Sentences with phrase «elsewhere in my body»

Vitamin D actually acts as a hormone, enabling calcium in its job of building and «remodeling» bones, as well as performing vital functions elsewhere in the body.

Because this imprinting affects hundreds of genes that are non-coding, including microRNAs and non-coding RNAs, it's a very interesting fine - tuning mechanism for the dosage of gene expression in the brain and elsewhere in the body.»

Thus the four proteins considered together not only can indicate concussions in people for whom a brain injury is the only suspected problem, but also they can distinguish the possibility of a concussion from that of an injury elsewhere in the body.

Cancer cells can break away from a primary tumor, penetrate into lymphatic and blood vessels, circulate through the bloodstream, and grow in a distant focus (metastasize) in normal tissues elsewhere in the body.

Unlike nerves elsewhere in the body, the structure of the living corneal nerve can be seen and measured using a technique called confocal microscopy.

Imagine if there were a major highway into the brain that could be safely accessed from elsewhere in the body.

For 20 patients, they also had access to metastases elsewhere in the body.

At Stanford, a team led by neurobiologist Ben Barres discovered that synapses in the developing brain produce two other immune proteins, C1q and C3, associated elsewhere in the body with complement proteins, which work in concert with antibodies to destroy invading microbes.

The genetic changes in brain metastases are independent of any occurring at the same time in the primary tumour, and in metastases elsewhere in the body, the researchers said.

Most of the mutations that drive recurrent tumors when they pop up elsewhere in the body were present in the original tumor, geneticist Elaine Mardis reported May 9 at the Biology of Genomes meeting.

The researchers followed up on one candidate, CRMP1, because of its expression in brain and not elsewhere in the body.

The cells that make up the walls of blood capillaries are joined together more tightly in the brain than elsewhere in the body, preventing proteins and cells getting into the brain.

Normally, transthyretin ferries hormones through the blood, but the extra protein builds up in the nerves, the heart, and elsewhere in the body.

The gels were able to release naproxen at pH 8 — the value found in the intestine, but not at lower pH values found elsewhere in the body.

But the drug stayed bound to the diamond until it reached the tumor, so it didn't damage cells elsewhere in the body, and the animals survived.

Other frequently occurring problems are airway complications, transplant failure, and other serious medical conditions — often elsewhere in the body besides the lungs — resulting from the transplantation.

Endometriosis is caused by uterus lining (endometrium) cells moving elsewhere in the body where they can compress nerves and bleed in time with a woman's menstrual cycle.

Batimastat does not work this way: instead, it is designed to keep cancers in check by preventing malignant cells breaking away and forming secondary tumours elsewhere in the body.

Crystal Aguh, M.D., assistant professor of dermatology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, says the scarring associated with CCCA is similar to the scarring associated with excess fibrous tissue elsewhere in the body, a situation that may explain why women with this type of hair loss are at a higher risk for fibroids.

Gene therapy could target the production of IL - 6 in bone marrow without suppressing its useful effects elsewhere in the body.

Endometriosis is caused by uterus cells moving elsewhere in the body and bleeding in time with a woman's menstrual cycle.

«We've demonstrated definitively that, once the cells are differentiated, the immune response to iPS - derived cells is indistinguishable from its response to unmodified tissue derived from elsewhere in the body,» said Kooreman.

The team's next avenue of research will be focused on identifying a «biomarker» that can identify this distinct suppressive cell elsewhere in the body — for example, in blood or other samples — as a potential predictive clinical tool to determine when these cells are present in patients, which currently can not be done.

And finally, a puzzler: The reason that the viruses cause mayhem on hands, feet and mouth — and not elsewhere in the body — remains a mystery, at least to me and the virologists and pediatricians I asked.

Prodrugs specific to those other organs — such as bones — would have to be developed to boost estrogen elsewhere in the body, she says.

Future studies should explore whether stem cells elsewhere in the body undergo a similar premature maturation, he says.

And indeed, when the researchers gave rats doses of DHED, estrogen levels in their brains increased, whereas levels elsewhere in the body remained stable.

Instead, Werren likened the functionality of these single - copy genes to «moonlighting» for extra cash, with the genes taking on a «night job» in the venom gland in addition to their «day job» elsewhere in the body.

For patients with cervical cancer that has recurred after treatment or has spread elsewhere in the body, adding the experimental drug cediranib to standard chemotherapy improves tumour shrinkage and adds a modest improvement in progression - free survival, researchers report at the ESMO 2014 Congress in Madrid.

More disturbing, she found that one - third of the bodies had a two - faceted joint in one foot but a three - faceted joint in the other, or vice versa, violating left - right symmetry found elsewhere in the body.

Metastasis is the process in which cells from a primary tumor break - off, enter the blood stream and create new tumors elsewhere in the body.

Unlike ER - positive cancers that respond well to treatment, those that are drug - resistant spread elsewhere in the body even with aggressive therapy.

Many cancers only become a mortal danger if they form metastases elsewhere in the body.

Though an SCN is present in mutant mice, it communicates poorly with clocks elsewhere in the body.

Only eight glowing green cells appeared elsewhere in the body — one in the brain and seven in the liver — out of 15 million examined.

Taking a slightly different tack, Ellena Peterson of the University of California, Irvine, and her colleagues decided to look for signs of infection elsewhere in the body of MS patients.

Tweaking the DNA bots could also ensure they only target specific cells in the body, minimising harmful interactions elsewhere in the body.

Inflammation from pain and injury raises acidity, so this molecule could quash pain where necessary, but wouldn't bind to receptors elsewhere in the body, reducing the likelihood of side effects.

This reparative response is very similar to those that occur elsewhere in the body in response to injury — such as scar formation after a cut on the skin.

Although they could not grow a second brain elsewhere in the body, they succeeded in growing full neural tissue.

As in their previous studies of limbs and eyes, Levin and his colleagues tested the strength of their bioelectrical blueprint elsewhere in the body to see whether it would spur neuronal growth in locations far from the brain.

At the same time, the study raises questions using a woman's own fat from elsewhere in her body to reconstruct breasts after a mastectomy.

They showed that the iKnife could distinguish normal and tumor tissues from different organs, such as breast, liver, and brain, and could even identify the origin of a tumor that was a metastasis, a secondary growth seeded by a primary tumor elsewhere in the body.

«These dangerous proteins are co-opted from elsewhere in the body and [are] turned into weapons and diversified,» says Frank Burbrink, an evolutionary biologist at the City University of New York.

This ability to activate T - cells in one place and have them travel to disease sites elsewhere in the body could be a powerful tool for treating cancer.

The researchers, led by Maria Luisa S. Sequeira - Lopez, MD, of UVA's Child Health Research Center, were investigating how the kidney forms when they noted that the deletion of the S1P1 gene in research mice had deadly consequences elsewhere in the body.

Around 10 per cent of women have endometriosis, a poorly understood condition in which uterus cells turn up elsewhere in the body and bleed each month.

When patients have surgery, surgeons don't know if there are other, smaller lesions elsewhere in the body.

As well as affecting the lungs, asthma could cause inflammation elsewhere in the body, including the uterus.

«There is a big trend towards odour receptors being found elsewhere in the body doing other jobs,» says Joel Mainland of the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia.