Sentences with phrase «rupture cell walls»

Frozen blueberries are also great and there's actually interesting research suggesting that the ice crystals in frozen blueberries rupture cell walls and make the anthocyanins more bioavailable.

In the freezer, ice crystals from moisture in the pods themselves rupture the cell walls in the pod, causing them to lose their crispness.

«Nanoparticles are very small and they are interacting with the bacteria and rupturing the cell wall,» says chemist George John of The City College of New York and lead author of the study, published recently in the journal Nature Materials.

Exposure to heat ruptures the cell walls which allow the molecule to be better extracted, bringing about changes in the structure letting it be more easily assimilated by the body.

Not exact matches

Once the cells were trapped, researchers observed how they underwent lysis: their cell walls and membrane ruptured, the cytoplasm leaked, and the cell disintegrated.

Inflammation in response to the Salmonella stressed the pathogens themselves, and the resulting damage promoted bacteriophage replication, followed by rupture of the bacterial cell wall and release of the bacteriophages.

The guts of these animals produce a natural antifreeze — glycoproteins that bind to ice crystals as they begin to form and prevent them from growing large enough to fatally rupture the walls of cells.

This is most commonly due to occlusion (blockage) of a coronary artery following the rupture of a vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque, which is an unstable collection of lipids (cholesterol and fatty acids) and white blood cells (especially macrophages) in the wall of an artery.

According to a 2015 Rutgers University study, oleocanthal actually has the power to rupture cancer cell walls — causing the malignant cells to then be killed by their own enzymes.

The body perceives this plaque as an injury and sends inflammatory cells into the vessel walls, where they set off a cascade of events that can ultimately cause plaque to rupture and a clot to form over it.

Nutrients are encased inside plant cells and getting their benefits requires these cells» walls to be ruptured.