Sentences with phrase «trigger cellular changes»

Epigenetics: The Ultimate Mystery of Inheritance By Richard C. Francis (W. W. Norton) Researchers once considered DNA to be the exclusive carrier of heredity, but recently they have discovered that certain life experiences — smoking before puberty, say, or a high - stress pregnancy — can trigger cellular changes that get passed along to future generations.

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What's more, the important part of this research is that one type of fat can change to another, and that cold triggers cellular mechanisms that lead to the formation of more brown fat.

HIF - 1 senses reduced oxygen levels and triggers many changes in cellular function, including a changed metabolism and sending signals for the formation of new blood vessels.

The misfolded prions can trigger a domino effect by causing folding changes in their normal cellular counterparts, which turns them into toxic prions as well.

The results suggest the simultaneous activation of certain molecular pathways — actions among molecules in a cell that can lead to change — in particular the MAPK and PI3K cellular pathways, triggered tumor initiation and produced increasingly dense low - grade gliomas that quickly progressed to glioblastoma multiforme (GBM).

A critical next step for this work is to understand how senescent changes in late life trigger such destructive waves of cellular necrosis.

The transcriptional changes detected above may partially be related to changes in the cellular composition of blood triggered by death.

Molecules in the extracellular environment bind specifically to cell - surface receptors and trigger intracellular signaling, eventually leading to changes in cellular physiology.