Fitness and exercise are vital components of healthy cell growth. Muscle cells, bone cells, brain cells and soft tissue cells are all stimulated to grow with exercise. Along with promoting proper nutrition, fitness and exercise can build new...
Human cells in every organ and body tissue have tightly controlled rates of growth and replication. Abnormalities that accelerate the normal rate of cell growth cause a range of diseases that vary from mild to severe. The skin, bone marrow and...
Bacterial growth requires a variety of conditions to support single cell growth and division. Bacterial growth on the individual cell level requires extremely efficient deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) synthesis and repair mechanisms. On the individual...
Exercise is the best thing you can do for your body besides getting eight hours of sleep and maintaining a healthy diet. You may not know, though, that exercise is one of the best things you can do for your brain. because it can help to increase...
Cells make up every part of your body, and they require many nutrients to grow and repair properly. While all the vitamins and minerals you eat contribute to healthy cells, certain ones play a larger role in cell functions, such as vitamin A,...
You need to provide your body with a continuous supply of vitamin C because it's a water-soluble vitamin that's flushed out of the body when not used. It is vital for normal cell growth, repair and development, according to Medline Plus. Vitamin C...
Protein is one of the three macronutrients humans need to survive; the other two are carbohydrates and fats. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), protein should make up 10 to 35 percent of your daily caloric intake....
The reason you need to consume food is to take in nutrients that your body uses to maintain your cells. Some of these nutrients are used by cells to provide energy. Others become the building blocks for cellular products; still other nutrients...
Cancer cells are cells that no longer have control over their rate of growth or death. All cells of the body grow and die at a rate determined by genetic instructions. Normal cells may become cancer cells if a change occurs in the genes that...
Chemotherapy is the most widely used medical therapy to control and defeat cancer in humans. Cancer, according to the National Cancer Institute, or NCI, is caused by mutated genes and cells that have been changed by carcinogens--cancer causing...
Dysplasia is a term that describes abnormal cell growth on the body. Different types of dysplasia diseases can affect different areas of the body, including the cervix, bones and cardiovascular system, specifically the arteries. Dysplasia diseases...
Radiation treatments, meant to stop cancer cell growth, also tend to interfere with other healthy and rapid cell growth. Because of the action of radiation, blood-forming cells in the bone marrow may be adversely affected during active treatments....
In the United States, over 60,000 people develop bladder cancer each year, according to health officials with the University of Michigan Health System. Cancerous cell growth within the bladder--a small internal organ responsible for storing...
Chemotherapy and radiation treatments used in fighting cancer cell growth also tend to interfere with other healthy and rapid cell growth. Because of the action of radiation and chemotherapy, blood-forming cells in the bone marrow and digestive...
Cancerous cell growth within the lymph nodes is a form of cancer called lymphoma. This type of cancer is typically diagnosed during childhood and affects approximately 1700 people under age 20 each year in the United States, according to 2007...
Prostate enlargement occurs in most men naturally as they age, and it is so prevalent that many doctors say it will appear in all men if they live long enough. As a statistical point, Medline Plus notes that some level of enlargement is present in...
Spleen lymphoma, also called splenic marginal zone lymphoma, is a condition in which cancerous cells grow within the spleen, bone marrow and blood. This rare disease is a type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma that begins within the spleen. People who...
Cancer develops when normal cells from any tissue of the body become mutated, allowing for uncontrolled cell growth and the development of tumors. One cancer treatment uses chemotherapy drugs that halt cell growth and trigger cell death, thus...
Breast cancer develops when mutated cells within the glandular tissue of the breast begin to proliferate out of control to give rise to unlimited numbers of cancer cells. One standard course of treatment for breast cancer is chemotherapy, using...
"Free" and "unesterified" cholesterols sound like fancy options that you can add or eliminate from foods, but in reality they aren't types of dietary fats or foods in that sense. Free and unesterified cholesterol are the same...
The kidneys are organs designed to filter the blood, and are made up of a number of highly specialized cell types. Cell growth in the kidney is tightly controlled, and defects in cell growth lead to diseases such as cancer. Cancer is the...
In today's medicine, doctors are seeking out alternatives for treating disease. Milk thistle helps decrease breast cancer cell proliferation as well as help with side effects from certain cancer therapies. Milk thistle, like other alternative...
If your doctor wants to treat your cancer using drugs that attack tumors during all phases of cell growth, you'll likely be introduced to alkylating agents and nitrosoureas. These drugs meddle with the enzymes and DNA of cancer cells, inhibiting...
Colon cancer can develop due to the abnormal growth of cancerous cells within the lining of the large intestine, or colon. In the United States, the National Cancer Institute estimates that more than 100,000 people were diagnosed with colon cancer...
Chemotherapy uses drugs to kill cancer cells and interfere with cancer cell growth, according to the National Cancer Institute. These medications are systemic, meaning they travel through the bloodstream and kill cancer cells throughout the body,...
Breast cancer is the result of a malignant tumor arising in the cells of the breast tissue. Breast cancer can metastasize, or spread, to other parts of the body via the invasion of healthy surrounding tissues or by invading the lymphatic system...
Cervical dysplasia is a precancerous condition characterized by abnormal cell growth on the cervix. The human papillomavirus is a possible cause of cervical dysplasia. It is also thought that a compromised immune system may allow abnormal cells to...
Cancer in the esophagus, also referred to as esophageal cancer, is a disease that affects approximately 12,000 to 18,000 people in the United States each year, according to health experts with The Society of Thoracic Surgeons. The esophagus is the...
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