Sentences with phrase «damaged lung tissue»

The prognosis for dogs with emphysema following surgical resection of damaged lung tissue is very good to excellent, provided that sufficient healthy lung tissue remains to carry out the essential functions of oxygen and carbon dioxide exchange.

Your own healing cells can target a slowed degenerative progression of COPD, restore blood flow, address system - wide inflammation and stimulate the repair and replacement of damaged lung tissue.

Available treatments ease symptoms, but there are no therapies that rejuvenate damaged lung tissue.

Induced pluripotent stem cells are a type of pluripotent stem cell that can be generated directly from adult cells; they have the ability to be differentiated into a variety of tissue types and, in this case, MSCs that can regenerate damaged lung tissue.

Such cells might one day be used to treat people with damaged lung tissue, but only if the cells can be made from a person's own tissue.

The antacid neutralizes your stomach acid so it won't damage your lung tissue if you vomit and accidently inhale that material.

Carbonaceous PM is made up of black carbon, primary organic aerosol (POA) and, especially, secondary organic aerosol (SOA), which is known to contain harmful reactive oxygen species and can damage lung tissue.

Last year two research teams reported preliminary evidence that carbon nanotubes can damage lung tissue in rats.

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the process of manufacturing glass not only contributes its share of greenhouse gas emissions but also generates nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide and tiny particulates that can damage lung tissue when breathed in.

When viral infections, pollution or other injuries damage lung tissue, AEC2 cells come to the rescue.

Now an international team of researchers led by the lung researcher Marianne Geiser from the Institute of Anatomy at the University of Bern and the aerosol researcher Josef Dommen from the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI has shown that secondary particles from gasoline combustion in Euro 5 engines directly damage lung tissue as well as weaken its defense functions.

Nitrogen oxides can create ozone, better known as smog, which can damage lung tissue.

Not exact matches

Emissions from e-cigarette aerosols and flavorings damage lung cells by creating harmful free radicals and inflammation in lung tissue, according to the UR study published in the journal PLOS ONE.

In lung tissue, damage repair means a buildup of scar tissue, which compromises the lung.

«It seems that TB tricks the immune system into damaging our own lung tissue, which therefore makes the person highly infectious through coughing and the TB then spreads by aerosol droplets to other individuals.

The treated animals also had lower amounts of virus and less severe tissue damage in the lungs.

But, he notes, «with all infections, part of the concern is that the inflammatory response can become too exuberant, which leads to tissue damage, as in septic shock,» and lung failure.

They will then use HySP to create what amounts to a fluorescent map and compare it with that of healthy lung tissue to see if they can discern the damage.

Their targets include lung infections, cancer, and even approaches for regenerating damaged tissue.

But the other report, published by the Ministry of Defence in March, did acknowledge that troops could have inhaled DU dust in the Gulf and that this «could theoretically lead to damage to lung tissue and subsequently to a raised probability of lung cancer some years later».

By injecting short nucleic acids into rats, researchers have blocked an enzyme linked to swelling and tissue damage in the lungs.

If large numbers of white blood cells get into the lungs or kidneys, or into transplanted organs, they can cause damage to healthy tissue.

Harvard Stem Cell Institute scientists at Brigham and Women's Hospital have found the cellular origin of the tissue scarring caused by organ damage associated with diabetes, lung disease, high blood pressure, kidney disease, and other conditions.

Lab studies, animal studies, and observations of evacuated patients treated in Europe and the USA have suggested that Ebola might cause lung damage by replicating itself in lung tissue.

One of the most serious classifications of this disease is known as diffuse scleroderma wherein the «sclerosis» (hardening of the tissue) occurs in the internal systems of the body, causing damage and widespread scarring to the skin as well as to various internal organs such as the lungs, kidneys, heart and gastrointestinal organs.

pneumonia A lung disease in which infection by a virus or bacterium causes inflammation and tissue damage.

While interferon alpha effectively reduced the number of viral particles in this investigation, it also activated a strong inflammatory response, contributing towards tissue damage in the lungs.

Although your lungs possess their own population of healing adult stem cells, there are simply not enough cells present to keep up with the degree of ongoing lung tissue damage which occurs in COPD.

This novel approach utilizes adult stem and regenerative cells from your body fat which aim to repair the damaged tissue in your lungs while reducing inflammation and restoring the flow of oxygen - rich blood to these vital organs.

This inflammation damages blood vessels, the heart, lung and joint tissues, skin and the digestive tract.

«Even without nicotine, inhaled products that contain flavorings can be damaging to the lung tissue and would not be considered safe for adolescents or adults,» she said.

And that's not all: Moringa leaves also have antioxidant activity that may protect the liver, kidneys, heart, and lungs tissues from damage, according to a 2015 review in Phytotherapy Research.

Depending on what chemo drug is used, different damages can be done to the blood systems including: cardiac toxicity, damage to blood - cell forming tissues, and lung damage.

The researchers speculated that Tylenol, called paracetamol in the UK, may reduce a potent antioxidant called glutathione in the lungs and blood, which results in damage to the lung tissue.

It helps to protect the lung tissue from damage.

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..

These omega - 3 fatty acids help reduce inflammation in the lungs and lessen tissue damage after an asthma attack.

Damaged pulmonary (lung) tissue loses normal functional capacity, leading to hypoxia (oxygen deprivation).

This damage often comes in the form of inflammation of the lung tissue, known as pneumonitis.

[1] The parasite is commonly called «heartworm»; however, adults often reside in the pulmonary arterial system (lung arteries), as well as the heart, and a major effect on the health for the animal is a manifestation of damage to the lung vessels and tissues.

Bacteria enter the blood stream through inflamed and damaged oral tissues and travel throughout the body where they can damage the kidneys, liver, heart, and lungs.2, 3

If the heartbeat remains high for a long period of time, your dog could suffer from heart tissue damage and heart failure due to liquid build - up in the lungs.

Untreated, heartworms damage the tissues and blood vessels of the lungs and eventually lead to death from congestive heart failure.

Additionally, the presence of the heartworms irritates the body and the lungs, causing inflammation and damage to the tissues.

Avocado flesh contains a toxic element called persin which can cause damage to tissues in the heart and lungs in many animals.

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.

Graphite particles foul the air and water; they also damage crops and human lung tissue.