Sentences with phrase «damaged human tissue»

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.

Tissue engineers have tried for years to produce lab - grown vascularized human tissues robust enough to serve as replacements for damaged human tissue.

New polymers, ceramics, glasses and composites are among the many materials now enabling medical engineers to design innovative, and increasingly biocompatible, replacements for damaged human tissues

Not exact matches

Human milk also helps protect immature tissue and promotes healing of infection - damaged tissue, according to the milk bank.

Findings of the research, published April 22 in the journal Mucosal Immunology, reveal that a substance found in animal and human breast milk called epidermal growth factor, or EGF, blocks the activation of a protein responsible for unlocking the damaging immune cascade that culminates in NEC, a disease marked by the swift and irreversible death of intestinal tissue that remains one of the most - challenging - to - treat conditions.

The effect also happened too quickly to be due to dry air damaging nasal tissue so that it is not as effective a barrier to viruses, which has been suggested as a factor in humans.

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

«It is our hope that Dr. Yin's research will lead to additional potential therapeutic agents like ZF143 to reactivate mechanisms for the repair and regeneration of damaged heart muscle tissue in humans.»

When soft supporting human tissues — including cartilage and ligaments, which are joined firmly to bones — are damaged, they can not spontaneously repair inside the body.

But applying this method to humans would require multifunctional implants that could be installed for long periods of time on the spinal cord without causing any tissue damage.

In autoimmune diseases, so - called autoantibodies instead recognize normal components of the human body and contribute to tissue damage.

There is a lot of work still to do, and many potential pitfalls before it could be applied to human patients, but in principle almost any illness caused by damaged or ageing tissue — heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer's and dozens of others — could be fixed this way.

The gradual shrinking of telomeres negatively affects the replicative capacity of human adult stem cells, the cells that restore damaged tissues and / or replenish aging organs in our bodies.

The result — the second such finding in the past year — suggests that similar cells from human testicles might have similar powers, paving the way to creating replacement tissue for men who have suffered damage from heart attacks or other injuries and avoiding some of the controversy surrounding embryonic stem cells (ESC).

Because they are interested in human heart failure, Lavine and his colleagues developed a method to progressively damage mouse cardiac tissue in a way that mimicked heart failure.

When transplanted to an animal model of corneal blindness, these tissues are shown to repair the front of the eye and restore vision, which scientists say could pave the way for human clinical trials of anterior eye transplantation to restore lost or damaged vision.

Adult organisms ranging from fruit flies to humans harbor adult stem cells, some of which renew themselves through cell division while others differentiate into the specialized cells needed to replace worn - out or damaged organs and tissues.

MDI Biological Laboratory Associate Professor James A. Coffman, Ph.D., is studying the regenerative capacity of sea urchins in hopes that a deeper understanding of the process of regeneration, which governs the regeneration of aging tissues as well as lost or damaged body parts, will lead to a deeper understanding of the aging process in humans, with whom sea urchins share a close genetic relationship.

The ability of scientists to convert human skin cells into other cell types, such as neurons, has the potential to enhance understanding of disease and lead to finding new ways to heal damaged tissues and organs, a field called regenerative medicine.

While he initially appeared to be a dark horse for recovery, Northstar persevered through weeks of daily cleansing and removal of dead and infected tissue followed by the application of antiseptics, honey, aloe and silver sulfadiazine cream, a common human burn treatment, to his damaged tissue.

ReNeuron developed cells for brain damage by splicing their modified c - myc into human fetal brain tissue obtained from a U.S. cell bank.

It is the human body's response to harmful stimuli, such as pathogens or damaged tissues, but an overactive response, too much inflammation, is detrimental and leads to disease.

Previous clinical and animal research showed that mice receive less tissue damage under ischemic condition than humans, but the cause of the difference was not clear.

iPS cells enable to enlarge applications for modeling numerous human pathologies, reproducing the dysfunction processes of damaged tissue, and developing targeted medicine.

Because humans have a limited capacity for heart tissue regeneration, damaged heart muscle is normally replaced with a nonfunctional scar.

Graber will work in the institution's Kathryn W. Davis Center for Regenerative Biology and Medicine, where scientists are working to identify the molecular pathways responsible for regeneration in organisms that have retained the ability to regenerate lost and damaged tissues and organs, then screening for drugs with the potential to reawaken these dormant regeneration pathways in humans.

Cambridge, Mass. - September 5, 2012 - A team of experts in mechanics, materials science, and tissue engineering at Harvard have created an extremely stretchy and tough gel that may pave the way to replacing damaged cartilage in human joints.

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.

«By learning how organisms such as the zebrafish can regenerate damaged tissues and applying these lessons to humans, scientists at MDIBL are increasing our understanding of how we might one day slow and potentially reverse the degenerative effects of aging.

These penetrate tissue and heat up when excited by radio - frequency waves; and they have been shown to thaw arteries and heart valve tissue from pigs, as well as human skin cells, rapidly and evenly, without the typical damage.

How can we manipulate these circuits in humans to trigger regeneration of lost or damaged tissues and organs?

By studying them, we are beginning to gain insight into human disease — to understand why organs such as the heart can not repair themselves or why, as we age, the incidence of debilitating diseases such as cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer's increases so rapidly, and we are developing new therapies that will enhance our abilities to regenerate damaged tissues and prolong healthy lifespan.

The adult human heart is only half muscle; the other half is made of support cells called fibroblasts that help repair wounds and form scars around damaged tissue.

But now, scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have demonstrated that this damage need not be permanent — by finding a way to transform the class of cells that form human scar tissue into those that closely resemble beating heart cells.

Embryonic stem cells — «pluripotent» cells that can develop into any type of cell in the human body — hold tremendous promise for regenerative medicine, in which damaged organs and tissues can be replaced or repaired.

Along with their mentor, CSNE student Apoorva Sharma, they designed and tested a calorimeter apparatus to validate simulated human - implant specific absorption rate of a saline tissue proxy in order to determine if tissue damage occurs from the heat generated from a wireless implant.

By itself, inflammation is a very important part of the immune response in the human organism, playing a crucial part in the body's attempt to heal and defend itself after an injury and repair the damaged tissue.

It has a very hard shell, is high in silica and is very sharp, though it is so fine that it doesn't do damage to human tissue or skin.

Rats fed protein - deficient diets have decreased DBP concentrations and a decreased ability to regulate calcium metabolism.38 Humans with acute liver failure also have depressed levels of DBP.39 This may be because the synthesis of DBP in the liver declines during such a condition, but DBP also plays a secondary role in scavenging harmful cellular debris from the blood; therefore, any kind of acute tissue damage can overwhelm our supply of DBP.

GSH is unique in that it plays a crucial role in protecting us from a wide variety of substances that can do significant damage to our tissues Those suffering from many chronic diseases such as AIDS, advanced diabetes, and cancer have very low levels, hence the obvious importance in human health and why researchers continue to study it.

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For instance, some are linked to sperm damage and are found concentrated in human fat tissue and in breast milk.

While you are experiencing Slow Wave Sleep (SWS) or deep sleep, your system generates human growth hormone (see: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0024320569900344), which helps repair damaged tissue.

As we age, rogue cells, both human and foreign, can proliferate throughout the body unchecked and this damaged tissue can contribute to progressive disease.

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

However, when the tissue is too damaged, a replacement valve may be used from another human heart, an animal or a manufactured mechanical valve.»

Owners are welcome to accompany their pets during the treatment session, but all humans in the room, and the patient wear special protective eye glasses as the laser can damage eye tissue.

As in human medicine, multiple treatments are required to kill the cancer cells while minimizing damage to surrounding normal tissues.

AAHA, AVMA, AAFP, the Companion Animal Parasite Council (CAPC) and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) strongly recommend parasite control for companion animals for many reasons, including prevention of visceral larva migrans, a condition in which parasites within a human «release larvae that migrate anywhere in the body... Organs commonly affected are the eye, brain, liver and lung, where infections can cause permanent visual, neurologic, or other tissue damage.

Blueberries - Similar to their benefits in humans, blueberries can help prevent cell and tissue damage because of their antioxidant properties.