Sentences with phrase «reactive molecules known»

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.

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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.

The cause of the damage is still poorly understood, but radiation is known to create highly reactive oxygen - containing molecules in the body.

That light is absorbed by the chlorine - based molecules, which then excite nearby oxygen molecules, creating a highly reactive form of oxygen, known as singlet oxygen, that rips apart nearby biomolecules and kills the tumor cell.

More research produced the answer: Vitamin C induced what is known as a Fenton reaction, causing iron to react with other molecules to create reactive oxygen species that kill the TB bacteria.

Mononuclear cells from the blood were isolated during the OGTTs to analyze if these cells were producing molecules known as ROS (reactive oxygen species).

This causes the body to create unstable molecules known as reactive oxygen species (ROS).

As a consequence of this activity, highly reactive molecules are produced known as free radicals.