Sentences with phrase «fibrous tissue]»

But understanding the effect of a liquid wetting randomly oriented fibres in a fibrous medium remains a mystery.

On the streets of the cancer villages and in the lungs of the meso ¬ thelioma patients, Baris, Pooley and their collaborators found microscopic bits of erionite, which has fibrous qualities like those of asbestos.

Some scientists have suspected that the most common form of ovarian cancer may originate in the fallopian tubes, the thin fibrous tunnels that connect the ovaries to the uterus.

Chemical engineer Rajai Atalla of the University of Wisconsin is attacking another fibrous plant component, cellulose.

From 600 logs of sago palm per day, an estimated 15.6 tons of woody bark, 237.6 tons of waste water and 7.1 tons of starch fibrous sago pith residue are generated.

But at some point during whale history, the ancestors of modern mysticetes replaced teeth with baleen, fibrous plates that filter out small bits of food from seawater like a giant sieve.

Naturally occurring asbestos is a term used to describe fibrous minerals that were not used commercially and therefore were not called asbestos and their use was and still is not regulated.

The 1 - 3 millimeter granuloma also contains fibrous and necrotic tissue as well as a number of other types of immune cells, making it an extremely complex structure.

MR develops when the small fibrous cords that open and close the valve's flaps, known as leaflets, are broken or stretched, preventing them from closing tightly and causing the leaflets to bulge or prolapse upward toward the left atrium.

The authors acknowledge that women and children can be exposed to fibrous minerals as a result of their husband's or father's occupational exposure when bringing these fibers home on their clothes.

Michele Carbone, senior author on the study, states «further research is needed, including epidemiological, geological, mineralogical and health - based personal exposure studies in order to characterize the residential and occupational history of the malignant mesothelioma cases we studied, to highlight the highest risk areas within Clark and Nye counties, to identify the type of fibrous minerals and their precise distribution throughout Nevada, and to identify the activities responsible for the release of fibers in the air, which may be the cause of some of the malignant mesothelioma in this region.»

The resulting biomass resembles a sort of fibrous dough that's high in protein but also high in fiber.

Bloodstains on the bones at the Smeerenburg excavations show that the group that perished suffered bleeding in the joints, and between the bones and the fibrous membrane covering them.

The fibrous snack could help literally sweep the intestinal intruder out of the simians» gastrointestinal tracts, but Ghai suspects a more convincing reason.

A 10 mm by 10 mm grid structure — made from gelatin, alginate and fibrin — recreates the fibrous proteins that make up the extracellular matrix of a tumour.

In NASH, the liver becomes inflamed and criss - crossed by fibrous scar tissue, and liver cells start dying.

If even trace amounts of pathogenic protein are present, they rapidly use the normal proteins to create millions of insoluble, fibrous amyloid strands.

Emma Young dates the oldest known tumour in the human ancestral line — a fibrous dysplastic neoplasm in a Neanderthal...

The three - dimensional tumour model consists of a scaffold of fibrous proteins coated in cervical cancer cells.

Bamboo is tough and fibrous and panda digestive systems are not well - designed to break down this material, though it is the primary source of nutrition in their diet.

Presented in the IOP Publishing journal Biofabrication, the realistic 3D model consists of a scaffold of fibrous proteins coated in cervical cancer cells.

«This discovery means that the fibrous structures found in limpet teeth could be mimicked and used in high - performance engineering applications such as Formula 1 racing cars, the hulls of boats and aircraft structures.

Commercial tomatoes have been bred to grow thick, fibrous skins so that they can survive being packed and transported long distances.

At an even larger scale, the authors show, the awns themselves create a fibrous screen that helps absorb rainfall.

CMA is also photolabile and can be crosslinked in its fibrous form by exposure to UV - initiated free radicals.

For years, Douglas Fudge studied their fibrous slime, which they make in enormous quantities when stressed.

The material, KOD, mimics natural collagen, a fibrous protein that binds cells together into organs and tissues.

«In particular, how does ECM, as a fibrous material, differ from solids, gels and other materials that are better studied.»

The excess scar tissue that forms as a result of this type of hair loss may also explain the higher risk for uterine fibroids, which are characterized by fibrous growths in the lining of the womb.

Women with this type of scarring alopecia should be screened not only for fibroids, but also for other disorders associated with excess fibrous tissue, Aguh says.

Materials with linear elasticity can not transmit force over the distances observed, but the team's simulations showed that nonlinear elasticity could arise from the ECM's fibrous structure.

The cortical cells are fibrous and contain pigment granules of varying darkness that give hair strands their natural color.

The dogma has been that the more smooth muscle cells in that wall — particularly in the innermost layer referred to as the «fibrous cap» — the more stable the plaque is and the less danger it poses.

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.

Interdisciplinary research at the University of Pennsylvania is showing how cells interact over long distances within fibrous tissue, like that associated with many diseases of the liver, lungs and other organs.

Bark - based tannins are already being used to bind not only wood products but also other fibrous materials.

The ECM is the natural fibrous scaffold that provides structural and biochemical support to the surrounding cells.

Different muscle textures give characteristic ultrasound reflections, and the amount of fibrous protein detected is inversely proportional to the tenderness of the meat.

Werner, according to an account, «noted they had cataracts, premature graying and loss of hair, as well as skin changes he referred to as scleroderma [excess fibrous tissue].»

The gut's blood supply appeared perfect, there were no adhesions or similar fibrous bands that might have pinched off the involved segment, and the bowel wall seemed free of inherent pathology — nevertheless, it was near death.

The fibrous fluff has a wider range of uses.

They showed that the fibrous peptide scaffold regulates the height and architecture of the molecular tower.

Several factors have been implicated in Alzheimer's, including the build - up of an abnormal protein called beta amyloid, fibrous tangles in the brain involving abnormal forms of a protein called tau, and — most recently — an association between the disease and a gene called ApoE.

Kemp and Payne realized that if they could anchor the reporter protein to microtubules — fibrous structures that crisscross cells like railroad tracks — they might obtain the location information they needed.

A sprain involves the overstretching or tearing of the ligaments, which are the fibrous connective tissues that connect bones to each other and stabilize them.

tenuis moved independently around the sea floor like today's enteropneusts, it was capable of constructing a fibrous tube around its soft body, like the stationary pterobranchs, the researchers report online today in Nature.

Dr Kos, a clinician and specialist in adipose tissue physiology and obesity - related disorders, studied the abdominal fat tissue of obese people which had become fibrous or «scarred» in order to identify what regulates this scarring and to look at how to reverse it.

In his doctoral research, Jani Holopainen of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Helsinki has developed processes for fibrous and thin - film biomaterials that can be used as scaffolding for bone regeneration and in other bone impants.

To protect the internal seed, the coconut has a complex structure of three layers: the outer brown, leathery exocarp, a fibrous mesocarp and a tough inner endocarp surrounding the pulp which contains the developing seedling.

It emerges from a mass of fibrous tissue known as mycelium, which penetrates whatever material the mushroom is growing on.