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 s
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 s
tissue 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 metaboli
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 metaboli
for smell and taste, new functions
for genes forming skin and connective tissue, and genes involved in muscle structure and metaboli
for 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].