Sentences with phrase «destroys lung tissue»

As smoke fills a smoker's lungs it slowly destroys lung tissue — so slowly that it is barely noticeable.

She showed that patients with emphysema had deterioration of elastin, which destroyed their lung tissue.

This is due to water retentions in the lung tissues (oedemas) and to a massive inflammatory response that, at the end, destroys lung tissues and hinders gas exchange.

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Now, a team of scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum München (HMGU) and the Ludwig - Maximilians - Universität (LMU) in Munich have developed a nanoparticle aimed at destroying cancerous tissue in the lungs.

This is associated with a relative reduction in cytotoxic T - cell activity and a reduced capacity to destroy infected host cells and clear the virus from infected lung tissue.

I hope to reawaken cells in order to rebuild tissue as well as destroy pathogens that I believe continue the destruction of tissue in the lungs long after a smoker has stopped.

But there is strong evidence that these cells are not being destroyed, they simply are moving out of the bloodstream and into tissues that have been stressed by the recent exercise, and more prone to infection, such as the lungs.