Sentences with phrase «animal blood vessels»

In one such scheme, narrow channels similar to animal blood vessels deliver compounds that seal small fissures in a material made of fiberglass and polymer resins.

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Heat - not - burn devices may eliminate users» exposure to tobacco smoke, but the vapor they produce has the same negative impact on blood vessel function as smoking, according to a preliminary animal study presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2017, a premier global exchange of the latest advances in cardiovascular science for researchers and clinicians.

Compared with unheated mice, the animals with the faux fever had twice as many white blood cells migrating out of the blood vessels and into the lymph tissue that lines the skin and gut, which is where they need to be to attack incoming pathogens.

The researchers also found that arteries and veins from the macaques» hearts grew into the new heart tissue, the first time it has been shown that blood vessels from a host animal will grow into and nurture a large stem - cell derived graft of this type.

In a vacuum the gases and liquids in the body expand rapidly, animal studies show, but your skin and blood vessels maintain enough pressure on your body and its fluids that you will not instantly explode — no matter what you've seen in Hollywood films.

The resulting animals had swollen ears, noses and eyelids that were reddish in color and contained a greater number of blood vessels in the dermis layer of skin compared to controls.

The laboratory and animal study also shows how the agent, called SapC - DOPS, targets tumor cells and blood vessels.

Weaver studied the animal models for as long as 100 days, and found that the islet clusters transplanted with the hydrogel and VEGF developed many blood vessels and engrafted into their new locations.

Last spring the team reported that their fibers induced the formation of new blood vessels in both cell cultures and living animals.

So one afternoon he sedated an affable dog named Rocky, removed part of the animal's aorta, and replaced it with a piece of its small intestine, the part of the body that most resembled the tubular structure of Rocky's blood vessels.

Polish scientists say they've discovered the world's oldest preserved fossils of blood vessels and fragments of fossilised animal proteins.

In an animal lacking expression of the C5a receptor on neutrophils (right), only a few adhere to the blood vessel wall and, after quickly detaching, do not enter the joint.

In earlier studies involving animal models and human cancer cell lines, researchers found that breast cancer spreads when three specific cells are in direct contact: an endothelial cell (a type of cell that lines the blood vessels), a perivascular macrophage (a type of immune cell found near blood vessels), and a tumor cell that produces high levels of Mena, a protein that enhances a cancer cell's ability to spread.

Powers is planning expand his study size and is partnering with another CCTS - funded stroke investigator who developed an animal model of ischemia in order to analyze micro-RNA released in brain tissues at the precise area around a blocked blood vessel.

Even in its current form, the team has shown that the AngioChip can be implanted into a living animal, its artificial blood vessels connected to a real circulatory system.

Especially impressive, test - tube studies have shown that the flavonoids from chocolate relax and dilate blood vessels surgically removed from animals.

Sumitran - Holgersson says she hopes in future to try using blood vessels from animals for re-coating with patients» own cells, as the source would be potentially limitless.

When «knockdown» animals are treated with emilin 3B after egfl7 has been blocked, blood vessels develop almost normally.

In arenavirus - infected animals, however, NO dilated the blood vessels, leading to an exudation of fluids into tissues and thus to a reduction of the effective blood volume, ultimately leading to circularity failure.

However, if these mice developed tumors, these were pervaded by significantly more blood vessels and, in addition, grew faster than in fellow animals with functioning Tie2 receptor.

They infused immune - suppressing regulatory T cells into hypertensive mice and reported that the cells reined in blood pressure and reduced the amount of blood vessel damage the animals suffered.

The disappearing blood vessels could also act as a feedback loop, signaling to the animals to eat less — and indeed, Arap and Pasqualini saw that the treated monkeys consumed less of their regular food but ate just as many treats as control monkeys, suggesting that they weren't feeling nauseous from the therapy.

After analyzing the videos, they found that, as the animal dipped its tongue in and out of the flower, tiny blood vessels on the hairs of its tongue became engorged with blood, prompting the hairs to stand straight up and drag even more nectar up from the flower.

Next, they implanted these buds in mice with disabled immune systems to see if they would engraft, or attach to the blood vessels of the animal, and continue to mature.

At that key point, Takebe added two more types of cell known to help to recreate organ - like function in animals: endothelial cells, which line blood vessels, taken from an umbilical cord; and mesenchymal cells, which can differentiate into bone, cartilage or fat, taken from bone marrow.

«Using different genetic techniques, we inhibited Wars2 function in both rats and zebrafish, and the resulting animals showed impairment of blood vessel formation within the heart and in the rest of the body,» described Mr Wang.

The fragments revealed more evidence of collagen and suggested the presence of two proteins — laminin and elastin — found in the blood vessels of animals.

The American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology focuses on the physiology of the heart, blood vessels and lymphatics, including experimental and theoretical studies of cardiovascular function at all levels of organization ranging from the intact animal to the cellular, subcellular and molecular levels.

The researcher will present evidence showing that tiny blood vessels that supply the brainstem become inflamed in animal models with high blood pressure, potentially because sticky molecules trap inflammatory white blood cells.

This 3 - D image shows new blood vessels, in green, that grew in a mouse's brain after the animal received blood from a younger mouse.

The scientists also have demonstrated in animals that the PKal molecular pathway can induce retinal edema through mechanisms that are independent of the VEGF pathway, which at normal levels helps to build and maintain blood vessels but at high concentrations can induce abnormal vessel growth and contribute to DME.

Results from an animal study, using daily dosing for a year compared to weekly dosing in the human study, showed unexpected injuries to the peripheral nerves and spinal cord, testes, and blood vessels in the kidney.

This decision was made because results from an animal study, using daily dosing for a year compared to weekly dosing in the human study, showed unexpected injuries to the peripheral nerves and spinal cord, testes, and blood vessels in the kidney.

Prior studies with animals suggested that another function of the drug is to turn on the genes for elastin (a protein found in elastic fibers) and other elastic fiber genes, such as Fbn - 1 and Lox, causing elastin deposits within the blood vessel wall.

Early observations suggesting that the virus might attack cancer in part by damaging blood vessels that feed tumor growth led the SillaJen team to strike up a collaboration with McDonald, an expert in tumor vasculature, to investigate the virus's mechanism of action in animal models.

Aberrant Blood Vessel Growth in AMD: A New Animal Model Sarah McFarlane, PhD University of Calgary (Calgary, Canada)

To do this we need to understand how this mechanism works normally, so we will test this therapeutic approach using an animal model where the pathway regulating normal retinal blood vessel growth has been removed genetically.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — The ability to form blood vessels is one of evolution's crowning achievements, and something that separates vertebrates (animals with a backbone) from the rest of the animal kingdom.

We came across a compound that had been isolated from a plant species and shown to have effects on blocking the growth of blood vessel cells, both in the culture dish and also in animal models.

The scientists printed ear, bone and muscle structures that, when implanted in animals, matured into functional tissue and developed a system of blood vessels.

This dataset identifies what animals were sampled and the details of what biosamples were collected to test the hypothesis that signaling modifications prevent local blood vessel changes under low oxygen conditions, thereby allowing the centrally mediated diving reflex to override local perfusion control.

Basic research presentations at 2016 American Heart Association Scientific Sessions: cell therapy for heart attack (mesenchymal stem cells) in animal models and role of CD73, gradual release drug for atrial fibrillation, how particles from stored blood affects blood vessels.

BriteVu, a novel contrast agent developed during the project, allows researchers to see the entire network of blood vessels in an animal, down to the capillary level.

When laboratory animals with high cholesterol were given eggplant juice, their blood cholesterol, the cholesterol in their artery walls and the cholesterol in their aortas (the aorta is the artery that returns blood from the heart back into circulation into the body) was significantly reduced, while the walls of their blood vessels relaxed, improving blood flow.

The cause of heart disease is not animal fats and cholesterol but rather a number of factors inherent in modern diets, including excess consumption of vegetables oils and hydrogenated fats; excess consumption of refined carbohydrates in the form of sugar and white flour; mineral deficiencies, particularly low levels of protective magnesium and iodine; deficiencies of vitamins, particularly of vitamin C, needed for the integrity of the blood vessel walls, and of antioxidants like selenium and vitamin E, which protect us from free radicals; and, finally, the disappearance of antimicrobial fats from the food supply, namely, animal fats and tropical oils.52 These once protected us against the kinds of viruses and bacteria that have been associated with the onset of pathogenic plaque leading to heart disease.

«Forks Over Knives» is about returning to that level of simplicity in our food consumption ~ ~ raw, whole foods with minimal processing with no animal product and minimal oil — the good doctors have the science behind the destruction of the endothelial lining of our blood vessels and the development of cancer and vascular disease when these animal products, processed foods and oils are consumed.

«The most notable finding of the latest study was the fact that lentils could alter the physical properties of blood vessels so that they resembled the vessels found in healthy animals.»

There is some evidence, mostly in animal studies, that soyasaponins can lessen the rate of lipid peroxidation in blood vessels, lessen absorption of cholesterol from the GI tract, and increase excretion of fecal bile acids.

The person responsible for the discovery of PCO bioflavonoids was a French scientist named Dr. Jacques Masquelier, who first tested bioflavonoid - containing peanuts on lab animals and discovered that their blood vessel walls would double in strength only hours after ingesting them.

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