Sentences with phrase «when healthy cells»

When healthy cells are created, they don't have pigment.

Dr Julie Sharp, Cancer Research UK's senior science communications manager, said: «When healthy cells get old or get injured they automatically commit suicide so that mistakes can't be passed on to new cells.

When healthy cells are no longer useful they initiate a chain of events culminating in self destruction.

Liver failure occurs when healthy cells called hepatocytes are damaged by alcohol and disease.

When a healthy cell becomes cancerous, however, its...

When a healthy cell becomes damaged, it commits suicide and kills itself in a process called apoptosis.

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The athletic adults also appeared to have healthier and younger - looking immune systems, at least when it came to an organ called the thymus that's responsible for generating key immune cells called T cells.

The cancerous cells win out over the healthy blood cells in the bone marrow, which in turn leads to kidney problems when the cancer cells make abnormal proteins instead of antibodies.

But, when we cut fat too low, we can starve our bodies» cells and deplete them of essential fats that are required for healthy immune function, a hot metabolism, and steady energy.

When you have sickle cell disease, the right information can help you have a healthy baby.

A person has SCT when they have a gene for healthy blood and a gene for blood with sickle cell.

Iron deficiency anaemia — This occurs when your body has an iron deficiency resulting in your blood not having enough healthy red blood cells to carry oxygen around your body.

Over the summer, all I could think about when I wasn't looking at my sweet baby boy's face was how fat I felt and that thought was taking up more of my brain cells than was healthy or necessary.

When you have anemia, your blood doesn't have enough healthy red blood cells to carry oxygen to your tissues and to your baby.

When looking for genes that might play important roles in the metabolism of healthy and cancerous liver cells, Wang and his colleagues became interested in a gene called SLC13A5, which produces a protein that transports citrate into cells.

The problem is that when T cells are allowed to attack, they can destroy both cancer cells and healthy cells, leading to a wide array of side effects.

But that changed when Lagasse injected cells into the belly: The mice gained weight, recovered energy, and within weeks appeared healthy.

When the huntingtin gene is deleted at an age older than four months, these mice appeared to stay healthy, despite having lost their huntingtin genes in cells all over their bodies.

It took 5 years of testing to identify cells that, given the right conditions, would develop into healthy cardiac cells when injected into a mouse heart.

Furthermore, when healthy neurons in a dish were treated with serum from the patients and antibodies against leiomodin - 1, they did not survive, but removing the antibodies increased brain cell survival.

When they administered minocycline — a tetracycline antibiotic with anti-inflammatory properties commonly used to treat bacterial infections, acne and arthritis — many of the abnormalities in the astroglial cells were corrected and there were more healthy interactions between the astroglia and neurons compared to the control cells without the defect.

When chlorotoxin is tagged with a fluorescent dye, it will illuminate a tumour — a trick that makes the surgeon's job easier by helping to pinpoint cancerous growth and ensure that all the cancerous cells are removed and healthy tissue spared.

Now, Salk researchers have discovered how the molecule ERRγ gives this «healthier» brown fat its energy - expending identity, making those cells ready to warm you up when you step into the cold, and potentially offering a new therapeutic target for diseases related to obesity.

Healthy plasma cells produce antibodies that fight infection in the body, but myeloma cells produce high levels of abnormal antibodies that, when the cancer cells accumulate, they crowd out production of other important blood cells, both red and white.

When the team transplanted the cells into diabetic mice whose own beta cells had been destroyed artificially with a chemical, the cells acted like healthy beta cells.

Somehow, when the microglia cells are armed with the renegade CD33, they go into overdrive, launching an indiscriminate search - and - destroy mission that strafes healthy neurons with friendly fire when too many amyloids start piling up.

When the NK cell is activated, the receptor clusters change in size and density, which could help NK cells recognize and eliminate infected cells — but spare healthy ones — next time around.

In contrast, blood cells from her parents, who each carried only one mutated version of the gene, produced healthy amounts of interferon when exposed to influenza.

The good news about the complex interconnectivity is that the scientists also were able to find a potential future point of intervention: When they gave a drug that increased AMPA receptor expression on the cell surface, the spines assumed a more healthy, mature state.

When the researchers injected human umbilical stem cells behind the retinas of these rats, the Müller glia remained healthy, as did the neural synapses.

Y. pestis was initially passed from person to person — say, when an infected individual coughed on a healthy person — and most likely caused lung infections known as pneumonic plague or blood infections called septicemic plague, the researchers report October 22 in Cell.

«By identifying the full set of genes in each of these two cell types, we provide detailed information that taste scientists can use to help understand how these cells work, both when healthy and also when affected by damage or disease.»

Results suggest that cells grown in the device exhibit more natural behaviors than when grown in traditional culturing methods, and the filtration by the glomerulus is necessary for healthy cell function.

In healthy skin, CD49a + and CD49a cells are dormant, but quickly respond with inflammatory and cytotoxic effects when stimulated by IL - 15, a protein secreted from skin cells as a rapid - response defence against microbial attack.

Klebsiella pneumoniae is usually a normal resident in the mouth of healthy individuals, but as demonstrated in an experiment on specific pathogen - free mice treated and untreated with the antibiotic ampicillin, they can colonize in the gut and activate TH1 cells when antibiotics disturb the gut microbial balance and weaken tolerance for the colonization of oral bacteria reaching the intestine.

The cellular imitations are «not as perfect as the beta cells we're equipped with when we're healthy,» he adds.

When a cancer cell dies by apoptosis, the result is a neat and tidy process where the dead cell's remains are «recycled,» not contaminating healthy cells around them, and not inducing inflammation.

Indeed, when fat stem cells isolated from healthy obese individuals were exposed to interleukin - 6 in the laboratory, they behaved like those obtained from individuals with risk of diabetes.»

Healthy cells have a very efficient quality control process when it comes to the manufacture of protein.

When the mucosal surfaces in the lungs of healthy people come into contact with allergenic substances, so - called regulatory T cells also known as Treg cells, are activated.

And when he checked, Avivi found that the fibroblasts and their secretions didn't harm healthy human cells.

Excitingly, when compared with healthy cells, the lymphoma cells were considerably more sensitive to a reduction in MCL - 1 function.

When injected directly into the shoulder tumor, the altered bacterium killed the cancer cells, sparing nearby healthy ones.

When injected into the body, docetaxel doesn't discriminate between healthy and cancerous cells.

King said he looks forward to a time when cancer - drug molecules will be packaged inside of designed nanocages and delivered directly to tumor cells, sparing healthy cells.

Such measurements could be used to sort different types of cells — to distinguish cancerous cells from healthy ones, for example — or to measure how cells change when exposed to drugs.

Neuroscientists Jing Wang and Freda Miller, both then at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, showed that when nondiabetic mice are given metformin, their memory improves, thanks to an increase in the neural stem cell population and in the number of these cells that develop into healthy neurons in the hippocampus, the brain's memory center.

Duke researchers showed that these renal cancer cells remain healthy when all nutrients are present (left panel), but quickly swell up and die of necrosis when deprived of the amino acid nutrient, cystine (right panel).

When pancreas cells containing clumps of misfolded IAPP, taken from an engineered diabetic mouse, were mixed in a dish of healthy human pancreas cells, it triggered the clumping of IAPP in the human cells.

However, when the researchers genetically removed syntaphilin from the nerve cells, mitochondrial transport was enhanced, allowing the damaged mitochondria to be replaced by healthy mitochondria capable of producing ATP.