Sentences with phrase «blood vessels leading»

It also causes «changes in cells of the skin, fibrous tissue and blood vessels leading to premature skin aging... Another long - term effect is an inflammatory reaction of the eye.»

In this condition, a small amount of disc material ruptures and gets into one of the blood vessels leading to the spinal cord.

The adult worms block the heart and major blood vessels leading from the heart to the lungs, liver, and kidneys.

They mate and produce additional larvae inside the heart and can expand to the blood vessels leading from the heart to the lungs.

The minute baby heartworms grow and fill the blood vessels leading from the heart to the lungs weakening the heart and filling the lungs with fluid.

The most common worms in dogs and cats in the United States are the roundworm, tapeworm, whipworm, and hookworm — which live primarily in the animal's intestine and the heartworm, which lives within the heart and in the blood vessels leading from the heart to the lungs.

The adults, which can grow up to a foot long, take up residence in the dog's heart, where they block major blood vessels leading to the lungs, liver, and kidneys.

Adult worms cause disease by clogging the heart and major blood vessels leading from the heart.

Nitroglycerin is a medicine that helps relax the blood vessels leading to the heart.

Poison Nitroglycerin overdose Nitroglycerin is a medicine that helps relax the blood vessels leading to the heart.

The reason may be because testosterone can aid in opening up of blood vessels leading to the heart thus allowing blood to flow easily.

When this inflammation occurs in blood vessels leading to the penis, ED results.

High blood sugar damages the blood vessels leading the the eye, which can lead to vision problems and blindness.

If the blood vessels leading to the penis are damaged in any way, often due to atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), dilation becomes a problem.

These abnormal cells — in the case of pulmonary hypertension, those that line the blood vessels leading to the lungs — release signals that stimulate the growth of small new blood vessels to feed the renegade cells, allowing further proliferation, and thickening of the vessel walls.

The dendrimer, an extremely tiny nanoparticle, takes advantage of certain physical characteristics that blood vessels leading to cancer cells have, but healthy ones do not.

This can, however, disrupt the tiny blood vessels leading to loss of your nipple later on.

Imagine how difficult it is for a patient and their family and friends when they lose vision, as is the case in a disorder such as age - related macular degeneration (AMD), where the unexpected sprouting of weak and leaky new blood vessels leads to death the ath of the nerve cells of the retina.

For example, chronically inflamed blood vessels lead to heart attacks and strokes; also, a good deal of evidence exists that some cancers are caused by chronic inflammation

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It creates a biological response, Murthy says, that leads to chronic inflammation, damaged tissue and blood vessels, and an increased risk of heart disease, arthritis and diabetes.

Cranberries have anti-inflammatory properties, which can reduce the risk of inflammation in blood vessel linings (that means a healthier cardiovascular system) and in the colon and large intestine (leading to a healthier digestive system.)

Think about what has gone down since then: Bledsoe suffered a sheared blood vessel in a game last September and was rushed to the hospital, where family members prayed for his survival; he lost his job to Brady, the second - year quarterback who led the Patriots to their first Super Bowl crown; and now, thanks to the first - round pick in the 2003 draft that the Bills sent to their AFC East rivals to acquire him, Buffalo Drew gets to face his old team twice a season.

Last Wednesday, Shula ignored a busted blood vessel in his throwing hand, shrugged off a miserable three quarters of play and led eighth - ranked Alabama on two fourth - quarter scoring drives that gave the Tide a 16 - 10 win over No. 11 Ohio State in the Kickoff Classic at Giants Stadium.

The hormones that surge through your body during pregnancy cause blood vessels to relax, reducing your blood pressure and potentially leading to bouts of dizziness, reports American Pregnancy.

If your baby was born prematurely — especially if he was very premature, had an infection, or needed treatment with oxygen — he's at greater risk for developing certain eye problems, including astigmatism (blurred vision), myopia (nearsightedness), retinopathy of prematurity (abnormal blood vessel growth that can lead to blindness), and strabismus (eye misalignment).

You may also develop high blood pressure due to placental problems, which in turn leads to constricted blood vessels that limit blood supply to the baby.

14:42 - Edward Leigh (Con, stranger to sealed blood vessels) says he was given assurances about a civil partnership bill not leading to gay marriage.

An experimental drug in early development for aggressive brain tumors can cross the blood - brain tumor barrier, kill tumor cells and block the growth of tumor blood vessels, according to a study led by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC — James).

ROP involves an abnormal growth of blood vessels in the retina that may lead to scarring, retinal detachment and, in severe cases, blindness.

Understanding this new mechanism of cardiovascular disease could lead to the development of new therapies to treat individuals who suffer from heart and blood vessel ailments due to these mutations,» explained corresponding author Kenneth Walsh, PhD, professor of medicine at BUSM.

The wires had broken, as happens all too often with pacemaker leads, and now they had to be removed without damaging the patient's blood vessels.

Vibration helped tissue to form new blood vessels — a process called angiogenesis — and also led to increased expression of pro-healing growth factors and signaling molecules called chemokines, Weinheimer - Haus said.

In blood diseases such as essential thrombocythemia, too many platelets can lead to clogging of the blood vessels, causing clots, heart attack or strokes.

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.

The intensified infection leads the immune system to storm the body with chemical messengers called cytokines, ultimately increasing the likelihood of blood vessels leaking, causing hemorrhage and shock.

If LDL - cholesterol levels are elevated in the blood stream, cholesterol will accumulate in the vessel wall leading to plaque formation in the vessels (atherosclerosis).

Metabolic syndrome is a group of risk factors — high blood pressure, high blood sugar, unhealthy cholesterol levels and abdominal fat — that double the risk of blood vessel and heart disease, which can lead to heart attacks and strokes.

Among dozens of mouse studies, he presented work led by Moderna Co-Founder Kenneth Chien, then at Harvard Medical School in Boston, showing that mice recovering from induced heart attacks survived longer and had stronger hearts when injected with mRNA encoding a protein that drives blood vessel formation — vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF).

During the early 1970s, a group of researchers in Brazil led by Sergio Henrique Ferreira discovered a family of peptides in the pit viper's venom that increased the activity of bradykinin, a peptide that lowers blood pressure by causing blood vessels to dilate.

An MIT - led research team has now found that it can reverse this age - related endurance loss in mice by treating them with a compound that promotes new blood vessel growth.

Max Mazzone: «For many years the biological processes which lead to the coordinated navigation of blood vessels and nerves have been studied.

Less suppression of the immune response and less blood vessel formation in the tumor leads to less tumor growth.

If the blood vessel bursts and you have all this blood that's on top of the brain there's going to be pressure that builds up in the brain itself and that can lead to all kinds of problems because the brain is in a closed box — and there's a very limited number of openings.

An enduring mystery of atherosclerosis — the blockage of arteries that can lead to heart attack and stroke — is why T cells flock to atherosclerotic lesions, sites of inflammation lining blood vessels.

The theory is that it does so by dilating vessels leading to the glomeruli, while constricting those through which blood exits.

The gene MAP2K1 has previously been linked to some types of cancerous growths as well as to conditions that lead to abnormal blood vessel formation in the head, face or neck.

In sickle cell anemia, a single genetic mutation leads to abnormal, crescent - shaped red blood cells that clot in tiny blood vessels throughout the body, causing severe pain and eventual organ damage.

The most common diabetic eye disease and a leading cause of blindness is diabetic retinopathy, which is caused by elevated blood sugar levels damaging the blood vessels of the retina and affects approximately 7.7 million Americans.

Cerebral cavernous malformations (CCMs) are clusters of dilated, thin - walled blood vessels that can lead to seizures or stroke when blood leaks into the surrounding brain tissue.

The researchers, led by Sara Adar, John Searle Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, and Joel Kaufman, Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and Medicine, University of Washington, found that higher concentrations of fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) were linked to a faster thickening of the inner two layers of the common carotid artery, an important blood vessel that provides blood to the head, neck, and brain.