Sentences with phrase «known as autophagy»

Cellular cleanup (also known as autophagy) is increased during a fasted state.

By reducing IGF - 1, the body goes into a rest - and - repair mode and engages in a healing - response known as autophagy (kind of like a clean - up process for your cells).

It has previously been shown to activate a cellular process known as autophagy, which protects against aging by enabling cells to degrade and discard old, damaged «cellular garbage» before it damages cells.

As a result, the cell begins a process known as autophagy, in which it begins digesting parts of itself to try to survive — but it doesn't.

One holds that it is an active process in which paternal mitochondria are selectively degraded by a «self - eating» system known as autophagy, in which vesicles called autophagosomes engulf the cell's unwanted structures.

One reason may be that DDRs are protein enzymes known as tyrosine kinases that act as on and off switches of the cell self - cleaning process known as autophagy.

These cancers remodel proteins using the cellular self - cannibalization process known as autophagy to capture and degrade intracellular proteins and protein - containing organelles.

The vesicles the researchers saw were part of a process known as autophagy, a natural mechanism that breaks down and recycles unwanted cellular components.

«We found that olive oil reduces brain inflammation but most importantly activates a process known as autophagy,» explained senior investigator Domenico Praticò, MD, Professor in the Departments of Pharmacology and Microbiology and the Center for Translational Medicine at LKSOM.

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The rejuvenation of aged HSCs occurred thanks to the intercellular transfer of large membrane - derived extracellular vesicles known as microvesicles (MVs) carrying autophagy - related mRNAs

Drugging the autophagy pathway to combat cancer has been tried before, but the only drugs that currently block cell recycling work by targeting the cell organelle known as the lysosome, which functions at the final stage of autophagy.

Spermidine is known as a molecule that activates a biological process called autophagy that is believed to be involved in most if not all lifespan - prolonging therapies.