Sentences with phrase «other cells in one's body»

An anemia is a deficiency of the blood cells, but in addition to blood cells, many other cells in the body need vitamin B12, including nerve cells.
These T cells are crucial for killing other cells in the body that have been infected with germs.
The insulin signals other cells in the body to take up sugar, the primary energy source for all the body's cells.
Free radicals are harmful cells that can trigger a chain reaction, further damaging other cells in the body.
Your muscle cells are thousands of times bigger than the majority of other cells in your body.
McDevitt's lab also studies how biomaterials can more effectively control the way stem cells develop into other cells in the body.
The spinal cord's cells, unlike other cells in the body, do not have a way to regenerate.
Carbohydrates are important to the function of your body, but particularly to your brain cells, which use twice as much energy as other cells in your body.
Previous studies have shown that white blood cell telomere length can be predictive of biological aging and is linked with telomere length in other cells in the body.
These antennae are designed to receive signals, such as growth factor and hormones, from other cells in the body and then convert these signals to a response within individual cells.
During sleep, our bodies enter a catabolic state in which muscles are broken down to feed other cells in the body.
While most other cells in the body can survive at least temporarily on alternate sources of energy, the CNS must have glucose, of which carbohydrates are the primary source.
However, it is extremely difficult to develop drugs that attack only the cancer cells and leave other cells in the body alone.
HGH is one of the most important hormones the human body produces, as it controls building, repair and healing of muscle tissues, bones as well as many other cells in our body.
Far from staying put, RNA — the less famous cousin of DNA — can roam far afield, carrying information to other cells in the body and even to other animals
Jones notes that at temporally distinct moments, other cells in the body may expel small packets of ATP, which in the presence of E-NTPDase2 can cause eye tissue to form.
«The brain along with the reproductive system and every other cell in your body is exquisitely sensitive to exceedingly small changes in estrogen and other sex hormones, and the fact that the environment is full of chemicals that can activate estrogen receptors means this phenomenally sensitive system is being perturbed constantly by environmental factors.»
These cells can develop into any other cell in the body.
To solve that problem, the researchers started with patients» blood cells and reprogrammed them into so - called induced pluripotent stem cells, which can make any other cell in the body and grow indefinitely in the laboratory.
* The fact is that because cancer cells reproduce more rapidly than any other cell in the body, mutations occur in cancer cells in far greater numbers.
The parasites cover themselves in carbohydrates, which look like food and also cover all other cells in the body.
They uniquely possess the ability to become any other cell in the body, which makes them extraordinarily powerful and dangerous.
Eggs are cells just like any other cell in the body, and they, too, age as a woman gets older.
It also helps to transport nutrients to other cells in the body.
Those unstable molecules are called free radicals, and they cause harm to other cells in your body.
No other cells in the body produce this type of protein, therefore, if the test determines the presence of the protein, you are producing cancer cells.
Cancer cells are unlike any other cell in the body and they act totally out of line with normal cell functions.
The most important among these are neurotransmitters (for the brain, nervous system) and hormones (essentially every other cell in the body).
This system drains waste from the blood and just about every other cell in your body.
But bone marrow stem cells have their limitations because, unlike stem cells from cord blood which are pluripotent (that is the cells can become any other cell in the body - from the Latin for very many and having power), stem cells from bone marrow are only multipotent (Latin: many and having power).
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