Sentences with phrase «inflicted by free radicals»

(4) Phytate is a moderately powerful antioxidant which will partly block the damage to our cells inflicted by free radicals.
It also performs the heavy function of fighting inflammation and damage inflicted by free radicals on the brain, by helping blood flow more easily across the blood brain barrier.

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Now 24, he is a first - year graduate student in the department of cellular and structural biology at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio (UTHSCSA), where he is studying the role of oxidative damage — the wear and tear inflicted upon the cell by toxic molecules called free radicals — in the aging process.
But she's baffled by how free radicals — which have very short lifetimes and travel short distances — could reach the nucleus of even adjacent cells in time to inflict DNA damage.
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