Sentences with phrase «muscle cells use»

When activity begins we already have a large supply of ATP and CP, but muscle cells use up the store of ATP very quickly.

Bigger muscle cells use more calories — 24/7 — than small muscle cells.

After all, muscle cells use phosphate groups for maintenance as wel.

That's because big creatures have more of the type of muscle cells used for acceleration.

Once they were able to isolate skeletal muscle cells using the newly identified surface markers, the research team matured those cells in the lab to create dystrophin - producing muscle fibers.

METHODS: Glucose uptake was measured in L6 muscle cells using the non-metabolized glucose analogue 2 - deoxy - d - glucose (2DG), and in isolated muscles by glucose disappearance from the incubation medium.

Not exact matches

That means that the stem - cell therapies have to be converted into whatever cell they're meant to be (heart - muscle cells, neurons, and so forth) before going into the body, rather than using different kinds of stem cells to treat the condition.

Rather than being used by muscles for energy, the glucose is redirected to fat cells.

BCAAs can be used by muscle cells as an energy source, which may help offset muscle breakdown during endurance exercise and help support recovery and repair after weight training.

These amino acids can be used to build or repair muscle fiber, to create any number of cells, to concoct hormones or to build any number of tissues that the body might need.

Through much trial and effort, his team has learned to use the two cell types to create «sheets» of muscle pre-wired with nerves.

In a study in the journal Science, researchers explain how they used mouse embryonic stem cells and microchip technology to create heart muscle tissue that actually beats.

For example, he's used it along with a calcium - tracking dye in cardiac muscle cells from a rat, to image the sparks and waves of calcium ions that can trigger deadly arrhythmias during heart failure.

This study identifies myomerger as a fundmentally required protein for muscle development using cell culture and laboratory mouse models.

According to Raymond Geor, an exercise physiologist at Michigan State University, sled dog muscle cells are well equipped to use this fat because they have a higher mitochondrial density — more cellular power plants — than other animals.

Researchers then tested cell cultures and mouse models by using a gene editing process called CRISPR - Cas9 to demonstrate how the presence or absence of myomaker and myomerger — both individually and in unison — affect cell fusion and muscle formation.

Both viruses were used to infect muscle cells in the hind legs of mice that had muscular dystrophy.

Plays an important role in the structure of the skeleton and muscles; also found in molecules that help enzymes use ATP to supply energy for chemical reactions in cells.

Action potentials can be created by many types of cells, but are used most extensively by the nervous system for communication between neurons and to transmit information from neurons to other body tissues such as muscles and glands.

The result was the largest deletion ever observed in the dystrophin gene using CRISPR / Cas9, and the study was the first to create corrected human iPS cells that could directly restore functional muscle tissue affected by Duchenne.

The new technique can also be used to grow muscle cells from iPS cells from patients with neuromuscular diseases like ALS, spinal muscular atrophy and muscular dystrophy.

Third, 40 to 60 percent of the cells grown using the process are either muscle cells or muscle progenitors, a high proportion compared to traditional non-genetic techniques of generating muscle cells from human ES and iPS cells.

The new method, described in the journal Stem Cells Translational Medicine, could be used to generate large numbers of muscle cells and muscle progenitors directly from human pluripotent stem cCells Translational Medicine, could be used to generate large numbers of muscle cells and muscle progenitors directly from human pluripotent stem ccells and muscle progenitors directly from human pluripotent stem cellscells.

Adapting a method previously used to make brain cells, Masatoshi Suzuki, an assistant professor of comparative biosciences in the School of Veterinary Medicine, has directed those universal stem cells to become both adult muscle cells and muscle progenitors.

Called a medusoid, after the umbrella - shaped class of jellyfish it mimics, the silicone cyborg uses heart muscle cells from a rat to recreate the pumping motion of the moon jellyfish, Aurelia aurita.

Muscle biologists Qi Long Lu and Terence Partridge at the Medical Research Council Clinical Sciences Centre in London, U.K., and their colleagues decided to combined the antisense strategy with a chemical often used in gene therapy because it is known to improve delivery of DNA into cells.

«But in the future we might be able to use this technique therapeutically, for example to directly target and correct a mutation in muscle stem cells and muscle fibers.»

Muscles contract because the muscle protein myosin uses its flexible head to ratchet its long tail along the filament of another muscle protein actin, dragging the ends of muscle cells inward.

Decades of work in developmental biology have provided a start: Biologists have used mutant frogs, flies, mice, chicks, and fish to identify some of the main genes that control a developing cell's decision to become a bone cell or a muscle cell.

After the pig experiment worked well, he used his Boston area facility to culture the 30 million cardiac muscle cells that he says were injected into a heart disease patient in mid-2011.

Tissue engineering is like other kinds of engineering, except instead of using steel or computer code to make things, living cells from skin, muscle or cartilage are the raw material.

«Eighty - two percent of the smooth muscle cells within advanced atherosclerotic lesions can not be identified using the typical methodology since the lesion cells down - regulate smooth muscle cell markers.

Insulin tells muscle, organ and even fat cells to take up the glucose and use it for fuel.

In order to locate all gene switches, the Freiburg research team used modern sequencing methods to examine the entire genome — DNA, epigenetic markers and RNA — during the development, maturation and disease of human cardiac muscle cells.

Exploiting that power, researchers are now using microRNAs to convert the scar tissue of damaged hearts into healthy muscle cells, opening the door for a better therapy after heart attacks and heart failure.

The same basic proteins used by platelets are also used in movements in muscle and other cells.

• News from the World of Adult - Stem Cell Research • At the University of California at Los Angeles, Marc Hedrick's team used human adult fat cells extracted during liposuction to make cells resembling cartilage, bone, and muscle.

Previous research conducted by Dr. Badylak's team suggested that ECM also could be used to regenerate lost muscle by placing the material in the injury site where it signals the body to recruit stem and other progenitor cells to rebuild healthy tissue.

Normally, people who are overweight face a greater risk for insulin resistance, a condition in which the body does not use insulin effectively to shuttle glucose into liver, fat, and muscle cells.

Benjaminson and his team have extracted stem cells from fish embryos and used them to grow muscle cells by stimulating them electrically, mechanically, hormonally and nutritionally.

This was done using shRNA technology specific for BRCA1 in human myotubes (skeletal muscle fiber cells).

Researchers at the University of Michigan Health System have identified a new way of triggering the role of the muscle protein dystrophin, which is found in the muscles used for movement and in cardiac muscle cells.

The hamburger was grown in Post's lab using bovine skeletal muscle stem cells, collected from a piece of fresh beef.

Our nerve and muscle cells send signals to each other using ions and molecules.

For the first time, scientists found that in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), the affected nerve cells that control muscle movement, or motor neurons, have defects in their mitochondria, which generate energy used by the cell.

The theory is that a cyclist with plasticizers in his urine was using the IV bags for blood doping — illegally boosting one's red blood cell count to carry more oxygen to the lungs and muscles.

Mitochondria help injured muscle cells (myofibers) repair by soaking up calcium that enters from the site of injury and using it to trigger increased production of reactive oxygen species.

In the future, medical researchers anticipate being able to use technologies derived from stem cell research to treat cancer, spinal cord injuries, and muscle damage, amongst a number of other diseases and impairments.

The Salk and TSRI scientists used a range of neuro - genetic, gene therapy, biochemical and structural biology research techniques to discover that the mutant GlyRS enzyme blocked molecular signals important for maintaining the health of motor neurons, the cells that carry messages from the brain to the muscles of the extremities.

Shenoy's lab pioneered the algorithms used to decode the complex volleys of electrical signals fired by nerve cells in the motor cortex, the brain's command center for movement, and convert them in real time into actions ordinarily executed by spinal cord and muscles.