Sentences with phrase «blood vessels grow»

The eyes develop areas of inflammation that can cover the corneas, blood vessels grow across the eye to the affected areas, and pigmentation may develop on the surface of the cornea.

In response to this signal blood vessels grow into the eyes in an attempt to heal the «injury» quickly.

In the other major form of diabetic eye disease, proliferative diabetic retinopathy, blood vessels grow in wrong places on the retina.

With wet macular degeneration, new blood vessels grow beneath the retina and leak blood and fluid.

A new mechanism that regulates the way blood vessels grow and connect to each other has been discovered by an international team of researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, and Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany.

In HHT, blood vessels grow without the right support cells to keep them stable and strong.

An advanced stage, called proliferative diabetic retinopathy, occurs when abnormal blood vessels grow near the retina, the light - sensitive tissue at the back of the eye.

The most common birthmark which occurs when a group of blood vessels grow very rapidly in a certain area of the body.

It was carried out in June 2008, and was a complete success, with no hint of any rejection, and with the local blood vessels growing normally in the transplanted organ.

Together, the experiments confirmed that neurons and blood vessels in the intermediate layer communicate to keep blood vessels growing normally — striking a balance between providing enough blood and avoiding blood vessel overgrowth.

Blood vessels grown from a person's own cells may soon help kidney dialysis patients.

Blood vessels grew into the microchannels, and the rodents» cells proliferated, making the implanted tissue more resilient over time.

A blood vessel grown in a laboratory was implanted into a patient last week, marking a breakthrough in bioengineered human tissues

Since the majority of severe visual loss is caused by abnormal blood vessels growing beneath the retina, a massive effort is underway to identify methods of arresting this process.

All birds» nails have a blood vessel growing in them called the quick.

There is significant redness to the sclera (white of the eye) and blood vessels growing into the cornea to heal it.»

Not exact matches

In contrast, the biologic approach injects a genetically engineered protein designed to knock out a tumor's ability to produce new blood vessels, thereby cutting off its capacity to grow.

Once the cells had reproduced and grown, the synthetic bladder was transplanted and blood vessels began to grow.

To handle all this growth, the blood vessels in the placenta are growing in both size and number to provide your baby with more nutrients.

While baby's skin can potentially grow much darker as she ages and experiences pigmentation processes to their skin, they will remain a white - ish color as a result of the very thick layer of fat covering the expansive collection of their blood vessels.

By this stage of your pregnancy you will probably have been advised not to lay on your back to avoid your growing bump pressing on the vena cava blood vessel.

Lying on your back can cause your enlarging uterus and the weight of your growing baby to rest against and compress major blood vessels, particularly the aorta and the inferior vena cava.

It is these cells that grow to form the placenta, an organ that is entirely made up of blood vessels.

The cause for leg cramping could be the additional weight and pressure from the growing uterus on the nerves and blood vessels that got to the legs, and it usually happens in the second and third trimester.

It's a rich source of stem cells, particularly those that can grow into tissues, organs, and blood vessels.

Blood vessels in the retina of the eye can become blocked, leaky or grow haphazardly.

2 Retinal screening with a digital camera is used to spot signs of retinopathy, a diabetic complication that occurs when blood vessels in the retina of the eye become blocked, leaky or grow haphazardly.

We invented microparticles that release an inhibitor of blood vessel growth to starve the growing tumors.

Cancer cells can break away from a primary tumor, penetrate into lymphatic and blood vessels, circulate through the bloodstream, and grow in a distant focus (metastasize) in normal tissues elsewhere in the body.

According to initial results presented yesterday at the BioMEMS and Biomedical Nanotechnology World 2000 conference in Ohio, researchers have taken the first steps toward growing replacement blood vessels in the laboratory for transplant into the bodies of heart attack victims.

The organs made insulin, grew to the right size and were infiltrated by monkey blood vessels (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.0812253106).

The titanium frame with its bone - growing ingredients were then implanted into a layer of muscle on the patient's right shoulder blade to form tissue and blood vessel connections to the muscle.

Vunjak - Novakovic says the researchers are now determining how best to grow blood vessels in bone grafts that can keep them alive.

They found 60 per cent fewer blood vessels surrounding tumour - like tissue grown from Down's stem cells than those from other volunteers.

The team attributes the success to the omentum - grown cells developing a denser, more mature set of blood vessels.

In the presence of these drugs tumors grow faster and develop more extensive networks of the blood vessels they rely on to feed their expansion — a process called angiogenesis, says Jonathan Moss, an anesthesiologist at the University of Chicago (U. of C.) Medical Center.

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.

After imaging defiant metastatic cells in the brains of mice, researchers noticed that the cells that were able to survive grew on top of blood capillaries, each cell sticking closely to its vessel «like a panda bear hugging a tree trunk,» Dr. Massagué says.

We found that the inflammation unfortunately gets hijacked by tumor cells that are able to grow faster and penetrate deeper because the blood vessels in the brain are more permeable than in any other part of the body.

They then grew these cells along a thin collagen membrane, which was rolled into a tube the size of a small blood vessel.

When oxygen levels are restored to normal, the eye senses it as a lack of oxygen and responds by growing new blood vessels, which often leads to excessive growth and damage to vision.

These images from the virtual tissue model show, from left to right, growing areas of lower oxygen (blue regions, middle row) and the corresponding progression of protein VEGF (red regions, bottom row), concomitant with «domino - like» progressive loss of small blood vessels in the retina over time (region without arrows, top row).

So VEGF levels appear to provide a good way of measuring whether a patient will be able to grow these new blood vessels, says Levy, and his group is hoping to develop a VEGF blood test that will help cardiologists know how best to treat their patients.

The results, reported in the journal PLOS Computational Biology, show precisely how a small protein that can both damage or grow blood vessels in the eye causes vision loss and blindness in people with diabetes.

Some heart disease patients may not be able to grow new blood vessels around blocked arteries because they can't make enough of a vital protein, according to a report in the latest issue of Circulation.

He and his colleagues grew the vasculature with blood - vessel - making (endothelial) cells.

When the scientists inserted human colorectal cancer cells into zebrafish embryos and allowed them to grow for 4 days, the resulting tumors showed three hallmarks of human solid tumors: rapid cell division, formation of blood vessels to supply nutrients, and the ability to spread to other locations in the body.

But a new study suggests that mutations in a tumor - suppressing gene can create a prime nesting ground that grows new blood vessels to feed the tumor.

ROP is a condition that causes abnormal blood vessels to grow in the retina (back of the eye) and can cause retinal detachment, which is a major cause of childhood blindness globally.

It's only partially related to the female, but it invades (a term used in obstetrics) her body, sending tentacles toward her blood vessels to divert nutrients for the benefit of a growing fetus.