Sentences with phrase «signaling chemical inside»

Once thought to be a sign of disease processes, hydrogen peroxide is now understood to be a critical signaling chemical inside cells, Kemp noted.

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The thinking that happens inside your brain can be traced to chemical signals passing between neurons, and those chemicals move the way they do because of electromagnetism.

When these bacteria are placed inside an animal, an ultrasound detector can pick up those signals and reveal the microbes» location, much like sonar waves bouncing off ships at sea, explains study coauthor Mikhail Shapiro, a chemical engineer at Caltech.

The social parasitic Maculinea butterfly uses chemical and acoustic adaptations to trick ant signaling defenses, and manages to spend most of its life cycle inside the ant nest.

Several long - lived worms carry mutations in a gene involved in a process that appears to use chemical signals to trigger activities inside cells.

Without the benefit of chemical signals, mantis shrimp approached an opponent's refuge more quickly and behaved less aggressively, suggesting that the chemical cues help them assess the size of an opponent and determine if an opponent is inside their dwelling.

Palmitate allows these proteins to transfer chemical signals from outside the cell to inside via the cell membrane.

Autoinducers (chemical signaling molecules that produce more of themselves inside the cell) control the switch that turns the light genes off and on.

About 30 percent of medications on the market activate G - protein coupled receptors on cell surfaces and trigger chemical signals inside cells to yield their therapeutic effects.