Sentences with phrase «dying tissue for»

Not exact matches

His death was a tissue of ironies: a man who had fought for monastic solitude for over 25 years died thousands of miles from his Kentucky hermitage; this passionate pacifist was flown back from Thailand in a military plane, from an airfield that was part of the network of military bases that prospered during the Vietnam years.

Right now, treatment for stroke is centered on the first few hours, when rapid intervention with drugs or surgery can prevent brain tissue from dying.

Using tissue samples from five wild Amur tigers that died or were destroyed due to neurological disease in 2001, 2004, or 2010, McAloose and her colleagues proved that infection with CDV, a type of morbillivirus, is to blame for the deaths of two of the tigers and caused a serious infection in a third.

To investigate that, scientists will need to examine the brain tissue of many people who have died of Alzheimer's, looking for different pathogens and whether the microbes are surrounded by amyloid plaques, he says.

A more attainable goal may be regenerative tissue transplants, for example, replacing dying liver cells in someone with early - stage liver disease with chunks of healthy stem cells from a personalized liver organoid.

For the new analysis, his team spent 5 years collecting brain tissue from 59 people who had died or had such tissue removed during surgery for epilepsy at different ages, ranging from before birth to 77 years of aFor the new analysis, his team spent 5 years collecting brain tissue from 59 people who had died or had such tissue removed during surgery for epilepsy at different ages, ranging from before birth to 77 years of afor epilepsy at different ages, ranging from before birth to 77 years of age.

HIV may have been associated with humans for hundreds of years rather than recently evolving from a chimpanzee virus, says a virologist from New Orleans after analysing tissue from a young male prostitute who died 30 years ago.

Living trees soak up greenhouse gas and store it for a long time in their woody tissues, but dying trees release it — a carbon sink becomes a carbon source.

«The BMA believes that preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) should be permitted to select embryos that are most likely to provide a suitable tissue match for an existing child in the family who is dying or seriously ill, so that stem cells from the umbilical cord could be used to treat that sibling.»

Of 69 rodent pairs, 11 did die of «parabiotic disease,» essentially a form of tissue rejection, but in the other pairs, the effects were noticeably positive — although only for the older mice.

And we aren't talking about starvation here, your body won't touch your muscle tissue for food until right before you die.

The question is whether the same low - protein diets that prevent the growth of pre-cancerous lesions once they are formed also increase the toxicity of aflatoxin and other harmful chemicals, decrease the capacity for tissue repair, increase the risk of dying from chemical overdose, and promote the formation of pre-cancerous lesions when these diets are fed to the rats of the same strain, sex, age, and protein requirements.

When you produce higher than normal levels of antibodies to certain parts of the body (it's normal for old and dying cells to be tagged for removal), this means you are having an autoimmune reaction against that tissue or enzyme.

He uses still shots of street life as the visual connective tissue between capturing meetings held by various minority groups: Columbians celebrating a World Cup victory and then taking their party to the pavement; a mature LGBT community circle discussing the venue for future meetings; a Halal butcher blessing chickens prior to slicing their throats and having their still - twiching bodies dragged through various grubby processing machines; a group of Hispanic activists gathering stories of small business being forced out of their premises due to unfair rent hikes; and even a group of Christian urban beautifiers who are seen descending into intense prayer when one of their number explains that her father is dying.

If a ferret suspected to have Ferret - FIP dies or is euthanized, a thorough necropsy should be performed and tissues should be collected for histopathology.

It is unknown why they get it, how they get it or how to treat it and it can not be tested for except through the brain tissue of dogs that have died from it.

If the blood supply is interrupted for more than a few hours, these tissues may become necrotic or «die» and irreparable damage or shock may result.

The majority of anti-fungal antibiotics for cats work to destroy the fungi's cell walls, which causes the parasite to die and the surrounding tissue to rejuvenate.