Sentences with phrase «endothelial layer»

The researchers found that the endothelial layer was partially restored at 14 days and completely restored at 28 days post-balloon angioplasty in the group treated with the herpes virus.

One undesirable, yet expected outcome of angioplasty and stent placement is the disruption of the artery's endothelial layer, which forms the inner lining of the artery.

Forty - eight hours after wounding, the endothelial layer of cells (from the periphery all the way to the central area) showed considerable fluorescence due to BrdU incorporation.

Among other effects, immune cells disrupt the function of the endothelial layer, the lining of the blood vessels, counteracting «all the good things that the endothelial cells produce,» says physiologist Brett Mitchell of Texas A&M College of Medicine in College Station.

Not exact matches

The blood - brain barrier is a layer of tightly packed endothelial cells and connective cells called astrocytes that strictly regulates the flow of chemicals in and out of the brain.

Epithelial cells form tissue layers that cover our skin and the inner surfaces of most of our internal organs, while endothelial cells line the adjacent blood - transporting vessels and capillaries that support their functions.

Finally, the team added a layer of the patient's own endothelial cells, which promote smooth blood flow, on the inside of the vessel.

In another test, the researchers looked to see if chemical signals released from the endothelial cells would cause the media layer to relax and constrict, as they do in the human body.

Regular sauna bathing improves endothelial function, i.e. the function of the inside layer of blood vessels, which has beneficial effects on systemic blood pressure.

This process, known as necroptosis, enabled cancer cells to overcome an endothelial cell layer in the laboratory.

To study this barrier and determine why a lack of blood flow causes it to leak, the researchers built a blood - vessel - on - a-chip model consisting of a channel lined with a layer of human endothelial cells surrounded by extracellular matrix within a microfluidic device, which allowed them to easily simulate and control the flow of blood through a vessel and evaluate the cells» responses.

Endothelial cells form the innermost layer of the blood vessels - the endothelium - and have the function of containing blood inside the vessels while allowing the passage of nutrients to tissues.

Additionally, ERCs were reported to be able to differentiate into, or become, cells from the three different germ layers (see the previous post on MSCs for more details): mesoderm (muscle, bone, fat, cartilage, and endothelial cells), ectoderm (neurons), and endoderm (liver, pancreas, and lung cells)(Meng et al., 2007; Patel et al., 2008).

These were mainly hemangiomas characterized by abundant capillaries lined by a single layer of well - differentiated endothelial cells.

The SPG cell layer, which is adjacent to the neurons of the brain, forms septate junctions, which function as a barrier to separate the humoral space and the brain, analogously to the mammalian tight junctions formed between endothelial cells.

The iPS cells are cultured on the opposite side of the membrane in the other channel that represents the glomerulus» urinary compartment, where they are induced to form a layer of mature podocytes that extend long cellular processes through the pores in the membrane and contact the underlying endothelial cells.

Moreover, ES cell differentiation in vitro recapitulates events that take place during early embryonic development including the formation of the three germ layers of ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm, and the emergence of endothelial, hematopoietic, cardiac, neuronal and hepatic or pancreatic cells [8], [9].

Movement across the CD169 + macrophage layer into the sinus is promoted by S1pr1 and lymphatic endothelial cell - derived S1P.