Sentences with phrase «for organ damage»

A reading of 180 is considered (by the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine) to indicate high risk for organ damage.

«If your dog is having trouble breathing and has a temperature of 105 ° F or higher, they are in distress and at risk for organ damage,» according to Dr. Audrey Wystrach.

Not exact matches

Researchers also are developing techniques for assembling living cells into working biodevices — which could mean a solution for damaged internal organs, such as livers, bladders, and kidneys.

And that is what the breastplate is for, to get the truth of God, not just strapped around us, not just so we can quote Scripture — but to get the truth of God inside us, to protect our vital organs from damage — to know it and live it.

And for those who run scared from raw milk, think of all who DIE from medications in the hospital, killed by drunk drivers, and have permanent organ damage from drugs that are marketed to «help» people... just to name a few.

«For 80 percent of the common chemicals in everyday use in this country we know almost nothing about whether or not they can damage the brains of children, the immune system, the reproductive system, and the other developing organs,» said Dr. Phil Landrigan, a pediatrician and director of the Children's Environmental Health Center at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

In severe cases, it can cause organ damage to you and problems for your baby, such as poor growth, less amniotic fluid, and placental abruption.

Beef is a good source of protein needed for the growth of tissues, cells, and organs in the body of the embryo and relevant for the healing and reparation of damaged tissues during childbirth.

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There are hopes in the medical community that stem cell research and therapeutic cloning will facilitate organ cloning and enable the replacement of damaged cells with healthy ones for sufferers of degenerative diseases.

There is no set programme for ageing — the process is driven by the build - up of faults and damage in the cells and organs of the body, which is malleable.»

Inflicting less collateral damage to surrounding organs and healthy tissues, it can minimize side effects and increase cure rates for some cancers — just what patients with small bodies like Jonathan need.

A new study suggests that in mice, cutting protein from the diet for a week can protect organs that might otherwise be damaged by injury or surgery.

Microglia are the brain's resident security guards, surveilling the organ for damage and then crawling to the injury site to engulf dead neurons.

«Single gene encourages growth of intestinal stem cells, supporting «niche» cells, and cancer: Finding in mice could lead to new therapies for damaged organs, cancer.»

«We found very high response rates to this treatment combination, which has the added benefit of having a much reduced risk of long - term organ damage compared to the highly toxic chemotherapy agents typically used for patients with relapsed Hodgkin lymphoma,» says Dr. Kelly, who is Program Director of the Pediatric Hematology / Oncology Service Line at the Women & Children's Hospital of Buffalo and holds an additional faculty appointment with the University at Buffalo.

Most MGUS cases are never diagnosed; MGUS is characterized by a detectable M protein without evidence for end - organ damage or other related plasma cell or lymphoproliferative disorders.

Scientists have found some serious loot in that bemoaned organ, including a vigorous population of flexible stem cells that can be coaxed into acting as new cartilage or tendons for damaged joints.

The new technique, described in next month's Nature Medicine, could someday be used to prevent organ rejection in people, as well as eliminate the need for lifelong immune - suppressing drugs that make most transplant recipients susceptible to infections, cancers, and nerve damage.

Without new vessels to bring them fresh nutrient - rich blood, however, they may lay dormant for years before suddenly sprouting into macro-metastases large enough to damage organs and cause death.

Humans might not want spare eyeballs on their backs, but the same technique could be useful for growing new organs to replace damaged ones, or for developing therapies to repair damaged nerve connections.

The orphan drug she received, Eculizumab, is a monoclonal antibody capable of blocking activation of the body's complement system, a group of proteins in the blood that are ultimately responsible for the damage to the transplanted organ.

The success could point the way to a new type of therapy aimed at repairing intestinal damage in humans, and potentially for repairing damage in other organs.

The new findings suggest that manipulation of NAD could lead to a future therapy for acute kidney injury and also raise the possibility that mitochondrial injury and deficiency in NAD might underlie other types of organ damage, including damage that can lead to stroke or heart attack.

By preventing significant damage and inflammation of the appendix during a bacterial attack, ILCs safeguard the organ and help it to perform an important function in the body, as a natural reservoir for «good» bacteria.

A team of researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Center for Engineering in Medicine (MGH - CEM) have created a «liver on a chip,» a model of liver tissue that replicates the metabolic variations found throughout the organ and more accurately reflects the distinctive patterns of liver damage caused by exposure to environmental toxins, including pharmaceutical overdose.

Monitoring groups of mice, one group receiving normal levels of protein in the diet and the other group nourished with low levels of protein for five weeks, researchers were able to uncover the damaging effect a reduction of protein can cause to the structure of this vital organ.

Before scientists and engineers can realize the dream of using stem cells to create replacements for worn out organs and battle damaged body parts, they'll have to develop ways to grow complex three - dimensional structures in large volumes and at costs that won't bankrupt health care systems.

A laboratory blood test developed at Johns Hopkins for the diagnosis of a rare genetic red blood cell disorder also shows promise in identifying HELLP syndrome, a life - threatening high blood pressure condition affecting 1 percent of all pregnant women that causes hypertension along with end organ damage, researchers report in the May issue of the journal Experimental Hematology.

Nevertheless, the NGF antibodies had no ill effect on any other organs or tissues and for unexplained reasons did not damage the peripherally located sympathetic ganglia that control the sex organs in both sexes.

There, in about a third of victims, they damage the organs for decades before causing potentially lethal heart disease.

4/22/2008 Scientists Identify Novel Way to Prevent Cardiac Fibrosis In a study that points to a new strategy for preventing or possibly reversing fibrosis — the scarring that can lead to organ and tissue damage — researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have determined that a molecul... More...

Graber will work in the institution's Kathryn W. Davis Center for Regenerative Biology and Medicine, where scientists are working to identify the molecular pathways responsible for regeneration in organisms that have retained the ability to regenerate lost and damaged tissues and organs, then screening for drugs with the potential to reawaken these dormant regeneration pathways in humans.

The L - arginine - induced pancreatitis is widely used as a relevant model for pre-clinical trials because 1) it is reproducible, 2) it shows dose and time dependent acinar cell necrosis, 3) it can be used for investigation of early as well as late phase of acute pancreatitis, and 4) it is suitable for investigation of extra-pancreatic organ damage (pulmonary, hepatic renal and circulatory) and insulo - acinar axis [3].

We performed histological examination of GVHD target organs (liver, lung, small intestine, and colon) and the tongue, which served as a surrogate for skin damage (37), 4 wk after transplantation.

«It's been known for a while that Zika virus in men can find its way into the reproductive organs and may then go on to be sexually transmitted, but this study in mice is the first suggestion that this passage through the reproductive tract may actually be damaging.

For the mother, they can include seizures, organ damage and increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease.

Embryonic stem cells — «pluripotent» cells that can develop into any type of cell in the human body — hold tremendous promise for regenerative medicine, in which damaged organs and tissues can be replaced or repaired.

They have also pulled some patients away from older systemic (as opposed to topical) drugs often used for moderate - to - severe cases, such as methotrexate and cyclosporine, which patients sometimes need to take in rotation to minimize the risk of cumulative damage to their organs.

But when something goes wrong — and cells aren't absorbing the glucose — the resulting high blood sugar damages nerves, blood vessels, and organs, setting the stage for dangerous complications.

In most cases it is harmless, but it can interrupt the usual flow of blood, raising the risk for serious organ, brain and heart damage.

Next Page: Marijuana doesn't slow down RA [pagebreak] On the other hand, while marijuana may help with pain symptoms, it does nothing for the disease progression or organ damage, Dr. Mbakwe says.

(The risk of liver damage is high enough that, after taking the drug for a year or more, patients often require a liver biopsy to test for toxins in the organ.)

While sleeping, we repair damaged tissues and organs, we metabolize hormones our body no longer needs, and our brains use this time to organize our thoughts and experiences, and to make permanent neurological links (memories) for the learning we experienced that day.

Lupus, for example, can cause damage to many different parts of the body, including joints, blood, heart, lungs skin, kidneys and other organs.

For about half of those with systemic lupus erythematosus — the most common type of lupus — a major organ like the kidneys, heart, lungs, or brain will be damaged by the disease.

Then as you're trying to gain weight, I wouldn't be exceeding 3500 calories a day, just if you're looking for a safe and healthy weight gain that's not gonna cause you to balloon and get really fat or produce a bunch of visceral fat and storage fat around your organs that can be potentially be damaging from a health standpoint.

Proper functioning of this butterfly - shaped gland is vital for our health, but just like other organs in the body thyroid is also prone to damage, diseases, deficiencies, and other negative scenarios.

One of the many benefits that the beta carotene nutrient in pumpkin provides for our bodies is reducing organ damage brought on by oxidative stress in the body.

This essential mineral is necessary for utilizing iron in the body, energy production, eliminating free radicals in the body that damage cells and organ systems, and for formation of collagen which is essential for bone and tissue health.