When stem cells become too active and divide too often, they risk
acquiring cell damage and mutations.
Not exact matches
One of them was used to reproduce
acquired aplastic anemia: due to various types of
damage, some of the stem
cells die, and those that remain need to divide more frequently in order to maintain the production of blood
cells; as a result of so many divisions, the telomeres shorten and the disease appears.
One of them was used to reproduce
acquired aplastic anaemia: due to various types of
damage, some of the stem
cells die, and those that remain need to divide more frequently in order to maintain the production of blood
cells; as a result of so many divisions, the telomeres shorten and the disease appears.
Todd McDevitt, PhD, who helped
acquire the microscope, is using the Lightsheet to track the integration of neurons created from stem
cells into
damaged mouse spinal cords.
Sleeping is the time when many regenerating processes are occurring inside your body, mainly repairing
damaged cells and tissue, as well as helping the brain sort out important information it has
acquired throughout the day.
Dogs with myasthenia gravis either don't have the normal number of skeletal muscle
cell receptors for the neurotransmitter acetylcholine when they are born (congenital myasthenia gravis), or the receptors that they do have are defective or have been
damaged at some point after their birth (
acquired myasthenia gravis).