Sentences with phrase «use efflux»
Germs in biofilms use efflux pumps that flush antibiotics out.
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The TB bacteria use efflux pumps as a strategy to remove drugs and other threats from the cell before they can work against the bacteria.
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To address this challenge, our research group is using nanoparticles not only to deliver more chemotherapy drugs to the target site within cancer cells, but also to compromise the function of the efflux pumps and thereby significantly improve safety and efficacy of cancer therapy.»
Bacteria that use these «efflux pumps» and that are treated with the new compound become sensitive to antibiotics they were previously resistant to.
One type of efflux pump, which until recently had only been studied in parts, was recently modeled in its entirety and simulated using supercomputers at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
One trick used by some bacteria is to eject antibiotics through so - called efflux pumps embedded in their cellular membranes.
In - vitro cell culture assays were used to analyze the effect of MIA - 602 on efflux pump function.
Using this fit I get t1 / 2 CO2 efflux of 29 years.
To understand what and what we can and can not do, may I point out a good mental model with which to use when thinking about influx, efflux and steady state levels; the Hoover dam.