Sentences with phrase «as bone and cartilage»

As the cells divide, they can also replace lost tissue such as bone and cartilage.

This connective tissue is made up of collagen proteins, and is essential in the formation of such specialized tissues as bone and cartilage, as well as provides the connective support for the various organs and systems in the body.

Human stem cells have shown potential in medicine as they can transform to various specialized cell types such as bone and cartilage cells.

Not exact matches

So far, scientists have used the printers to produce heart and lung tissue as well as cartilage and bone.

Using your fingers or the tines of 2 forks, gently shred the chicken into thin strips, discarding any fat, cartilage, and bones as you go.

The skeletal structure that will one day support your baby's whole body starts out as flexible cartilage that gradually ossifies (or becomes hard bone) as your little one absorbs more calcium from you during your pregnancy — and then from the foods he eats well beyond (try 20 years beyond).

High - quality proteins function as building blocks for bones, muscles, cartilage, skin, and blood, and are also the building blocks for enzymes, hormones, and vitamins.

As the bone surfaces become less well protected by cartilage, the patient experiences pain upon weight bearing, including walking and standing.

«The main function of cartilage is to seal the bone ends in a joint and absorb pressure on the bones during weight - bearing movement such as walking.

BMLs show up on MRI as regions of bone beneath the cartilage with ill - defined high signal and represent areas of bone marrow oedema, fibrosis, and necrosis.

Other adult stems cells exist — such as hematopoietic stem cells, which can generate all types of blood cell and mesenchymal stem cells, which can turn into bone, fat and cartilage cells.

Cartilage, bone, skin and egg cells are now regulated as tissues or under similar rules.

Current research is looking at why inhibiting certain molecules, such as mouse protein Stat3, promote muscle regeneration in mice and how to engineer orthopedic implants from stem cells to replace damaged cartilage and bone, but the results of that effort aren't expected to be necessarily aimed at the old.

«We looked at the degeneration of all knee joint structures, such as menisci, articular cartilage and bone marrow.»

For example, they identified SNVs in genes encoding the collagen proteins that make up bone and cartilage, and in genes where other mutations have caused defects similar to Ata's, such as fewer - than - normal ribs or short stature.

In a laboratory dish — and, presumably, also inside the body — these cells readily multiply and give rise to various structural cells, such as fat, muscle, bone, tendon, ligament and cartilage.

Those found in fat, for example, though relatively plentiful and easy to extract, do not seem to form cartilage as readily as those that come from bone marrow, Tuan says.

As to why ears keep growing, Heathcote speculates that it's because of the difference between cartilage, which ears are made of, and bone.

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Explains Bottini, «The ultimate goal is to use biologics that target synoviocytes in combination with treatments that suppress the immune system, such as methotrexate or anti-TNF, to address all three aspects of rheumatoid arthritis: swollen joints as a result of inflammation, cartilage damage and bone damage.»

As the disease progresses, a person's ability to move can be severely limited by the damage done to the cartilage and bone in the joints.

On this occasion, for the first time ever, the Theoretical Biology Group added the head muscles and cartilages to the study of the skull bones (including the inner ear bones, the jaw and the bones that connect with head muscles, such as cervical vertebrae and clavicles).

The team discovered that a certain subset of cartilage - making cells, known as chondrocytes, replicate themselves, make other bone cells and drive bone growth — findings that could lead to new treatments for children with facial deformities who normally have to wait until adulthood for corrective surgery.

This way, «we found that when analysing the head as a complex system defined by 181 nodes — including bones, muscles and cartilage, and excluding superficial muscles — and 412 physical contacts — sutures and cartilaginous joints — , the system can be subdivided into ten well - defined modules,» says Diego Rasskin.

Researchers have successfully created simple tissues such as skin, cartilage, and bone.

As a typical child's bones elongate, cartilage cells called chondrocytes mature and then die, allowing hard, bony material to supplant them.

Research interests include cartilage and joint diseases such as osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis, bone tumors, and genetic bone diseases including chondrodysplasia

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

It somehow coordinates a symphony of instructions to re-grow muscle, cartilage, bone, blood vessels, skin — all at the right place and right time to make a good - as - new limb.

This could be an indication of a controlled expression of genes responsible for calcification during daytime, as evidenced by the up - regulation of genes associated with the cartilage and bone biogenesis process.

«What is more, the technique identifies key genes and enriched gene ontology pathways, as well as categories related to stem cell differentiation — and specifically toward osteochondral lineages (that is, related to bone and cartilage tissue growth).»

The researchers say that they would now like to show that bone and cartilage tissue grows in the presence of nanosilicates in vivo (in animals such as mice and rats to begin with).

2D nanoparticles known as nanosilicates can be used to grow bone and cartilage tissue from human mesenchymal stem cells, according to new gene sequencing experiments by researchers at Texas A&M University in the US.

So researchers have been taking readily available and noncontroversial mesenchymal stem cells (also called bone marrow stromal stem cells that can form bone, cartilage and fat cells) and using a chemical process to turn them, or as researchers say, differentiate them into Schwann cells.

Basic functions such as movement or nutrition are mainly mediated by ECM - rich organs (bones, tendons and muscles, cartilages, teeth).

Sarcoma: These tumors start in connective tissue, such as cartilage, bones, fat, and nerves.

MSCs hold great potential for the field of regenerative medicine, as they can become many different types of cells (they're «multipotent»), most typically bone, cartilage, and fat cells.

Clinical trials have shown promising results for MSCs when applied to treat numerous diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases, brain and spinal cord injury, stroke, diabetes, cartilage and bone injury, Crohn's disease and graft versus host disease (GvHD).

Figure 2: Representative histology images of A: wild type and B: Tg197 animals at 7 weeks of age depicting the symptoms of Infiltration of inflammatory cells, Synovial hyperplasia, Articular cartilage destruction and Bone erosions evident as Tg5453 arthritic pathology.

In a study using human muscle tissue, scientists in Children's Stem Cell Research Center - led by Johnny Huard, PhD, and Bruno Péault, PhD - isolated and characterized stem cells taken from blood vessels (known as myoendothelial cells) that are easily isolated using cell - sorting techniques, proliferate rapidly and can be differentiated in the laboratory into muscle, bone and cartilage cells.

That's when the cartilage - and - bone divider between the nostrils warps out of shape, usually because of an injury such as a broken nose.

Made from the bones and cartilage of fish and animals — and purported to boost the health of your skin, hair, nails, joints, and more — collagen is available as a supplement or powder.

Almost everyone will eventually develop some degree of osteoarthritis (OA), which is caused by the wear and tear on the cartilage that acts as a shock absorber between bones.

Collagen is the protein that forms connective fibers in tissues such as skin, ligaments, cartilage, bones, and teeth.

If you use the animal bones and hooves to make stock, and use the stock as our ancestors did in soups, stews and sauces, you will get plenty of calcium and the components of cartilage to give you healthy bones and cartilage.

These include a total knuckle replacement, fusing the existing joint together (known as arthrodesis), or cleaning away damaged cartilage and bone.

The cartilage found at the ends of long bones and between the spinal discs contains high percentage of water, which serves as a lubricant during the movement of the joint.

Protein functions as «building blocks» for bones, muscles, cartilage, skin, and blood and is one of three macronutrients (the other two are carbohydrates and fat) which provide calories that the body uses for energy.

Plus: «There's some evidence that eating more gelatinous proteins, as you find in bone broth, collagen, and gelatin,» says St. Pierre, «can improve cartilage health.»

A good tip is to freeze the bones and cartilage left over from meals, such as roasted chicken or grilled fish, until you have enough for a batch of stock.