Sentences with phrase «body tissues where»

Whether from your own ovaries or from an external source, estrogens work in the body by traveling in the blood to body tissues where there are estrogen receptors.

It seems that manipulating body tissues where there is pain radiating from muscles can help to ease discomfort.

Acupuncture involves the insertion of needles into body tissue where nerve bundles and blood vessels come together.

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This is where the immune system — the body's defence against infection — mistakenly attacks healthy tissue.

By listening to the body's story and identifying places where tissues are held, this therapy can facilitate the body's own self - healing capacities.

The presence of the S100B protein triggers the release by the body of antibodies which can then leak back into the brain through the damaged blood - brain barrier, where they are thought to attack brain tissue.

Following on the point above, doctors are also finding that many Moms» physical stamina and their bodies» abilities to fight disease for better or worse is changed by this tissue invasion, where some of baby's tissues simply lodge themselves into Mom's tissues while baby is still living in the womb.

Duran has lupus, an autoimmune disease where the body attacks its own tissue and Interlicchio donated her kidney to her just months after meeting each other on Tinder.

Now, the team has examined whether sepsis has the same impact on tissue resident memory T cells (TRM), which do not circulate but stick to the skin, lungs, and gut — where infections often enter the body.

These techniques include: human tissue created by reprogramming cells from people with the relevant disease (dubbed «patient in a dish»); «body on a chip» devices, where human tissue samples on a silicon chip are linked by a circulating blood substitute; many computer modelling approaches, such as virtual organs, virtual patients and virtual clinical trials; and microdosing studies, where tiny doses of drugs given to volunteers allow scientists to study their metabolism in humans, safely and with unsurpassed accuracy.

This is where insects and other animals may continue the process of removal of tissue from the body.

There are moments of pure nature - channel gore, such as when McAuliffe delineates the life cycle of a guinea worm, a parasite that migrates from a human's intestinal muscle through the tissues of the body all the way to the lower limbs or sole of the foot where it — no, that's enough.

Unable to fight the pollen and other allergens, they will let these toxic molecules pass into their bodies, where they will damage organs and tissues.

Only in dry and frozen places such as the Tyrolean Alps, where the 5000 - year - old «Ice Man» was found, have body tissues and DNA been successfully preserved.

The injectable drug bypasses oral absorption and brings the drug to body sites where the virus continues to hide in tissue sanctuaries.

Once a meal has supplied the body's immediate energy needs, any unused fuel gets converted into long molecules called triglycerides, which are dispatched to fatty tissue where they wait for a signal that the body needs them.

As fat cells bulge, the body tries to store glucose in other tissues, including the liver, kidney, heart, muscles, and blood vessels, where the rotting process takes hold.

Without an easily digestible dose of sugar and starch, the body taps its fat stores, shipping fat molecules from the adipose tissue to the liver, where they're broken down into ketones (which is why researchers call it a ketogenic diet).

After analyzing brain tissue samples, the researchers identified an area of the gene where a single change reduced BDNF levels in the hypothalamus, a key area that controls eating and body weight.

Previous research conducted by Dr. Badylak's team suggested that ECM also could be used to regenerate lost muscle by placing the material in the injury site where it signals the body to recruit stem and other progenitor cells to rebuild healthy tissue.

When you're using certain tissue types that can't replicate multiple times outside of the body — liver and nerve cells, for example — «that's where stem cells are most relevant.»

MS is just one of many debilitating diseases caused by auto - immune reactions, where the immune system attacks the body's own tissues.

In ultrasound imaging, the sound is transmitted into the body, where it bounces off of various tissues in a variety of ways and produces waves that can also be detected on the skin.

And if the cells reach a tipping point where they completely block inflammation in fat tissue, they can cause fat deposits to build up inside unseen areas of the body, including the liver, leading to insulin resistance.

In MRI, for example, the pointing angle of the spin gives information about where in the body the atom is located, while the amount of spin (the amplitude) is used to distinguish different kinds of tissue.

These components then slip out of the fat cells and into the bloodstream, where they are accessible to tissues throughout the body.

«These findings help us to understand where in the body the function of this gene is vital and how the loss of the gene in certain tissues can give rise to Menke's disease,» said Petris, who is a researcher in the Bond Life Sciences Center and holds an appointment in the Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology.

The team say their findings could also shed light on how inflammation occurs in certain types of autoinflammatory diseases, where the immune system attacks the body's own tissues.

«The hope behind something like this capsule is that the surgeon will be able to place it inside the body through an existing incision and leave it in a position where it can be easily grasped and used to map out the stiffness or density of the tissue when needed, much like he or she would palpate it with by hand in open surgery,» said collaborator S. Duke Herrell, associate professor of urologic surgery at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

Of note, Abadir says, a low concentration (1 to 50 nanomoles) of valsartan was detected in the pigs» blood near the beginning of treatment, and none was detected later in the treatment course, suggesting that the drug acts locally on the tissues where it's absorbed, rather than affecting the entire body.

These cells line the mucosa, where they allow helpful substances to pass through to tissues in the body and also provide a barrier against harmful substances.

A specialist surgeon will place a device inside the patient's body, where it will blend with host tissues and execute a therapeutic program.

Phil Newmark, a developmental biologist studying the mysteries of how the body regenerates damaged tissue, will join the Morgridge Institute for Research and the University of Wisconsin - Madison Department of Zoology where he will hold the Burnell R. Roberts Chair in Regenerative Biology beginning in fall 2016.

The Livermore PK analysis showed that SiNPs were rapidly cleared from the circulatory system (the «central compartment» in PK models) and were distributed to various body tissues, where they persisted over the eight - week time course of the study, raising questions about the potential for bioaccumulation and associated long - term effects.

According to recent research, the most common solid tumors (that is, cancer that occurs as clusters of cells in or on organs, rather than in liquid form within the blood or lymphatic system) have up to 66 mutations that influence how the cancer cells operate — how fast they divide, whether they are susceptible to the signals that would normally cause a cell to die, when they detach from the main tumor to colonize another organ in the body, when and where they attach blood vessels to healthy tissues.

The Ubx - abdA genes — like other homeotic genes, including the one that can cause a fruit fly to grow a leg out of its head — orient the embryonic tissues as to where they lie in the body.

This could help scientists understand autoimmune diseases, where the immune system turns against normal body tissues, such as in Type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis.

Benoit's lab, in the meantime, has been developing polymer nanoparticles as vehicles for delivering chemotherapeutic drugs to specific parts of the body where a disease occurs, in order to minimize damage to healthy tissues.

, chief of the Division of Experimental Medicine at UCSF, will lead efforts to find out where HIV hides in reservoirs within specific tissues in the body and determine how factors such as sex and age affect the relative abundance of HIV in different tissues.

But it would allow so - called therapeutic cloning in which a patient's cells are coaxed to an embryonic state where they regain the potential to create all of the body's different tissue types.

Cancer cells often travel to other body parts where they grow and replace normal tissue.

Mike McCune, MD, PhD, chief of the Division of Experimental Medicine at UCSF, will lead efforts to find out where HIV hides in reservoirs within specific tissues in the body and determine how factors such as sex and age affect the relative abundance of HIV in different tissues.

And once these toxins, no matter the source, find their way into the body, they become trapped in the organs and tissues, where — among many other kinds of symptoms — they can cause the fatigue and achiness that people who are labeled with FM often experience.

Because these persist in the environment for long periods of time, they often make their way into bodies of water, where they are absorbed and transported into fatty tissues in fish and marine mammals.

When you do an exercise where the torso moves through space, the body needs to engage a high amount of muscle tissue.

Weak immune system Aerobic workouts are a natural cold - fighter, coaxing immune cells out of body tissues and into the bloodstream, where they attack invading viruses and bacteria, explains David Nieman, DrPH, a professor at Appalachian State University, whose research shows that five days of cardio a week reduced sick days by 43 percent.

Your treatment will depend on where your cancer started, whether it has invaded other breast tissue or spread to other parts of your body, and whether hormones like estrogen or progesterone fuel its growth, among other factors.

It's a condition where fatty tissue develops in the lower body - but it's not normal fat.

The GI tract is where we break down food into much smaller molecules, that are then absorbed and used by the body to make energy, repair tissue, and clear toxins.

And, Leucine has this anabolic effect where it helps your body preserve lean body tissues.