Sentences with phrase «damaged tissues generate»

Damaged tissues generate weak electric fields, and Zhao's research has shown how these electric fields can attract cells into wounds to heal them.

Not exact matches

One is that the battery can generate a little bit of an electrical current that can cause damage to the tissue.

On average the transplanted stem cells regenerated 40 percent of the damaged heart tissue, said Dr. Michael Laflamme, UW assistant professor of pathology, whose team was principally responsible for generating the replacement heart muscle cells.

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the process of manufacturing glass not only contributes its share of greenhouse gas emissions but also generates nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide and tiny particulates that can damage lung tissue when breathed in.

Researchers from the UNC School of Medicine have discovered that cells called fibroblasts, which normally give rise to scar tissue after a heart attack, can be turned into endothelial cells, which generate blood vessels to supply oxygen and nutrients to the injured regions of the heart, thus greatly reducing the damage done following heart attack.

The going theory for this — that antibodies generated by a first bout with dengue bind to a second strain, which helps it multiply in the immune cells — doesn't account for the internal bleeding and tissue damage, says Juthathip Mongkolsapaya of Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand.

Induced pluripotent stem cells are a type of pluripotent stem cell that can be generated directly from adult cells; they have the ability to be differentiated into a variety of tissue types and, in this case, MSCs that can regenerate damaged lung tissue.

The TREND center has been established with the aim to generate collaborations across disciplines from Natural sciences to Engineering to understand the basic biology of how damaged tissues and organs can regenerate.

The point is subtle, however: if aging is damage, there are many ways to generate cell and tissue damage in a living organism that have no particular relevance to aging, even though they also result in disability and death.

That, in turn, generates free radicals — unstable molecules that can damage DNA, creating additional mutations that allow the tumor to become more invasive, infiltrating tissues and migrating to other parts of the body.

Along with their mentor, CSNE student Apoorva Sharma, they designed and tested a calorimeter apparatus to validate simulated human - implant specific absorption rate of a saline tissue proxy in order to determine if tissue damage occurs from the heat generated from a wireless implant.

Razdan said the new ultrasound therapy is an entirely «novel approach» that uses ultrasonic energy to cut and remove damaged, pain - generating tissue while sparing healthy foot tissue.

When vitamin C breaks down, it generates hydrogen peroxide, which can damage cancer tissue by shutting down their energy supply.

Studies have shown that excess iodine causes thyroid injury by generating reactive oxygen species, which lead to premature damage and programmed cell death in thyroid tissues.

While you are experiencing Slow Wave Sleep (SWS) or deep sleep, your system generates human growth hormone (see: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0024320569900344), which helps repair damaged tissue.

Even though free radicals are generated every second of every day just by living, tissues also possess the ability to repair free radical damage using antioxidants found in whole food.

Laser therapy is a painless use of laser energy to generate a photochemical response in damaged or dysfunctional tissue.