Sentences with phrase «protect human cells»

Coconut water contains antioxidant properties that can protect human cells from damaging free radicals.

Tough «water bears» defy intense radiation by apparently wrapping their genetic material in a bizarre protein that can also protect human cells

The TSRI scientists used the technique to discover two antibodies that protect human cells from a cold virus.

By discovering more about their survival tricks, the researchers hope to learn more ways to protect human cells from damage.

If you are looking to protect your body from premature aging, this adaptogen proves to have some pretty promising results in protecting human cells from oxidation and premature aging.

Not exact matches

As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.

The researchers experimented with inducing oxidative stress in a human cell line culture with and without VCOP (virgin coconut oil polyphenols) to observe how VCOP positively promoted catalase, a very important enzyme in protecting the cell from oxidative damage, and glutathione (GSH), a self - recycling antioxidant produced by the liver.

The scientists also showed, in lab - cultured human cells, that an ALDH - blocking drug strips regulatory T - cells of their ability to grow and protect themselves from cyclophosphamide.

Jacob's team has transplanted the back - up or «alternative» respiratory machinery from the mitochondria of lower organisms to human cells, showing that it can protect against pathological stresses, and even lethal poisons like cyanide, that target the mitochondria.

Human placental cell line Jeg - 3 can be readily infected by a circulating strain of Zika virus (left panel) and completely protected by treatment with nanchangmycin (right panel).

Serendipitously, the antimicrobial peptide shows promise for protecting humans from cancer; it can inhibit the growth of prostate and bladder cancer cells, as well as multi-drug resistant leukemic cells.

Each human cell is surrounded by a lipid membrane, a molecular barrier that serves to contain the cellular machinery and protect it from the surrounding elements.

The factor also protects proteasome function in human, mouse and yeast cells when challenged with various proteasome poisons, studies showed.

«The human skin protects the body and internal cells from environmental stresses.

Both committees were charged with exploring stem cells and protecting human subjects in research.

Researchers from the Gladstone Institutes have used human cells to discover how blood flow in the heart protects against the hardening of valves in cardiovascular disease.

In Britain, in 1991, researchers led by Jim Stott at the National Institute of Biological Standards and Control in north London, stunned their colleagues by announcing that they had apparently protected monkeys from infection with the monkey virus SIV — the simian equivalent of HIV — with a vaccine based simply on human T cells.

protected animals»); studies on in vitro systems (whole perfused organs, tissue slices, cell and tissue cultures, and subcellular fractions); and human studies (including estimations of occupational and environmental exposure, postmarketing surveillance, epidemiology, and the ethical and strictly controlled use of human volunteers).

By examining cell processes both in mice and in human cells, the researchers found out why: Re-esterification helps protect a key cell organelle called the endoplasmic reticulum (ER).

«We found that the worms and human cells were almost completely protected from the Huntington's aggregates when we turned on this response,» said Andrew Dillin, the Thomas and Stacey Siebel Distinguished Chair in Stem Cell Research in UC Berkeley's Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.

Drugs that activate this novel stress response pathway, which they call the mitochondrial - to - cytosolic stress response, protected both nematodes and cultured human cells with Huntington's disease from protein - folding damage.

Professor Takao Hamakubo's group at the Department of Quantitative Biology and Medicine, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), have shown that PTX3 forms strong bonds with histones and partially unfolds, leading to a disordered coaggregation of histone and PTX3 and protecting human endothelial cells from damage.

That finding indicates that very low numbers of the cells in the body could be enough to protect human patients from maladies ranging from infections to cancer.

Instead, human ABCB4 has a specific function in liver where it channels certain fatty acids into the bile ducts in order to protect the liver cells against aggressive biliary acids.

James Christiansen, professor of biology at Drake University in DesMoines, is studying how telomeres, the simple, non-genetic DNAsequences that sheathe the ends of chromosomes, function in reptiles.Each time a healthy human cell divides, it loses a little bit of thetelomere, until the strands are too short to protect the chromosomes.At that point the DNA in a cell begins to break down, which triggerssenescence and death.

It may be that the resulting signatures are collateral damage on the human genome caused by the enzymes» actions to protect cells from viruses.

Building on this research, investigators are trying to unravel how vitamin D may protect cells in the colon and the microbial composition of the bacteria, fungi, protozoa and viruses that live on and inside the human body, Moss noted.

Phages, shown here surrounding and attacking a bacterial cell, are part of a newly discovered type of immunity that protects mucus - covered human tissue from bacterial infection.

To determine whether ZFN - mediated disruption of cxcr4 indeed protects CD4 + T cells from an in vitro HIV challenge, human CD4 + T cells from three different ccr5 wild type donors were stimulated and transduced with AdX4 - ZFNs or an AdR5 - ZFNs control.

This protein can protect cultured human cells from avian influenza viruses but is ineffective against strains that have acquired the ability to infect humans.

Indeed, pre-treating of human cells with a compound that inhibits changes in mitochondrial morphology allows protecting the host cell from Legionella - induced changes of mitochondria and restricts bacterial infection of human cells.

As an approach to inactivating CCR5, we introduced CCR5 - specific zinc - finger nucleases into human CD4 + T cells prior to adoptive transfer, but the need to protect cells from virus strains that use CXCR4 (X4) in place of or in addition to CCR5 (R5X4) remains.

«We need to develop specific tools to study chemical toxicity in human reproductive cells; this will allow us to accurately assess safety thresholds for different compounds, and re-evaluate the acceptible daily intake levels to protect human health for some of them» said Professor Habert.

The state constitutional amendment now protects the right to conduct research to produce embryonic stem cells, while banning cloning to produce a human baby.

Rudolph Tanzi and Robert Moir, who study neurodegeneration at Harvard MGH, sought to test whether amyloid - β might protect mice, Caenorhabditis elegans nematodes, and human cells in culture from invasion by various microbes.

Now, researchers at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and their colleagues have shown that amyloid - β can protect against yeast and bacterial infections in two animal models, as well as in cultured human cells.

Moretta A, Vitale M, Bottino C, Orengo AM, Morelli L, Augugliaro R, Barbaresi M, Ciccone E, Moretta L. P58 molecules as putative receptors for major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecules in human natural killer (NK) cells: anti-p58 antibodies reconstitute lysis of MHC class I - protected cells in NK clones displaying different specificities.

Gianneschi and his team found that the synthetic melanin nanoparticles in their experiments were not only absorbed and distributed normally by the keratinocytes in the epidermis, but they also protected human skin cells from UV radiation damage.

Aldh3a1 protects human corneal epithelial cells from ultraviolet - and 4 - hydroxy -2-nonenal-induced oxidative damage.

Vitamin D up - regulates the vitamin D receptor by protecting it from proteasomal degradation in human CD4 + T cells.

Coleen McNamara, MD, a Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Virginia, recently discovered a B cell subset that produces natural antibodies to protect from diet - induced atherosclerosis in mice, and she hopes to gain insights into the equivalent mechanisms in humans.

Elevated expression of hexokinase II protects human lung epithelial - like A549 cells against oxidative injury.

Scientists have glimpsed the three - dimensional structure of a protein that protects the ends of human chromosomes, a function that is essential for normal cell division and survival.

The human immune system contains a collection of different cell types and molecules that help to protect the body from toxins, viral infections, bacteria, and parasites.

Working in human cells, Liu and coworkers used adenine base editing to correct a point mutation that causes the iron - storage disorder hemochromatosis and to install mutations that protect against sickle cell anemia.

In addition to a critical role in cell division, it is also clear that survivin has a function in protecting cells from apoptosis and that this pathway is followed in nearly every human tumor.

The researchers are currently exploring this and other questions to elucidate the process by which stem cells protect a heart after an myocardial infarction and help translate it for human application.

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TIMP - 1, previously described as being able to protect against cytokine and STZ ‐ induced β cell death [5, 6], was one of the most enriched factors in co-culture experiments using mouse and human islet cells, and the authors found that TIMP - 1 was induced by pro-inflammatory factors which are commonly associated with T1DM.

There are only 25 selenoproteins in humans but they play critical roles in diverse aspects of human health, including thyroid hormone metabolism, fertility, immunity, development, and protecting cells against stress.