Sentences with phrase «consuming dead tissue»

In medicine, the fly's young offspring are sometimes used in «maggot therapy» to prevent infection of open wounds by selectively consuming dead tissue and secreting enzymes that kill bacteria.

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Here is the mystery: the body's immune cells usually remove dead and dying cells through a process called phagocytosis, yet the amount of material that is consumed is so great that you'd expect significant inflammation, pain and tissue damage — something that doesn't typically happen when breastfeeding ceases.

When they injected the soil bacterium Clostridium [ck] novyi into the bloodstream of mice with tumours, it spread throughout the necrotic region, consuming living tumour cells as well as dead tissue.