Sentences with phrase «prevents cells»

It prevents cells from dehydrating or swelling and maintains healthy muscle cell and nerve function.

When your dog's body doesn't properly produce or utilize insulin, it prevents his cells from getting the glucose (energy) they need which can result in the starvation of vital cells and organs.

Selenium is an antioxidant which prevents cells from damage and oxidation.

Cellular senescence is an anti-cancer mechanism that permanently prevents cells from dividing.

A long - standing mystery about how cells resist the powerful effects of cancer - causing genes has been solved by researchers studying a genetic check - and - balance system that prevents cells in the body...

It occurs when waste products build up underneath the retina, which prevents cells in the retina from getting the nutrition they need.

When expressed normally, the protein acts as an enzyme at the cell membrane, instigating a complex biochemical reaction that regulates the cell cycle and prevents cells from growing or dividing in an unregulated fashion.

When stimulated by molecules called fibroblast growth factors, this receptor, known as FGFR3, prevents the cells from maturing and impedes bone formation.

The team plans to continue analyzing the formation of new centrioles, and how p53 detects centrioles and prevents cells from dividing without them.

This widespread lack of the need for telomerase is used by evolution as a key component of our defense against cancer, because having a limit to the size and renewal of telomeres prevents our cells from replicating themselves indefinitely — the crucial hallmark of cancer.

Bonded to a polymer coating on the stent surface, the drug prevents cells from reproducing.

«We also know that this RhoB pathway, once turned on, can stimulate the expression of two proteins: p21, which prevents cells from replicating, and BIM, which induces cell death — both of which can help stop cancer growth.»

«It turns out that adding LIN41 altogether avoids the onset of the roadblock that prevents cells from converting into iPSCs.»

A study shows, for the first time, how these functional impairments arise: Social isolation during early life prevents the cells that make up the brain's white matter from maturing and producing the right amount of myelin, the fatty «insulation» on nerve fibers that helps them transmit long - distance messages within the brain.

Sunflower seeds were also added because they are packed full of selenium, which can help to prevent cell damage and are full of magnesium which is good for bones and they taste really good to boot

It's also high in Vitamin C (40 % RDA *), an antioxidant that prevents cell damage, improves the immune system and facilitates with iron absorption.

The antioxidants in the squash prevent cell damage and vitamin B helps cells function better.

# 7 Watermelon It's fun to eat and a source of excellent vitamins helps strengthen immunity, heal wounds, prevent cell damage, promote healthy teeth and gums.

Antioxidants prevent cell damage and support good health.

The boosted genes had three main beneficial effects: improving the efficiency of mitochondria, the powerhouse of cells; boosting insulin production, which improves control of blood sugar; and preventing the depletion of telomeres, caps on chromosomes that help to keep DNA stable and so prevent cells wearing out and ageing.

The boosted genes had three main effects: improving cellular energy efficiency; upping insulin production, which improves control of blood sugar; and preventing the breakdown of caps on chromosomes that help prevent cells wearing out and ageing.

They first tested the idea that diluting growth factor can prevent cells invading the posterior capsule.

PARP (in yellow) at the damage site prevents the cell from repairing itself, causing it to die.

«If you prevent these cells from becoming the M2 type, you can potentially stop the continued inflammation and long - term structural changes,» says Heller.

Different drug molecules make it possible to affect the function of these receptors and, consequently, to prevent cell activation and mediator release.

Daniel Fels of the Swiss Tropical Institute in Basel grew the microbe Paramecium caudatum in complete darkness in clear tubes, which prevented the cells from passing chemical messages to one another.

«By preventing cell - to - cell transmission, we may able to block the death pathway and stop the progression from HIV infection to AIDS.»

Disruption of TBK1 interactions with either CEP170 or NuMA resulted in defects in mitosis and prevented cell division.

When they prevented the cells from making ALKBH5, NANOG levels and the number of cancer stem cells decreased.

When a methyl group is attached to a gene, it keeps that gene hidden from cells» protein - building machinery — in this case, preventing the cells from manufacturing GABA - A receptors.

Interferon - inducible protein 6 - 16 (IFI 6 - 16), a protein not previously known to be associated with other misfolding diseases but that was uniquely found misfolded in the urine of women with preeclampsia, is known to help prevent cell death and, in breast cancer cells, is responsible for resistance to treatment.

«Actin remodeling is a signal that prevents cell invasion,» explains Kawauchi.

By masking JAM - C, H225 was able to prevent the cells from migrating out of the blood vessels.

One found that a chemical compound caused valve fibroblasts to become active, similar to what is observed during valve disease, but the other study indicated that the same compound prevented the cells from calcifying, indicating that a key piece of the valve disease puzzle was missing.

When the researchers pretreated the heart cells with a derivative of the sedative drug benzodiazepine before subjecting them to conditions that mimic a heart attack, the cells» mitochondria managed to regain normal function quickly, in effect restoring a steady supply of energy that prevented the cells from misfiring.

They subsequently treated worms and human cells with Huntington's disease with drugs that prevented the cell from sweeping up and storing the lipid, called ceramide, and saw the same protective effect.

This might be something useful for preventing another cell from rapidly dividing — such as a cancer cell.

The treatment did a lot to prevent cell migration, a key mechanism in metastasis, in experiments on laboratory cultures (in vitro) of cancerous human cells.

A string of methyl groups attached to a gene can prevent a cell from reading its DNA sequence.

Malumbres's group had previously discovered that the inactivation of another APC / C protein, Cdc20, prevented cell division.

The molecular biologists Julia Klermund and Katharina Bender in the team of Brian Luke have found a way to prevent cells from turning off the checkpoint and therefore increase the time available for repair, while at the same time preventing damaged DNA from getting passed to newly made cells.

These designer proteins bind tightly to CGRP molecules or their receptors on trigeminal nerve cells, preventing cell activation.

«Preventing cell death from infection: Scientists demonstrate powerful method to find new therapies.»

Studies in mice found that by preventing the cells from using sugar, this effect could be reversed.

People use organic solvents and synthetic polymers as additives to prevent cell cultures from freezing damage.

«But this study has shown us that when we run into severe pathological conditions like heart and liver disease it would be more beneficial to inhibit the TRIM21 protein because it is preventing the cell from protecting itself against damage.»

Dr Borges» research tested if giving oral triheptanoin could prevent cell death and symptom onset in an animal model of MND.

In research published in Molecular Cell, Rutgers scientists discovered that a protein (p62), which is supposed to act as an antioxidant to prevent cell damage, was not working efficiently in laboratory mice with liver and heart disease that mimicked these conditions in humans.

Blocking nuclear export seemed to prevent cells from dying and counteracted the defects in neurons with mutant Huntingtin, the researchers say.

Prior studies by Kerr el al, showed that PP2ACdc55 played an essential role in controlling the timing of metaphase to anaphase during meiosis, in other words preventing cells from prematurely exiting meiosis.