Sentences with phrase «to produce toxins»

Roughly 25 % of the root canal teeth studied had bacteria within them which produced toxins that were fairly benign.

As only some of the bacteria produce toxins, it is important to also increase knowledge about and develop methods to locate exactly those patients who may benefit form treatment with antibiotics.

Our bodies produce toxins as a by - product of metabolism.

As part of its own internal biochemistry, the body also produces toxins that must be cleared.

Normal metabolic processes in our bodies produce toxins or waste products.

Some species of algae produce toxins that are harmful to people and animals.

Plants produce toxins to defend themselves against animals that eat them.

«If we can stop these bacteria from producing toxins, rather than kill them outright, we won't see the same selection pressure,» he said.

With the bugs producing these toxins, your brain simply can't function.

Even if we live a pure and simple natural life, our bodies naturally produce toxins.

But only some of these molds produce the toxin.

The grain crops similar to all other living things produce toxins naturally in order to protect themselves from being eaten away by predators.

These bad microbes produce toxins which lead to inflammation.

Many infections produce toxins that target red blood cells.

The body continues to produce toxins as a by product of cellular activity.

Bad bugs produce toxins called lipopolysacchardies (LPS) that trigger inflammation, insulin resistance or pre-diabetes and therefore, promote weight gain.

But when a company activates the gene before selling the seeds — by exposing them to the antibiotic tetracycline, for example — the plants produce a toxin in their own seeds that kills them.

iv) Utilization of Biological weapons of mass destruction means the emission, discharge, dispersal, release or escape of any pathogenic (disease producing) micro-organism (s) and / or biologically produced toxin (s)(including genetically modified organisms and chemically synthesized toxins) which are capable of causing incapacitating disablement or death amongst people or animals.

Plants usually defend themselves against insect feeding by producing toxins or deterrents.

That bacterium then produces a toxin inside the baby's gestational tract.

Lipid peroxidation can even produce toxins capable of traveling throughout the body.

Pathogenic microbes in abnormal gut flora produce toxins that dissolve the glue between the cells in your small intestine and open the «tight junctions.»

It handles toxins that enter the body externally from sources such as foods or air pollution, as well as internally produced toxins, endotoxins, that are the result of normal metabolic processes in the body.

Bt eggplant is genetically modified to produce toxins against the fruit and shoot borer.

The accessory gland doesn't produce toxins but makes many different lectins, a group of proteins that bind carbohydrates.

The bombardier beetle (Stenaptinus insignis), for example, produces the toxin benzoquinone and byproduct heat in a kind of internal combustion chamber, and then squirts it at any perceived threat.

Putting genes that produce toxins into a bacterium that inhabits humans doesn't sound like a great idea.

Ciba's maize contains the gene from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis which is responsible for producing a toxin that kills insects.

Surface blue - green algae blooms have become common in zebra mussel - dominated waters, because these algae frequently produce toxins, float high in the water above mussel colonies or are large enough to resist feeding by zebra mussels.

The majority of transgenic corn (Bt) also has been engineered to produce toxins effective against certain corn insect pests.

«A high calorie diet means you may not be taking in a lot of fiber, which is an important food for the gut bacteria, and these gut bacteria devoid of any fiber may start eating away at the mucous and also start producing toxins, which causes inflammation to set in,» said Vanamala.

DNA analyses of the Oaxaca corn revealed several signs of gene transfer from transgenic plants, including a gene of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), a bacterium that produces a toxin lethal to common pests.

The organism produces a toxin that makes plants the last repast of common insect pests.

This is the overall architecture of FtmOx1, a mold enzyme that helps produce a toxin by adding a pair of oxygen atoms.

Some lichens produce toxins that might serve as natural pesticides; one genus, Vulpicida, was once used in Scandinavia to poison wolves.

Some cells produce the toxin, while the rest take on the task of reproduction and proliferate.

Parke - Davis produced the toxins, then known as mixed bacterial vaccines, or MBVs.

Published in this month's Biology Letters, «Ungulate saliva inhibits a grass - endophyte mutualism» shows that moose and reindeer saliva, when applied to red fescue grass (which hosts a fungus called epichloë festucae that produces the toxin ergovaline) results in slower fungus growth and less toxicity.

Both the leaves and stems of Bt maize produce this toxin which destroys the gut of any moth larvae eating the plant.

The mollusk Conus textile produces a toxin, the so - called «King Kong peptide,» that when applied on prawns leads to male threatening gestures, even against much bigger enemies.

When enough RAP molecules adhere to enough target molecules, staph bacteria switch on their cell - to - cell communication and stress - response systems and begin producing the toxin that makes them so lethal.

The bacterium Bacillus anthracis, which causes the deadly anthrax disease, produces a toxin made of three proteins that individually are non-toxic.

Cyanobacteria that grow on the roots and seeds of cycad trees produce the toxin.

The last 25 % of the teeth contained bacteria which produce toxins more powerful than botulinum (Important note, botulinum is widely recognized as the most toxic substance known to humans).

The compacted feces produce toxins, causing the bowel to draw water and salt, resulting in loose stools.

These harmful species are referred to as toxic mold and are potentially hazardous because they can produce toxins known as mycotoxins.

Lyme produces toxins that lead to inflammation from cytokines.

This is because candida produces toxins that infiltrate organs and tissues.

Our body also produces toxins through normal cell activity and are known as waste products such as ammonia and lactic acid.