Sentences with phrase «glucose than a normal cell»

So, even though a cancer cell has far more glucose than a normal cell, less of this glucose gets inside its mitochondria than in a normal cell.

Cancer cells have more glucose receptors than normal cells and 15 times more glucose than normal cells, though the microbes intercept most of the glucose.

Cancer cells consume 15 times more glucose than a normal cell.

The liver releases the glucose and cancer cells are likely to pick up this glucose because cancer cells consume about 15 times more glucose than normal cells.

Not exact matches

The hope is that 3BP specifically kills certain cancer cells — while leaving normal cells alone — because they rely more on glucose metabolism than on an alternative pathway called oxidative phosphorylation.

The metabolism of bone cells determines how much sugar they use; if the bone cells consume more sugar than normal, this can lower the glucose level in the blood.

In order to generate enough energy, the bone cells in our mice therefore take up much more glucose than normal.»

As a result, one could argue that things would run the opposite way than Adele proposes: reducing dietary glucose, which generally does not reduce blood glucose levels, will not affect cancer metabolism, but will limit availability of glucose to normal cells for structural use.

Cancer cells have more glucose receptors than normal cells and thus are attracted to honey.

Cancer cells love glucose and actually consume 10 to 20 times more glucose than normal healthy cells.

«Cancer cells behave differently than normal cells in terms of glucose metabolism,» said Wisner.