Sentences with phrase «cells repair damaged tissue»

The new cells repair damaged tissue and enable a body to grow.

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Drawing on Toronto's leading stem cell and tissue engineering expertise, one group will focus on new models for repairing damaged hearts.

A seriously ill person in need of embryonic stem cells to repair damaged tissue.

The antioxidants in AppleActiv play an important role in neutralizing oxidative damage caused by free radicals, repairing damage and protecting the normal functioning of cells and tissues.

Despite a tremendous amount of scientific study, many outstanding mysteries still surround the way in which cells in living tissue respond to and repair physical damage.

«It was particularly exciting to observe that the repair of the skin epidermis involves the activation of very different stem cells that react the same way to the emergency situation of the wound and have the power to completely restore the damaged tissue», comments Mariaceleste Aragona, the first author of the study.

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.

When the modified cells were injected into mice whose hind limbs had been injured, the tissue that regrew to repair the damage had three times the blood vessel density of similar tissue in mice given unmodified cells.

Defined as the harnessing of living processes to achieve healing and repair of damaged and diseased tissues by Tim Hardingham, director of the UK Centre for Tissue Engineering, it is a field that requires collaborative research involving cell and molecular biologists, chemical engineers, materials scientists, and surgeons.

Furthermore, the same team is applying new microgravity technology — originally developed by NASA for the International Space Station — to make large enough quantities of the stem cells to repair tissue damage in patients.

But the neurosurgeon who fused Boesen's neck bones to stabilize his spine offered a ray of hope: Boesen might qualify for an experimental treatment that uses stem cells to repair damaged tissue.

Investigators at Johns Hopkins report they have developed human induced - pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) capable of repairing damaged retinal vascular tissue in mice.

The enzyme, called tankyrase, may prove useful for extending the lives of cultured cells grown to repair burned skin and other damaged tissue.

Now, with new kinds of technologies that are coming up, new types of tissue engineering and, you know, some of the hopes that people have for stem cells and [the] like, it may be interesting to see if there are other ways, alternatives to dealing with really badly damaged hearts that would involve growing a new heart or replacing or repairing the damage d to a badly damaged heart that might make artificial hearts less important in the somewhat more distant future.

As fluid and white blood cells rush to the damaged tissue, it becomes inflamed in an effort to repair the tissue and protect it from further damage.

The scientists, led by Dr Paul Genever in the Arthritis Research UK Tissue Engineering Centre in the University's Department of Biology, have developed a technique to rejuvenate cells from older people with osteoarthritis to repair worn or damaged cartilage thus reducing pain.

Blood stem cells can occasionally become muscle cells and help repair damaged tissue, new research finds.

In a study published online in Circulation Research late last year, Chaudhry and colleagues found that fetal cells in mice migrated to the mother's heart, differentiated into functioning cardiac cells, and accelerated repair to damaged heart tissue.

It feeds back to protect injured cells from dying and simultaneously stimulates tissue repair to patch the damage that has occurred.

But even more far - ranging treatments may be possible with embryonic stem cells, the blank - slate cells that give rise to all organs and tissue types and that (theoretically) can repair all forms of organic damage and disease.

Many tissues of our bodies, such as our skin, can heal because they contain stem cells that can divide and differentiate into the type of cells needed to repair damaged tissue.

Furthermore, since the cells responsible for synthesising new bone tissue (osteoblasts) are known to attach close to the tip, it would appear that the electric field distribution signals this point as the centre of damage, becoming a moving beacon for repair efforts as the crack is healed.

The fda and the International Society for Stem Cell Research warn that no rigorous studies have demonstrated that such treatments safely and effectively repair damaged connective tissue in people.

But some signal provided by muscular injury or degeneration prompts satellite cells to start dividing and then to integrate themselves into damaged fibers, repairing the muscle tissue.

Using their model, the team has shown that induced neural stem cells, or iNSCs, can replace stroke - damaged brain tissue and stimulate neuroplasticity — the brain's ability to naturally repair itself.

Shape is thought to play an important role in the effectiveness of cells grown to repair or replace damaged tissue in the body.

It promised to realise the dream of repairing damaged tissues and organs using a patient's own cells.

His findings could help researchers devise ways to repair or replace damaged tissues by directing cells into specific differentiation paths.

In healthy tissues, inflammation serves a number of critical functions — fighting infections, wound healing, repair of damaged tissue and cells.

Regenerative medicine R&D efforts are focused largely on developing stem cell and tissue engineering therapies as a means to regenerate, replace or repair damaged tissues and organs.

Sarah Knox, PhD, an assistant professor of cell and tissue biology in the School of Dentistry, is working to improve patients» quality of life by repairing damaged salivary gland tissue with stem cells.

The model organism offers a way to better understand stem cell - driven regeneration processes, an important step in regenerative medicine and the promise of therapies to repair or replace damaged human tissue.

Avoiding the pluripotent state is important because it avoids the potential danger that «rogue» iPS cells could develop into a tumor if used to replace or repair damaged organs or tissue.

This approach to derive patient - specific Embryonic Stem cell - like cells (iPS cells) is going to open up research into the genetic causes of disease and the search for therapies not only for such diseases, but also for repairing tissues damaged in other ways.

The unique blend of stem and regenerative cells found in your adipose tissue have the capability to reduce inflammation and prevent continued cell death while repairing / replacing damaged tissue.

In cases of Parkinson's Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer's or other neurodegenerative disease, adult stem cells can slow the degenerative progression of your symptoms while restoring blood flow to the brain and repairing or replacing damaged tissue.

The cells can be intravenously injected, directly transplanted into the damaged tissue, or recruited from the patient's own tissues to induce self - repair.

Normal skeletal muscle mobilizes tissue - associated endogenous stem cells, mainly satellite cells, and also upstream peri - endothelial stem cells, to repair damaged myofibres.

Adult stem cells have the ability to repair and replace damaged tissue.

Madeleine Connor, 2, underwent an experimental procedure using her own cord blood stem cells to repair damaged tissue in her...

Regenerative medicine is dedicated to the study of repairing, replacing or regenerating damaged human cells, tissues or organs to restore or establish normal function; and it has potential applications to treat a wide variety of conditions.

Okyanos cardiac cell therapy targets the restoration of blood flow to the heart and repairs damaged heart tissue caused by heart attack or ischemic and non-ischemic heart disease.

The videos outline the forms of cell and tissue damage that are the root cause of aging and age - related disease, as well as the classes of therapy that could, once constructed, either repair that damage or bypass it entirely.

We are focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of cell based therapeutics that prevent, treat or cure disease by repairing and replacing damaged or aged tissue, cells and organs and restoring their normal function.

ASCs isolated from the stromal vascular fraction of fat have advantages over other mesenchymal stem cell sources; they are easy to isolate and expand and aid in the repair of damaged tissues [7], including islet graft survival and revascularization [8].

Your fat tissue contains the most abundant source of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in your body — a class of repair cells which have the ability to decrease inflammation, repair or replace damaged tissue while stimulating new blood vessel growth for improved blood flow.

Cardiac cell therapy helps restore blood flow and repair damaged heart tissue without the risk of rejection.

Although your adult stem cells have the capacity to repair or replace damaged tissue, the powerful cells which reside in your body fat (or adipose tissue) have a few other important functions which make them uniquely qualified for the job of treating chronic disease:

The unique blend of stem and regenerative cells found in your fat tissue has demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in halting destructive immune response, restoring function by providing cellular - level repair of damage, increasing blood flow and reducing inflammation.

They hope the stem cells will grow into new, healthy tissue and repair any damage.