Sentences with phrase «for cell destruction»

Without sufficient glutathione to fight free radicals, you are at risk for cell destruction from oxidative stress, heart problems, infections and cancer — to name just a few.

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Most of the action is coordinated by white blood cells, which direct the lines of attack like football coaches, churning out antibodies that target the opponent for destruction.

For example, ten or twenty years from now, the physician's tools may include embryonic stem cells or products obtained from cloned embryos and fetuses gestated for that purpose, making physicians who provide such treatments complicit in the life destruction required to obtain the modalitiFor example, ten or twenty years from now, the physician's tools may include embryonic stem cells or products obtained from cloned embryos and fetuses gestated for that purpose, making physicians who provide such treatments complicit in the life destruction required to obtain the modalitifor that purpose, making physicians who provide such treatments complicit in the life destruction required to obtain the modalities.

The lab - grown meat — which the company calls «clean meat» — is developed from self - reproducing cells taken from a chicken, with the purpose of creating a product that omnivores can't distinguish from the real thing, but with a fraction of the considerable downsides of meat production, including environmental destruction and using agricultural land to grow animal feed rather than crops for human consumption.

Jaundice which is due to the rapid, abnormal destruction of the baby s blood cells often resulted, in the past, in serious injury or even death for the baby, but this is different from what most babies are now experiencing.

HELLP — which stands for hemolysis (the destruction of red blood cells), elevated liver enzymes and low platelet count — syndrome is a more severe form of preeclampsia, and can rapidly become life - threatening for both you and your baby.

The researchers showed that the synapse - eating process requires a protein in the complement system — a part of the immune response that helps «tag» unwanted cells and other debris for destruction.

Checkpoint inhibitors block that handshake, which alerts immune cells to cancer cells and target them for destruction.

Under normal oxygen conditions, VHL flags the protein for destruction by the cell's protein disposal machinery.

The recipe for these replacement organs begins with destruction: Wash away the cells of a donor organ with detergent, leaving behind just its spongy, protein support structure.

«The genes which these miRNAs regulate also had increased levels, indicating that these gene expression, indicating that these gene products were likely targeted for storage and for possible future use within the brain cell, rather than for destruction.

One of immunology's great unknowns was how T cells recognized the antigen that marked an invader for destruction.

Among the protagonists are B cells, which produce antibody molecules able to neutralize pathogens or mark them for destruction, and T cells, which prompt infected cells to kill themselves or secrete chemicals that direct the activities of other immune players.

Obtaining embryonic stem cells through cloning would mean breeding human life specifically for destruction.

Sommer and his colleagues think that Ubc7p in the cell's cytoplasm binds to Cue1p, forming a complex that both escorts misfolded proteins out of the ER and tags them for destruction.

«The goal of our work is to understand the cellular mechanisms responsible for beta cell destruction so that we can identify the best targets for beta cell protection,» Costes said.

Molecular whistle - blowers seek out bacteria, viruses and sickly cells and tag them for destruction.

Once activated, T cells can home in on a tumor and target it for destruction.

To find out whether increasing cell self - destruction in the lungs could actually decrease cell death — and ultimately prevent lung injury — Bhandari and his research team targeted a regulator protein called RPTOR, which when inhibited, is responsible for inducing autophagy.

But last April he also voted for the HOPEAct, a Bush - supported «compromise» bill that would open up federal funding for research that does not involve the creation, destruction, or injury of embryos; seeing as there are not yet any embryonic stem cells lines that meet this condition (ACT hasn't yet proven that their technique poses no «risk of injury»), the HOPE funding would only be available for non-embryonic stemcells.

Such neoantigens are foreign to the immune system, and thus, the cancer cell is flagged for destruction, usually with the help of immunotherapy drugs.

But he believes that targeting cancers for destruction by necrosis and not by apoptosis, the other main pathway to cell death, holds great promise therapeutically.

At the same time, other switches get flipped throughout the body, modifying everything from metabolism to cell growth, via other cytokines, such as IL - 6 and tumor necrosis factor — a, and things like CRP, which mark bacteria for destruction.

The 2012 platform also repeats previous calls for expanding federal funding «for the stem - cell research that now offers the greatest hope for many afflictions — with adult stem cells, umbilical cord blood, and cells reprogrammed into pluripotent stem cells — without the destruction of embryonic human life.»

The proteasome plays a key role in the smooth running of a healthy cell, facilitating cell renewal and death — chopping up proteins tagged for destruction into short polypeptides which can then be converted to amino - acids and recycled for use in building new proteins.

Although mitochondria, the tiny capsules that produce energy for the cell, are known to play some role in neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders, the contribution of mitochondrial dynamics (mitochondrial trafficking, the regulated fusion and fission, and destruction of mitochondria) has been less clear.

Semenza's team suspected that Cdk1 and Cdk2 were acting on HIF - 1alpha by marking or not marking it for destruction by the cell's miniature «garbage disposals,» called proteasomes.

After an asymptomatic period, when the pancreas cell destruction is complete and the clinical diagnosis is done, the disease requires insulin administration for life.

Cells often shunt poisons they absorb to an organelle called the lysosome for destruction.

Type 1 is a chronic disease consists of a selective destruction of the cells responsible for insulin production.

MicroRNAs lower the levels of proteins such as BDNF by binding to messenger RNA, the molecular middleman that carries instructions from genes to the protein - making machinery of the cell, and tagging it for destruction.

The addition of a small protein named ubiquitin can mark another protein for destruction, relocation in the cell, or it can turn the protein on or off, which can trigger or stop a cellular process, Luo said.

Importantly, these newly identified helper proteins channel the cellular garbage by a «self - eating» pathway (autophagy) to the lysosome, a compartment of cells dedicated for destruction and recycling.

For that purpose, we used a streptozotocin (STZ) model of diabetes, which is widely used in the field to produce destruction of β cells and hyperglycemia (Wilson and Leiter, 1990).

By attaching to the myeloma cells, it marks them for destruction, and by attaching to NK cells, it primes the immune cells to search for and attack the myeloma cells

It wasn't until 1999 that his Bioethics Commission concluded that embryonic stem - cell research was a legitimate reason for embryo destruction, and thus favored overturning Dickey - Wicker.

While public opinion on stem cells is notoriously difficult to gauge, after the November 2007 breakthrough only the staunchest of ideologues were clamoring for public funding of embryo destruction.

The selective pressure of the competent immune system «edits» the tumor by selecting for cells that can avoid immune destruction.

Obama's policy is bad science because embryo destruction is no longer necessary for the types of stem cells doctors seek.

In the past few years a number of techniques for the derivation of pluripotent cells without the destruction of embryos have begun to emerge, and one in particular has made great strides: the development of so - called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells.

Ricklin explains that the team's findings, «further support the concept that complement inhibition at the level of C3 rather than C5 will hopefully confer better therapeutic benefits for PNH patients because it will prevent destruction of red blood cells both inside and outside of vessels.»

Azot: The azot gene in fruit flies is a part of a mechanism by which cells collaborate to identify damaged or dysfunctional neighbors, flagging them for destruction and replacement.

But not even this fourth will mark the death knell for this deadly science: while the ruling temporarily halts the federal funding of embryo - destructive stem - cell research, it does nothing to prevent the destruction of human embryos in privately funded research.

For example, Gladstone scientists are researching how autophagy — a process by which cells eliminate abnormal proteins — can help to prevent the destruction of brain cells.

In effect, Affigen uses cancer's «Achille's Heel»: the proteins which distinguish tumor cells from normal cells, that can target tumor cells for destruction with extreme sensitivity and precision.

Bush sought to honor the spirit, if not, perhaps, the letter, of Dickey - Wicker by providing funding for embryonic stem - cell research without incentivizing further embryo destruction.

This enhances the immune response through multiple mechanisms: by attaching to the myeloma cells, it marks them for destruction, and by attaching to the NK cells, it primes the immune cells to search for and attack the myeloma cells.

Researchers have discovered that a subset of human antibodies have catalytic activity against a particular antigen, breaking it down into smaller and less harmful fragments instead of trapping it for removal or destruction by other immune cells.

They are important especially for the destruction of cells infected by a virus or of tumor cells.

However, current technologies for the genome - wide characterization of the transcriptome still require the dissociation and destruction of cells, even when obtained from living donors, and the impact of this cellular destruction on the transcriptome is also largely unknown.