Sentences with phrase «cells involved in»

All cells involved in inflammation have receptors for TNF - α and are activated by it to facilitate further inflammation.

The virus will spread through the body in lymphocytes and monocytes (white blood cells involved in immune responses) and within a few weeks will spread to the bone marrow.

ACT - activated clotting time (bleeding disorders) ACTH - adrenocorticotropic hormone (adrenal gland function) Ag - antigen test for proteins specific to a disease causing organism or virus Alb - albumin (liver, kidney and intestinal disorders) Alk - Phos, ALP alkaline phosphatase (liver and adrenal disorders) Allergy Testing intradermal or blood antibody test for allergen hypersensitivity ALT - alanine aminotransferase (liver disorder) Amyl - amylase enzyme — non specific (pancreatitis) ANA - antinuclear antibody (systemic lupus erythematosus) Anaplasmosis Anaplasma spp. (tick - borne rickettsial disease) APTT - activated partial thromboplastin time (blood clotting ability) AST - aspartate aminotransferase (muscle and liver disorders) Band band cell — type of white blood cell Baso basophil — type of white blood cell Bile Acids digestive acids produced in the liver and stored in the gall bladder (liver function) Bili bilirubin (bile pigment responsible for jaundice from liver disease or RBC destruction) BP - blood pressure measurement BUN - blood urea nitrogen (kidney and liver function) Bx biopsy C & S aerobic / anaerobic bacterial culture and antibiotic sensitivity test (infection, drug selection) Ca +2 calcium ion — unbound calcium (parathyroid gland function) CBC - complete blood count (all circulating cells) Chol cholesterol (liver, thyroid disorders) CK, CPK creatine [phospho] kinase (muscle disease, heart disease) Cl - chloride ion — unbound chloride (hydration, blood pH) CO2 - carbon dioxide (blood pH) Contrast Radiograph x-ray image using injected radiopaque contrast media Cortisol hormone produced by the adrenal glands (adrenal gland function) Coomb's anti- red blood cell antibody test (immune - mediated hemolytic anemia) Crea creatinine (kidney function) CRT - capillary refill time (blood pressure, tissue perfusion) DTM - dermatophyte test medium (ringworm — dermatophytosis) EEG - electroencephalogram (brain function, epilepsy) Ehrlichia Ehrlichia spp. (tick - borne rickettsial disease) EKG, ECG - electrok [c] ardiogram (electrical heart activity, heart arryhthmia) Eos eosinophil — type of white blood cell Fecal, flotation, direct intestinal parasite exam FeLV Feline Leukemia Virus test FIA Feline Infectious Anemia: aka Feline Hemotrophic Mycoplasma, Haemobartonella felis test FIV Feline Immunodeficiency Virus test Fluorescein Stain fluorescein stain uptake of cornea (corneal ulceration) fT4, fT4ed, freeT4ed thyroxine hormone unbound by protein measured by equilibrium dialysis (thyroid function) GGT gamma - glutamyltranferase (liver disorders) Glob globulin (liver, immune system) Glu blood or urine glucose (diabetes mellitus) Gran granulocytes — subgroup of white blood cells Hb, Hgb hemoglobin — iron rich protein bound to red blood cells that carries oxygen (anemia, red cell mass) HCO3 - bicarbonate ion (blood pH) HCT, PCV, MHCT hematocrit, packed - cell volume, microhematocrit (hemoconcentration, dehydration, anemia) K + potassium ion — unbound potassium (kidney disorders, adrenal gland disorders) Lipa lipase enzyme — non specific (pancreatitis) LYME Borrelia spp. (tick - borne rickettsial disease) Lymph lymphocyte — type of white blood cell MCHC mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (anemia, iron deficiency) MCV mean corpuscular volume — average red cell size (anemia, iron deficiency) Mg +2 magnesium ion — unbound magnesium (diabetes, parathyroid function, malnutrition) MHCT, HCT, PCV microhematocrit, hematocrit, packed - cell volume (hemoconcentration, dehydration, anemia) MIC minimum inhibitory concentration — part of the C&S that determines antimicrobial selection Mono monocyte — type of white blood cell MRI magnetic resonance imaging (advanced tissue imaging) Na + sodium ion — unbound sodium (dehydration, adrenal gland disease) nRBC nucleated red blood cell — immature red blood cell (bone marrow damage, lead toxicity) PCV, HCT, MHCT packed - cell volume, hematocrit, microhematocrit (hemoconcentration, dehydration, anemia) PE physical examination pH urine pH (urinary tract infection, urolithiasis) Phos phosphorus (kidney disorders, ketoacidosis, parathyroid function) PLI pancreatic lipase immunoreactivity (pancreatitis) PLT platelet — cells involved in clotting (bleeding disorders) PT prothrombin time (bleeding disorders) PTH parathyroid hormone, parathormone (parathyroid function) Radiograph x-ray image RBC red blood cell count (anemia) REL Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever / Ehrlichia / Lyme combination test Retic reticulocyte — immature red blood cell (regenerative vs. non-regenerative anemia) RMSF Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever SAP serum alkaline phosphatase (liver disorders) Schirmer Tear Test tear production test (keratoconjunctivitis sicca — dry eye,) Seg segmented neutrophil — type of white blood cell USG Urine specific gravity (urine concentration, kidney function) spec cPL specific canine pancreatic lipase (pancreatitis)-- replaces the PLI test spec fPL specific feline pancreatic lipase (pancreatitis)-- replaces the PLI test T4 thyroxine hormone — total (thyroid gland function) TLI trypsin - like immunoreactivity (exocrine pancreatic insufficiency) TP total protein (hydration, liver disorders) TPR temperature / pulse / respirations (physical exam vital signs) Trig triglycerides (fat metabolism, liver disorders) TSH thyroid stimulating hormone (thyroid gland function) UA urinalysis (kidney function, urinary tract infection, diabetes) Urine Cortisol - Crea Ratio urine cortisol - creatine ratio (screening test for adrenal gland disease) Urine Protein - Crea Ratio urine protein - creatinine ratio (kidney disorders) VWF VonWillebrands factor (bleeding disorder) WBC white blood cell count (infection, inflammation, bone marrow suppression)

Mast cells are white blood cells involved in allergic response and inflammation.

Platelets are blood cells involved in blood clotting but it turns out they are also packed with growth and healing factors that are useful in inflammatory joint disease.

Laser therapy helps to alleviate pain and inflammation, reduces swelling, and stimulates nerve regeneration and cells involved in tissue repair.

The cells involved in the pathology of the...

One means of determining the type of cells involved in a mass is to do a fine needle aspirate (a needle is attached to syringe and inserted into the mass to collect a tiny tissue or fluid sample) and cytology (microscopic evaluation of the cells).

Azathioprine is used to suppress cells involved in autoimmune diseases.

These treatments prevent the activation of many cells involved in inflammation.

«In the near future, we'll likely see more medications specifically targeting receptors on cells involved in allergic reactions, such as tyrosine kinase inhibitors (mast cells), for dermatologic use.»

Atopica targets the immune cells involved in the allergic reaction.

The Periosteum also contains immature cells that become Osteoblasts, which are cells involved in bone growth and fracture repair.

Studies showed that curcumin reduced joint swelling by modifying gene expression; inhibited inflammation by regulating NF - κB, a pro-inflammatory protein; and slowed down joint destruction by decreasing activity of osteoblasts, cells involved in bone breakdown.

It has been found in high concentrations in wound tissue and certain blood cells involved in clotting, signifying its important role in the healing process.

You start to breathe more oxygen and trough the blood it comes to muscles and all cells involved in exercises.

Mast cells (cells involved in the inflammatory response) were also increased, as were bowel issues.

Neutrophils, one of the cells involved in inflammatory response, attack what they perceive as outside damage / invaders with the massive production of free radicals.

Unfortunately though, this is something a lot of people are ignorant of, perhaps because Big Pharma and mainstream medicine, which focuses much of its attention on locating and manipulating individual receptors, genes, and cells involved in various health disorders, have done such a good job of making us believe that they hold the solution to all our health woes.

This represents a small example of the hundreds of growth factors, proteins, and regenerative cells involved in the regenerative process that takes place when these cells are injected into a damaged joint.

Many of these are biologic drugs, which can block immune cells involved in the skin condition.

Similarly, the immune cells involved in the progression of atherosclerosis are also senescent, and removing them slows the progression of that condition.

Our findings show that two fragments of alpha - synuclein, a protein that accumulates in the brain cells of people with Parkinson's, can activate the T cells involved in autoimmune attacks.

The evidence against neonicotinoids now exists in key bee brain cells involved in learning and memory, in whole bees, entire colonies and now at the level of whole populations of wild bees.

Our data then indirectly suggest that FMc in healthy women might be represented in cells that are part of the innate immune response and / or in cells involved in antigen presentation.

According to Puzas, teriparatide significantly speeds up fracture healing by changing the behavior and number of the cartilage and the bone stem cells involved in the process.

The mutation damages the regulation of DNA in cells involved in the cancer — a form of epigenetic change.

Similarly, they can learn how the full spectrum of cells involved in cancers and other diseases relates to prognosis and recovery.

Astrocytomas originate in glial cells called astrocytes, the multitudinous star - shaped cells involved in cell repair and nutrient transport.

Researchers from the global Human Cell Atlas (HCA) Consortium have sequenced 250 000 cells involved in early human development and preliminary data analysis is now underway.

It pertains specifically to cells involved in the most common form of pancreatic cancer, called pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma or PDA.

5/15/2008 New Role Found for a Cardiac Progenitor Population In a discovery that could one day lead to an understanding of how to regenerate damaged heart tissue, researchers at the University of California, San Diego have found that parent cells involved in embryonic development of the epicardium — the cell l...

Interaction of human mesenchymal stem cells with cells involved in alloantigen - specific immune response favors the differentiation of CD4 + T - cell subsets expressing a regulatory / suppressive phenotype.

As expected, hippocampal cells involved in short - term memory responded to the laser light.

Four years ago several groups found that the body has two types of prostaglandin H2 synthase: an ever - ready PGHS - 1, present in nearly all cells for basic housekeeping duties, and PGHS - 2, made only as needed and just by those cells involved in inflammation and immune responses.

A study comparing children between 7 and 11 years of age who have moderate or severe obstructive sleep apnea to children the same age who slept normally, found significant reductions of gray matter — brain cells involved in movement, memory, emotions, speech, perception, decision making and self - control — in several regions of the brains of children with sleep apnea.

In a report on the mouse studies, published online Sept. 11 in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America), the investigators say the genetic alteration appears to release the biochemical «brakes» on brain cells involved in body movement, reasoning and perception of the world, triggering over-excited activity and reactions.

«Our challenge now is to tease out exactly how this protein works in the cells involved in making up the blood - brain barrier.

In her most recent paper, Ennis describes how her team looked at the effects of ultra-dilute solutions of histamine on human white blood cells involved in inflammation.

Because the TSG12 specifically targets the muscle cells involved in asthma, it may also have fewer side effects than beta - 2 agonists.

Before injecting nematodes with magnetic nanoparticles, the scientists first coated the manganese — iron nanoparticles with polyethylene glycol, a molecule that targeted the particles to the mucus layer of the amphid region (an opening near the nematode's mouth that hosts the nerve cells involved in the heat avoidance reflex).

Building on that work, the current paper looked at a less lethal strain, the H1N1 «swine flu,» that does not infect neurons, but which, the researchers showed, still caused inflammation in the brain via inflammatory chemicals or cytokines released by immune cells involved in fighting the infection.

New work in mice finds that testosterone impacts immune cells involved in the disease.

In a study published recently in the journal Carbon, the team grew human and mouse fibroblast cells (cells involved in wound healing) on flat graphene sheets and on wrinkled ones.

Antibodies only bind to target cells Peptide antibodies developed by Kwak and co-discoverer, Hong Qin, Ph.D., assistant professor of Lymphoma / Myeloma, wipe out MDSCs in the blood, spleen and tumor cells of mice without binding to other white blood cells or dendritic cells involved in immune response.

In both mouse and fruit fly embryos, Detlev Arendt, an evolutionary biologist at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, has found that cells involved in forming the brain and nerve cord divide into three columns of cells.

What they did not know in detail is what happens after those stem cells move down to the base, or bulb, of hair follicles and which cells in the hair follicles produce SCF — or that cells involved in hair shaft creation make the KROX20 protein, he said.

In humans, scientists know a lot about the cells involved in immediate antibody production, called plasmablasts, but less about the separate group of cells responsible for the «storage / research for the future» functions, called memory B cells.

A team of investigators led by Rohit Kohli, MBBS, MS, of Children's Hospital Los Angeles, has identified key inflammatory cells involved in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

This new piece of work published in Plos One and led by the UPV / EHU researcher Nerea Subirán describes for the first time the presence of opioid receptors in the cells involved in spermatozoon formation.