Sentences with phrase «irreversible cell damage»

An excess of these oxygen radicals causes irreversible cell damage.»

At even higher formaldehyde concentrations of 3.0 milligrams per cubic meter, however, the researchers observed an unexpected decrease in cilia beating frequency, possibly due to irreversible cell damage caused by the formaldehyde.

Not exact matches

Exposure to copper damages the bacterial respiration and DNA, resulting in irreversible cell breakdown and death.»

«We don't know for certain if the damage is irreversible, but I expect so, because the cells that hold the internal structure in place have been infected and destroyed,» said Diamond, who is also a professor of pathology and immunology, and of molecular microbiology.

Although various compounds that can control cell division in plants have been explored in the past, they have mainly resulted in damage to the plant shape or irreversible inhibition of cell division despite removal of the compounds.

Anthracycline drugs, such as doxorubicin, are known to cause heart failure because they cause changes in the DNA structure of the heart muscle cells, leading to irreversible cardiac damage.

But until he understands how the cells are stressed in the first place, he won't know much: «We frankly don't have a clue as to how much microwave radiation is needed to cause irreversible damage to cellular proteins.

For his 2013 SENS Research Foundation Summer Internship, Ethan joined the laboratory of Dr. Judith Campisi at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging to study cellular senescence, the process by which damaged cells enter irreversible growth arrest.

Adam Williamson, Ph.D., a CRI postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco, wants to understand how brain cancer cells that have died can stick around and promote inflammation and cell death, which can cause irreversible damage.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have defined for the first time a key underlying process implicated in multiple sclerosis (MS)-- a disease that causes progressive and irreversible damage to nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.

Generally, pushing current through a discharged cell in this way causes undesirable and irreversible chemical reactions to occur, resulting in permanent damage to the cell.

Any longer than that and the toxins may have already begun to affect the cells and cause irreversible damage to the liver and other vital organs.

Most spinal cord injuries are permanent because spinal nerve cells do not regenerate like other body cells, so the damage is irreversible.