Sentences with phrase «found cells age»

«Our study found cells age faster with a sedentary lifestyle.

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These particular amino acids are found to generate cell growth much quicker because the natural ability to produce supporting amounts of connective tissue diminishes after the age of 25.

The flavanoids found in almonds include catechin, kaempferol and epicatechin, and have fantastic anti ageing skin benefits due to their ability to prevent skin cells from oxidizing and dying.

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Adult neural stem cells in the hypothalamus — a brain region that regulates hunger, sleep, body temperature and other activities — appear to orchestrate the body's aging process, they found.

«More women are postponing childbearing, but with age, the cumulus cells that surround and nurture the eggs begin dying; we've found that this is caused by lack of oxygen,» said senior author Pasquale Patrizio, M.D., director of the Yale Fertility Center and professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences.

The team also tested nanoparticle absorption for other kinds of human cells, including fibroblasts from donors of older ages and found significant differences.

To find out, the researchers injected a cloned telomerase gene into cultured cells from retina, skin, and blood vessels, all of which are associated with degenerative, aging - related diseases.

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.

University of Washington researchers have found that a calorie - restricted diet reduces the activity of a cell - signaling protein called TOR - 1 that may speed up cell aging.

In a new study, Murphy, a molecular biologist at Princeton University, showed that long - lived bodily, or somatic, cells in Caenorhabditis elegans, a one - millimeter nematode commonly used as a model for aging studies in labs, activate genetic pathways completely separate from those found in long - lived egg, or oocyte, cells.

Measuring fluctuations over time, researchers found that the membrane stiffens as red blood cells age, impeding cell operation.

Murphy found that the normal pattern of gene activation seen in aging wild - type C. elegans was reversed in the body cells and oocytes of IGF - 1 mutants.

Analyzing immune cells in umbilical cord blood from 1074 infants, Zhang and colleagues found that babies who showed hyperactive innate immune responses at birth went on to develop a food allergy when tested at age one.

«We expected that blood cell age was an important factor... but we were surprised to find that it can explain all of the inaccuracy of the current test,» said Higgins.

The team found that lithium delays aging by blocking GSK - 3 and activating another molecule called NRF - 2, which is found in worms, flies and mammals (including humans) and is important for defending cells against damage.

Smoking also ages cells, Spector found.

Blackburn and UCSF psychologist Elissa Epel's work found that the most stressed - out women had shorter telomeres that translated into an extra decade or so of aging compared with their matched controls — showing that external stressors can throw a monkey wrench into the cell's molecular mechanics.

The team found that Isl1 expression protected hair cells from degeneration in aging and promoted hair cell survival after exposure to loud noise.

«Although such differences may be a function of the large sample size and thus not clinically relevant, our findings suggest that use of ICSI may improve fertilization rates but not implantation or pregnancy rates in the setting of unexplained infertility, advanced maternal age, and low oocyte [a cell from which an egg develops] yield,» the authors write.

In a paper published January 7, 2018, in the journal Aging Cell, they report that the drug binds to a protein found in mitochondria, the energy - generating powerhouses of cells.

«Our study shows, for the first time, in human skin that with increasing age there is a specific decrease in the activity of a key metabolic enzyme found in the batteries of the skin cells.

«In a previous study focused on identification of the first cells in the nervous system to fail during aging of this reflex we found that sensory neuron aging drives aging of the circuit, said Lynne Fieber, associate professor of marine biology and ecology at the UM Rosenstiel School.

In patient - derived stem cells carrying a mutation predisposing them to frontotemporal dementia, which accounts for about half of dementia cases before the age of 60, the scientists found a targetable defect that prevents normal neurodevelopment.

In the new study, published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, the scientists found that it is also involved in how cells in the immune system develop with age.

In support of this notion, the team found that in late middle - aged normal cells, blocking the autophagy - driven breakdown of the nuclear lamina can make cells live 60 percent longer.

For the first time, scientists at Newcastle University, UK, have identified that the activity of a key metabolic enzyme found in the batteries of human skin cells declines with age.

It was found that complex II activity significantly declined with age, per unit of mitochondria, in the cells derived from the lower rather than the upper levels, an observation not previously reported for human skin.

The new findings showed that these analogs of pactamycin largely stopped cancer cell proliferation and growth, causing cells to age and lose their ability to divide and grow.

Although telomerase could somehow slow aging, it is also found in most tumor cells, where it aids the uncontrolled growth that characterizes cancer.

The mice with age - related disease, they found, had abnormally high levels of immune cells called T regulatory cells (Tregs) inside their fat tissue.

The researchers now want to find out exactly how Tregs interact with fat tissue and whether the immune cells accumulate in other organs during normal aging.

Reporting their laboratory findings in the journal Aging, the team observed that addition of DPI to a mixed population of cells eliminated the tumour initiating cancer stem cells.

The scientists, working in the «Maintenance and Differentiation of Stem Cells in Development and Disease» Collaborative Research Centre (CRC 873), found that impairment of Hox gene function resulted in prematurely aged sperms.

The new technique, which yields cells resembling those found in older people's brains, will be a boon to scientists studying age - related diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

UT Southwestern researchers will now try to find out if the KROX20 in cells and the SCF gene stop working properly as people age, leading to the graying and hair thinning seen in older people — as well as in male pattern baldness, Dr. Le said.

They found that women with the lowest number of eggs also had the shortest telomeres — the chromosome caps that wear away as cells age — in their white blood cells.

«What George's team has accomplished is a technological tour de force,» said Wyss Institute Founding Director Don Ingber, M.D., Ph.D. «By spotting incredibly subtle but incredibly important changes in gene expression and precisely defining their position inside the cell, they have helped open the door to a new age of cellular diagnostics.»

Scientists at King's College London have found that people who have previously suffered from acne are likely to have longer telomeres (the protective repeated nucleotides found at the end of chromosomes) in their white blood cells, meaning their cells could be better protected against aging.

«Our study found that by introducing an inhibitor of the STAT3 protein in repeated cycles, we could alternately replenish the pool of satellite cells and promote their differentiation into muscle fibers,» said Alessandra Sacco, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Development, Aging, and Regeneration Program at Sanford - Burnham.

«Mapping the genes that increase lifespan: Comprehensive study finds 238 genes that affect aging in yeast cells.»

Comparing the magnitude and characteristics of WNV - specific CD4 + T cell response in individuals of similar ages with either neuroinvasive disease or asymptomatic infection, the researchers found that, independent of age, individuals with neuroinvasive disease had higher numbers of WNV - specific CD4 + T cells.

The authors also found abnormalities in the subthalamic nucleus occur earlier than in other brain regions, and that subthalamic nucleus nerve cells progressively degenerate as the mice age, mirroring the human pathology of Huntington's disease.

Prolonged exposure to extreme temperatures is also harmful, but Rattan has found that heating up human skin cells to 41 degrees Celsius (106 degrees Fahrenheit) twice a week for an hour slows aging in the cells.

Dr Ficz also explains that the findings could have an impact on our knowledge of ageing and cancer: «Epigenetic fluctuations happen all the time in our cells.

With use of advanced mouse models, she and her team found that blood stem cells without adequate SIRT1 resembled aged and defective stem cells, which are thought to be linked to development of malignancies.

«We've been trying to understand both how the different states a cell finds itself in can be defined by the markings on the histones surrounding its DNA, and to find an objective way to define the «age» of a cell,» said Rando, who is also director of Stanford's Glenn Laboratories for the Biology of Aging and deputy director of the Stanford Center on Longevity.

Previous evidence for a breast cancer link has been mixed — one study found increased risk in women exposed before age 14, whereas others found no association — but in a lab dish, DDT has been shown to activate the HER2 gene in human breast cells, which is expressed in some breast cancers.

The findings, published online October 10 in the Cell Press journal Cell Metabolism, may be useful for designing drugs that utilize this exercise - induced molecule to guard against neurodegenerative diseases and improve cognition in the aging population.

Adding telomerase to dividing cells in culture can lengthen their lifespan (ScienceNOW, 13 January 1998), but no one has found a direct link between telomeres and animal aging.