Sentences with phrase «by skin tissue»

Supplementing with carnitine reduces the amount of oil created by the skin tissue.

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A breast lift, or mastopexy, «lifts» the breasts by removing excess skin and tightening the surrounding tissue to reshape and support the breasts, according to ASPS.

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Kenesio tape works by creating a «lift» on the skin and painful tissue underneath, allowing normal motion.

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 works by numbing muscle tissue that is present within our skin.

I can slip these in my bra and go back to sleep, and they stay cold long enough to provide relief, and start to warm up enough that you do not damage your skin / tissue by leaving them in place if you fall back to sleep.

One person who donates organs (hearts, lungs, liver, kidneys, pancreas and intestines) can save up to eight lives, while a tissue or eye donor (corneas, bone, skin, heart valves, tendons, veins, etc.) can improve more tha 75 lives by restoring eyesight, helping fight infections in burn patients and preventing the loss of mobility and disability.

What's new in the Czech study, explains pathologist Carol Meteyer of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wisc., is the confirmation of tissue damage characteristic of clinical white - nose sydrome: skin being digested by the pathogen as the fungi's fibrous segments enter a bat's wing and begin replacing its cells.

Now, the «smart» bandage developed by the team provides direct, noninvasive measurement of tissue oxygenation by combining three simple, compact and inexpensive components: a bright sensor molecule with a long phosphorescence lifetime and appropriate dynamic range; a bandage material compatible with the sensor molecule that conforms to the skin's surface to form an airtight seal; and an imaging device capable of capturing the oxygen - dependent signals from the bandage with high signal - to - noise ratio.

Now licensed by Tissue Science Laboratories for use in Europe and the U.S., it is derived from porcine skin, chemically treated to produce a collagenous, sterile, nonallergenic product, which resists biodegradation and can provide a permanent support for the ingrowth of new tissue and associated blood sTissue Science Laboratories for use in Europe and the U.S., it is derived from porcine skin, chemically treated to produce a collagenous, sterile, nonallergenic product, which resists biodegradation and can provide a permanent support for the ingrowth of new tissue and associated blood stissue and associated blood supply.

In an analysis of Medicare billing data submitted by more than 2,300 United States physicians, researchers have calculated the average number of surgical slices, or cuts, made during Mohs micrographic surgery (MMS), a procedure that progressively removes thin layers of cancerous skin tissue in a way that minimizes damage to healthy skin and the risks of leaving cancerous tissue behind.

Frostbite kills exposed skin but also damages deeper tissue by restricting blood vessels, preventing oxygen from reaching cells [see image above].

«This is accompanied by an inflammatory response that sometimes leads to further tissue damage and breakdown of the skin.»

This surely contributes to the rarity or nonexistence of human - to - human transmission of rabies (acquired by the bite of an infected dog or bat); cat - scratch disease (which causes skin lesions and swollen lymph nodes); tularemia (a disease, often acquired when hunting and cutting up an infected rabbit, that can cause skin ulcers, swollen lymph nodes, and fever); and BSE (probably acquired by eating the nervous system tissue of infected cows).

These were surrounded by skin - like cells called fibroblasts, which form the heart's connective tissue.

Tissue engineers have been unable to grow epidermis with the functional barrier needed for drug testing, and have been further limited in producing an in vitro (lab) model for large - scale drug screening by the number of cells that can be grown from a single skin biopsy sample.

A glue which is produced naturally by marine bacteria could be used to repair ships» hulls without taking them into dry dock, and to seal wounds in human skin and delicate tissue.

Dr. Wang plans to continue studying the effects of TNF and IL - 17 on melanocytes, and would like to expand the research to 3D skin models — fabricated samples of tissue in vitro that behave like human skin — that would give a better visual of how the melanin production process is being disrupted by these two cytokines during skin inflammation or wound healing.

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.

Organlike tissue bits can be generated from pluripotent stem cells that are either plucked from embryos or created by taking a person's adult skin or blood cells and chemically inducing them to revert to an embryonic - like state.

The researchers have found that by carefully selecting the polymer's structural parameters, the material followed the same strain curve as a biological tissue, in this case pig skin.

The same printer technology that sits on your desk could soon be a common fixture in rebuilding human tissue, treating burns by laying down layers of a patients» own skin or even rebuilding whole organs.

«In 1995 Joseph Vacanti and I wrote for this magazine about advances in artificial pancreas technology, plastic - based tissues such as artificial skin and electronics that might permit blind people to see [see «Artificial Organs,» by Robert Langer and Joseph P. Vacanti; Scientific American, September 1995].

A team of bioengineers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), led by Ali Khademhosseini, PhD, and Nasim Annabi, PhD, of the Biomedical Engineering Division, has developed a new protein - based gel that, when exposed to light, mimics many of the properties of elastic tissue, such as skin and blood vessels.

A group of researchers led by Kosuke Fujita, Visiting Researcher and Akito Maeda, Specially Appointed Professor at the HP Skin Regeneration, PIAS Collaborative Research, Osaka University clarified that cinnamtannin B - 1, or vegetable - based polyphenol, promotes the migration of Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs) in blood circulation and accumulates them in damaged tissues (Fig. 1) to improve wound healing.

In 2006, Japanese biologist Shinya Yamanaka found a solution: He reprogrammed skin cells from a mouse, turning them back into embryo - like cells, with the potential to grow into any tissue, simply by adding four genes.

Pluripotent stem cells include embryonic stem cells, which are derived from early embryos, and induced pluripotent stem cells, which are made by reprogramming cells taken from adult tissues such as skin.

After analysing the presence of NANOG in different mouse tissues by immunohistochemistry, the CNIO team demonstrated that, in addition to being present in embryonic tissue, this factor is also found in stratified epithelia such as the esophagus, skin or vagina.

But when they encounter biological tissue, they either reflect off the body harmlessly or get absorbed by the skin as heat.

Cellulite describes dimpling of skin, caused by the protrusion of subcutaneous fat into the dermis creating an undulating dermal - subcutaneous fat junction adipose tissue.

Most of the incoming energy is absorbed by skin and tissue before it can reach the implant, which may be inserted up to 50 millimeters deep.

And a survey by RTI International found that an estimated 7 percent of Americans have Dupuytren contracture, a hand condition that develops when the connective tissue under the palm's skin contracts and toughens over time.

Keratinocytes and dermal fibroblasts, which form the connective tissue in skin, responded to increased TWEAK activity by producing a number of chemoattractive and pro-inflammatory factors commonly found in atopic dermatitis and psoriasis.

SLE is a genetically complex chronic relapsing autoimmune disease characterised by inflammation that may affect different tissues, including the skin, joint linings, lungs, kidneys and other organs.

«Complications were most frequently related to skin and soft tissue infections caused by the use of non-sterile needles,» Dr Flores said.

It's a self - renewing tissue, meaning that if we hurt ourselves for example by scraping or cutting our skin, new skin cells will replace the old damaged ones and our wound will heal.

The researchers expected that in these quiescent stem cells, the genes specific for other tissues like skin and brain would be marked by «stop» signals.

In this new study, the scientists mimicked human tissue formation by starting with stem cells genetically reprogrammed from adult skin tissue to form small chambers with beating human heart cells.

They also demonstrated that the probe could acquire separate coherent anti-stokes Raman scattering, second harmonic generation and two - photon excited autofluorescence images of healthy human skin tissue samples with a resolution of 2048 by 2048 pixels for a scanned area of 300 by 300 microns.

«After injecting the nanosponge - hydrogel at the infected spot, we observed that it absorbed the toxins secreted by the bacteria and prevented further damage to the local blood, skin and muscle tissues,» said Zhang.

A group that included researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the University of Cambridge, both in the United Kingdom, developed a possible treatment for A1ATD by first reprogramming a skin cell from a patient into iPS cells, which are embryonic - like cells that can develop into many tissue types.

In the case of gene editing, Verma is creating induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from patients by taking, for example, skin cells of patients, coaxing them back into an early stem cell state, and then providing conditions to make those cells develop into more complex brain, lung, prostate and breast tissues.

Just by attaching the Tissue Nano Transfection device to the skin, the healing process starts in a fraction of a second.

In this new study, the scientists mimicked human tissue formation by starting with stem cells genetically reprogrammed from adult skin tissue to small chambers with beating human heart cells.

They successfully converted mature mouse skin cells into what they called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells that had the same wide - open potential as embryonic stem cells — which the researchers showed by turning their iPS cells into nerve and connective tissue cells.

For a rich source of stem cells to be engineered into new blood vessels or skin tissue, clinicians may one day look no further than the hair on their patients» heads, according to new research published earlier this month by University at Buffalo engineers.

The evidence for the presence of a mycelial fungus in affected areas of the infected bats was obtained when tissue samples from the Williams Hotel Mine were examined by SEM; this imaging method revealed abundant fungal growth on skin and hair shafts (Fig. 1Ci - iv).

Esophagus, Liver, Colon, Ovary, Uterus, Vagina, and Heart are the tissues in which RIN is more affected by PMI (r < − 0.5), while Skin, Pituitary, Spleen and Nerve are the ones in which is less affected (r > − 0.1)