Sentences with phrase «other tissues do»

Other tissues do not require iodine and its concentrations are low elsewhere in the body.

Not exact matches

At several of our health centers, we help patients who want to donate tissue for scientific research, and we do this just like every other high - quality health care provider does — with full, appropriate consent from patients and under the highest ethical and legal standards.

We re-use other discarded tissues for a variety of reasons - where do you think your placentas are going when the docs carry THOSE off?

No, I'm not confusing facts... a uterine rupture can occur DURING a c - section, and I never said that MORE occured, just that statistically the risk of rupture is higher (mainly because as you have more c - sections the scarred area and tissue surrounding it gets weaker) and even that fact aside, there are plenty of other risks with c - section that I know many moms who were never informed of them when considering a repeat c vs a vbac, but were certainly informed of the risks of the vbac... that has nothing to do with c - sections being more convenient and more costly though.

I feel like people don't know what protein is when they say that connective tissue isn't nutritious, because it is (like any other protein) made of amino acids (although more tightly wound together).

Some women have tight pelvic floor muscles to begin with (from birth, scar tissue, other factors) and if a muscle is tight to begin with, then you must first do what I call the «Reverse Kegel» to release and let go, to allow the vaginal muscles to regain its normal function, suppleness and flexibility.

Other than buy stock in tissues and cough medicine, what can moms do to keep children healthy in a germ - filled world?

By 40 weeks, a baby's lungs are matured, the kidney and other vital organs are doing their thing, the brain has grown enough soft tissue that will set it up for the rest of life, and the neurological instincts that tell the baby to suck and swallow are kicked into gear.

«There are several methods of adding implants — some methods damage breast tissue while others do not.»

While doing her Ph.D., Wang came across a defense mechanism in plants involving apoptosis, where «the plant cell is induced to die around the infection site so the pathogen can not be spread to other tissues,» Wang says.

Still, how melanoma cells join into tumors — whether by individual cells coming together or small or large clusters of cells doing so — follows the same pattern as breast tissue cancer cells: Cables are extended to reel in other cells or clusters.

To probe the function of nearby tissue, the neurosurgeon stimulates it with an electrode that passes pulses of current while the patient — who is awake and under local anesthesia to minimize discomfort — is asked to touch each finger successively with the thumb, count backwards or do some other simple task.

She and others have noted that muscle tissue from older rats can be grafted into young rat muscle and thrive, but that young muscle tissue doesn't do so well in older rats.

Why do some tissues give rise to cancer in humans a million times more frequently than others?

The cocaine vaccine works the same way other vaccines do: by stimulating the immune system to produce antibodies that bind to a foreign entity, preventing it from entering the brain or otherwise interacting with the body's organs and tissues.

However, if exercise restores or prevents deterioration of mitochondria and ribosomes in muscle cells, there's a good chance it does so in other tissues, too.

For years, evolutionary biologists have believed that the sedentary sponge — that mushy aquatic creature so rudimentary it doesn't even have tissues or nerves — branched off the animal family tree before any other lineage, making it a relic of the very first animal on earth.

The majority of my time is office based now and I do not work in the laboratory any more, other than to offer guidance on unusual donations or techniques at UKHTB or offer advice to biomedical researchers on how to best utilise human tissue donations.

And the trouble with extrapolating so much from mouse studies is that «nobody has actually shown over the long term how long these quote un-quote improvements persist, and we don't know whether it's broadly improving aspects of aging or it's specific to certain tissues,» said Matt Kaeberlein, a biologist who studies aging in dogs and other animal models at the University of Washington.

Cartilage and other soft tissues generally do not survive fossilization, so in the new study researchers compared dinosaur bones to castings of the dissected bones and joints of alligators and ostriches.

To do so, they analysed the fatty - acid patterns and the composition of stable isotopes in the polar cod's muscle and other tissues.

Doing so enabled them to identify the liver - specific drug targets whose inhibition will not cause any side effect to other human tissues, says lead author Adil Mardinoglu, a SciLifeLab fellow, who had earlier established a connection between NAFLD and HCC and increased fat synthesis in liver tissue.

But the other report, published by the Ministry of Defence in March, did acknowledge that troops could have inhaled DU dust in the Gulf and that this «could theoretically lead to damage to lung tissue and subsequently to a raised probability of lung cancer some years later».

Is there an evolutionary advantage to the female hymen and do any other animals exhibit a tissue with similar function?

They've even injected white blood cells into the vessels and watched as they squeezed through gaps in the vessel wall to reach the tissue on the other side, just as they do in the human body.

A couple of other research groups have also sorted stem cells based on gene expression, but they have not done so specifically with the goal of enriching cell populations for a specific tissue, the researchers said.

The effect is specific to the liver — we get no effect in other tissues where you don't want it,» says Daniel Anderson, the Samuel A. Goldblith Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and a member of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research.

There is a lot of work still to do, and many potential pitfalls before it could be applied to human patients, but in principle almost any illness caused by damaged or ageing tissue — heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer's and dozens of others — could be fixed this way.

«We don't yet know if this type of coordination and control works in stem cell niches of other tissue types,» says DiNardo.

«Tool - wielding hominins at KJS, on the other hand, could access this tissue and likely did so by scavenging these heads after the initial non-human hunters had consumed the rest of the carcass,» Ferraro said.

These findings may help explain why some people with mutations in certain ribosomal protein genes develop conditions such as Diamond - Blackfan anemia — a blood disorder in which the bone marrow doesn't make enough red blood cells — but don't have problems in other body tissues, Ware says.

Adipose tissue has a relatively low thermal conductivity, which means that it does not transfer heat as well as other tissues and materials — such as muscle or skin.

Heightened cortisol prompts the body to store more fat and be more inclined to use other soft tissue, such as muscle, as energy, which means that sleep - deprived dieters lose more muscle and gain more fat than do those who are well rested.

She and her colleagues found that the enzyme stearoyl - CoA desaturase (SCD) causes fat buildup in muscle, liver, and other tissues that don't usually have much fat.

By doing so, all researchers will have «access to the tissue samples in MNI's biobank and to its extensive databank of brain scans and other data.»

T cells normally attack tissue they do not recognise as «self,» causing organs which have been transplanted from other donors to be rejected.

I don't know too many other consortia which can integrate expertise in embryonic and tissue stem cell biology, tissue regeneration and repair, bioengineering and nanotechnology, materials science, genomics and bio-informatics.

«Some types of tissue repair take more time to heal than do others,» said Benoit.

Surgery can be an option for a minority of patients who do not respond to medications or other treatments and have epileptic scar tissue that can be removed safely.

There are many other known causes of inflammation, including tissue injury and autoimmune disease, although the researchers did not examine these specific conditions in this study.

If the compound gets into the circulation, it quickly inactivates — ensuring that it does not affect other blood vessels, tissues, and organs.

It also brings up crucial questions for future research: Scientists still don't know how particular mutations cause cancer, why they lead to cancer in some tissues and not others, or what might be done to counteract the mutations.

The increased betatrophin gene activity didn't seem to cause cells to replicate in other parts of the pancreas or in liver or fat tissue.

Interestingly, the team found that radiologists could do better than chance in discriminating breast cancer cases from normal tissue, even when the images of abnormal breast tissue did not directly capture a cancerous lesion or when those images were taken from the contralateral breast (the breast on the other side of the body) of a woman with breast cancer.

Nevertheless, the NGF antibodies had no ill effect on any other organs or tissues and for unexplained reasons did not damage the peripherally located sympathetic ganglia that control the sex organs in both sexes.

Next they plan to do similar experiments with other tissues, such as the retina, and additional species that live in the ocean but travel to their freshwater hatching grounds each spring to spawn, such as American shad.

She stressed that the joint created in the lab was bone only, and did not include other tissue, such as cartilage.

Doing so enabled us to identify the liver - specific drug targets whose inhibition will not cause any side effect to other human tissues», says Adil Mardinoglu.

While it has always been important for tissue donors to have some control over what procedures are done with their samples — some donors might be comfortable with certain kinds of research, and others might not — informed consent will be more important than ever once a simple cheek swab provides the raw material for someone to be a mother or father.

Whereas the derivation of stem cell lines from human embryos is subject to specific regulation by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), UK law does not distinguish between fetal tissue and other tissue from living patients.