Sentences with phrase «dead tissue when»

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Because heart cells lose their ability to divide soon after we are born, when the cells die — in a heart attack, say — the dead tissue is replaced by scar tissue rather than new muscle.

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.

Without Rac1, dead cells and milk flooded the breast when lactation had finished, triggering inflammation and impairing tissue regeneration (Developmental Cell, doi.org/bq8q).

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.

Dermatophytes feed on the dead skin cells that accumulate on the surface of the skin so the infections usually are superficial, stopping when they reach healthy skin cells or inflamed tissue.

My sister is an aesthetician, and when she saw it the next day, she freaked out and told me it was dead tissue.

These can occur when a ledge of dead corneal tissue surrounds the ulcer.

The tissue, if dead, appears dark purple or black and oozes bluish blood when incised.

When a dog is combed, dog's may shed dandruff and dead tissue.

When medications are ineffective, surgery to scrape the lesion free of debris and dead tissue, cryosurgery or radiation therapy is sometimes required.