Sentences with phrase «premature death of cells»

Necrosis is literally the «premature death of cells and living tissue.»

Not exact matches

Inflammation also erodes telomeres, the «caps» at the ends of chromosomes that protect genes from degradation, which can lead to early cell death, premature aging and even cancer.

Contrary to reports of premature deaths, carriers of the sickle - cell gene were in almost all cases healthy; because genes come in pairs, carriers had one normal copy of the gene, making normal hemoglobin.

It is characterized by the wasting of skeletal muscles and caused by progressive degeneration of nerve cells in the spinal cord; the disease leads to increasing muscular weakness, atrophy and premature death due to respiratory problems.

While there are many precise mechanisms of ADRCs that continue to be investigated, there is robust scientific evidence that they have the capacity to address inflammation, stimulate new blood vessel formation, prevent premature cell death and secrete substances that encourage repair and regeneration.

Thus, these animals exhibit premature cardiac arrhythmias and stiffening of the arterial wall, and cardiac failure appears to be the main cause of death; yet these tissues are not burdened with an abnormally - high burden of p16Ink4a - senescent cells, and accordingly, ablation p16Ink4a - positive senescent cells in these animals had little tissue - specific or survivorship phenotypic impact.

Professor Richard Gardner, chair of the Royal Society working group on stem cell research and therapeutic cloning, said: «We must await the results of the post-mortem on Dolly in order to assess whether her relatively premature death was in any way connected with the fact that she was a clone.

Although not all chronic disease is created equal with the same components, many share common denominators such as early inflammation, immune response, loss of blood supply, premature cell / tissue death and resultant scarring.

Once in your brain, your stem cells are called upon to perform the important task of improving blood flow to tissues, halting destructive inflammation and premature tissue death, while ultimately replacing damaged cells.

Telomere length is arguably the best marker of biological age, and shorter mean telomere length, usually measured in your white blood cells, is associated with increased risk of heart disease, obesity, cancer, stroke, dementia, and premature death (2).

Or the opposite can occur... such as when mental, emotional or physical stress is getting the best of us, a situation in which the body will need antioxidants in order to protect cells from the oxidative stress that can damage or initiate premature cell death.

Regenerative anemia is caused by either blood loss from hemorrhage or premature death of red cells — the leak in the bucket is too big.