Sentences with phrase «around the blood vessels»

They noticed that in adult mice, a hedgehog pathway gene called Gli1 was specifically expressed in a rare group of cells located around blood vessels in all solid organs.
Your uterus will harden, doing its job to tighten around the blood vessels that had supplied the placenta and your baby with nutrients.
A close look at the characteristic plaques of scar tissue that lend the disease its name shows that they typically cluster around blood vessels.
With these findings we can now formulate a plausible hypothesis as to why repeat head injuries to young men in their teens and 20s lead to personality changes later in adult life and dementia in old age: rotational head injury induces damage, especially around blood vessels, leading to local tangle formation, followed by a slow spread of destruction.
The distribution of the tangles in CTE is consistent with this, forming first around blood vessels before spreading.
Fat gives your body energy and it moves vitamins around your blood vessels and then helps your body absorb them.
White blood cells called mononuclear cells (macrophages and lymphocytes) and plasma cells are responsible for the formation of granulomas, or masses of inflammatory cells, around the blood vessels in CNS tissues, but the reason for their presence is not understood.
These cells first caught the researchers» attention because they appear to wrap themselves around the blood vessels (all together called the vasculature) of the intermediate layer.
Over time, persistent inflammation can lead to the formation of fibrous scar tissue in the liver and around its blood vessels, which can eventually cause cirrhosis.
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