Sentences with phrase «cells around the body»

These tubes serve to transport various gases, liquids and cells around the body.

Researchers at Stockholm University have now been able to show how the parasite takes control and force immune cells around the body to spread it, eventually reaching the brain.

When you run or bike without the proper sustenance, your body will go after carb and fat fragments in your bloodstream and muscle stores — not the fat in the cells around your body.

Whenever glucose enters the bloodstream, the pancreas pumps out insulin to shuttle these little glucose molecules to cells around the body for use.

Once nutrients have been absorbed through the GI tract and passed through the liver, it is up to the cardiopulmonary system to circulate and deliver them to cells around the body.

Not exact matches

[Water weight] is extra water that's hanging around the tissues, joints, and body cavities between cells,» says Abbey Sharp, RD, owner of Abbey's Kitchen.

But there is also a sense in which the space around body cells is continuous with the space inside them.

This represents, for example, the difference between the extracellular fluid around body cells and the cytoplasm inside them.

The space inside these channels is continuous with the space around the cell in the same way that the space inside the alimentary tract is continuous with the space around the body.

First the vitalization of matter, associated with the grouping of molecules; then the hominization of Life, associated with a super-grouping of cells; and finally the planetization of Mankind, associated with a closed grouping of people: Mankind, born on this planet and spread over its entire surface, coming gradually to form around its earthly matrix a single, major organic unity, enclosed upon itself; a single, hyper - complex, hyper - centrated, hyperconscious arch-molecule, co-extensive with the heavenly body on which it was born.

The glory of God is all around us — the complexity of a single cell from the human body and the order present in our universe should point us all to our creator.

From it will develop:... 60 trillion cells, 100 thousand miles of nerve fiber, 60 thousand miles of vessels carrying blood around the body, 250 bones, to say nothing of joints, ligaments and muscles.

Maybe Brussel sprouts weren't on your greens list for starting a post-holidays detox, but I'm about to turn those feelings around, with this creamy, comforting soup, flavoured with Ayurvedic spices to kick start your metabolism and help your body cells cleanse naturally.

Maybe Brussel sprouts weren't on your greens list for starting a post-holidays detox, but I'm about to turn those feelings around, with this creamy, comforting soup, flavoured with Ayurvedic spices to kick start your metabolism and nourish your body cells.

Iron deficiency anaemia — This occurs when your body has an iron deficiency resulting in your blood not having enough healthy red blood cells to carry oxygen around your body.

Some studies even indicate the possibility of carrying around cells from our great - grandmothers, though more research is needed on this to determine how far one can go back to tracing how many fetal cells are in a woman's body.

Cancer cells travel around the body and begin to attack healthy tissue in a process called metastasis.

The researchers thought this ability to switch between different cell types could explain why they can spread so easily around the body; switching cell type effectively disguises the cells in different tissues.

Lowered density usually means that nerve - cell bodies, known as gray matter, or the material around them, have thinned out or died.

Your body is made up of around ten trillion cells, but you harbour a hundred trillion bacteria.

Learning more about how cancer cells move around the body is also providing scientists with new insights that could thwart the spread of the disease.

As the heart starts pumping a primitive blood - like fluid around the body of an embryo, the change in pressure from the flowing liquid is the cue for cells lining the aorta to change first into blood stem cells, then into all blood - cell types in the body.

And in a basket cell (above), axon branches, which allow the nerve cell to send messages to other neurons, cluster densely around the cell body.

In another neuron called a chandelier cell (above), vertical branches of its signal - sending axon, which serves to quiet other cells, dangle around the cell body.

The estimate is that normal, healthy adults have ten times as many microbial cells as human cells within their bodies; countless more populate the environment around us.

Additionally, immune cells are located deep in the body and are constantly moving around, so getting the light to them can be difficult.

Six months later, blood cells from both the donor and host were still circulating around the body.

Good Vision Gone Bad Cone cells work hard, and when their waste products build up faster than the body can clear them, tiny yellow spots can form around the fovea.

The scientists demonstrated that chemokine CCL7 is diffused through the PPAT to the area around the prostate and that it attracts tumor cells that express the CCR3 receptor towards the periprostatic adipose tissue, the gateway to the rest of the body.

And the first thing that begins to happen is carbon dioxide builds up inside the body, and with it there is a rise in acidity; that acidity rise contributes to cellular membranes decaying and then collapsing and then digestive enzymes that were already always present in the cells begin to slosh around to the body and [it] begins a state of what's called self digestion, so the body begins to liquefy inside rather literally.

To visualize the elements that make up neurons — axons, dendrites, and cell bodies — Seung and Berger used a computer to draw 3 - D surfaces around the neural structures found in the cube.

Because the kidney makes erythropoietin (EPO), a hormone that triggers the production of red blood cells, people whose kidneys degenerate can develop anaemia — not having enough red blood cells to carry oxygen around the body.

OLs formed before tamoxifen injection are red, newly - forming OLs have a yellow «cell body» containing the nucleus surrounded by a green «bundle of sticks» which are short stretches of myelin wrapped around thread - like axons.

They are designed to get around one of the ways that cancer protects itself from the immune system: tumors can activate the body's natural protective response from autoimmunity, called a checkpoint, and thereby thwart cytotoxic T cells.

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 causes of infertility, which affects around 10 % of couples, are often unknown, but may in some cases result from the body's inability to produce viable gametes — also known as sperm and egg cells.

Understanding how cancer cells are able to metastasize — migrate from the primary tumor to distant sites in the body — and developing therapies to inhibit this process are the focus of many laboratories around the country.

Cancer tends to stick around because it's practically invisible to the body's own defenses: The immune system doesn't recognize the rogue cells because they aren't foreign invaders.

Cancerous Marriage The fusion of tumor cells with white blood cells may be the secret behind how cancer spreads around the body.

So when an international team of engineers wanted to design tiny robots that could move cells around, deliver drugs deep inside the body or clean clogged arteries, they looked to nature for inspiration: sperm.

RIPK1, the researchers found, inflicts damage by directly attacking the body's myelin production plants — nerve cells known as oligodendrocytes, which secrete the soft substance, rich in fat and protein that wraps around axons to support their function and shield them from damage.

The swirling dislodged particles travel upward with the human convection plume, or currents of warmed air that rise around any human body, then get swept into a filter that takes out contaminants like dust, lint, and skin cells.

«When cancer cells spread around the body, this is a physics problem.

Differences in these systems allow cells to specialise to form all the different parts of the body and also helps our cells respond to the changing world around us.

«The big surprise,» Discher said, «is that injected macrophages circulate all around the body but accumulate only within the tumors where they engorge on cancer cells.»

A key question in cancer research has been how cancer cells are able to survive once they break away from a tumour to spread around the body.

Previously, we thought cells only moved around the body either individually or as groups of well - connected cells.

SLex is also found on the surface of lung cancer cells and colon cancer cells, which are also seeking E-selectin sites to attach themselves to as they spread around the body.

In a study of around 80 samples from men with prostate cancer, scientists at the Barts Cancer Institute at Queen Mary University looked for cells that were gaining the ability to migrate and invade through the body.

Researchers were also able to see natural metals which are produced by the body — such as zinc and calcium — moving around the cells.