Sentences with phrase «used by the body cells»

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Vitamin E helps protect cells from damage and prevents blood clots, thrombosis and atherosclerosis by improving the body's use of oxygen.

That means it's more digestible and broken down quickly, causing a spike in blood sugar, followed by another spike in insulin, which is what your body uses to shuttle that sugar to your cells to be used for energy.

Phosphorus is also used by the body to synthesize protein for cell and tissue growth and repair.

The short - chain fatty acids that aren't used by the cells in the colon travel to the bloodstream, liver and to the rest of the body, where they may lead to various beneficial effects (19, 20).

The carotene compound is converted to Vitamin A by the body where it is used to maintain the skin and assist in making cells that sense light as well as the pigments in the eye.

Insulin is secreted by the pancreas, and is responsible for carrying sugar into the cells of the body where it can be used for energy.

Dr Claudia Wellbrock, study author and Cancer Research UK scientist at The University of Manchester and a member of the Manchester Cancer Research Centre, said: «We used to think that cancer cells spread by first specialising in invading other parts of the body and then change in order to grow rapidly.

Action potentials can be created by many types of cells, but are used most extensively by the nervous system for communication between neurons and to transmit information from neurons to other body tissues such as muscles and glands.

Chien Ho, professor of biological sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, and his colleagues have developed a novel way to improve delivery of chemotherapy nanodrugs by using Intralipid ®, an FDA - approved nutrition source to temporarily blunt the reticuloendothelial system — a network of cells and tissues found throughout the body, including in the blood, lymph nodes, spleen and liver, that play an important role in the immune system.

The illness is caused by the loss of so - called pancreatic beta cells, the cells that produce the hormone insulin, which is essential for regulating the use of sugar in the body.

«Drugs like morphine hijack the body's natural painkilling mechanisms, such as those used by endorphins, but because they act within the central nervous system, they can affect other brain cells that use similar pathways, leading to side effects such as addiction or sleepiness,» says Professor Gamper.

The team believes that whichever way BMP - 7 is used, it will be less risky than other treatments for type 1 diabetes that are currently being investigated, such as those that create pancreatic cells from stem cells, or by introducing new genes into the body.

After more than six years of research, the research team led by María Soengas, head of CNIO's Melanoma Group, showed that RAB7 acts as an orchestra director, determining the fate of melanoma cells: at high concentrations of RAB7, cellular autodigestion is very active, and this allows tumor cells to obtain energy, prevent the accumulation of toxic components and thus divide and proliferate; when RAB7 is reduced, cells use endosomes to recycle metastatic proteins, favouring their dispersal throughout the body.

By turning on a several genes in adult cells, scientists can transform skin or blood cells into stem cells that can become every cell type in the body — without the ethical and practical complications of using embryos or oocytes.

Although electrolyte leakage is still undesired, its danger is minimized by the use of either the normal saline solution pumped into the body in most IV treatments or a cell - culture medium that contains amino acids, sugars, and vitamins in addition to sodium ions and thus mimics the fluid that surrounds human cells.

In this case, it was not by using a special formula of transcription factors, but by inducing damage to tell the body to repair itself and that it needs new cells of a certain type to do that.

Previous research conducted by Dr. Badylak's team suggested that ECM also could be used to regenerate lost muscle by placing the material in the injury site where it signals the body to recruit stem and other progenitor cells to rebuild healthy tissue.

HCV invades cells in the body by binding to specific receptors on the cell, enabling the virus to enter it.2 Once inside, HCV hijacks functions of the cell known as transcription, translation and replication, which enables HCV to make copies of its viral genome and proteins, allowing the virus to spread to other sites of the body.2 When HCV enters the host cell, it releases viral (+) RNA that is transcribed by viral RNA replicase into viral -LRB--) RNA, which can be used as a template for viral genome replication to produce more (+) RNA or for viral protein synthesis.

Unfortunately, the enzymes used in past glucose biofuel cells were not suitable for implants, because they either required highly acidic conditions to work or were inhibited by a variety of ions found in the body.

Stromal cells that reside in the lymph nodes throughout the body manufacture proteins identical to those made by gut cells and use them to train T cells to ignore certain proteins.

Of the motivation behind the ground - breaking study, Miss Restrepo - Schild said: «I have always been fascinated by the human body, and want to prove that current technology could be used to replicate the function of human tissues, without having to actually use living cells.

A key mechanism used by our body to induce immune tolerance is by induction of regulatory T (Treg) cells, a subset of white blood cell that orders other T cells to stand down.

The cell envelops the foreign body and exterminates it specifically by using reactive oxygen species (ozone, hydrogen peroxide, bleach), generated thanks to the enzyme NOX2.

Su - chun Zhang and his colleagues at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the University of Bonn, Germany, directed the development of embryonic stem cells stage by stage, using the same growth factors the body uses.

Important to the study's implications, adenosine is derived from adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the molecule that stores the energy needed by the body's cells until they break it up to use it.

Studies in rodents have suggested that iPSC - derived cells used for transplantation may be rejected by the body's immune system.

Researchers are now reporting advances in these areas by using gelatin - based microparticles to deliver growth factors to specific areas of embryoid bodies, aggregates of differentiating stem cells.

The kit adopts a novel purification method, using magnetic beads and phosphatidylserine - binding protein to isolate exosomes and other EVs from cell - culture medium and body fluids by a normal microcentrifuge.

Fat metabolism is the biochemical process by which fats are transported and broken down in the blood, and used by the cells of the body.

Nguyen is developing ways to guide surgeons during tumor removal surgery by using fluorescent compounds to make tumor cells — and just tumor cells — glow during surgery, which helps surgeons perform successful operations and get more of the cancer out of the body.

The outer layer of the gobstopper is a stealth layer; much as in the technique used by Doxil and other first - generation nanodrugs, its surface attracts water molecules, so the particle can avoid notice by the body's patrolling immune cells.

Our goal is to use a new imaging system to monitor damage caused by AD to the brain region that contains the insulated axons (analogous to cables) connecting the neuron cell bodies (analogous to the central processing unit of a computer).

This drug is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use during cancer therapy to protect the body's normal cells.

Often used to prevent patients» bodies from rejecting transplanted organs, rapamycin works by increasing the numbers of regulatory T cells and block other aggressive types of T cells.

It uses cells and molecules, either manufactured naturally by the body or created in a laboratory, to improve and restore the immune system function.

Cells can be removed from a patient and used to create new organs for transplant that will not be rejected by the patient's body.

To study what happens when huntingtin is removed during adulthood, a team of researchers led by Ioannis Dragatsis at the University of Tennessee used a genetic tool to precisely time the removal of huntingtin in a large proportion of cells all over the body.

1994 DNA replication errors, called clonal markers, are used by Johns Hopkins Cancer Center investigators to detect cancer cells in body fluids, tissues, and secretions, at the very earliest stages, before the cancer is detected by pathology.

We have found that tumor cells in the circulation can mimic the physical mechanisms used by white blood cells to traffic through the body and adhere to the blood vessel wall, and we have explored strategies to interrupt this metastasis process by targeting specific adhesion receptors.

Using a mouse model for this disease, which in humans involves the destruction of white matter in the brain, a research team led by Albee Messing, director of the UW — Madison Waisman Center, found that a protein behind the symptoms of the disease, called GFAP, is broken down more rapidly in the body than researchers previously found in cell culture studies.

Short chain fatty acids are used by intestinal cells as nourishment before being absorbed into the body.

Glucose is the sugar that gets processed in our guts during digestion and can ultimately be used by every cell in our body.

«I used body - weight exercises that I could do in my 9 - by - 6 prison cell.

Homemade, traditional meat stock is full of fats, amino acids, minerals, and nutrients that are used by the body as building blocks to heal cells, tissues, and organs.

It is used by every cell in the human body, and it's absolutely vital for immune health.

Iron deficiency anemia occurs as your body attempts to make up for the lost red blood cells by using your iron stores to make more hemoglobin, which can then carry oxygen on red blood cells.

It is used by every cell in the human body, and it's absolutely vital for hepatic function.

IL - 15 is typically used by the body to trigger the production of Natural Killer (NK) immune cells - a type of white blood cell used in fighting cancer and infection.

It basically works by allowing our bodies to produce more ATP (Adenosine Tri-Phosphate) which is actually a form of fuel or energy used by cells within our bodies.

Not only do hydrated cells and body parts use energy better (making you less likely to want to eat) but icy H20 has been shown to bring your metabolism up by about 50 a day (5 lbs a year).