Sentences with phrase «for skin tissue»

Lemongrass famously acts as a toner for skin tissue, while green tea is known for protective antioxidants.

Its ingredients include omega fatty acids and vitamin E, and offer support for skin tissue and texture health, as well as for circulation.

A textile mesh - collagen hybrid matrix and cell sheet technology for skin tissue engineering.

Dietary fats and oils provide building blocks for skin tissues.

Not exact matches

The acid can travel in a cloud for miles and can eat into skin and other tissues.

In a rare appearance Dr. Chandan Sen, Director, OSU Center for Regenerative Medicine & Cell - Based Therapies will explain how this breakthrough came about and how the technology is leading to other medical discoveries and how the principle can be used to generate any tissue out of skin or fat which is abundant in human body.

Scientists looking for new methods to make human tissue have successfully used cloning technology to create embryonic stem cells from skin cells.

When preparing a whole tenderloin for roasting, Bob explained that it's important to trim the «silver» skin (connective tissue) from the surface of the meat (it's tough and will not tenderize with cooking) and tuck the «tail» (the thinner, tapered end) under the tenderloin to create a roast of even thickness.

Most, if not all of us, would benefit from some supplementation just for the unmet maintenance needs of connective tissue as well as skin and hair.

We love to mix it with Tocos, a powerhouse adaptogen rich in Vitamins E and D, both of which will do wonders for your skin, muscles and tissues.

Virgin Coconut oil is amazing for rebuilding skin tissue when used both topically and internally regularly.

Vitamin A also supports bone growth as well as cell and tissue health for strong nails, skin and hair.

I was quite disheartened to see that skin tissue regrow... For how many months will the stretching have to be done?

Cyanoacrylate for tissue repair is actually just plain old (sterile) superglue — but it's used to glue together dry, neat skin edges, not torn, wet mucosal tissue... This person clearly has no idea...

With the extended skin from pregnancy cut for the cesarean delivery, tissue binding is of utmost importance after baby arrives.

At first we began using these instead of tissues for in - bed clean - up, and we were so pleased that they don't turn into shreds stuck to our skin like tissues do, and that they do come clean in the laundry.

After a recovery period of approximately two months — during which the woman's chest skin heals, blood supply replenishes, and the expanders are gradually inflated to stretch the skin — the patient returns for an outpatient surgical procedure to replace the tissue expanders with permanent breast implants.

For that, Meteyer explains, microscopic analyses of skin tissue must confirm that the pathogen «is eroding it — actually eating away the skin of the bat.»

They sculpt the wrong tissues, creating, for example, an extra toe, or skin cells that don't mature properly.

Alfano states «Resonant Raman using the laser pointer 532 nm has become an e?cient tool for investigating molecular components in tissues and cells, providing more detailed information and a way to detect diseases like skin cancer, brain cancer, or atherosclerosis — in mere seconds.»

«The cornea is the most densely innervated tissue in the body, so corneal nerve assessment is extremely sensitive for detecting small sensory nerve fiber damage as compared to other tests including measurement of intra-epidermal nerve fibers in the skin,» notes lead investigator Joseph L. Mankowski, DVM, PhD, who is Professor of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Pathology, and Neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD..

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has expressed several concerns regarding population - wide screening for skin cancer, including uncertainty whether screening would reduce deaths, having patients undergo unnecessary tissue biopsies and the cost associated with screening individuals who have a low - risk for developing skin cancer.

Immediate applications for the oxygen - sensing bandage include monitoring patients with a risk of developing ischemic (restricted blood supply) conditions, postoperative monitoring of skin grafts or flaps, and burn - depth determination as a guide for surgical debridement — the removal of dead or damaged tissue from the body.

For instance, tissue from skin, spleen, kidney and stomach all had improved appearance when inspected under a microscope.

As you might guess from its antiscorbutic role, vitamin C is crucial for the synthesis of connective tissue, including the matrix of skin.

Now licensed by Tissue Science Laboratories for use in Europe and the U.S., it is derived from porcine skin, chemically treated to produce a collagenous, sterile, nonallergenic product, which resists biodegradation and can provide a permanent support for the ingrowth of new tissue and associated blood sTissue Science Laboratories for use in Europe and the U.S., it is derived from porcine skin, chemically treated to produce a collagenous, sterile, nonallergenic product, which resists biodegradation and can provide a permanent support for the ingrowth of new tissue and associated blood stissue and associated blood supply.

Small flies: For this Kandinsky - like image, researchers stained cross sections of 20 fruit fly embryos with antibodies to reveal three distinct tissue types: muscle, nerve and skin.

Hale cut a slit in Nelson's shoulders and inserted a deflated tissue expander under the skin, adding saline twice a week for three months until Nelson resembled a defensive lineman.

It makes a good scaffold for skin grafts or engineered tissue.

The imaging technique's high resolution of soft nanoscale structures makes it possible to probe collagen samples, providing insights for improved designs of artificial skin or tissue.

He hopes this work will help research into regenerative medicine for injuries to collagen - containing tissue such as skin and the eye.

Skin grows more in regions where it is stretched — during pregnancy, for instance — but stretch it too much and the tissue might break.

«Surgeons use a variety of techniques to grow skin for tissue expansion procedures designed to grow skin in one region of the body so that it can be auto - grafted on to another site [sometimes used for burn victims],» said Guy German, assistant professor of biomedical engineering within the Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science at Binghamton University.

The enzyme, called tankyrase, may prove useful for extending the lives of cultured cells grown to repair burned skin and other damaged tissue.

But heart tissue is not known for being as resilient as skeletal muscles or skin.

Tissue engineers have been unable to grow epidermis with the functional barrier needed for drug testing, and have been further limited in producing an in vitro (lab) model for large - scale drug screening by the number of cells that can be grown from a single skin biopsy sample.

For more than 600 years, patients with amputations above the knee received a prosthesis that fit over the skin and soft tissue of the amputation stump.

For example: Why can a surgeon successfully graft skin or other tissue from one part of the body to another but not from one individual to another, except in the case of grafts between identical twins?

Perhaps in the future it may be possible for doctors to apply flexible bandages to severely burnt skin to reprogram the cells to heal that injury with functional tissue instead of forming a scar.

Meanwhile Coussens and her colleagues at U.C.S.F. found in a 2005 study, published in Cancer Cell, that the removal of antibody - making B cells from mice engineered to be prone to skin cancer prevented the tissue changes and angiogenesis that are prerequisites for disease progression.

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has analysed the effectiveness of its beauty patch, using a technique for imaging live tissue to demonstrate the patch's beneficial effects on the skin.

In the malignant tissue, they found up to 1500 genes with mutations — a level higher than has been found for either lung cancer in smokers or skin cancer in patients with heavy exposure to ultraviolet radiation.

It is expected to have implications for other tissue - specific nuclear membrane conditions, such as fat, skin, bone and brain diseases, cardiomyopathy and an ageing disease known as progeria.

It has previously been shown that rougher surfaces (also known as textured surfaces) reduce the amount of scar tissue formed around breast implants, but the Manchester scientists felt that they could improve this by creating a pattern which mimicked body's own surface, such as the basal layer of the skin, providing a better environment for the cells to grow on.

For the manatee, walrus, dolphin, and killer whale, the return to the sea involved many evolutionary trade - offs amongst hundreds of genes: a general loss of the number of sensory genes for smell and taste, new functions for genes forming skin and connective tissue, and genes involved in muscle structure and metaboliFor the manatee, walrus, dolphin, and killer whale, the return to the sea involved many evolutionary trade - offs amongst hundreds of genes: a general loss of the number of sensory genes for smell and taste, new functions for genes forming skin and connective tissue, and genes involved in muscle structure and metabolifor smell and taste, new functions for genes forming skin and connective tissue, and genes involved in muscle structure and metabolifor genes forming skin and connective tissue, and genes involved in muscle structure and metabolism.

Vascular disease limits blood flow to the skin and adjacent tissues, cutting off the supply of oxygen and nutrients required for healthy tissue healing.

Tissue banks are already used to store small amounts of skin material for evaluating the safety of new cosmetics, which reduces the need for animal testing.

When applied to human skin, they are capable of slowing water evaporation and keeping the tissue hydrated for extended periods of time.

MMPs degrade collagen, a structural protein that is important for maintaining the elasticity of connective tissue and constitutes up to 70 % of the dry weight of skin.

«In 1995 Joseph Vacanti and I wrote for this magazine about advances in artificial pancreas technology, plastic - based tissues such as artificial skin and electronics that might permit blind people to see [see «Artificial Organs,» by Robert Langer and Joseph P. Vacanti; Scientific American, September 1995].