Sentences with phrase «forming scaffolds»

Then the molecular combs line up and bridge the gaps between the severed neurons, forming scaffolds that allow the cells to flourish.

In lymph nodes, a particular type of stromal cells that forms a scaffold for lymphocytes to crawl around within the node normally secretes an enzyme called autotaxin, which is responsible for the production of the lipid signaling molecule, lysophosphatidic acid (LPA).

LPA is produced by a specific type of stromal cells, which forms a scaffold for lymphocytes to crawl around within the node.

Muscle damaged by heart attacks can be repaired by an injectable gel that forms scaffolding, attracting stem cells and blood vessels in a study that may lead to a new method for reducing heart failure.

Basically, collagen is the protein that forms the scaffolding in your skin — a matrix around which all other cells congregate.

Active lysyl oxidase cross-links collagen fibres with other supportive fibres, helping to form the scaffold that supports your skin and soft tissues.

The tartar will stick to the tooth surface forming a scaffold for more plaque accumulation.

This begins in the earliest years and forms the scaffolding for future growth.

Not exact matches

They are the scaffolding around which the civic order is constructed, in which personal freedoms are exercised, in which loyalties are formed and transmitted, and in which individuals flourish.

«Important primary structures and processes that support fundamental behaviors and provide scaffolds for later - developing structures form during this time period.

Dark energy competes with dark matter — an elusive substance that holds together galaxies and their clusters — to erect the scaffolding for the universe, the places where atoms can get together and form stars and planets.

Most instead grow in communities, leveraging the strength of numbers to form a biofilm with tissue - like properties similar to a scaffold that serves to fortify the community, making it up to 1,000 times more resistant to most antibiotics.

In many ways, Pinker's book The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature, which will be published this month, may be his most ambitious yet — an attempt to show that the entire range of human thought is built on the «scaffolding» of a few core concepts that shape our understanding of the physical and social worlds and form the basis for the way we interpret reality.

Materials scientist Robert Haddon has demonstrated that the bone - forming mineral hydroxyapatite will grow around a nanotube scaffold, replacing the collagen fibrils that grow naturally.

These results, along with imaging technologies that capture pathogens in the living host, form a «scaffold» for future research into Lyme disease, says Joseph Breen, bacteriology program officer at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which funded the work.

The researchers in Bayreuth also found out that the elongated polymers possess a scaffold formed by its side chains, which stabilizes the elongated structure.

When blared from loudspeakers in the right configuration, these sound waves can combine to form a sonic scaffolding called an interference pattern — a sort of a force field that can hold a small object aloft.

This forms a structural scaffold to incorporate more stators, which combine to drive rotation with higher force.

They grew these myoblasts by many folds and then put them into a supportive 3 - D scaffolding filled with a nourishing gel that allowed them to form aligned and functioning human muscle fibers.

The scaffolding that holds the large - scale structure of the universe constitutes galaxies, dark matter and gas (from which stars are forming), organized in complex networks known as the cosmic web.

With the help of the scaffold, the bricks form molecular towers.

Our best models support the theory that dark matter is the scaffold around which normal matter formed galaxies and clusters.

These come together to form a molecular «scaffold.»

He placed them on the scaffold, where they grew and sometimes even formed the 3 - D structures they build in nature.

The mycelia also appeared to act as scaffolding, attracting fibroblasts and anchoring them, ready for the next stage of wound - healing when collagen scar tissue forms.

The peptide molecules self - assemble into long structures called nanofibers, which come together to form a molecular «scaffold.»

Working with an animal model, the researchers found that a type of cell present in the brain's primary processing area during early development, long thought to form structural scaffolding with no role in transmitting sensory information, may conduct such signals after all.

They compared Ras - transformed cells with and without p53 and observed that those expressing p53 were less invasive and formed fewer focal adhesions, the molecular linkages that connect the structural scaffolding within the cell to the extracellular matrix that surrounds the cell.

«They form a functional scaffolding that actually processes and transmits information before other cortical circuits are activated.

The gel's fibers formed a netlike scaffold that set the stage for the second step in the healing by supporting a third compound that flowed in from the channels.

In theory, growing tissue on scaffolds that mimic the grid should help the tissue to form connections with the brain once grafted.

When the plastic is punctured, the fluids mix and the molecules link up to create a scaffold, similar to the way blood platelets and fibrin proteins join to form a clot.

The rods spontaneously assemble at the vaccination site to form a three - dimensional scaffold, like pouring a box of matchsticks into a pile on a table.

The NYSCF team guided these iPS cells to become bone - forming progenitors and seeded the cells onto a scaffold for three - dimensional bone formation.

The scaffold is made from a polymer sheet and zapped with a laser to form a honeycomb structure of individual pores, each shaped like a concertina roughly 500 micrometres long.

Standard tissue engineering involves seeding types of cells, such as those that form ear cartilage, onto a scaffold of a polymer material called a hydrogel.

Sulfur - nitrogen connections called sulfilimine bonds form essential links that keep the protein scaffold together, researchers have now discovered.

Not only could it form healthy tissue scaffolds, allowing cells to successfully grow and adhere to it, but it was also thermally stable at room temperature.

Eight weeks after the Northwestern researchers implanted the hyperelastic bone, they found that new blood vessels had grown into their scaffold — a necessary step to keep bone - forming tissue alive — and calcified bone started to form from the rats» existing stem cells.

They formed silk scaffolds of different thicknesses (ranging from 2 to 5 micrometers) and stiffness combined with growth factors, to test the success of megakaryocyte adhesion and the formation of proplatelets — the parts of the megakaryocytes that fragment into platelets.

Condensin II shapes a chromosome into large loops and then forms a helical scaffold for the loops to wind around.

The researchers then conducted experiments to have the hydrogel scaffold form at the surgical site after removal of primary tumours.

These were seeded into a tissue scaffold, formed into the precise shape of the human jaw bone by using digital images from a patient.

Researchers had long suspected that organic scaffolds caused calcium carbonate to mineralize and find its most stable form, calcite, by creating low energy surfaces where the ions could easily arrange themselves in rows side - by - side.

Differences between in vitro viability and differentiation and in vivo bone - forming efficacy of human mesenchymal stem cells cultured on PCL - TCP scaffolds.

Concepts of scaffold - based tissue engineering — The rationale to use solid free - form fabrication techniques.

A rare, premature aging disease, Hutchinson - Gilford progeria is caused by a single point mutation in the gene encoding lamin A, which forms a protein scaffold on the inner edge of the nucleus that helps maintain chromatin structure and organize nuclear processes such as RNA and DNA synthesis.

Biomedical engineers at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Mass. are growing tracheas by coaxing cells to form three distinct tissue types after assembling them into a tube structure - without relying on scaffolding strategies currently being investigated by other groups.

In addition, when seeded on biodegradable scaffolds, ECOs form tissue - like structures retaining biliary characteristics.

Haploinsufficiency of SHANK3, encoding the synapse scaffolding protein SHANK3, leads to a highly penetrant form of autism spectrum disorder.