Sentences with phrase «fuel by the mitochondria»

The food we eat is eventually converted to sugar and used as fuel by the mitochondria.

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Several mutations were found in genes coding the machinery that makes mitochondrial proteins, and so would probably hinder mitochondria's ability to make the chemical fuel called ATP, which is used by normal cells.

What if it were possible to reduce muscle inflammation — and thus muscle loss — by providing the worn - out mitochondria with fuel?

This power failure, the team found, is caused by disruption to the cells» mitochondria — the tiny powerhouses that fuel all cell life — when they become destabilized during the «resuscitation» period after a heart attack and trigger chaotic cell - to - cell signaling that interferes with the heart's entire electrical network.

First, the researchers inhibited the tumour cell mitochondria, by restricting the cancer cells only to glucose as a fuel source; then, they took away their glucose, effectively starving the cancer cells to death.

Combining the power of genetics and biochemistry, Horwich, Hartl, his PhD student Joachim Ostermann, and Neupert discovered the steps by which Hsp60, fueled by ATP in the mitochondria of yeast and another fungus, Neurospora crassa, worked to fold proteins into their functional shapes.

Coenzyme Q has been called the «spark plug» of the cell since all fuels being broken down by mitochondria to produce ATP rely on its action.

I believe Fat for Fuel: A Revolutionary Diet to Combat Cancer, Boost Brain Power, and Increase Your Energy gives you your best fighting chance against cancer or any other chronic disease by repairing and renewing your mitochondria.

Mice given astaxanthin were found to have accelerated body fat reduction (i.e., «fat burning») when combined with exercise, as compared to exercise alone in a 2007 study by Aoi et al. 9 Aoi reports the carotenoid seems to exert this effect by protecting the function of a lipid transport enzyme on the membrane of mitochondria that «fuels» energy production.

- hydroxybutyrate (BHB), acetoacetate and acetone — are released into the bloodstream, taken up by the brain and other organs, shuttled into the «energy factory» mitochondria and used up as fuel.