Sentences with phrase «damage to your blood vessel lining»

However, nitric oxide production produces adverse reactions and toxic metabolites, which must be neutralized by your body so they don't result in oxidative damage to your blood vessel lining (by peroxynitrite oxidation and nitration reactions).

In some individuals susceptible to high blood sugar, sulforaphane may be able to prevent (or even reverse) some of the damage to blood vessel linings that can be caused by chronic blood sugar problems.

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Cells lining the blood vessels send chemical signals, called cytokines, to the tumour to help it resist DNA damage and to recover.

The force of that blood flow helps keep the cells that line the blood vessels, called endothelial cells, healthy; when blood flow is disrupted, such as during surgical procedures or a stroke, the vessels start to leak, which can cause a host of inflammatory responses that lead to cell damage and disease.

These factors, together with damage to the lining of the blood vessels, can lead to permanent changes in the immune cells.

This line of investigation could eventually lead to artificial blood vessels, grown with patients» own cells or «off the shelf,» or biological / pharmaceutical treatments that promote the regeneration of damaged blood vessels.

Many microwave popcorn brands are packed with trans fats, which have been commonly linked to hurting your heart by increasing inflammation and damaging blood vessel linings, but they wreak havoc on your brain, too, by harming brain function and memory.

• Kidney failure • Peripheral vascular disease, hardening and narrowing of the arteries (atherosclerosis) that supply blood to the arms, legs, and other parts of the body • Retinopathy, or damage to the tiny blood vessels that supply blood to the light - sensitive lining of the back of the eye • Stroke

Continuously high insulin damages the lining of the blood vessels, driving inflammation up to make repairs.

The endothelium lines the interior surface of all your blood and lymphatic vessels and is responsible to help with healthy blood clotting, inflammation, formation of new blood vessels, blood pressure regulation, repair of damaged organs and also working with your white blood cells.

Elevated blood sugar leads to glycation (basically, oxidation and caramelization of blood sugars), which leads to sticky sugar - protein and sugar - lipid complexes that damage the lining of the blood vessels and other organs leading to their dysfunction.

As an antioxidant, quercetin may help to protect cellular structures and to protect cholesterol and blood vessel linings from free radical damage.

This oxidation causes dangerous free radicals to form, which can cause significant damage in your cells and increase your risk of heart disease by damaging the inner lining of your blood vessels.

In that way, homocysteine is similar to cholesterol because prolonged, elevated levels of it gradually damage the inner linings of blood vessels, causing atherosclerotic plaque and narrowing of the arteries.

A chronic inflammatory process is when some sort of trigger (pollen, food particles, etc) initiates a strong inflammatory process that causes collateral damage to other tissues of the body such as the gut lining, blood vessels, the sinuses, the lungs, the joints, etc..

The lungs actually sustain the most damage from heartworms due to the irritation of the lining of the pulmonary blood vessels which will be discussed more in the following pages.

By their physical presence, they cause harm in two ways: they block the normal forward flow of blood, causing an excessive workload on the heart, and they also damage the inner lining of the blood vessels, which gives rise to blood clots that cut off circulation to parts of the lungs.