"Reactive molecules" refers to chemicals or particles that are easily influenced by their surroundings and can quickly undergo chemical reactions with other substances. These molecules are often highly unstable and have the ability to either accept or donate electrons, making them capable of participating in chemical reactions.
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They act as antioxidants because they prevent
highly reactive molecules called free radicals from damaging delicate cell membrane structure.
This price is oxidative damage — damage caused by an increase in
chemically reactive molecules containing oxygen that result in harm to cells and DNA.
If DNA damage is related to metabolic rate, the effect may be due to oxygen radicals, highly
reactive molecules which can damage DNA.
Free radicals are highly
reactive molecules in your body that are missing an electron, or in basic terms, their structure is incomplete.
After the gas builds up in the atmosphere each night, sunlight quickly transforms it
into reactive molecules called free radicals.
This chain of events helps to correct an imbalance of chemically
reactive molecules within the body associated with gut inflammation.
As a result of the breathing process,
reactive molecules called «free radicals» are produced that often cause damage to proteins and genes found in cells.
They do this by changing these
highly reactive molecules into inactive, less harmful compounds, which may help prevent cancer and degenerative diseases.
«Upon X-ray irradiation, they produce
very reactive molecules which don't travel far from the injection site — they latch on and stay right where you put them,» Lin said.
... FULL OF ANTIOXIDANTS Antioxidants neutralise the damaging effects
of reactive molecules called «free radicals».
Physiologist Dino Giussani and colleagues at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom theorized that hypoxia promotes harm in the womb primarily through stress caused when the low level of oxygen creates an overload of highly
reactive molecules known as free radicals.
That cooling leads to cloud formation inside the vortex and the ensuing chemical reactions that produce highly
reactive molecules with unpaired electrons.
In addition, treatment with Korean red ginseng extract suppressed the expression of RSV - induced inflammatory genes and the formation of chemically
reactive molecules containing oxygen, which play a role in virus - induced epithelial damage in RSV.
These are reactive oxygen species (ROS), which are chemically
reactive molecules formed by the partial reduction of oxygen, and biofilms that are formed by selective invading bacteria.
Plasma is known to react with air to produce highly reactive free radicals, and with liquid to produce long -
lived reactive molecules that can be used for chemotherapy.
A major feature of the advanced nanotechnology to be implemented in nanofactories will be positional mechanosynthesis — precise mechanical control of
how reactive molecules and molecular fragments interact.
High levels of the bioflavonoid quercetin in prickly pear contributed to its free - radical - scavenging ability — the ability to
neutralize reactive molecules that can damage cells.
As congestive heart failure progresses, the formation of «free radicals» (
reactive molecules created during oxygen metabolism) increases heart cell damage.
Also, there are new kinds of freedom that traditional chemistry doesn't have, including freedom to select from nearly identical reaction sites, and freedom to keep
very reactive molecules from touching anything until you're ready.
And it was buttressed by evidence that the normal metabolic consumption of energy
generates reactive molecules called free radicals that damage DNA, enzymes, and cell membranes.
Highly
reactive molecules known as carbenes have gone from unstable intermediates with nanosecond lifetimes to powerful tools in synthetic chemistry.
Antioxidants help neutralize free radicals, which are highly
reactive molecules with unpaired electrons that can damage DNA, cells, and tissues in the body.
Ozone — a highly -
reactive molecule containing three oxygen atoms — is constantly being formed and broken down in the atmosphere, in a region 9 to 18 miles from the surface of the planet.
DENVER — With the flip of a cellular switch,
reactive molecules in air pollution can turn immune responses in the lungs topsy - turvy.
The treatment consists of iodo - thiocyanate complexes, which are inspired by enzymes and
reactive molecules produced by our immune system.
In the experiment, researchers coated the metallic particles with a layer
of reactive molecules and focused the ALS - produced infrared light onto the tiny tip (25 nanometers in its diameter) of the atomic force microscope.
Superoxide dismutase's main job is to deactivate superoxides,
highly reactive molecules which are the most dangerous free radicals found in the human body.
That's because it comes from plants, which are prolific producers of polyphenols, antioxidant compounds believed to mop up so - called free radicals, very
reactive molecules that can damage DNA.
Are
these reactive molecules just injury by - products, or do they cause mitochondrial damage instead?
Vitamin E and vitamin C are potent antioxidants that help protect the body from damage caused by
reactive molecules generated during metabolism or by exposure to toxins.
What industrial chemists did know was that by tinkering with a highly
reactive molecule called a phenol they were able to devise countless synthetic chemicals for use in new materials.
Mutations may cause the mitochondria to operate less efficiently, producing more free radicals —
reactive molecules — as a waste product.
When
those reactive molecules fill baby mouse lungs, they can open the door to severe infections as well as set the stage for asthma later in life, researchers reported March 23 at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society.
Oxygen is a very
reactive molecule that can disrupt the iron - and - sulfur - containing clusters of proteins that are crucial to photosynthesis.
«Of all the toxic or
reactive molecules that [solar] industry uses, silane has been involved in 10 fatalities in the last 20 years.
It's thought that this damage happens when photons (light particles) create free radicals, which are highly
reactive molecules that can «poison» cells and kill them, Van Gelder said.