Sentences with phrase «forming cell walls»

This led Lippman's team to propose that the ancient function of the HPAT genes is to control tip growth, which, Lippman says, is likely related to key proteins that are critical for forming cell walls.

A chitinase breaks down chitin, which forms the cell wall of a fungus cell.

They're also rich in a molecule known as beta - glucan, which is a carbohydrate that forms the cell walls of cereals, bacteria, and fungi and is known to lower cholesterol levels and support gut health.

Not exact matches

We anticipate some sort of growth toward increased complexity: increasingly larger organic macromolecules, then the convergence of many macromolecules to constitute a simple living system, either as a cell with its protective wall and vital nucleus or as some functional analogue, then the convergence of many cells to form larger organisms.

Autoimmunity is commonly caused by bacterial infections or overgrowth in the small intestine, in which partially digested food compounds are incorporated into bacterial cell walls and then the immune system, reacting to the bacteria, forms antibodies that also recognize food compounds, some of which might cross-react with human counterparts.

Meanwhile, seven or eight days after a sperm fertilizes an egg in week 4 of pregnancy, a mass of cells — the earliest form of an embryo — implants into the wall of the uterus.

It is formed when the collection of cells that has moved to the uterus to be implanted splits and attaches themselves to the deeper parts of the uterine wall.

Prof. Hamida Hammad (VIB / Ghent University): «We already suspect that to some extent, the answer lies in the endotoxines, which form part of the cell wall of specific bacteria.

«Together these studies tell a story about how mushroom - forming fungi evolved a complex mechanism for breakdown of plant cell walls in «white rot» and then cast it aside following the evolution of mycorrhizal associations, as well as the alternative decay mechanism of «brown rot,»» Hibbett said.

In the lab, the herbicide 2,4 - dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (sold as weed killer and called 2,4 - D) can prompt cells in culture to elongate, build a new cell wall, and start dividing to form embryos.

As we age, fat and blood cells form hard plaques on the walls of our arteries.

This it accomplishes with its mosaic of specialized cells that form millions of tiny, exceptionally thin - walled air sacs where gas exchange takes place.

Lignin, which forms in the plant cell wall, is an essential component for tree growth that imparts strength and density to timber.

Mice lack colonic BMI - 1 stem cells that play a critical role in how colon cancer forms — or carcinogenesis — and how material passes through the cell lining of the intestinal wall — or gut permeability.

The mycomembrane of the tuberculosis pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis consists of a lipid double layer that encapsulates the cell wall, forming an exterior barrier.

Other new evidence shows that cells forming the inner wall of a pig's aorta are also ferroelectric, the first sign of ferroelectricity in mammalian tissue.

«Loophole for cancer cells found: Cancer cells kill blood vessel cells so that they can slip through the vascular wall, form metastases.»

In the microcirculation, the layer forms because red blood cells tend to naturally deform and lift away from the vessel walls.

Lignin is the complex organic polymer that forms rigid cell walls in wood.

Szymanski and his fellow researchers found that actin fibers run throughout the cell, forming a network of long - distance «roadways» along which additional materials for the cell wall are transported.

Beta - barrel proteins form the gates of the cell wall for importing nutrition and secreting important biological molecules.

The sponge's cells, its calcium carbonate or glasslike silica spicules, and the mass of collagen that forms its visible body all create a network of tunnels and chambers, with little flailing hairs called cilia on the walls that wave the water through and filter out plankton and waste.

Now, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have made a better thermoplastic by replacing styrene with lignin, a brittle, rigid polymer that, with cellulose, forms the woody cell walls of plants.

The guts of these animals produce a natural antifreeze — glycoproteins that bind to ice crystals as they begin to form and prevent them from growing large enough to fatally rupture the walls of cells.

This enables scientists to genetically modify phage genomes systematically, provide them with additional functionality, and finally reactivate them in a bacterial «surrogate» — a cell - wall deficient Listeria cell, or L - form.

Research problems that are just out of reach today but that could be made accessible by advances in electron microscopy include studies of the little pores that form in our cells walls and which are centrally important in the regulation of all life processes as well as new nano - structured materials that are ultra-light yet strong, allowing reduced energy consumption in vehicles.

Tumors form in the pleura, a thin membrane of cells that line the lungs and chest wall.

When the late blastocyst is implanted in the uterine wall, at day 7 or 8 in human development, the trophoblast stem cells (in the trophoblast) quickly differentiate to form cells required for a firm implantation and, later, for the placenta.

Small clusters of immune cells called granulomas form, walling off the bacteria.

When deprived of nitrogen, haploid cells of opposite mating types can fuse to become a diploid zygospore which forms a hard outer wall that protects it from adverse environmental conditions.

Research in the Rose lab is focused on understanding the biological importance of the structural polymers that form plant cell walls, as well as the water resistant barrier, called the cuticle (the plant «skin»), which covers the above ground surfaces of land plants.

«These discoveries have contributed to our fundamental understanding of how cell walls are formed,» said Jerry Tuskan, CEO and director of CBI.

Coralline algae usually build their cell walls from a form of calcite that contains a high amount of magnesium.

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«A single cell in the muscle wall of the uterus divides again and again, forming a rubbery benign tumor,» says Susan Haas, MD, clinician in residence at Northeastern University's Health Care Systems Engineering Institute in Boston.

Vibrational + Provides shelf stable essential fatty acids (EFAs), in the form of flax and chia seeds, that serve to increase cell wall permeability so that our cells can both absorb nutrients and release waste / toxins more efficiently.

A damaged endothelial cell wall means low performance during physical activity as well as an increased risk in heart attack since a healthy endothelial cell wall does not allow arterial blockages to form.

To me it seem like plaques form when the blood becomes «saturated» with cholesterol and it «precipitates» out in the walls of the arteries where it is eaten by immune cells which turn into foam cells when they become engorged with cholesterol.

When the immune system has been compromised, or when the normal lining of the gut becomes damaged, the yeast, instead of remaining within the intestinal tract where they belong, can metamorphose into its fungal form sending out rhizomes (roots) to penetrate the walls of the gut, opening it to the absorption of yeast cells, particles of cells, and the toxins these micro organisms produce enter the interior of the body and pass into the bloodstream.

Inflammation kills intestinal cells and loosens the tight cell junctions forming the gut wall, creating «holes».

There are multiple factors that can cause inflammation and damage of the endothelium, the layer of cells that form the inside wall of every blood vessel in your body:

The body perceives this plaque as an injury and sends inflammatory cells into the vessel walls, where they set off a cascade of events that can ultimately cause plaque to rupture and a clot to form over it.

The ingredients list speaks for itself: magnesium glycinate, ascorbyl palmitate (a fat - soluble form of Vitamin C), cellulose (what plant cell walls are made of), and water.

Water that's been been restructured into micro-cluster form passes easily through cell walls and tissue membranes, quickly hydrating the whole body and delivering essential nutrients into the cells, while also flushing out and carrying away toxic wastes.

If you've been here before, you know that your brain and belly are inextricably linked: your enteric nervous system (or ENS — the scientific term for your second brain) is made up of 100 million nerve cells in the walls of your digestive system, forming a «brain in the belly» that actively communicates with the 3 - pound dome atop our necks (the ultimate command center for the nervous system).

The cholesterol is left behind in the cell wall, thus enriching the newly forming lipid raft with cholesterol.

Treatment of chronic Lyme disease can be very problematic as the Borrelia bacteria can transform from the standard cell wall form to a non-cell wall form and also into a treatment resistant cyst.

These fats and white blood cells begin to oxidize (become rancid) and build up in the artery walls, forming plaques.

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