Sentences with phrase «with oxygen starvation»

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THE METHODS Yoshiaki Ohashi, a molecular biologist at the Institute for Advanced Biosciences at Keio University in Japan, chose to work with hardy Bacillus subtilis, a harmless soil bacterium that forms spores resistant to ultraviolet light, dehydration, oxygen and nutrient starvation, and organic solvents.

«In these diseases of mitochondrial dysfunction, in a sense, it's a false starvation situation for the cell — there are plenty of nutrients, but because there's a block in the mitochondria's normal function, the mitochondria behave as if there's not enough oxygen,» says Chen, who with Birsoy, authored a paper in the journal Cell Reports describing this work.

This oxygen starvation may cause heart cells to die off, worsening heart function and leading to the development of arrhythmias (in which the heart beats too rapidly, too slowly, or with an irregular rhythm).