Sentences with phrase «of dying cells»

They live by ingesting the building materials of your pet's cells, destroying growing tissue, and feeding on the waste materials of dying cells.

The researcher told me it was the sound of a dying cell — a high - frequency discharge as the cell's life ebbed away.

«Amyloid is one of many substances that builds up in plaques as a result of dying cells and atrophy in the brain,» he says.

More recently, however, researchers have suggested that macrophages — specialized immune cells that reside in the dermis — are attracted to the wound inflicted by the tattoo needle and gobble up the tattoo pigment just as they would normally engulf an invading pathogen or piece of a dying cell.

In addition to the functions in the brain described here, BAI1 is also thought to have functions in muscle regeneration and in the engulfment and removal of dying cells.

The team previously found that many of these dying cells are missing a surface molecule that labels them for destruction — called calreticulin — in people at risk for cardiovascular disease.

MIXED SIGNALS Minibrains grown in the lab form nerve cells (red) prematurely and show signs of dying cells (green) when treated with a signaling molecule called LIF.

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an immune reaction against material from the body's cellular nuclei leaking out of dying cells.

BAI1 has an apparently separate function as an «engulfment receptor,» allowing the recognition and internalization of dying cells.

As a consequence, dense regions of dying cells accumulate, releasing high concentrations of potassium into the extracellular milieu as they rupture.

They live by ingesting the building materials of your cat's cells, destroying growth tissue, and feeding on the waste materials of dying cells.

One of the paper's co-authors, Hugh Willison, who studies GBS at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, says it's possible that something more subtle is happening: Like other viruses, the one that causes Zika hijacks a cell's own replication machinery to make new copies of itself, which then break out of the dying cell and infect neighboring cells.