Sentences with phrase «endothelial cell injury»

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So Daniel Anderson at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology exposed human bone marrow stem cells to biodegradable nanoparticles carrying the human gene for vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which attracts blood vessels to injury sites.

Working in Morrison's Neurotrauma and Repair Laboratory at Columbia Engineering, the team developed a blast injury model using a shock tube and custom - designed sample receiver to simulate a primary blast event and applied it to an isolated, living model of the BBB that consisted of brain endothelial cells.

«It appears that injury itself can induce fibroblasts to change into endothelial cells so the heart heals better.

Neutrophils recruit and activate Human Endothelial Colony Forming Cells at the site of vessel injury via PSGL - 1 and L - Selectin.

A vascular injury model using focal heat - induced activation of endothelial cells.

Endothelial cells line the inside of all blood vessels and regulate inflammation, blood clotting following injury and blood pressure levels.

Diabetes decreases the quantity and efficiency of EPCs (endothelial progenitor cells), whose function is to travel to injured areas and help with the formation of blood vessels and heal injuries quickly.

Let's recap for a minute the steps of the making of a heart attack, though I am sure you are aware of them: injury to the endothelial cell leads to inflammation, which leads to oxidized cholesterol deposits, to blood clots formation and finally to a heart attack or stroke.

In the absence of inflammation or injury to the endothelial cell, the cholesterol would never go through the arterial wall and it would never stay there.

It also helped protect against oxidative damage that leads to brain cell death, and reduced injury to brain endothelial cells in mice with high - fat diets.

In many animals, including dogs, corneal endothelial cells have a very limited capacity to regenerate following injury.

The reparative phase occurs within 3 to 14 days after injury and is characterized by the cellular response of fibroblasts and endothelial cells.