Sentences with phrase «small cell body»

In undifferentiated state, they appear fibroblastoid and have small cell body with few long and thin cell processes.

When ASD astrocytes (red) are cultured with ASD neurons (red) neuronal development is impaired; the neuron has a smaller cell body, extends less dendritic processes which are thick and stunted, and receives less synaptic connections.

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In diseases such as malaria and sickle cell disease, red blood cells break down, with harmful effects on the rest of the body — particularly the lining of small blood vessels.

But the only way in which one can be a participant in that great tradition is through a willing sharing in the small cell of the Body in the place where one happens to live — and such willing sharing will have the double effect of strengthening both one's own faith and the community of faith.

Fetal stem cells, which may turn out to be useful for treating conditions like Parkinson's, need to be cloned — that is, researchers need to take a cell from a body, put it in an embryo, and grow that embryo to a certain small size before harvesting the stem cells.

The capsaicin - treated rats also developed less body fat and accumulated smaller fat droplets within fat cells.

Without going into a complicated biology lesson (which I probably would not be prepared to teach), let's simply think of what our digestive system does for us: it breaks food down into smaller pieces so that our body can use this nourishment to build new cells and give us energy.

You don't have to go into detail about sexual intercourse at this point, but you can point out that babies come from part of the woman's body and part of the man's body, and that they start out as very small cells that grow into a baby inside the mommy's body.

It is also responsible for the colour of red blood cells — so if someone's body lacks sufficient iron, these blood cells become small and pale, resulting in iron - deficiency anaemia.

Lagasse, based at Pitt's McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, has discovered how to turn any one of the body's 500 lymph nodes — the small, oval - shaped organs where immune cells gather to fight invading pathogens — into an incubator that can grow an entirely new liver.

Small populations of adult stem cells with somewhat limited developmental potential are responsible for the body's ability to heal injuries and replace worn out cells and tissues, and evidence is growing that rare cancer stem cells are responsible for the uncontrolled growth of some malignant tumors, including glioblastoma.

The body's tissue is full of small gaps in between the different proteins and cells that make it up.

A small body of research that includes animal and cell - culture studies, however, shows that some of them can bind to hormone receptors.

While most fat cells in the human body store energy, everyone has a small subset of brown fat cells that do the opposite — burn energy and generate heat.

The researchers believe the hammerhead shark reproduced by a type of asexual reproduction called automictic parthenogenesis, whereby an unfertilised egg is activated to behave as a normal fertilised egg by a small, nearly genetically identical cell known as the sister polar body.

Dr Matthew Hobbs, Head of Research for Diabetes UK, said: «We know that preserving or restoring even relatively small levels of insulin secretion in Type 1 diabetes can prevent hypoglycaemia (low glucose levels) and reduce complications and therefore much research has focused on ways to make new cells that can be transplanted into the body.

By getting inside the cell and getting the body to produce intracellular proteins, we have the potential to address many diseases that today aren't druggable with small molecule drugs or biologics.

Building upon their earlier research on the biology of fat metabolism, Joslin scientists discovered that microRNAs - small RNA molecules that play important roles in regulation in many types of tissue — play a major role in the distribution and determination of fat cells and whole body metabolism.

Sensing small increases in CO2, the carotid body, a small cluster of cells in the neck, spurs big increases in breathing to remove excess CO2 and keep a person out of trouble.

«The brain along with the reproductive system and every other cell in your body is exquisitely sensitive to exceedingly small changes in estrogen and other sex hormones, and the fact that the environment is full of chemicals that can activate estrogen receptors means this phenomenally sensitive system is being perturbed constantly by environmental factors.»

Despite its many parts, the entire organism is a single cell of only about 10 microns in diameter, which is smaller than most cells in the human body.

Normally, a smaller cell called a polar body pinches off from the egg.

However, it is this small proportion of virus that hides in the effector memory T - cells and stops the immune system from fully destroying the virus and eliminating it from the body.

Histones are vitally important because our genetic material is vast: every cell in the body has more than six feet of DNA bundled within a tiny nucleus, a space much smaller than can be seen with the naked eye.

To more closely mimic outside the body what goes on within, scientists take small samples of a patient's cells — cancerous and benign — and remodel them in the lab.

Polar bodies are small cells created and usually discarded when an egg is formed, with the egg receiving half the chromosomes and the polar body the other half.

In experiments with lab mice, she discovered how small groups of cells dance about to form an embryo and how a layer of cells surrounding the embryo itself, previously thought of as nothing more than a protective cloak, orchestrates the formation of an embryo's body parts.

«Because the primary Small Intestine Chip recapitulates the physical microenvironment that cells experience inside the human body, such as fluid flow and cyclic peristalsis - like stretching motions, it exhibits a genome - wide gene expression profile that comes closer to its in vivo counterpart than that of the same intestinal cells grown as 3D organoids,» said first - author Magdalena Kasendra, Ph.D., a former Postdoctoral Fellow on Ingber's team and now Principal Scientist at Emulate, Inc. in Boston.

Admittedly it is still very small — less than a ten - billionth of the mass of the smallest cell in the human body (a sperm cell; 10 - 13 kg).

pTreg cells were also believed to exist in the small intestine to inform the immune system on which food antigens can enter our body.

Sometimes when the immune system makes small mistakes, the body amplifies its response in a big way: Editing errors in the DNA of developing T and B cells can cause blood cancers.

From insects to mammals, a small set of genes and proteins controls the orientation of the body's cells and tissues

Yet only a small number of egg cells are produced by the female body, so they are the limiting factor in many aspects of reproductive science.

He points out that the extra eggs also have donor DNA in their mitochondria — small bodies that generate power for the cell.

By whatever means they are infused into the body, such vectors seem to reach and alter the DNA in only a frustratingly small number of cells.

The phenomenon is called microchimerism, a condition in which a small number of cells from two individuals coexist in one body.

Exosomes and other extracellular vesicles (EVs) are small membrane vesicles containing protein, messenger RNA, microRNA, DNA, and lipids, which are secreted by various cells and are stable in body fluids including blood, saliva, urine, cerebrospinal fluid, and breast milk.

Some scientists suspected that the nucleolus — a small body inside the nucleus that puts together the cell's protein - producing machinery — could play a key role in this remarkable change.

This causes the body's white blood cells to release type 1 interferon - alpha, a small cytokine protein that acts as a systemic alarm, triggering a cascade of additional immune activity as it binds with receptors in different tissues.

Koyuncu discovered this when she infected isolated axons with a small number of virus particles, which would normally travel to the cell bodies and be silenced, while simultaneously exposing the cell bodies to a large number of inactivated virus particles that have been dosed with ultraviolet radiation (UV).

And because the body doesn't need much of the enzyme, modifying just a small fraction of the liver's cells should be enough to treat the disease.

Thoracic Oncology — Lung cancer, malignant mesothelioma, thymoma and thymic carcinoma, small cell cancer in other body sites, chest sarcomas, pulmonary carcinoid tumors, other rare thoracic cancers

Abstract: Molecular machines, much smaller than single cells, may one day be able to deliver drugs to kill cancer cells or patrol your body for signs of disease.

On the surface of every cell in your body, there are lots of small proteins that are called receptors.

When fluid is pumped slowly across both sides of the membrane, replicating the flow of liquid along the inside and outside of intestinal tissue in the body, the seeded cells not only differentiate into the four types found in the small intestine, but form tissue that spontaneously folds, develops villi, secretes mucus and even supports microbes commonly found in the small intestine.

Researchers have found that treating patients who have early stage non-small cell lung cancer with a type of radiotherapy called stereotactic body radiation therapy is associated with a small but increased risk of death from causes other than cancer.

Scientists are using pluripotent stem cells — the master cells that make any cell in the body — to create small buds of brain, thymus, liver, intestine, eye or kidney tissue that replicate some of the functions we find in these organs.

So you know, in your body you organs, and inside the organs there are small numbers of stem cells that have the ability to remake the organs.

The stem and regenerative cells stored in your body fat could be likened to small «physicians» who diagnose and correct individual areas of the body in need of special attention.

The appetite of cancer cells for glucose is so great that it can be used to identify small groups of tumor cells that have spread throughout the body.