Sentences with phrase «by scar tissue»

As liver cells die, they are replaced by scar tissue.

In some cases, there may be one or more drainage holes from the drain or incision, which will be left to heal by scar tissue.

What makes them all work (well, the earlier ones anyway) is Willis as the banged up veteran held together by his scar tissue, roused to action because he's the guy in the place to do it, and kept sane by his sardonic sense of humor.

When healthy liver tissue is destroyed and replaced by scar tissue, the condition becomes serious, because it can start blocking the flow of blood through the liver.

These knots can be caused by scar tissue and can prevent the muscles from contracting fully.

NASH can eventually progress to end - stage liver disease known as cirrhosis, wherein damaged liver cells die off and are replaced by scar tissue that impairs function that can lead to liver failure or liver cancer.

But if it's caused by scar tissue, and there's a significant amount affecting intercourse, a physician may be able to dissolve or remove it.

When the heart muscle dies from lack of blood, it is replaced by scar tissue, since the heart has very little regenerative capacity.

Because heart cells lose their ability to divide soon after we are born, when the cells die — in a heart attack, say — the dead tissue is replaced by scar tissue rather than new muscle.

In case of an injury to the nose, the tear duct system which is injured may get blocked by the scar tissue.

Not exact matches

Tattooing can also lead to raised areas caused by an overgrowth of scar tissue (keloids).

And see q, 54 a 4 ad 2: «Although those openings of the wounds break the continuity of the tissue, still the greater beauty of glory compensates for all this, so that the body is not less entire, but more perfected» and ad 1: «a special comeliness will appear in the places scarred by the wounds».

His eyes are swollen with scar tissue, the skin around them grooved by needles that couldn't completely mend the ravages of the ring.

Take a moment to marvel at the beard: a beaver pelt run roughshod over a face, creeping north to the eyes, annexing territory well to the south and stopped only by the firebreak of melted skin that gave way to scar tissue.

It is thought that the scar tissue left behind by a previous Cesarean causes the placenta to embed into the uterus.

Cirrhosis is a consequence of chronic liver disease characterized by replacement of liver tissue by fibrotic scar tissue as well as regenerative nodules, leading to progressive loss of liver function.

It detects scar tissue formed after the heart muscle is damaged by a heart attack.

Another company, Belgium - based TiGenix, hopes to attack scar tissue before it forms by treating patients with a mixture of heart stem cells within seven days of a heart attack.

These cells further damage the central nervous system tissue by causing neuronal cell death and scar formation that blocks recovery from paralysis.

The condition is manifested by extensive scarring of liver tissue and the organ's progressive inability to carry out its functions.

Destroy the scaffolding and the body responds by producing massive scar tissue and no regeneration.

The research published in the journal Metabolism, examined a molecule called Lysyl oxidase (LOX) which regulates scarring by making tissue stiffer.

Self - administered by patients, the microneedles attach the patch to scar tissue and allow sustained drug - release (one patch per night).

«Fibrosis occurs when you have an injury and the tissue responds by depositing ECM, forming scar tissue,» Wells said.

It has previously been shown that rougher surfaces (also known as textured surfaces) reduce the amount of scar tissue formed around breast implants, but the Manchester scientists felt that they could improve this by creating a pattern which mimicked body's own surface, such as the basal layer of the skin, providing a better environment for the cells to grow on.

The excess scar tissue that forms as a result of this type of hair loss may also explain the higher risk for uterine fibroids, which are characterized by fibrous growths in the lining of the womb.

Pancreatic cancers are often desmoplastic, meaning that they contain and are surrounded by dense scar tissue called fibrosis.

«The body usually responds to corneal injuries by making scar tissue.

In NASH, the liver becomes inflamed and criss - crossed by fibrous scar tissue, and liver cells start dying.

Doctors have long figured that the major roadblock to recovery was the scar tissue formed by a type of glial cells called astrocytes.

Neuroscientists have long believed that scar tissue formed by glial cells — the cells that surround neurons in the central nervous system — impedes damaged nerve cells from regrowing after a brain or spinal cord injury.

«Spinal cord regeneration might actually be helped by glial scar tissue: Research finds that nerve cells regrow better when glial scarring is left intact.»

It is triggered by the activation of a large set of genes that cause the walls of the heart to thicken and develop scar tissue, impairing the organ's ability to pump blood normally.

In the past, MRIs have been considered risky because of the fear a pacemaker or defibrillator device's generator circuits could be disrupted, or its metal leads could be pulled out of place by the magnetism, or the lead tips could become hot and scar surrounding tissues, interfering with pacing and defibrillating function.

It is a progressive, fatal disease characterized by scarring deep in the lung tissue that leads to respiratory or heart failure, pneumonia, and pulmonary embolism.

Harvard Stem Cell Institute scientists at Brigham and Women's Hospital have found the cellular origin of the tissue scarring caused by organ damage associated with diabetes, lung disease, high blood pressure, kidney disease, and other conditions.

The researchers, led by Benjamin Humphreys, MD, PhD, found that a rare population of stem cells located outside of blood vessels in mice become myofibroblast cells that secrete proteins that cause scar tissue.

In his case, the problem had progressed to a condition known as nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), which is characterized by liver inflammation and formation of scar tissue in the organ.

Researchers have demonstrated that some of these can be upregulated to reduce liver fibrosis by steering cell lineages away from the production of scar tissue and towards the production of useful liver cells.

Cell therapy has been shown to be effective in reducing the infarct (scarring) caused by a heart attack as well as improving heart function when certain cell types are used — particularly cells from a person's own fat (adipose tissue).

In another demonstration of the ripple effect created by a single, RPB - supported investigation, researchers, using a new microscopy technique focused on eye tissues damaged by scarring in diabetic patients, have...

But heart cells never truly regenerate in the damaged tissue, and myofibroblasts compensate for their absence by forming a stiff, collagenous scar that interferes with the heart's ability to maintain stable heart rhythms and to expand and contract forcefully to pump blood.

By contrast, when a human suffers a spinal cord injury, the glial cells form scar tissue, which blocks nerves from ever reconnecting with each other.

Together with Rangaswamy Srinivasan and Samuel E. Blum, for their discovery of pulsed ultraviolet laser surgery, wherein laser light cuts and etches biological tissue by photoablation with minimal collateral damage, leading to healing without significant scarring.

CINCINNATI - Scientists used an experimental targeted molecular therapy to block a matrix - forming protein in heart cells damaged by heart attack, reducing levels of scarred muscle tissue and saving mouse models from heart failure.

Together with Rangaswamy Srinivasan and James J. Wynne, for their discovery of pulsed ultraviolet laser surgery, wherein laser light cuts and etches biological tissue by photoablation with minimal collateral damage, leading to healing without significant scarring.

With this study, the scientists found that JQ1 can effectively treat severe, pre-established heart failure in both small animal and human cell models by blocking inflammation and fibrosis (scarring of the heart tissue).

But now, scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have demonstrated that this damage need not be permanent — by finding a way to transform the class of cells that form human scar tissue into those that closely resemble beating heart cells.

Developed by a multi-disciplinary team of Wyss Institute and Harvard SEAS faculty and researchers, the application of cylic mechanical stimulation of the injured tissue resulted in two - and - a-half-fold improvement in muscle regeneration, reduced tissue scarring and fibrosis, and a visible increase in the density of muscle cells.

The researchers discovered that cyclic mechanical stimulation provided by both magnetized gel and robotic cuff resulted in a two - and - a-half-fold improvement in muscle regeneration and reduced tissue scarring over the course of two weeks, ultimately leading to regained muscle function, demonstrating that mechanical stimulation of muscle alone can foster regeneration.