Sentences with phrase «through cell membranes»

As far as cellular metabolism, however, staying hydrated must occur because all nutrients, oxygen, and more are moved through the cell membranes to the inner - workings of the cells.

This toxin blocks a molecular channel that normally lets potassium flow through cell membranes.

This characteristic allows it to be easily absorbed and transported through the cell membrane.

These proteins act as a gated tunnel through the cell membrane, controlling the flow of small ions into and out of cells.

Now scientists have figured out a way to issue a kind of molecular visa to drugs, allowing them to pass freely through cell membranes.

The research shows that it is possible for bacteria to lie directly on the surface of a metal or mineral and transfer electrical charge through their cell membranes.

So it explains how water moves rapidly through cell membranes.

They are small enough to pass through cell membranes on their own, including into the brain.

Nanoparticles are also being studied for their potential medical uses, particularly in drug delivery, because they are able to pass easily through cell membranes.

When in the pH range in most body tissues, the proteins are shapeless and limp, unable to get through cell membranes.

EFAs are also important in oxygen transfer, hemoglobin production, and control of nutrients through cell membranes.

Among the team's findings, reported in the 30 November issue of Science: AAV poked through the cell membrane in about 64 milliseconds, much faster than expected, and reached the nucleus in about 15 minutes.

LIfe Extension L - carnitine helps to maintain cellular energy metabolism by assisting in the transport of fat through the cell membrane and into the mitochondria within the cell, where these fats are oxidized...

That keeps blood glucose levels high, forcing the pancreas to make even more insulin in a desperate attempt to jam the stuff through cell membranes.

When enough of the organisms gather together in a confined space, the compound becomes so concentrated that it permeates back through the cell membranes to combine with receptors inside the bacteria.

It seems that some things passively flow through the cell membrane under various pressures, others are somehow actively pumped across the membrane and others are engulfed when the membrane folds inward

Using electrophysiological methods to measure electrical currents through cell membranes, the research group at the Institute for Physiology and Pharmacology, led by Marjan Slak Rupnik, showed that dextromethorphan extends the periods of electrical activity in beta cells.

Kir4.2 is a potassium channel — it forms a pore through the cell membrane that allows potassium ions to enter the cell.

«Our research shows that these proteins can directly «touch» the mineral surface and produce an electric current, meaning that is possible for the bacteria to lie on the surface of a metal or mineral and conduct electricity through their cell membranes.

In this trial, the therapeutic genes are transported within tiny fat bubbles, called liposomes, which can ooze through the cell membrane to deliver their genetic cargo.

The frequency generator and plasma amplifier are designed to kill microbes through the cell membrane.

Cells allow some particles through via specific receptors on the cell surface, and certain small fats can diffuse through the cell membrane.

Selectins are sugar - protein molecules (glycoproteins) that run through cell membranes.

Liposomal turmeric, on the other hand, can pass directly through the cell membranes in your body, which ensures dramatically faster and more complete absorption.

Potassium's positive charge gives it the added benefit of being able to move easily through cell membranes.

Agre shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Roderick MacKinnon in 2003 for his discovery of aquaporins — channels that regulate and facilitate water molecule transport through cell membranes, a process essential to all living organisms.

Researchers from MIT have now found a safe and efficient way to get large molecules through the cell membrane, by squeezing the cells through a narrow constriction that opens up tiny, temporary holes in the membrane.

To avoid death, cells must remove fluoride that has accumulated inside them, a process accomplished via ion channels - protein tunnels through the cell membrane that only allow specific substances to pass through.

CF can arise from more than 2000 mutations in one gene, which cripple the ion channels that move salt and water through cell membranes.

It absorbs oxygen and nutrients through cell membranes, not blood vessels, shortening its life span.

Mercury vapor emitted from amalgams passes readily through your cell membranes, across your blood - brain barrier, and into your central nervous system where it causes immunological, neurological, and psychological problems.

LIfe Extension L - carnitine helps to maintain cellular energy metabolism by assisting in the transport of fat through the cell membrane and into the mitochondria within the cell, where these fats are oxidized to produce the cellular energy ATP.

The researchers» findings offer a broader understanding of how dopamine moves through cell membranes.

Because of a genetic mutation that hinders regulation of fluid flow through cell membranes, people with cystic fibrosis have excessive mucus that gets in the way of normal body functions.

Most drugs on the market today are small molecules, active organic compounds with a structure and weight so minute that they can be ingested and pass more easily through cell membranes.

Thus connected, the subunits push up through the cell membrane to form a strong, stable fiber, the team reports in the 15 November issue of Cell.

These dots hold promise for labeling individual proteins or other molecules inside cells, but scientists have had trouble getting them through the cell membrane without getting trapped in endosomes.

For the first time ever scientist have succeeded in measuring the electric force that influence charged amino acids in a protein when the protein chain passes through the cell membrane of a bacteria.

Chloride moves easily through cell membranes and delivers nutrients, than removes excess waste upon exiting.

You could get that through a cell membrane analysis and then really know.

When teaching about cell transport, Catherine said that it gave her students «a non-linguistic representation of how molecules are transported through the cell membrane.»

Chloramphenicol can easily pass deeply through purulent material to the organisms hiding within, through cell membranes to attack parasites living within, and into organs where other antibiotics can not go.