Sentences with phrase «circulating in the blood»

Both groups had a 60 percent increase in the amount of insulin circulating in their blood, as well as an increase in heart disease risk factors, including a seven percent average increase in abdominal fat.

As I pointed out in my previous column about cholesterol, even the Harvard School of Public Health has concluded,»... the amount of cholesterol eaten has little impact on the amount of cholesterol circulating in the blood.»

Elevated levels of homocysteine circulated in our blood increases our risk for heart attack and stroke.

The heart - healthy Omega - 3 fat found in salmon is associated with a decreased risk of cardiovascular problems, such as heart attacks, strokes, heart arrhythmias, high blood pressure, and high triglycerides circulating in the blood.

GDM usually starts between week 24 and week 28 of pregnancy when the body does not produce enough insulin (the hormone that helps convert sugar into energy) to deal with the increased glucose, or sugar, that's circulating in your blood to help your baby grow.

Have your blood and urine testing equipment examined to check it is not affected by lactose, the milk sugar that circulates in the blood while you are pregnant and breastfeeding.

It circulates in the blood and finds its way to the animal's milk supply.

For example, calcium circulating in your blood from food you just ate is much more available than calcium in your bones.

When these cells break down after birth, they produce a yellow pigment called bilirubin, which circulates in the blood.

It is important to understand that breastfed babies may have low iron stores, by design, but the level of available iron actually circulating in their blood (hemoglobin level) is the measure that counts at this age.

In the human body, occasional cell death translates into degradation and release of their DNA, which then circulates in the blood, before being eliminated.

Such a vaccine would boost maternal antibody attack of HIV - 1 variants circulating in the blood, so that transmission risk is reduced when an infant is exposed to maternal blood during delivery.

«Recent data have shown that a variant of the androgen receptor called AR - V7, found in tumour cells circulating in the blood of patients with metastatic CRPC, predicted resistance to treatment with enzalutamide and abiraterone,» she will say.

When used to analyze residual DNA circulating in the blood, it has identified promising signatures for monitoring patients with cancer.

Leptin circulates in the blood and crosses into the brain, where it is sensed by leptin receptors expressed on neurons in the hypothalamus.

If the body continues to use fat reserves for energy, however, this produces so much acid that the blood's pH value plummets while the sugar molecules circulate in the blood unused.

They inserted one mutation, designed to extend the hormone's half - life in the blood stream, and fused the modified gene to an antibody fragment so that it would circulate in the blood stream longer.

Many people develop type 2 diabetes as they age, as their body's response to insulin — a hormone that controls how much sugar circulates in our blood — gets weaker.

This was first noticed in humans many years ago when cells containing the male «Y» chromosome were found circulating in the blood of women after pregnancy.

In this new study, scientists observed that microchimeric cells are not only found circulating in the blood, they are also embedded in the brain.

The best one of these also reduced the amount of virus circulating in the blood of Zika - infected mice.

Many people develop type 2 diabetes as they age, because their body's response to insulin — a hormone that controls how much sugar circulates in our blood — gets weaker.

Some of the parasites circulating in the blood develop into sexually reproductive stages, which can infect other mosquitoes.

The study team wanted to understand the particular traits of the tumor cells circulating in the blood and in the sites where the cancer has spread.

They can also infect gums and even end up circulating in the blood where they cause other problems.

Redinbo and his team now characterize various forms of Beta - glucuronidase produced by different strains of bacteria residing in the gut, and they show that inhibiting GI bacterial Beta - glucuronidases in mice does not affect irinotecan that is circulating in the blood and is needed to combat cancer.

Patients with severe symptoms have more immune molecules circulating in their blood than healthy people

Metastatic cancer cells have the ability to break free from tissue, circulate in the blood stream, and form tumors all over the body, in a way acting like blood cells.

In an initial clinical trial involving a handful of people with HIV, levels of the virus circulating in the blood decreased — becoming undetectable in one person.

Monocytes multiply and mature in the bone marrow and circulate in the blood stream.

«I thought, «why would capillaries contract, when conventionally arteries are the main contractile vessels, and why should dietary amino acids circulating in the blood cause these contractions?»»

T lymphocytes, immune cells which circulate in the blood, must migrate across the walls of blood vessels in order to reach inflamed tissue.

A more abundant and less invasive source of tumor DNA may be cell free tumor DNA found circulating in the blood.

Modeled after platelets — cells that circulate in the blood and help stop bleeding by forming clots — the nanoparticles are less than 100 nm wide and made of synthetic polymers stuck together like a ball of wet sand.

Adds Liu: «With metastatic cancers accounting for around 90 % of deaths from solid tumors, the hope is that one day a device that can enable the analysis of single tumor cells circulating in the blood could make a big difference in early diagnosis, detection and monitoring of numerous types of cancer, without invasive biopsies.»

Liu's «lab on a chip» is notable for its ability to not only capture tumor cells circulating in the blood, but to «release» those cells as well.

Now, researchers have developed a device that can detect even a single cell of any type of cancer circulating in blood, allowing early treatment of metastasis and new insights into cancer genetics.

An additional advantage to the new subtyping is that it can be performed on tumor cells circulating in the blood.

The investigators found even larger reductions in the so - called progenitor cells circulating in the blood of a smaller number of laborers chosen for further study.

Kisspeptins circulating in the blood increase dramatically during normal human pregnancy, to several thousand times non-pregnancy levels, which makes them a novel predictive marker for assessing the risk of later complications.

As mice and humans age, levels of that protein circulating in the blood rise, Alzheimer researcher Tony Wyss - Coray at Stanford University and colleagues found.

The problem is that levels of prions circulating in blood plasma are extremely low, so any test would need to be exquisitely sensitive.

In humans, Newcomb and her colleagues measured the number of group 2 innate lymphoid cells circulating in the blood of adults with moderate to severe asthma.

They found that one - third of the women had antibodies to collagen — a protein found in bone, joints, skin and scar tissue — circulating in their blood.

Physicians try to keep the lowest level, the trough, from falling below 1 % of the amount a non-haemophiliac person has circulating in their blood, enough to prevent spontaneous bleeding.

Now, researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Chemistry & Biology have developed a new method that allows investigators to label and track single tumor cells circulating in the blood.

«New technology using fluorescent proteins tracks cancer cells circulating in blood.»

New research at Rockefeller University and Columbia University suggests these small molecules may be able to relay valuable information about damage to the heart: Scientists in Thomas Tuschl's Laboratory of RNA Molecular Biology have linked an increase in certain microRNAs circulating in the blood with injury to cardiac muscle.

It is not circulating in the blood stream, is «out there» in action.

Sequencing tiny bits of DNA circulating in the blood of patients with lymphoma can accurately identify the cancer subtype and pinpoint mutations that might cause drug resistance, according to researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.