C-reactive protein was first discovered in the 1930s as a protein the body made in response to a sugar (the C polysaccharide) made by bacteria.
An active gene produces a specific protein, but when the body has enough of that protein, the gene releases an inhibitor to stop production.
This protein spurs the body to produce crucial inflammatory molecules called leukotrienes, which had been thought to be involved mainly in asthma.
Once her body starts burning protein for energy, he says, she will be in a race to hit Key West before her body destroys muscle tissue.
Denosumab is an antibody that blocks the RANK ligand, a protein that tells the body to remove bone.
Diadexus drew headlines last month when it helped identify what may be a new risk factor in heart disease: a little-known protein produced by the body that can double the risk of heart attacks.
It is also important to eat adequate amounts of high quality lean protein like chicken, fish, lean red meat, lowfat dairy or protein supplements like soy or whey, because your body's ability to absorb protein decreases somewhat with age.
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The American College of Sports Medicine recommends that endurance and strength training athletes consume higher levels of daily protein than the standard recommended daily allowance (i.e. 1.2-1.7 grams of protein for each kilogram of body weight, versus 0.8 grams per kilogram per day).
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Medtronic 's ( MDT - news - people ) spine surgery business is dominated by a procedure called spinal fusion, in which two of the segments of the backbone, called vertebrae, are fused together using metal rods and cages, bone taken from elsewhere in the body, and protein drugs that stimulate bone growth.
Duchenne is caused by misspellings in the gene that tells the body to produce a protein called dystrophin, a glue that helps hold muscle tissue together.
Drugmakers can synthesize 10, 000 new chemicals before finding one that can slip harmlessly through the body and disable one bad protein without disturbing good ones.
The results were good, so he moved on to human trials, not for Alzheimer's disease but for a more rare disease called amyloidosis, in which SAP causes protein clumps to form elsewhere in the body, destroying organs and eventually killing the patients.
Dickinson now eats 3, 000 calories a day -- mostly lean protein and vegetables -- to sustain his body-building lifestyle.
Yet despite the differences in protein and fat intake, the level of body fat increased by essentially the same amount among all the participants.
Scattered throughout this double helix of base pairs are thousands of tiny DNA "words, " genes that provide the recipe for making a given protein, the raw material for the human body.
The key finding for vaccine development is that the "head" and "body" portions of the VP4 protein contain many of the targets that the immune system recognises when it attacks the virus and protects against infection, they say.
Taking a vitamin supplement with a meal is the best approach as many of the vitamins and minerals are better absorbed by the body in the presence of fat and protein.
In fact cancer cells are able to grow by making the amino acids of protein available for their growth at the expense of the body as a whole.
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The gene forces the body into producing too much of an immune system protein called interleukin-1.
The new drug, called a CETP inhibitor, works by blocking the action of a protein which lowers levels of "good" cholesterol in the body.
Once her body burns through that available sugar, it will next start burning body fat as fuel, and finally turn to protein once her fat stores are exhausted.
There are helpful primers on the role of different fats, the importance of protein and how excess weight plays into harmful inflammation in the body, which is linked to heart disease and other chronic conditions.
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She focused on a protein called 5-lipoxygenase, a key enzyme that spurs the body to produce leukotrienes.
Scientists thought for years that the protein's only function was to help shuttle cholesterol around the body.
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Using such fusion proteins, a scientist can follow exactly where a protein moves in a cell, or in an animal's body.
The researchers showed that light was activating in the mice a protein, melanopsin, which also has a role in regulating the body clock, and is present in people.
It works because many cases of muscular dystrophy are caused by mutations in the dystrophin gene (incidentally, one of the longest genes in the body) that make the entire genetic code for the protein shift by one letter.
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Professional body builders consume up to 1.5 grams of protein per kilogram of weight each day, but unless you are spending several hours in the gym on a regular basis, this is too much for the average person trying to gain muscle.
Hydrolyzed milk protein is the thirteenth ingredient in Avon's Milk Made hand and body lotion.
University researchers had just pinpointed a source: a bad gene that causes the body to produce an oversupply of interleukin-1, an immune system protein.
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