Sentences with phrase «of the cell signaling processes»

BUT, this upregulation of ROS by contracting muscle cells is also pivotal for many of the cell signaling processes that allow our body to adapt positively to an exercise stimulus i.e. increased mitochondrial biogenesis, angiogenesis, and muscle hypertrophy.

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Joe W. Ramos, PhD, deputy director of the UH Cancer Center and collaborators focused on investigating how these oncogenes and related signals lead to dysregulation of normal processes within the cell and activate highly mobile and invasive cancer cell behavior.

The nerve cells involved in this integration process and control of hormonal signals reside in an area of the insect brain known as the mid-Ventral Ganglion (mVG), which in turn communicates with a region of the central brain that is akin to the mammalian hypothalamus.

The paper's lead author — Marcus Yip, who completed his PhD at MIT last fall — and his colleagues Rui Jin and Nathan Ickes, both in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, will also exhibit a prototype charger that plugs into an ordinary cell phone and can recharge the signal - processing chip in roughly two minutes.

One clinical trial involves the drug CGF166, a one - time gene therapy, which, if proven successful in humans, could regenerate new hair cells within the cochlea that can signal the part of the brain that processes sound.

And the cells of the SCN no longer produced six small signaling proteins known to coordinate and reinforce their efforts, a biochemical process known as coupling.

Through the mTOR signalling pathway, it is involved in the regulation of many cellular processes, including cell survival, metabolism, proliferation, differentiation, and senescence.

Once thought to be a sign of disease processes, hydrogen peroxide is now understood to be a critical signaling chemical inside cells, Kemp noted.

A specific genetic marker influences response to therapy in the early stages of RA; a link thought to be due to the gene activating a cell - signalling protein involved in the inflammatory disease process.

In this study, the team, which included Dr. Meerim Nurbaeva and Miriam Eckstein in Dr. Lacruz's lab, for the first time used freshly dissected enamel cells (ameloblasts) from rodent teeth to modulate physiological processes in order to understand the contribution of CRAC channels in enamel calcium signaling.

Calcium is a «promiscuous» signal used by all cells for a wide variety of processes, he notes, and thus drugs that target it could have major side effects.

In addition to its known roles in cancerous cells, STAT3 also is an essential mediator of cytokine and growth factor signals in normal cells that are important for diverse processes including immunity and inflammation.

All volunteers experienced similar flu - like symptoms, increased body temperature and white blood cell count, and higher concentrations of inflammatory and signaling proteins, demonstrating to investigators that lexaptepid did not interfere with the immune response process.

With careful observation and experiments with mouse oocytes, the precursors of eggs, they've detected molecular signals that create an asymmetry in the machinery that drives meiosis, the cell - division process that gives rise to gametes.

Working with an animal model, the researchers found that a type of cell present in the brain's primary processing area during early development, long thought to form structural scaffolding with no role in transmitting sensory information, may conduct such signals after all.

«We found that approximately 40 % of the brain cells that process visual signals appear to receive information from mRGCs,» says Brown, whose team reports its work today in PLoS Biology.

Calcium ions are important messengers for the processing of wound signals in plant cells.

To address such obstacles, Roybal, now an assistant professor at the University of California, San Francisco and his colleague Leonardo Morsut turned to a signaling molecule on T cells called the Notch receptor, known to be involved in several developmental and biological processes.

In prior, unrelated experiments, the same species of worm had become hypersensitive to smell when its nerve cells experienced problems with dopamine signaling, a cellular process that helps control how readily cells can communicate with one another.

Yeast cells have a very fine, adjustable multitool that recognises chemical signals, processes them accordingly, and initiates the correct response — growth towards the source of the signal.

When attractant or repellant chemicals attach themselves to receptor sites on the surface membrane of a bacterium, it triggers a process within the cell that leads to the modification of the signal protein, CheY (pronounced «Key - Y»), enabling it to bind to the switch and change the bacteria's direction of movement.

A strategic focus is to continue to develop computational tools (such as KinomeXplorer, NetworKIN, and NetPhorest) and to deploy these on genome - scale quantitative data obtained by, for example, mass spectrometry, genomic, and phenotypic screens to understand the principles of how spatio and temporal assembly of mammalian signaling networks transmit and process information at a systems level in order to alter cell behavior.

The budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, is a prime organism for studying fundamental cellular processes, with the functions of many proteins important in the cell cycle and signaling networks found in human biology having first been discovered in yeast.

Kong and Crotty's team discovered that ICOS recruits the signaling TBK1 enzyme, which activates certain genes in Tfh cells, thus beginning the whole process of high - affinity antibody production.

For example, switches based on the optical force could be used to speed up the routing of light signals in fiber - optic cables, and optical oscillators could improve cell phone signal processing.

Gangliosides are lipid molecules that were proposed to play key roles in numerous biological processes, including the formation of raft domains, the entry of toxins into cells and chemical signal reception.

In their latest study, researchers at La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology identified a key signal that drives the commitment of immature Tfh cells into fully functional Tfh cells and thus driving the step - by - step process that results in a precisely tailored and effective immune response.

Although reactive oxygen species can damage cells when produced in high amounts, according to a study published online Sept. 5, 2017 by Science Signaling and featured on the journal's cover, these oxidative species are crucial signals that start the process of repairing myofiber.

One is the «spine pruning theory,» supported by the observation that the frontal brain regions of people with schizophrenia have fewer dendritic spines, the tentacles on the receiving ends of neurons that process signals from other cells.

«If further studies validate that these processes are critical in human breast cancers,» Koshy notes, «the possibility exists that agents that favorably modify the biophysical properties of the extracellular matrix, or that target the receptors and signaling molecules associated with how cells sense this matrix, could be used as a new avenue for the prevention or treatment of breast cancers.»

They receive and process signals from the retina's light - detecting cells, the rods and the cones, and transmit them to another set of cells that, in turn, transfer the information to the brain.

As stated in the paper, «Biological machines consisting of cells and biomaterials have the potential to dynamically sense, process, respond, and adapt to environmental signals in real time.»

Following a stroke, the signalling mechanism is suppressed and astrocytes can start the process of generating new cells.

When the team added TGF - β1 to cells lacking FOX01, the cells behaved normally and produced the proper suite of molecules needed for healing, indicating that FOX01 acts upstream of TGF - β1 in the signaling pathway triggered during the healing process.

Chen said proving that the channels work in concert helps explain how sensory cells can process numerous types of environmental signals, including itching that results from different things.

If any of these structures which fit the T - cells» specific receptors like a key fits the right lock — then the T - cell will proliferate and set off a series of signals, starting the process of eradicating the diseased cell.

In studying the functional behavior of the brain, from control of muscles to the formation of memories, scientists are using such tools such as electron microscopy, recordings of electrical signals from individual brain cells, and imaging of brain structures and processes using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), positron emission tomography (PET), and high - resolution optical imaging.

Some of the cells in this layer (the photoreceptors) convert light into an electrical signal that is then amplified and processed by other cells before being sent to the brain via the optic nerve.

Like many biological processes, it involves an entire sequence of molecular signals that result in the formation of new cells and tissue.

The complete list is: the Food Research Center; the Center for Research, Teaching, and Innovation in Glass; the Center for Research and Development of Functional Materials; the Brazilian Research Institute for Neuroscience and Neurotechnology; the Center for Research on Inflammatory Diseases; the Center for Research and Innovation in Biodiversity and Drug Discovery; the Center for Research on Toxins, Immune Response, and Cell Signaling; the Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics; the Center for Research in Mathematical Sciences Applied to Industry; the Obesity and Co-Morbidities Research Center; the Center for Cell - Based Therapy; the Center for Metropolitan Studies; the Human Genome and Stem - Cell Research Center; the Center for Computational Science and Engineering; the Center for Research on Redox Processes in Biomedicine; the Center for the Study of Violence; and the Optics and Photonics Research Center.

By culturing human stem cells in this manner and treating them with specific signaling molecules, the investigators were able to guide cells through key processes involved in the development of the human inner ear.

Study authors then further refined the process, identifying additional molecular signaling pathways that drive formation of critical stomach cell types of the fundus.

«This opens the field to new understanding and opportunity, as hundreds of enzymes likely carry out signaling inside cells through this process.

Traditional hydrogels made up of either synthetic polymers or natural biomolecules often serve as passive scaffolds for molecular or cellular species, which render these materials unable to fully recapitulate the dynamic signaling involved in biological processes, such as cell / tissue development.

Biology is rife with examples of modularity: the overwhelming majority of molecules in a cell is either part of an intracellular complex with modular activity, such as the ribosome, or participates in an extended (functional) module as a temporally regulated element of a relatively distinct process (e.g., signal amplification in a phosphorylation ‐ mediated signaling pathway).

I studied the process called signal transduction - transmission of the activating mechanical signal from outside the cell, across the cellular membrane, to FAK inside the cell, leading to the activation of the kinase.

Commitment toward differentiation of pluripotent stem cells is a multi-step process that requires combination of signals.