Sentences with phrase «on cell membranes»

The receptors on the cell membranes change when the body shifts from burning sugars to burning ketones (for example, MCT - 1 receptor in the brain gets activated when ketones are present).

``... but some recent studies have even found that when BPA interacts with hormone receptors on cell membranes, concentrations of one part per trillion can stimulate physiological responses.

Some research points to excessive fat in the body, blood, and diet as a contributor to insulin resistance by preventing it from doing its job, i.e., opening the pores on your cell membranes to allow sugar to pass into them.

Dr. Joseph suspects the findings are a result of blueberries» rich store of flavonoids — phytochemicals that have an effect on cell membranes.

They help the receptors on our cell membranes work properly, including receptors for insulin, thereby protecting us against diabetes.

This second research trend has made it clear that receptors on our cell membranes for vitamin A (called retinoid X receptors, or RXR) and receptors on our cell membranes for vitamin D (called VDR receptors) actually combine in our cells to produce an VDR / RXR form.

They are known for their effects on cell membranes and immune response.

Bozhi Tian, who led one of the University of Chicago research groups, said the particles can establish unique biointerfaces on cell membranes, because they are deformable but can still yield a local electrical effect.

Then the scientists tried the opposite: They boosted the charges on the cell membranes.

Here, though, that drug wiped out the charges on the cell membranes.

«These junctions, micron - sized spots on cell membranes, are very complex molecular structures.

«This is another great example of how using a synthetic «bottom - up» engineering approach and leveraging the power of biological design — this time at the scale of individual molecules interacting on cell membranes — can lead to breakthrough technologies for medicine that overcome limitations that hold back more conventional approaches,» said Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital and Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

PKA phosphorylates IP3 receptors located on cell membranes, inducing them to release intracellular stores of calcium ions.

For instance, by building molecules on cell membranes, they hope to one day be able to manipulate the spatial organization of membrane proteins.

The key actors here likely are mu - opioid receptors, molecules on cell membranes that allow opioids to bind to them and interact with the cell itself, he says.

Such whole - grain varieties contain high levels of phenols and tannins, two plant compounds with a knack for mopping up free radicals that can wreak havoc on cell membranes and other delicate machinery within the human body.

The researchers succeeded in changing the DNA of the E coli bacteria in such a way that the substance CB [8](a small molecule of two nanometres in size with a namederived from the resemblance of this molecule with a pumpkin of the family of Cucurbitaceae) attaches to a protein on the cell membrane.

Thanks to the cell - impermeability of the fluorogenic probe, it's possible to label only proteins that appear on the cell membrane.

Gorfe's computer simulations showed Ras proteins cluster together, or form aggregates, on the cell membrane.

It was clarified that GLUT4 with abnormalities in the N - glycan chain was transiently translocated to the cell membrane but was rapidly internalized without retention on the cell membrane, and that the N - glycan chain played a role in retaining GLUT4 on the cell membrane.

A receptor is a molecule placed on the cell membrane which, in some cases, can direct material from the surroundings to be taken up by the cell and degraded, In the degradation of bone tissue, the receptor uPARAP plays a central role.

EGFR, present on the cell membrane, is involved in cell proliferation and the development of dermis, lung, and digestive tissues.

B cells that do not produce Caveolin - 1 can not properly organize the receptor on the cell membrane and as a result, efficient signal transfer fails.

This allows computer - controlled stimuli to be applied to neurons in culture, and measures their effects on cell membrane conductance.

Jarrow Formulas PhosphOmega provides long chain omega - 3 fatty acids as nature intended, a complex of phospholipids with DHA and EPA acting synergistically on the cell membrane level.

Insulin facilitates the transport of glucose from the blood to the cell by binding to receptors on the cell membrane.

When an estrogen molecule occupies a testosterone receptor site on a cell membrane, it blocks the ability of testosterone to induce a healthy hormonal signal.

The second point I want to make is that the receptors to hormones, including insulin, reside on the cell membrane.

I already made the argument that to correct hormone problems you must fix the receptors to the hormones, which reside on the cell membrane.

You can think about glucose as the postman, carrying the glucose to the cells, knocking on the «door» of the cell (the insulin receptor on the cell membrane) to make the delivery of glucose.

Echinocytes are shrunken red blood cells with many projections on the cell membrane.

Not exact matches

These cells consisted of a fatty cell membrane, like a balloon skin, with DNA / RNA, proteins, fats and carbohydrates on the inside.

Also there is evidence of molecular mechanisms in the cell membranes that can amplify small changes in the field to produce large changes in neural activity.13 On the other hand, earlier tests of Kohler's theory found that interference with electrical gradients over the cortex had no effect on behavioral measures (see note 11 for reference to these studiesOn the other hand, earlier tests of Kohler's theory found that interference with electrical gradients over the cortex had no effect on behavioral measures (see note 11 for reference to these studieson behavioral measures (see note 11 for reference to these studies).

Then put it in the microwave for 10 seconds on High — it won't explode, it won't burn but it will give you a lot more juice because you've broken down a lot of the membrane strength and the cells will squeeze more easily.

Vitamin E is a powerful antioxidant and has been found to reduce the effects of sun exposure on the skin by modifying the photoaging process and protecting skin cell membranes.

As for this breathtakingly moronic blithe assumption that the risk of infection is «* probably *» just as high with the benefit of a protective covering, smegma, and white blood cells as with an open wound on a mucus membrane being thrust into constant contact with urine and feces?

However, the use of the question on consumption of oily fish as an indicator of maternal DHA status is supported by the correlation between the frequency of intake of oily fish with the amount of DHA in the maternal red blood cell membranes (Figure 1).

Those bubbles might act much as cell membranes do on Earth, sheltering genetic material and concentrating biochemical reactions needed for life.

Some of the other projects involve the development of proton exchange membrane for fuel cell application, a gyroscope based on micro-electromechanical technology and research on innovative engineering materials to fabricate ceramic membranes that can partially oxidize methane to syngas used as feedstock in commercial methanol production.

So it makes you think that, well, maybe that could have been one contributing factor to why we actually use genetic materials that incorporate ribose, because early cells that relied on an external source of ribose would have had easier access to that material compared to competing the cells that we're looking for, a different sugar that had a harder time getting across the membrane.

Each individual cell must on its own extract electrons from food that are then transported along the cell's membrane until they reach an oxygen molecule.

After gaining a degree in molecular sciences from Wageningen University in 1991, he left the Netherlands to do his PhD on the structure of membrane protein at the Cell and Molecular Biosciences division of the University of Newcastle's medical school.

Here, cells expressing the interacting domains of v - and t - SNAREs on the cell surface were found to fuse spontaneously, demonstrating that SNAREs are sufficient to fuse biological membranes.

By adjusting the opening or closing of channels in cell membranes, opsins can switch neurons on or turn them off.

Several studies have used cell - surface markers — proteins found on the outer membranes of tumor cells — to identify glioblastoma stem cells; but the specific markers used have been controversial and can not reflect molecular processes going on within tumor cells.

As they incessantly shake or spin or crawl around the cell, these machines cut, paste and copy genetic molecules, shuttle nutrients around or turn them into energy, build and repair cellular membranes, relay mechanical, chemical or electrical messages — the list goes on and on, and new discoveries add to it all the time.

To address this challenge, Koide, Miller and their teams designed monobodies that bound to target locations on the fluoride ion channel - specifically, two small surfaces not embedded within the cell membrane.

As the two cell types exchanged air and nutrients through the membrane, the researchers used on - and - off suction to make it expand and contract, mimicking a lung's natural movement.

A membrane — designed to support the cultivation and differentiation of human nasal epithelial stem cells — was inserted into a small chamber on the device and fresh or contaminated air was fed through a tiny channel.

Last June Ingber's team reported that it had placed human lung lining cells and human capillary cells on either side of a porous, flexible polymer membrane.