Sentences with phrase «damage living tissue»

Anticipating a proliferation of nanoproducts, researchers hope to get a leg up on the potential dangers of the tiny particles spreading into the environment, where their minute size might let them enter and damage living tissue.

Not exact matches

The damage to hard and soft tissues resulting from undetected, unreported and often untreated overuse injuries can be permanent and lead to problems later in life, such as arthritis.

The bill notes one organ donor can help save the lives of up to eight people on the donation waiting list and can improve the lives of up to 50 people by restoring eyesight, treating burn patients and helping patients avoid disabilities by replacing malfunctioning, diseased or damaged organs and tissue.

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.

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.

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

In the United States, about 720,000 residents experience a heart attack annually, which means that hundreds of thousands of heart patients are living with the disabling complications of heart disease who could benefit from therapies to repair and regenerate damaged heart tissue.

Every minute, someone comes into a hospital emergency department in the United States with sepsis, a life - threatening over-response to infection that damages tissues and organs.

Konradt used Penn Vet's multi-photon microscope, which allows them to peer deep into living tissues without damaging them, to try to witness the parasite's invasion in action.

While we live and breathe our bodies have repair systems for mending damaged tissues, but they do suffer wear and tear, mainly through friction.

In self - renewing tissues, such as the skin, chromatin modification is also involved in regulating the replacement of old or damaged cells in later stages in life.

Their living tissues can be damaged.

And a variety of studies with animal models has shown that nanoparticles can trigger damage in living tissues (Science, 18 June 2004, p. 1732).

Johns Hopkins University biologists have found that a protein that plays a key role in the lives of stem cells can bolster the growth of damaged muscle tissue, a step that could potentially contribute to treatments for muscle degeneration caused by old age and diseases such as muscular dystrophy.

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 point is subtle, however: if aging is damage, there are many ways to generate cell and tissue damage in a living organism that have no particular relevance to aging, even though they also result in disability and death.

The exponential growth of the symbiont may be the cause of the life - shortening, either by direct tissue damage or by constituting a significant metabolic burden compromising the insect's health.

This causes tissue damage and inflammation which can in turn result in life threatening conditions, such as organ failure.

The new technique gave unprecedented three - dimensional image sharpness, avoiding damage to living cells and allowing substances such as neurotransmitters and calcium ions administered in an inactive form to be instantaneously activated in a tiny volume of tissue.

Lastly, our group is focused on developing approaches to extend the ability to use blood - derived stem cells to regenerate damaged tissues, correct the immune system, and save children and adolescents from life threatening childhood diseases.

Adult stem cells serve as a reservoir of cells for repair of damaged tissue throughout the life of an individual, but the maintenance and regeneration of tissues, such as skin, liver, blood and muscle, dramatically decrease with age.

Therapy using live cells is increasingly used to replace damaged tissue, deliver gene therapies to target tissues and organs, and stimulate self - healing along with a number of other applications.

Utilizing the powerful stem and regenerative cells which already exist in your body fat, stem cell therapy for rheumatoid arthritis addresses the pain and inflammation associated with RA while encouraging the repair of damaged joints and tissue, to help you get back to a more normal life.

The central nervous system damage seen with prenatal ZIKV infection is likely due to direct cellular injury, as ZIKV RNA15, 17,32 and live virus15 have been identified in the brain tissue of infants with microcephaly.

So polluted air damages our respiratory tissues and also makes the environment in which we live more likely to induce allergy.

You're damaging your pancreas and many other tissues by living with elevated insulin and blood sugar levels.

It prevents nutrient absorption, damages healthy tissue and can severely compromise your quality of life.

Even though free radicals are generated every second of every day just by living, tissues also possess the ability to repair free radical damage using antioxidants found in whole food.

When consumed by humans, these molecules help to protect brain function and tissue from the aging process, repair DNA damage and increase life span.

Titanium dioxide, one of the most popular sunscreen compounds, is a «potential occupational carcinogen» according to the government, and octyl methoxycinnamate (OMC), found in 90 % of conventional sunscreens, has been shown to cause damage to living tissue if it penetrates too deeply.

If used improperly, all of these actions can cause severe, permanent, and sometimes life threatening damage to the dog's throat, stomach, and intestine tissues.

«We could develop new endoscopes that are soft and able to grow inside living human tissues without damage.

All mammals have thyroid systems, and these are physiologically essential for growth, development, reproduction, stress response, tissue repair, metabolism and thermoregulation (an animal's ability to keep its body temperature within limits): disruption at any stage of life can be damaging, but thyroid regulation is vital in the earlier stages of life.

Whiplash is a type of soft tissue damage that can cause neck and back difficulties later on in life, and is exceptionally painful, impacting all of your life.

Many car accidents result in life - changing soft - tissue injuries — injuries that do not involve broken bones, brain injury or damage to body parts that some people normally associate with catastrophic accidents.