Sentences with phrase «high levels of a protein called»

They noted that Tregs generally had high levels of a protein called Helios, a transcription factor that helps switch genes on and off.

High levels of a protein called C - reactive protein (CRP), which has been linked to inflammation and infection, emerged from an analysis of more than 100 proteins as being strongly linked to delirium.

The approach is already routine for some cancer patients, such as women and men with breast cancer tumors that have high levels of a protein called HER2, or lung cancer tumors with mutations in the EGFR gene.

UBC Psychiatry Professor Dr. Weihong Song and Neurology Professor Yan - Jiang Wang at Third Military Medical University in Chongqing attached normal mice, which don't naturally develop Alzheimer's disease, to mice modified to carry a mutant human gene that produces high levels of a protein called amyloid - beta.

Previously, Jonathan Tilly, a reproductive biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, found a striking correlation between high levels of a protein called Bax (a key regulator of apoptosis) and cell death in healthy ovaries.

Research in the lab of Edward P. Feener, Ph.D., Investigator in the Section on Vascular Cell Biology and Director of the Proteomics Core at Joslin Diabetes Center and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, now has shown that a substantial percentage of patients with DME do not have high levels of VEGF in the fluid inside their eyes but do have high levels of a protein called PKal (plasma kallikrein) and associated molecules that are key players in an inflammatory molecular pathway involved in the disease.

Breast tumors that are HER2 positive — meaning that they have high levels of a protein called HER2 — often respond to targeted medications, sometimes known as «smart bombs,» like Herceptin.

Untreated sleep apnea and stress can also contribute, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute says, as may inflammation, indicated by high levels of a protein called C - reactive protein (CRP) in the blood, which is currently being studied more.

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This trimester still calls for higher levels of iron as well as protein.

Compared with postmortem brain tissue taken from healthy people and those with Alzheimer's, tissue from people who had CTE had higher levels of an inflammation protein called CCL11, Mez and other researchers reported in September in PLOS ONE.

Researchers know that patients with several types of cancer, including prostate cancer, have higher than normal levels of a protein called AMACR, and that the protein is linked to the aggressiveness of the cancer.

One study, called A4 (the anti-amyloid treatment in asymptomatic Alzheimer's trial), will test solanezumab in 1,000 cognitively normal people age 65 to 85, who have abnormally high levels of amyloid proteins.

Further experiments suggested that the production of high levels of cell wall - associated GAG makes A. fumigatus more resistant than A. nidulans to neutrophil killing by neutrophil extracellular traps, or NETs (NETs are are networks of extracellular fibers, composed of DNA and proteins secreted by immune cells called neutrophils, that bind and trap various pathogens).

Now a study has found that the gene mutation's toxic effects require higher than normal levels of a protein called suPAR to trigger the onset and progression of the disease.

«We discovered that lymphoma cells with high levels of MYC can be killed by disabling a protein called MCL - 1.

They discovered that lymphomas that have high levels of MYC can not survive long - term without a protein called MCL - 1 which makes cells long - lived.

The investigators found that patients with Crohn's disease and spondyloarthritis had higher levels of Th17 cells, and that a protein called IL - 23 triggers their activity.

The lung cancer drug — called gefitinib — helps by blocking a protein that is known to encourage cell growth, and which was found to be present in high levels at the site of ectopic pregnancies.

Through studies conducted in mice, Oliver M. Steinmetz, MD (University Hospital Hamburg Eppendorf, in Germany) and his colleagues have shown that the messenger protein IL - 6, which is rapidly produced at high levels during an acute inflammatory form of kidney disease, potently dampens activation of tissue - destructive immune cells called macrophages.

Inflammation is a known feature of heart failure, and it is associated with high levels of inflammatory proteins called cytokines — including one called tumor necrosis factor alpha or TNF - a — that ramp up immune cell responses.

Elevated levels of creatinine in the blood — which indicates how well the kidneys are filtering waste — and high protein levels in urine — a condition called proteinuria — can alert clinicians that an individual is suffering from chronic kidney disease.

The research team found that E. cyaneus produces a constant level of so - called heat shock proteins, which protect important protein molecules in the organism that would otherwise be damaged at high temperatures.

When examined via electron microscopy, OE4 virions looked similar to standard RSV virions, except that OE4 had higher levels of the immunogenic form of the F protein and lower levels of another protein called G.

During this process, the high levels of glucose and lipids also activate multiple forms of a molecule called protein kinase C (PKC), which help these unhelpful macrophages to activate, survive and multiply, thus boosting inflammation.

A benign condition in which there is a higher - than - normal level of a protein called M protein in the blood.

The protein, called Musashi - 1, is found in high levels in precursors to neurons — but if Zika virus is present it acts like a sponge, depriving the neurons of the protein.

This important process, called neurotransmission, is impaired by amyloid proteins, which build up to abnormally high levels in brains of Alzheimer's disease patients and are widely thought to cause the disease.

It also appeared to lower levels of a marker of inflammation found in the blood of people with Alzheimer's (called high - sensitivity c - reactive protein)-- although it had no effect on other biomarkers of cell damage or inflammation.

We can measure the level of inflammation in a patient's body with a simple blood test called a high sensitivity CRP (C - reactive protein), but that doesn't tell us the source of the inflammation.

NF - kB translates stress by activating genes to produce proteins called cytokines that cause inflammation at cellular level — a reaction that is useful as a short - lived fight - or - flight reaction, but if persistent leads to a higher risk of cancer, accelerated aging and psychiatric disorders like depression.

I am a member of a keto group called Compleyely Keto on FB and wanted to comment that your protein levels seem to high for a keto diet.

They have a high level of these defensive proteins that are called lectins.

Low - protein animals consumed more oxygen, which is required for the burning of these calories, and had higher levels of a special tissue called brown adipose tissue (5,6), which is especially effective in burning off calories.

Research at Harvard has shown that people with high levels of systemic inflammation (measured by a test called C - reactive protein, or CRP) had higher risk for heart disease than those with high cholesterol, while normal cholesterol was not protective to those with high CRP.

Interesting new research has found a link between high childhood stress and elevated levels of the inflammatory marker called C - reactive protein in adults.

High estrogen increases the levels of specific protein called Thyroid Binding Globulin (TBG).

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