Sentences with phrase «from getting into cells»

Elevated estrogen can also create too many thyroid - binding proteins, which prevent thyroid hormones from getting into cells.
I had too much biounavailable calcium, preventing my thyroid hormones from getting into my cells.
Even though my estrogen was very low, too many estrogenic substances were binding T3 and preventing it from getting into my cells.
Five years ago, scientists showed it could keep the virus that causes AIDS from getting into cells — but it also caused side effects that limited its potential use.

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Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor.
All man - made religion is dangerous, especially that crazy one that believes that if you put paper and ink in a room together, it'll «evolve» into a dictionary, and who believe that «because a dog's coat gets thicker in the winter, therefore we evolved from a one - celled amoeba.»
Both types of pressure influence how much fluid gets into the veins from the cells and vice versa.
One prisoner decided that he needed to use the facilities and was allowed to alight from the bus, go into the cells, use the facilities and go back, voluntarily, and get back on the bus, because to have forced him to do otherwise would have been a breach of his human rights.
Dr Stotz continued: «This concept of plant ETI does not really explain the second line of defense in the interaction of plant hosts protecting themselves against extracellular fungal pathogens — i.e. those foliar fungal pathogens that get into the leaf of the plant to exploit the space between its cells, known as the apoplast, to retrieve nutrients from the plant.
Brewer's yeast cells break down inedible sugars in their environment into edible ones, meaning that individuals get a boost from the work of their neighbors — especially at high densities.
And it's essential to understand how neurobiological processing conducted by molecules and cells and electrical signaling gets translated into behaviors, from simple bodily movements to complex social interactions.
And once entire mitochondria from one plant get into the cells of another, they mix their DNA with that of the existing mitochondria.
On the other hand, the problem is, you know, with embryonic stem cells, they haven't been able to get stem cell lines from livestock animals that can proliferate in that way, without just sort of veering up in their own direction and turning into, instead of muscle, turning into brain tissue or bone tissue or something else.
DDRs inhibition with a tyrosine kinase inhibitor appears to insulate the brain via blood - brain barrier repair, which prevents harmful immune cells that circulate in the body from getting into the brain where they can indiscriminately attack and kill healthy and sick neurons, like those that have been unable to perform autophagy to «take out their trash,» says Moussa.
«We've got a real fun race going on here between plugging in vehicles and storing electricity in the battery versus pumping hydrogen into a tank and creating electricity from a fuel cell,» says Larry Burns, GM's vice president of research and development.
Samples of tumours from bowel cancer patients given different doses of resveratrol showed that even lower doses can get into cancer cells and potentially affect processes involved in tumour growth.
All Dicty lines, especially in the winning group, also got a boost from their quick starts, moving from maze's starting area into the channels much faster than the HL60 cells.
Such cells usually die when injected into damaged hearts, but researchers from Geron Corp. were able to make the rat hearts survive and pump away, getting the blood flowing again.
Faustman got her idea by chance while transplanting islets, the pancreatic bodies that contain beta cells, from normal mice into others that had lost theirs to type 1, or juvenile, diabetes.
«The blood - brain barrier forms pretty early in gestation, so the thyroid hormone, even from the mother, is probably not getting through the barrier and into the brain, likely leading to developmental deficits,» says Shusta, whose group was among the first to develop blood - brain barriers from patient - derived stem cells in the lab dish.
If the cells can be fertilized and develop into viable embryos, and if human ES cells turn out to have similar powers, such cells could allow researchers to get around some of the expense and ethical questions that arise from using donated eggs for therapeutic cloning experiments.
To get around this problem, researchers have been developing sophisticated methods to extract T cells from patients, select and expand those that best target a patient's cancer and reinfuse them into the patient.
In such cases, if genes from the bracoviruses get integrated into the genome of developing egg or sperm cells in the caterpillar, they can be passed down to its offspring.
Big animals have longer legs or flippers to get from point A to point B. And bigger bodies have higher metabolic rates and more fast - twitch muscle cells, needed to convert chemical energy into mechanical energy and rapidly accelerate.
If a yeast cells finds its way from the lung to the brain via a phage or other routes, «that's very bad news,» Bartlett says, «because once it gets into the central nervous system it's in heaven.
Using this approach, immune cells are taken from a patient's bloodstream, reprogrammed to recognize and attack a specific protein found in cancer cells, then reintroduced into the patient's system, where they get to work destroying targeted tumor cells.
It's worth noting that 1) Greider was Blackburn's grad student but Blackburn shared the glory (unlike several male recipients) and 2) Blackburn was the scientist who got fired from the Bush «bioethics panel» for daring to inject some reality into the stem cell debate.
The University of Southern Denmark has managed to get cells to capture carbon dioxide from solution and convert it into carbon - containing materials, and the team plans to use such cells to construct carbon - negative buildings.
Every step of the process requires precision, from minimizing off - target cuts to getting the modified stem cells to survive and transform into blood cells.
The DNA from cancer cells is mutated and this mutated DNA can get into the blood stream (circulating tumour DNA, ctDNA) and be detected by sequencing the DNA in blood.
From there, the ASOs get taken up into brain cells where they continue to suppress their target protein for a month or so, after which time more needs to be injected.
«It is very possible that these cells somehow get into the brain and then either predispose the brain to disorder or protect the brain from disorder,» he said.
Replacing brain cells using stem cells from embryos was tried before but didn't work well, probably because we didn't understand how to look after the cells, nurture them to become neurons and get them to make the right connections when transplanted into HD brain.
These stem cells can then be differentiated into insulin - producing pancreatic beta cells that provide a living window into diabetes: they mature, get sick, and die in the same way that they do in the patient from whom they are made.
The glucose, like all of the nutrients, soon gets absorbed into the bloodstream creating a peak in what we call «blood sugar levels», which results with the releasing of more insulin from the pancreas in order to push glucose to the cells, basically «commanding» the cells to open up and absorb it, where it gets used as an energy source.
Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor.
I have a nut question — since fat hinders insulin's job of getting glucose into the cells, which can lead to insulin resistance, prediabetes and diabetes, should people who have these diseases refrain from consuming nuts?
The process of moving harmful substances from the cells, fats, and tissues and into the blood stream and digestive system for the body to get rid of can almost make you feel a little sick at first.
Long - term exposure to environments that deplete sources of brain fuel from effectively getting into the cells leads to neurodegenerative diseases.
Transport proteins: A series of transport proteins (multi drug resistant proteins, or MRPs) are responsible for getting the conjugated mercury out of your cells and into your blood, as well as from your blood into your liver and small intestine, and into other places so it can be eliminated
The fat from my morning bulletproof coffee makes my body stay in ketosis so my cells and metabolism get the benefits of Intermittent Fasting, but the fats provide enough fuel for my brain as to not send my hormones into wacky mode, or to trick my body into thinking I am starving, thus starting to store fat.
Its purpose is to grab this sugar from our blood and get it into our cells so that it can be burned for energy or stored as fat.
While it can't get glucose into the cells efficiently when they're in a state of insulin resistance, insulin still performs its other tasks, including converting carbohydrates to fat and inhibiting stored fat from being burned.
I had thought that the bigger issue was not the fat on the body but the large fat in the meal, as «this fat» is the fat that impairs insulin's ability to get glucose / sugars from foods into the cells.
Suspect that it has an odd electron balance that prevents it from entering healthy cells, but gets into the cells that form the stones and disrupts their function or breaks them up.
Insulin is needed to get the glucose from your blood into your cells.
You must keep oxidative free radicals from attacking your cells and the best way to do that is to get the right amount of free radical killing antioxidants into your body.
It is also dependent on these hormones getting from the blood into the cells, where they can be used by the body.
The trick is getting that glucose from your blood into your cells.
That's a great trait to have, because it means it can move into and out of cells and get from your blood into your brain easily.
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