can not mutate and form tumors.

A particularly effective treatment against many cancers, platinum - based chemotherapy, has the unfortunate side effect of damaging the hair cells in the ear that are responsible for sensing sound waves, Goldrich said.

Thus, the rate of freezing for plant tissues is extremely important due to the effect of freezing rate on the size of ice crystals, cell hydration, and damage to cell walls (Rahman, 1999).

This invigorating antioxidant body treatment protects against damaging environmental aggressors, lightly exfoliates dead skin cells, and deeply moisturizes dehydrated areas for smoother, healthier - looking skin.

Tau helps provide structure to brain cells, is a marker for axonal damage — and is also what McKee finds spotted throughout the brains she examines in her Boston U. lab.

This unnatural and forced movement of water changes vaginal cell shape and biology for the worse and can lead to tissue damage, irritation, and general disruptions to the vaginal ecosystem.

Beef is a good source of protein needed for the growth of tissues, cells, and organs in the body of the embryo and relevant for the healing and reparation of damaged tissues during childbirth.

There is a very short period (Day 4 — Day 9 postpartum) during which unrelieved breast fullness or unresolved engorgement can cause sufficient damage to the milk producing cells that they may become non-functional for the duration of that lactation.

Slice melons under water — this is believed to minimize cell damage, keeping the melon fresh for longer!

Toddlers below three months have a thin cell coating between the blood vessels and the nervous system that make it easy for bacterial or virus to penetrate and cause damage.

CoolScultping, for instance, uses an applicator to target, cool and eliminate fat cells without damaging your skin.

By using traditional cryopreservation techniques for storage there is a risk that ice crystals can develop and damage the cell structure.

In addition to being linked to the damage of cells, hormone disruption, and possible allergies, oxybenzone is simply too risky for mom and unborn baby.

There are hopes in the medical community that stem cell research and therapeutic cloning will facilitate organ cloning and enable the replacement of damaged cells with healthy ones for sufferers of degenerative diseases.

Stem cell research and diabetes Stem cell research is a relatively new area of investigation, believed by many in the scientific and medical communities to have important new potential for the treatment of many diseases and conditions particularly those like diabetes, which are characterised by severe damage to certain cells and tissues..

Simberg and colleagues also tried turning off the complement system — a facet of the immune system responsible for clearing microbes and damaged cells — thinking that this complement system might be attacking, transporting or otherwise accidentally pushing liposomes from blood to cells.

NASA and other space agencies have known for decades that this radiation can cause cancer and other cell damage.

There is no set programme for ageing — the process is driven by the build - up of faults and damage in the cells and organs of the body, which is malleable.»

In the present study, the researchers have discovered a reason for reduced fertility in people with autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 1 (APS1), which increases the risk of developing autoimmune disease (caused by the immune system attacking and damaging healthy cells) and which is often used as a model for autoimmune disease in general.

One or more cells are then removed to check for chromosome damage.

Large quantities of these reverted cells could be used to treat anything from spinal cord injury to liver damage without the risk of tissue rejection, said Robert Weinberg, a biologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and co-author of a study appearing in Cell.

Researchers at Geron, meanwhile, had successfully derived neurons from human embryonic stem cells and were pursuing research that would eventually look to repair the damage caused by spinal - cord injuries, a possible use for embryonic stem cells that was much touted at the time.

Damage to human chromosome 9 (of the cell's 24 pairs) where the gene that codes for E-NTPDase2 resides is known to cause eye and brain defects, such as microphthalmia — literally, small eyes.

«There are currently no therapies which successfully reverse the damage seen in the more than 12,000 individuals who suffer a spinal cord injury each year in the United States alone,» says Dr. Richard G. Fessler, professor of neurological surgery at Rush University Medical Center and principal investigator for the Phase 1 clinical trial involving AST - OPC1 (oligodendrocyte progenitor cells).

These are receptors on immune cells, which control for example effector T - cells by dampening their activation if damage to healthy cells is imminent.

Because hair cells are also critical for the sense of balance, mice with damaged or missing hair cells show balance abnormalities.

The most common mutations, occurring in five of the women, occurred in genes including ARID1A, PIK3CA, KRAS and PPP2R1A, all known for controlling cell growth, cell invasion and DNA damage repair.

Although treatments are available for the disease, they do not repair the damage to nerve cells.

Other mice, with robust beta cells that were good at repairing DNA damage, were able to stay non-diabetic for life, even when those islets were placed under severe cellular stress.

Defined as the harnessing of living processes to achieve healing and repair of damaged and diseased tissues by Tim Hardingham, director of the UK Centre for Tissue Engineering, it is a field that requires collaborative research involving cell and molecular biologists, chemical engineers, materials scientists, and surgeons.

Furthermore, the same team is applying new microgravity technology — originally developed by NASA for the International Space Station — to make large enough quantities of the stem cells to repair tissue damage in patients.

On average the transplanted stem cells regenerated 40 percent of the damaged heart tissue, said Dr. Michael Laflamme, UW assistant professor of pathology, whose team was principally responsible for generating the replacement heart muscle cells.

But their prominence at sites where nerve cells are damaged by the disease means they deserve careful scrutiny in the desperate search for ways to arrest the most salient cause of dementia.

But the neurosurgeon who fused Boesen's neck bones to stabilize his spine offered a ray of hope: Boesen might qualify for an experimental treatment that uses stem cells to repair damaged tissue.

The detector developed at UNH, known as DoSEN, short for Dose Spectra from Energetic Particles and Neutrons, measures and calculates the absorbed dose in matter and tissue resulting from the exposure to indirect and direct ionizing radiation, which can change cells at the atomic level and lead to irreparable damage.