Sentences with phrase «blood vessels so»

These compounds decrease certain chemicals that tighten blood vessels so more blood flows smoothly through them allowing the heart to pump blood more efficiently.

The nitric oxide formed from nitrates in beets relaxes the smooth muscles in your blood vessels so that your arteries stay properly dilated.

NO is a potent vasodilator, meaning it relaxes and widens the diameter of your blood vessels so that a greater volume of blood can flow through.

«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.»

Magnesium works to relax blood vessels so they don't narrow.

we need cholesterol to patch up damage to blood vessels so getting rid of it doesn't really make sense.

High blood pressure — magnesium helps to relax blood vessels so they will constrict more when magnesium deficient and result in high blood pressure

If there is adrenal stress, someone's also gonna be dumping a lot of magnesium which you need that to help relax the blood vessels so you're compounding the issue and if you are adding the fructose or the high fructose corn syrup or sodas in there, that's gonna cause blood sugar issues which is gonna create a bigger crisis and the adrenals are gonna have to be more stressed if they're not already.

Yet, in humans, nowhere else on the body are there so many blood vessels so close to the surface of the skin than our faces.

Capsaicin causes vasodilation, which opens blood vessels so that circulation is enhanced and blood pressure is lowered.

Not exact matches

His company is working on a device that collects blood samples from people at home who attach the collection vessel to their skin with an adhesive so it can draw a clean sample.

One of [the whale's] peculiarities it is, to have an entire non-valvular structure of the blood - vessels, so that when pierced even by so small a point as a harpoon, a deadly drain is at once begun upon his whole arterial system; and when this is heightened by the extraordinary pressure of water at a great distance below the surface, his life may be said to pour from him in incessant streams.

I don't know about everyone, many supporters who were fully behind Wenger over the last ten years have popped some blood vessels lately, and aren't so sure of the man compared to other times.

Plants are not like us with pumping mechanism that pushes our blood around, so water moves up the vessel by adhesion (being attracted to the side of the vessel) and cohesion (water molecules being attracted to each other).

So it causes the blood vessels to constrict so there's no blood flow to the nipple often times the nipple would be bleached white and then all of a sudden the blood goes right back into the nipple and it turns like a purple kind of being (inaudible) parents say if you sit on your foot and your foot goes to sleep and then all of a sudden you get the pins and needleSo it causes the blood vessels to constrict so there's no blood flow to the nipple often times the nipple would be bleached white and then all of a sudden the blood goes right back into the nipple and it turns like a purple kind of being (inaudible) parents say if you sit on your foot and your foot goes to sleep and then all of a sudden you get the pins and needleso there's no blood flow to the nipple often times the nipple would be bleached white and then all of a sudden the blood goes right back into the nipple and it turns like a purple kind of being (inaudible) parents say if you sit on your foot and your foot goes to sleep and then all of a sudden you get the pins and needles.

Because the cervix is so sensitive and the blood vessels are all right on the surface you can sometimes find that the plug has a pink or bloody tinge to it.

Cardiac anatomy consists of veins and blood vessels, so a diet that is high in saturated fats and artery clogging foods is a direct cause of cardiac diseases and problems during pregnancy, labor and delivery.

Formation of blood vessels is taking place in the lungs, so that breathing is possible after birth.

I had all these red dots all over my face and chest because I pushed so hard that my blood vessels broke.

So, with identical twins, they share a placenta and with that they share blood vessels and sometimes these blood vessels don't distribute blood flow equally to both babies.

Vasospasm happens when blood vessels tighten and go into spasm, so that blood does not flow normally.

Most symptoms are temporary, and most children recover completely, but the heart and blood vessels can be affected, so it's important to consult a doctor.

So Daniel Anderson at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology exposed human bone marrow stem cells to biodegradable nanoparticles carrying the human gene for vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which attracts blood vessels to injury sites.

«Because the particles are so small, if they happen to reach the tumor site they have a chance of penetrating through the blood vessel wall because the vasculature of tumors is usually leaky.»

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.

In July Genentech announced that the drug Lucentis stabilized or even improved vision in a yearlong clinical trial of patients with so - called wet macular degeneration, a form that involves overgrowth of blood vessels.

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.

«Microscopic blood vessels can not dilate after nanomaterial inhalation, so crucial blood flow to our various organs is impaired.»

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

So far the biggest advances have been with thin tissues such as skin, blood vessels, and bladders (Science, 16 April 1999, p. 422 and 19 November 1999, p. 1493), because foams with holes big enough to house living cells tend to come in thin sheets.

«One of the advantages of using an endoscope so thin is that as you lower it into the brain, you can see all the blood vessels and navigate the fiber to avoid hitting them,» said Ohayon.

A study combining tumor cells from patients with breast cancer with a laboratory model of blood vessel lining provides the most compelling evidence so far that a specific trio of cells is required for the spread of breast cancer.

One explanation for that, says Iacobuzio - Donahue, is that «Distant metastases have to travel long distances along the «highways» of the blood vessels, land in a good spot and colonize, while local metastases just pinch off the primary tumor and go a short distance on «familiar side roads,» so they are usually more similar to the primary tumor.»

So the lungs» blood vessel network gives pathogens a place to hide and escape the body's usual removal efforts.

So Silvestri and colleagues devised a see - through synthetic version of a blood vessel.

«These are areas of the brain where large populations of neurons are firing often, and this uses up a lot of energy, so it's not surprising that we see an altered metabolic profile with a massive expansion of blood vessels.»

To do so, they have to pass through the walls of small blood vessels.

To do so, individual tumour cells have to enter blood vessels and leave the bloodstream again at remote locations.

In fish larvae without the EGFL7 gene, however, other genes compensate for the loss, so that the inhibitor hardly affects the growth of blood vessels (below).

«Loophole for cancer cells found: Cancer cells kill blood vessel cells so that they can slip through the vascular wall, form metastases.»

In another approach, researchers sew together pairs of mice so that their blood vessels will join up and link their circulatory systems.

When two copies of the altered hemoglobin gene are present, they cause the shape of the hemoglobin to change so much that the «sickled» blood cells don't flow freely in the blood vessels, causing excruciating pain.

Cancer treatments often target tumors by cutting off blood vessels and other nutrient supply routes, so Monje and others are interested to learn whether it may be possible to target nerves via analogous therapies or by simply blocking secreted neural growth factors.

This method measures the activity of protein - cutting enzymes called endoproteases, which are made by tumors to help recruit blood vessels and invade surrounding tissues so the cancer can grow and spread.

An injection of SLex into the bloodstream should block the E-selectin on the surface of the blood vessels and so hide the chemical message that alerts the white blood cells.

The combo is then injected into people who have been declared brain dead — M. D. Anderson patients who often wished to be organ donors but weren't eligible, so their families agreed to this study instead — to see which blood vessels the peptide hooks up to.

Because the new blood vessels (also known as choroidal neovascular membranes) can be so damaging, a wide variety of treatments have been tried to arrest their growth.

Under the microscope, it is possible to identify invasion of the tumor into the lymph and blood vessels, this being the tumor behaviour responsible for the formation of metastases, so that it can be used as a prognostic factor.

Roughly 20 percent of patients with age - related macular degeneration suffer from abnormal blood vessel growth and vascular leakage, says Campochiaro, and so may be helped by this new therapy, if it proves to work in clinical trials.

«We found that the well - known Notch protein is responsible for keeping blood vessels from becoming leaky, and does so through a secondary signaling pathway that operates in a completely different manner than its known transcription - based pathway,» says Chris Chen, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Faculty member of the Wyss Institute and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University, who is the corresponding author of the paper.