Sentences with phrase «how mitochondrial dysfunction»

Kiran Krishnan discusses the importance of mitochondrial health and how mitochondrial dysfunction plays a role in the development of cancer, heart disease, autism, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, diabetes, liver disease, immune dysfunction, and more.

«While the genetic cause of this devastating disease has been identified, our study describes how mitochondrial dysfunction might contribute to motor neuron destruction even before the onset of symptoms,» said Ma.

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Graduate student Walter Chen and postdoctoral researcher Kivanc Birsoy have unraveled how to rescue cells suffering from mitochondrial dysfunction, a finding that may lead to new therapies for this condition.

Despite the perilous odds stacked against them in vaccine court, the evidence of a vaccine / autism link is so strong that vaccine court judges and government agencies have now recognized at least two theories of how vaccines cause autism: the Vaccine - to - ADEM - to - ASD link in Bailey Banks» case, and vaccine - induced aggravation of an underlying mitochondrial dysfunction that caused full - blown autism in the Hannah Poling case.

So we now have two novel theories of how vaccines might contribute to ASD — both ADEM and mitochondrial dysfunction are recognized by the Court as contributing factors.

With the microRNA signatures of mitochondrial function and dysfunction in RPE cells in hand, combined with a detailed mechanistic understanding of how these microRNAs are transferred from cell to cell, we can use small interfering RNAs to target specific microRNAs and block their adverse effects on mitochondria function and their transfer to other RPE cells.

How do changes in the mtDNA and mitochondrial dysfunction influence cancer and cancer therapy?

This includes a detailed, yet a fully understandable description of the biochemistry of aerobic respiration versus anaerobic fermentation, glycolysis, the Krebs Cycle, the electron transport chain, lactic acid overproduction and how cancer cells develop as a result of mitochondrial metabolic dysfunction leading to genetic errors, resulting in metastasis.