Sentences with phrase «specialized kidney cells»
The scientists got another surprise when they followed up on this finding with mouse experiments that exposed specialized kidney cells called «podocytes», a key component of the blood filtering, to high levels of glucose.
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Both of these cell layers act as a barrier to small molecules and ions that protects the organs and enables specialized functions, such as absorption in the intestine or urine secretion in the kidney.
«This data allows classification of all human protein - coding genes into those coding for house - hold functions (present in all cells) and those that are tissue - specific genes with highly specialized expression in particular organs and tissues, such as kidney, liver, brain, heart, pancreas.
If they were permanent, ES cells would never be able to differentiate into heart, kidney, brain, bone, skin and the other specialize cells crucial to normal human functioning.
In kidneys, for example, stem cells have to not only specialize but also move into appropriate positions.
This is governed by kidney processes that limit the amount of such minerals in the bloodstream and by specialized channels within the cell membrane that control mineral transport from the bloodstream into cells.