Sentences with phrase «permanent damage to cell»

Generally, pushing current through a discharged cell in this way causes undesirable and irreversible chemical reactions to occur, resulting in permanent damage to the cell.

This could ultimately help us to understand which mutations in a patient cause permanent damage to cell lineage trees.

Not exact matches

But while chemotherapy and radiation are associated with temporary changes, such as hair loss and tissue swelling, the treatments can have an unseen, permanent effect: infertility due to irreparably damaged sperm or egg cells.

In addition to suppressing the mature blood cells battling against the infection, malfunctioning of this signaling system results in permanent damage to the body's blood producing cells — called hematopoietic stem cells — that are located in the bone marrow.

These factors, together with damage to the lining of the blood vessels, can lead to permanent changes in the immune cells.

This leakage causes permanent damage to light - sensitive retinal cells, which die off and create blind spots in central vision.

There's evidence that the HD gene, damaged or not, has important functions in the cell, and we don't want to risk permanent side effects.

But now, scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have demonstrated that this damage need not be permanent — by finding a way to transform the class of cells that form human scar tissue into those that closely resemble beating heart cells.

For more than a century, scientists thought that glial cells were responsible for scar formation; now, however, a paper published in Science shows that spinal cord scar tissue largely derives from a completely unexpected type of cell called a pericyte, opening new opportunities for the treatment of damaged nerve tissue.Lesions to the brain or spinal cord rarely heal fully, which leads to permanent functional impairment.

It may not be possible to reverse T1 diabetes with diet, as the autoimmune damage to the pancreatic beta cells may be permanent, but avoiding dairy may help to mitigate increased cardiovascular disease risk.

Damage to the beta cells in the pancreas can be either temporary or permanent.

Any time the seizures are too frequent they can cause a process call «kindling» in which further (non-epileptic) brain cells are affected adversely leading to the next set of seizures occurring even sooner or lasting longer.8 Eventually some dogs have very frequent clusters of seizures happening multiple time in one day, or go into a continuous seizure (status epilepticus) which is life threatening and can lead to permanent brain damage or death.

Diffuse axonal injury — damage to the brain cells that isn't always as outwardly visible as other types of brain injury but can lead to permanent brain damage and death.

Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) is a condition which causes the newborn baby's brain cells to die due to lack of oxygen supply, causing permanent brain damage.