Sentences with phrase «leaky blood vessels in»

Barenholz's nanoparticles generally stayed in the bloodstream and avoided the heart and other organs, but when they reached the leaky blood vessels in the tumor, they slipped through those holes.

The researchers evaluated the use of the EyePACS «tele - ophthalmology» system to detect edema (wetness) resulting from leaky blood vessels in the retina at the back of the eye.

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Blood vessels in the retina of the eye can become blocked, leaky or grow haphazardly.

Blood vessels in the eye become blocked and leaky, getting in the way of light passing to the retina.

2 Retinal screening with a digital camera is used to spot signs of retinopathy, a diabetic complication that occurs when blood vessels in the retina of the eye become blocked, leaky or grow haphazardly.

Scurvy — joint pain, rotting gums, leaky blood vessels, physical and mental degeneration — plagued European and U.S. expeditions even in the 20th century.

VEGF has been tried before, but in quantities too large, it stimulates the growth of leaky blood vessels that don't provide long - term oxygenation.

This helped to confirm that in addition to relying on leaky blood vessels for nanoparticles to gain access to the tumor, a major inducible vascular transit pathway is available in the form of the vesicle transport system.

«We found that the well - known Notch protein is responsible for keeping blood vessels from becoming leaky, and does so through a secondary signaling pathway that operates in a completely different manner than its known transcription - based pathway,» says Chris Chen, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Faculty member of the Wyss Institute and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University, who is the corresponding author of the paper.

In wet AMD, the growth of leaky blood vessels which damage the retina can be stopped..

In AMD, the retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells that support the cells in the eye that detect light wear out, and there is also the growth of abnormal, leaky blood vessels below the retinIn AMD, the retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells that support the cells in the eye that detect light wear out, and there is also the growth of abnormal, leaky blood vessels below the retinin the eye that detect light wear out, and there is also the growth of abnormal, leaky blood vessels below the retina.

Infection with the mosquito - borne dengue virus can be mild, but it sometimes results in shock or death due to leaky blood vessels.

These findings suggest that systemic blockade of PKal is well tolerated and effective in treating leaky blood vessels caused by another disease.

In its rush to grow, cancer forms tangles of blood vessels, but those slapdash vessels are leaky.

Imagine how difficult it is for a patient and their family and friends when they lose vision, as is the case in a disorder such as age - related macular degeneration (AMD), where the unexpected sprouting of weak and leaky new blood vessels leads to death the ath of the nerve cells of the retina.

«Importantly, this analysis helped us identify the protein fibrinogen as the key culprit in MS, by demonstrating how its entry into the brain through leaky blood vessels impacted the health of individual nerve cells.»

Choroidal neovascularization is the out - of - control growth of fragile, leaky blood vessels that distort vision and damage the retina, which is seen in both diabetic retinopathy and the «wet» form of age - related macular degeneration (AMD).

Arachidonic Acid is also responsible for the production of downstream prostaglandins and thromboxanes, which play a role in making the blood vessels dilated and leaky:

The reaction of antibodies and proteins produces inflammation, which causes the blood vessels in the area to become «leaky,» thus allowing even more and larger proteins to be absorbed.