Sentences with phrase «other cells of the body from»

The UPR therefore plays a key role in secretory cells but also protects other cells of the body from the stresses associated with an accumulation of unfolded or misfolded proteins.

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This could offer a technique to help in the prognosis of metastases, the spreading of cancer cells to other regions of the body, responsible for 90 per cent of deaths from cancer.

Endometriosis occurs in women when cells from the lining of the womb grown in other areas of the body.

VITAMIN E: Protects body's store of Vitamin A, tissues and fat from destructive oxidation, and breakdown of red corpuscles; strengthens capillary walls; regulates menstrual rhythm; prevents loss of other vitamins; aids blood flow to heart; lowers blood cholesterol and fatty acids; vital to cell health; regulates protein and calcium metabolism.

Every gene in (almost) every cell of the body is present in two variants — so called alleles: one is deriving from the mother, the other one from the father.

Breast cancer tumors can fuse with blood vessel cells, allowing clumps of cancer cells to break away from the main tumor and ride the bloodstream to other locations in the body, suggests preliminary research.

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

The purpose of catalase in living cells is to protect them from oxidative damage, which can occur when cells or other molecules in the body come into contact with oxidative compounds.

Signals from the dendritic cells prime them to trigger immune reactions in other parts of the body.

«We are looking for novel ways of preventing cancer cells of the primary tumor from spreading to other parts of the body.

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.

Autoimmune diseases arise from an overactive immune response of the body against substances and tissues normally present in the body; in other words, the body attacks its own cells.

It is well established that melanoma cells can spread through the blood to accumulate and form new tumors (metastases) in other parts of the body away from the original tumor.

The primary cause of death from breast cancer is the spread of tumor cells from the breast to other organs in the body.

T cells help protect the body from parasites by traveling to the site of infection and recruiting other immune cells to mount an attack.

The work, funded by national charity Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund, uncovers new evidence that PAK4 plays a key role in enabling cancer cells to grow and to spread from the pancreas into other areas of the body, a process called metastasis.

Breast cancer cells that spread to other parts of the body break off and leave the primary tumour at late stages of disease development, scientists from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and their collaborators have found.

Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston by growing vaginal skin cells outside the body and studying the way they interact with «good and bad» bacteria, think they may be able to better identify the good bacteria that protect women from HIV infection and other sexually transmitted infections.

Every cell in the body uses phosphorylation, the process of adding a chemical tag to control a protein's function and fate, such as when it moves from one part of a cell to another or binds to other proteins.

One of the body's first lines of defense, the cells antioxidant response system is supposed to prevent these harmful invaders from causing a domino effect and damaging other cells.

So, at the dawn of our universe — and I have to emphasize our universe, because there could be others — so, dawn of our universe, physicists think there was one type of force, one type of matter and that as the cosmos expanded, as space expanded, it cooled and things started to condense out like snow flakes, and over time that single force broke, it differentiated; and something similar happens in the human body as we develop from a single cell; we differentiate, different tissues form in our bodies, different layers of tissues.

Induced pluripotent stem cells can be generated from various types of cells in the body, and they can in turn be coaxed to develop into nearly any other cell type.

Dendrites, which branch from the cell body of the neuron, play a key role in the communication between cells of the nervous system, allowing for many neurons to connect with each other.

It was thought that the body repairs wounds such as bed sores and burns by generating new skin cells from hair follicles or the skin at the edges of the wound — the same way that other animals do.

Haruko Obokata of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB) in Kobe, Japan, and colleagues at other Japanese institutions and at Harvard Medical School in Boston reported that simply subjecting blood cells from newborn mice to a moderately acidic environment for 25 minutes and then tweaking culture conditions could generate pluripotent stem cells capable of developing into nearly all of a body's cell types.

«We know from animal models that there are critical periods during early development when cells are rapidly dividing and forming the circuitry through which cells will communicate with each other to form various tissues of the body,» said Retha Newbold, a reproductive biologist at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in North Carolina.

A computer simulation of the scientists predicts that this effect is particularly pronounced when the information flow from other dendrites to the axon is suppressed by inhibitory input signals at the cell body.

Instead of responding to viruses or other foreign invaders in the body, the activated CD8 + T cells launch an inflammatory response to fat, and to bacterial components that migrate to the liver from the gut through the blood.

Metastasis is a life - threatening condition in which cancer cells break away from the site where they formed to other areas of the body.

Metastasis, the process by which cancer cells disseminate from their primary site to other parts of the body, leads to the death of most cancer patients.

These sacks, or vesicles, change their delivery routes and fundamentally alter the perimeter of the cancer cells making it possible for the cell to detach from its fixed position in the lung and travel to other areas of the body.

He used an assortment of anatomical tracing techniques to label neurons in their entirety — a cell body with a long axon extending out in one direction and the branched tendrils of dendrites protruding from the other.

Moderna's mRNA Therapeutics ™ platform builds on the discovery that modified mRNA can direct the body's cellular machinery to produce nearly any protein of interest, from native proteins to antibodies and other entirely novel protein constructs with therapeutic activity inside and outside of cells.

• Keeping abnormal proteins from building up and potentially shutting down major organs (heart, liver and nervous system, to name a few) • Protecting the brain's functions of learning and memory against neurotransmitter toxicity • Activating or increasing the activity of proteins that promote the initial growth, maintenance and survival of brain neurons • Enhancing the movement of proteins, lipids and other cell parts through the cytoplasm of cell bodies.

Often used to prevent patients» bodies from rejecting transplanted organs, rapamycin works by increasing the numbers of regulatory T cells and block other aggressive types of T cells.

The microglia then «summon» peripheral immune cells from other parts of the body, and these cells proceed to attack the protective myelin sheaths that surround the axons — or nerve fibers — in the brain.

The cells in turn move from lungs to other parts or organs of the body and spread cancer.

Researchers have found that treating patients who have early stage non-small cell lung cancer with a type of radiotherapy called stereotactic body radiation therapy is associated with a small but increased risk of death from causes other than cancer.

The authors hope to improve the percentage of edited cells present in monkeys in the future, but it is not clear from this study what percentage of the body's white blood cells would need to be edited to stop virus replicating in the absence of drugs, and whether other interventions would also be needed in parallel.

The investigators found that the communication between two proteins in cellular post office is responsible for the detachment and movement of cancerous cells from lungs to other regions of the body.

Cancerous cells may spread from malignant tumors to other parts of the body through the blood and lymph systems.

We found that it is very selective and potent at stopping the growth of blood vessel cells without having negative effects on the growth of other cell types from the eye and elsewhere in the body.

Diamond - Blackfan anemia (DBA) is a rare blood disorder that occurs when the bone marrow fails to make red blood cells, which are essential for carrying oxygen from the lungs to all the other parts of the body.

Axon extension of a nerve cell along which nerve impulses travel away from the cell body towards other cells.

The other reason is the processing of water molecules in your body as they pass through your digestive system that delivers it to the liver, from where it goes into your blood stream that transfers it to the cells and to your kidneys before it is finally excreted.

From the tiniest of cells and membranes, to hormones, and other parts of the body, oil is essential to the proper functioning of the body.

According to South Australian nutritionist Marilyn Foran, «the idea of a detox is to modify the way we currently eat with the aim of clearing an overload of toxins from the digestive system, circulatory system and other organs or cells in the body.»

«In addition to fungal and bacterial species, bed coverings contain all sorts of microscopic debris including pet dander, lint, soil, dust, dust mites and their droppings, various excrements from the body, skin cells, cosmetics, synthetic chemicals, and other particles.»

Fats increase our body's ability to absorb nutrients and vitamins from other foods, and form an important component of many body processes — not the least of which is our cell membrane.

More than one hundred vitamin B6 - dependent enzymes have been identified, mostly involved in amino acid metabolism: for oxygen transport via hemoglobin synthesis; in blood sugar regulation via conversion of stored carbohydrate to energy; in the development of the myelin sheath surrounding nerve cells; in the conversion of alphalinoleic acid to the essential long - chain fatty acid DHA; 28 and in the synthesis of neurotransmitters, phospholipids and sphingolipids, the vitamin niacin from tryptophan, and other vital metabolites.5 In addition to its role in enzyme reactions, B6 appears to moderate the action of some steroid hormones such as the glucocorticoid hormones, which in turn influence the metabolism of protein, carbohydrate and lipids.5, 9 B6 also is a potent antioxidant, rivaling carotenoids and vitamin E in its ability to quench reactive oxidants in the body.29