Sentences with phrase «cells after damage»

In fact it's what makes your skin (and muscles, which are also rich in collagen) particularly adept at preparing cells after damage.

Does susceptibility to tumors necessarily reflect the ability to replace cells after damage?

Not exact matches

They include going after the damage to cells done by free radicals, making use of hormone therapy, or caloric restrictions, or vitamin supplements, or, most dramatically, healthy gene selection through pre-implantation genetic diagnosis and even repairing the entire human genome.

In addition, the shedding of some breast tissue after lactation may help eliminate cells with potential DNA damage.

A Chicago man was charged with criminal damage to property after he tore up a mattress last week inside a jail cell at the Orland Park Police Department, police said.

Many people with G6PD Deficiency display no symptoms at all until AFTER the red blood cells have been damaged by one of the «triggers»....

After 10 days of smoke exposure, the scientists found an overall increase in DNA damage responses to so - called reactive oxygen species within the cells.

The gas appears to protect the deep - diving seals from cell damage after periods of restricted blood flow

One research group investigating this possibility followed the activity of fetal microchimeric cells in a mother rat after the maternal heart was injured: they discovered that the fetal cells migrated to the maternal heart and differentiated into heart cells helping to repair the damage.

One of the key questions in biology is to identify how tissues are repaired after trauma and understand how stem cells migrate, proliferate, and differentiate to repair tissue damage.

While gold nanospheres, without any accompanying drug, were found to cause significant cell damage, treatment - resistant cell populations did eventually recover several days after the radiotherapy.

The findings suggest that damage to brain cells called interneurons disrupts neurotransmitter levels and plays a role in the development of epilepsy after a traumatic brain injury.

But the worst damage often happens after the clot dissolves and surviving brain cells revive.

Two recent studies describe these kinds of mechanisms: one of them, published in the journal Molecular Systems Biology, describes the process through which cells stop growing due cell differentiation; the second one, published in Journal of Cell Science, describes plants» cell replenishment after being damacell differentiation; the second one, published in Journal of Cell Science, describes plants» cell replenishment after being damaCell Science, describes plants» cell replenishment after being damacell replenishment after being damaged.

PARP inhibitors prevent cancer cells from repairing themselves after experiencing DNA damage (for example from chemotherapy or radiation).

Normally, after injury, immune cells invade the spinal cord and cause destructive and irreparable tissue damage.

Freezing meat damages the cell walls so the mobility of any water molecules and the way in which they interact with the proteins in the sample changes after freezing.

Moreover, a substantial increase in circulating endothelial progenitor cells, which repair damaged blood vessels, was noted after consuming bread made from the ancient grain Verna.

The day after his disciplinary dismissal from University of Tokyo for «damaging the university's honor or credibility,» Hisashi Moriguchi maintained in an interview with ScienceInsider that he really did participate in a groundbreaking experiment to treat a heart disease patient with cardiac muscle cells derived from the patient's own induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells.

After that was settled, gene therapists still had to find a suitable virus, or vector, to carry replacement genes into human cells without inciting a damaging or deadly immune response.

The molecule seemed to function as a checkpoint, turning off the T cell after a period of activity — perhaps to prevent collateral damage to healthy tissue.

After a short time, the cells became highly similar to native colon cells and assisted healing of the damaged tissue, a finding that surprised and excited us.»

The successful growth of human skin cells in culture has made it possible to restore epidermis after severe burns and other forms of damage

To strengthen its clinical research profile, Dresden has created a strategic plan, to be funded by the German Research Ministry (BMBF), that focuses on three aspects of clinical research: tissue engineering and development of physical and molecular medical technologies for clinical application; therapeutic strategies after cell and tissue damage; and diagnosis and therapy of malignant diseases.

«However, the capillary constriction produced by pericytes may, by restricting the blood supply for a long time, cause further damage to nerve cells even after the clot is removed.

Thirdhand smoke — the noxious residue that clings to virtually all surfaces long after the secondhand smoke from a cigarette has cleared out — causes significant genetic damage in human cells.

A study led by researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has found for the first time that thirdhand smoke — the noxious residue that clings to virtually all surfaces long after the secondhand smoke from a cigarette has cleared out — causes significant genetic damage in human cells.

«Cell - saving drugs could reduce brain damage after stroke.»

Ali found that breast cancer cells that have high levels of RYBP are more sensitive to DNA damage after radiation or drug treatment, including PARP inhibitors (inhibitors of the enzyme poly ADP ribose polymerase used in cancer treatment).

The findings, published today in Nature, demonstrate that these myeloproliferative neoplasias only appear after damage to the microenvironment that sustains and controls the hematopoietic stem cells — the cells that produce the cells of the blood and the immune system.

After delivery, the proteins instruct the stem cells and damaged neurons to interact.

«We think of immune cells as coming into a tissue to fight infection, while stem cells are there to regenerate the tissue after it's damaged,» he said.

By using a dye that highlights damaged brain cells, they were able to monitor injury development in the slices up to three days after blast exposure.

Understanding the coordinated development of motor neurons and glia may inform ways to prod stem cells into generating more glia after someone suffers an injury with nerve damage.

Exploiting that power, researchers are now using microRNAs to convert the scar tissue of damaged hearts into healthy muscle cells, opening the door for a better therapy after heart attacks and heart failure.

Comparing the damaged sites in normal cells before and after infection with H. pylori revealed that genes located close to the margins of the chromosomes, the so - called sub-telomeric regions, are more likely to be damaged after infection, as are genes that are active in gastric cells.

But after high - dose damage, too many cells would have double - strand breaks to replace them all, and repair would make more sense.

Researchers from the UNC School of Medicine have discovered that cells called fibroblasts, which normally give rise to scar tissue after a heart attack, can be turned into endothelial cells, which generate blood vessels to supply oxygen and nutrients to the injured regions of the heart, thus greatly reducing the damage done following heart attack.

One such treatment is already under development for testing in humans after the current study showed it stopped nerve cell damage in mice with ALS.

After tracking the injected cells in the mice for more than 10 days using bioluminescence and fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)- positron emission tomography (PET) imaging, they found that the injection of the senescent cells into the knee region caused leg pain, impaired mobility and characteristics of osteoarthritis, including damage to surrounding cartilage, X-ray changes, increased pain and impaired function.

The researchers say their next step is to transplant the cells into mice with spinal cord injuries to see if the V2a interneurons can help to restore movement after damage has occurred.

The team at Barts Cancer Institute, part of Queen Mary University of London, have found that a molecule, called focal adhesion kinase (FAK), signals the body to repair itself after chemotherapy or radiotherapy, which kill cancer cells by damaging DNA.

«The mammary gland has a huge amount of stuff that it has to get rid of quickly after lactation, but if you just have immune cells taking the dead cells out, you still get chronic inflammation and tissue damage,» says Charles Streuli, who supervised the study.

This finding suggests that after cells fuse, chromosomal instability might lead to DNA damage and hence to genetic changes that underlie cancer.

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.

Protein aggregates that form after a cell is exposed to high, non-lethal temperatures appear to be part of an organized response to stress, and not the accumulation of damaged proteins en route to destruction.

After two earlier published attempts that led to early - stage embryos but not confirmed embryonic stem cells, Mitalipov and colleagues took steps to preserve a protein complex believed to help primate eggs restructure transplanted DNA, and employed a new imaging system to observe the egg's chromosomes directly instead of by staining them or using ultraviolet light, which might damage DNA.

Because of the work of several other collaborators, Haughey says, his team knew that some sort of inflammation - promoting molecule was released from brain and targeted to the liver after brain injury to send immune system cells to the damaged area, but the identity of this go - between had been elusive for years.

Heart muscle cells from the atrium repair the damaged ventricle: 96 hours after the ventricle was damaged, a large number of atrium cells (green) migrated from the atrium (A) into the ventricle (V).

Two weeks after the rats sustained their injuries, Schwartz's group found that the number of surviving cells in the damaged nerves of these rats was three times higher on average than in rats with similar damage that received a placebo injection.