Sentences with phrase «scavenging nutrients»

Regarding diet, beyond choosing diets rich in antioxidant and free radical scavenging nutrients, we should also avoid nutrient forms and foods that are known to cause cancer, as well as feed cancer.

Many of these were virulence genes that enabled them to survive in the gut or urinary tract, but some were genes that allowed them to compete better with other bacteria, either by scavenging nutrients, or by directly killing their competitors.

The team also showed that the cellular process macropinocytosis, which participates in cell scavenging nutrients and vesicles, contributes to exosomes uptake in cancer cells with mutant KRAS.

Altering the genetics of E. coli so they can't make a naturally occurring nutrient doesn't always work, said Church, because some of them manage to scavenge the nutrient from their surroundings.

It allows tumors to scavenge nutrients to sustain growth and survival.

Not exact matches

Parasite avoidance is also a likely reason why the carcasses of herbivores are rapidly scavenged by other animals, whereas dead carnivores are not and why the latter end up providing more nutrients for invertebrates and vegetation.

In contrast to small antelope carcasses, the heads of these somewhat larger individuals are able to be consumed several days after death and could be scavenged, as even the largest African predators like lions and hyenas were unable to break them open to access their nutrient - rich brains.

Like all bacteria, Staphylococcus need iron to reproduce, and researchers hope to thwart the bugs by understanding how they scavenge this essential nutrient from their hosts.

«Nutrient scavenging by autophagy is a process that tumors hijack to meet their energetic requirements and to provide the necessary cellular building blocks for growth in a stressed tumor micro-environment» said White, «Preclinical models have demonstrated a critical role for autophagy in multiple cancer types.»

Its alkalinity counteracts the excess stomach acidity caused by modern eating habits; its micro-clustered minerals and trace elements provide essential nutrients that are chronically deficient in modern diets; and its negative ion charge continuously scavenges free radicals and sweeps toxic substances from the bloodstream, enhancing overall vitality.

Quantification of these effects is the next step and the modelling of the combined effects of turbulence, nutrient recycling in the surface layer and the effects of nutrient scavenging from deep water is already under way.