Sentences with phrase «generates hydrogen peroxide»

In addition, a new study published last month in Redox Biology showed that vitamin C generates hydrogen peroxide in connective tissue, thereby destroying tumor cells and converting them harmlessly to water, while leaving normal cells unaffected.

When vitamin C breaks down, it generates hydrogen peroxide, which can damage cancer tissue by shutting down their energy supply.

As chitosan is oxidised, it generates hydrogen peroxide, and Schmidt believes that this is the secret of the moulds» success.

Recently we reported that antibodies can generate hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) from singlet molecular oxygen (1O2 *).

Not exact matches

In the worm, only harmless concentrations of hydrogen peroxide are generated and this process occurs at different rates at both sides of the plasma membrane.

Oddly, the antibodies kept generating a reactive compound, hydrogen peroxide.

«The fungi we study use a non-enzymatic, catalytic chelator - mediated Fenton system instead, a very simple process that makes use of hydrogen peroxide, also generated by the fungal system, and iron found in the environment,» Goodell says.

The cell envelops the foreign body and exterminates it specifically by using reactive oxygen species (ozone, hydrogen peroxide, bleach), generated thanks to the enzyme NOX2.

These processes generate strong static electric fields, which can trigger the chemical synthesis of hydrogen peroxide.

Lastly, excessive iodine can generate high levels of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), which damages thyrocytes and perpetuates thyroid autoimmunity (27).

The microbiota serve innumerable roles, including competing for attachment sites with potentially pathogenic microbes, reducing their virulence, inhibiting the effects of bacterial toxins, and generating anti-microbial substances such as bacteriocidins and hydrogen peroxide that can selectively suppress pathogenic bacteria and fungi (Corr et al., 2009; Castagliuolo et al., 1999).

The combination of vitamin C, certain metals, and hydrogen peroxide makes up a free - radical generating process called the «Udenfriend system».

But food isn't the only source — metabolic reactions also generate free radicals like superoxides and hydrogen peroxide.

It is powered by liquid hydrogen peroxide (the tank can contain 12,5 litres de H2O2 at 86 % concentration) that generates steam at 650 degrees Fahrenheit.

Antibodies generate a small amount of ozone and hydrogen peroxide, which turns out to be a highly fatal combination.