Sentences with phrase «turns hundreds of cell»

At the Boston airport, Clay (John Cusack) witnesses a scene of chaotic mayhem when an electronic signal turns hundreds of cell phone users into rabid killers.

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«It's a master switch that turns on hundreds of genes necessary to build the powerhouse machinery of the cell.»

Recent studies showed that low oxygen conditions increase levels of a family of proteins known as HIFs, or hypoxia - inducible factors, that turn on hundreds of genes, including one called NANOG that instructs cells to become stem cells.

But so is the cost of any method of reducing greenhouse gas emissions enough to make a similar difference — whether it's doubling the fuel efficiency of every single car and truck on the road (which would cost a few trillion dollars and take at least 15 years) or building scores of new wind turbines for each turbine already turning today or erecting hundreds of new solar cell arrays for every array in use today.

This type of dieting has been put to the test hundreds of times and has been shown repeatedly to decrease insulin levels, which in turn helps with weight loss; increase the amount of HGH (Human Growth Hormone) and even repair cells and help with their recovery.

More than one hundred vitamin B6 - dependent enzymes have been identified, mostly involved in amino acid metabolism: for oxygen transport via hemoglobin synthesis; in blood sugar regulation via conversion of stored carbohydrate to energy; in the development of the myelin sheath surrounding nerve cells; in the conversion of alphalinoleic acid to the essential long - chain fatty acid DHA; 28 and in the synthesis of neurotransmitters, phospholipids and sphingolipids, the vitamin niacin from tryptophan, and other vital metabolites.5 In addition to its role in enzyme reactions, B6 appears to moderate the action of some steroid hormones such as the glucocorticoid hormones, which in turn influence the metabolism of protein, carbohydrate and lipids.5, 9 B6 also is a potent antioxidant, rivaling carotenoids and vitamin E in its ability to quench reactive oxidants in the body.29

There are hundreds of other studies that have shown that curcumin turns on natural apoptotic (cell suicide) switches in cancer cells (8).