Sentences with phrase «protect against protein»

Prawns are a protein - rich supplement that, in conjunction with an overall healthy diet, may protect against protein deficiency.

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Vitamin E helps protect your cells against free radicals, chemicals that oxidize and damage your proteins, cell membranes and DNA.
The orange juice and zest pair beautifully with ginger, but we really love the addition of goji berries, which may help protect against the flu.1 Then there's the crunchy green pistachios for a little more fiber and protein.
Breastmilk is still milk, with fat, protein, calories, vitamins and the rest, and the antibodies and other elements that protect the baby against infections are still there, some in greater quantities than when the baby was younger.
Breastmilk is still milk, with fat, protein, calories, vitamins and the rest, and the antibodies and other elements which protect the baby against infections are still there, some in greater quantities than when the baby was younger.
This is because exposure to food proteins from 3 — 4 months and 6 — 7 months is now thought to protect against allergies.
These antibodies are added protein that help your baby to be protected against infection and illness.
«Colostrum... has concentrated immunological properties that contain high concentrations of secretory immunoglobulin A, or slgA, an anti-infective agent that coats [the baby's] intestines to protect against the passage of germs and foreign proteins that can create allergic sensitivities.
Colostrum contains antibodies that protect newborns against disease, and it also contains a higher concentration of protein than regular milk, and it is lower in fat as well.
The World Health Organization and UNICEF strongly encourage breastfeeding through toddlerhood: «Breastmilk is an important source of energy and protein, and helps to protect against disease during the child's second year of life.»
In adults, studies have suggested that the anthrax vaccine is quite safe; it's made with inactivated protein from the anthrax bacteria, much like vaccines that protect against diptheria and tetanus.
Remarkably, the researchers also found that blocking this protein in mice protected them from the lethal effects of dengue virus infection, an important finding given that an effective vaccine against dengue has remained elusive, partly because there are four serotypes of the virus that cause disease.
While IL - 18 is useful for protecting the body against external pathogens, too much of this protein leads to a harmful overactivation of the immune system, resulting in the various symptoms presented in patients.
In the early 1990s, Guarente discovered that sirtuins, a class of proteins found in nearly all animals, protect against the effects of aging in yeast.
A new study shows that sand flies, tiny insects that transmit a parasitic disease called leishmaniasis, also secrete a protein in their saliva that protects mice against the disease.
Tweaking activity of one protein may help protect against 10 autoimmune diseases, a new study suggests.
In humans, normal prion proteins may generally protect against Alzheimer's disease.
Insight into this mechanism led the researchers to design new peptides — snippets of the human B7 - 2 receptor protein — that powerfully block the binding of a superantigen to its costimulatory receptor targets, and thereby protect against lethal toxic shock, as they showed in animals.
Neutralizing antibodies primarily recognized the envelope protein domain III (EDIII) or quaternary epitopes on the intact virus, and an EDIII - targeted antibody protected mice against lethal infection.
Anti-aging proteins have long been shown to protect against age - related diseases, such as cancer, neurodegeneration, and cardiovascular disease.
Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a compound that targets the APOE protein in the brains of mice and protects against damage induced by the Alzheimer's protein amyloid beta.
Her earlier work suggested that a tolerance for endotoxin is what protects children raised on farms, and this new study provides strong support for this protein's role in guarding against allergies.
Rhesus monkey TRIM5α protects against HIV - 1, but the only modern virus that the human protein has any effect on is one that causes leukemia in mice — which happens to be closely related to PtERV1.
None of the proteins protect against HIV - 2, which came to us from apes like HIV - 1 did, she says, but humans have apparently fended off nearly 40 other monkey retroviruses, so our innate immunity «wasn't quite as bad as you thought.»
This new finding opens up the possibility that other salivary proteins might exist which protect against many other diseases, including infectious gastritis, food poisoning or even pneumonia.
In the new study, conducted in zebrafish, researchers found that elimination of the α - synuclein protein protected the zebrafish against the ziram - induced loss of dopamine neurons.
«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.»
«Plant protein may protect against type 2 diabetes, meat eaters at greater risk.»
«Immune system cells protect against CMV - induced hearing loss in mice: Natural killer cells recognize and bind to viral protein on surface of infected inner ear cells.»
Apparently, antibodies to this protein protected against malaria by trapping the schizont inside the red blood cell — not by preventing it from infecting new ones.
Bcl - 2 proteins play a key role in cell survival by protecting against a form of cell suicide known as apoptosis.
«Researchers discover a protein that protects against fatty liver, the most common hepatic disease in Western countries.»
No one protein protected against all of the strains; the combination was essential for the broad effectiveness, the team reports 1 July in Science.
The research involves a protein called fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21), which the scientists previously found helps protect mice against diet - related toxicities to the liver.
This result firms up the link between APOC3 and heart disease and also supports a possible prevention strategy, Crosby said: Reducing levels of the ApoC - III protein could potentially lower lipid levels and protect against heart disease.
This protein can protect cultured human cells from avian influenza viruses but is ineffective against strains that have acquired the ability to infect humans.
Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes discovered that changing a specific part of the huntingtin protein prevented the loss of critical brain cells and protected against behavioral symptoms in a mouse model of the disease.
The process of autophagy degrades damaged organelles, cell membranes and proteins, and protects against the aging process
They also identified targets for potential therapies: bolstering levels of either a particular chaperone or a growth factor in brain cells can protect against the toxic effects of misfolded proteins.
The researchers revealed that increasing levels of a certain key protein successfully protected against cell death in both genetic and sporadic versions of the disease.
chaperone proteins help other proteins to fold correctly, and can protect proteins against damage
A research team as the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have identified a protein that protects against stomach cancers by preventing inflammation.
Human heat shock protein 27 overexpressing mice are protected against hepatic ischemia and reperfusion injury.
This protein protects the body against oxidative stress, which hampers the body's ability to defend itself against toxic free radicals (a type of particle linked to disease).
Other reported effects of PPAM included inhibition of autophagy which is an important survival mechanism that protects cancer cells against stress, impairment of the unfolded protein response (UPR) induced by glucose starvation and decrease of the activity of STAT3 [72, 73].
• 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.
Scientists at QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute have developed a protein which completely cures mice of malaria and protects them against re-infection.
LA JOLLA, CA — Members of the TET family of proteins help protect against cancer by regulating the chemical state of DNA — and thus turning growth - promoting genes on or off.
Researchers have found that an enzyme that helps cells dispose of unwanted proteins may actually protect against a class of inherited brain disorders that includes Huntington's disease.
«By replenishing the naturally - produced, heart - enriched, cardio - protective protein, CTRP9, we create a more favourable environment for stem cells to survive and protect against heart injury.»
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