Sentences with phrase «from blood vessel walls»

HDL particles remove cholesterol from the blood vessel walls and transport it to the liver to be excreted from the body via bile.

Recent publications support the hypothesis that MSCs develop from the blood vessel wall and belong to a subset of perivascular cells (i.e., pericytes).

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Nowhere is this more true than in the brain, where blood vessel walls are tightly knit, keeping most large molecules from seeping out of the bloodstream and into brain tissue.

Nearly 100,000 Americans die each year when a clot breaks away from the blood - vessel wall and lodges in the lungs or heart.

Its attachment to blood vessel walls might be influenced by the electric polarity of cells there, note Liu, of the University of Washington in Seattle, and colleagues from Washington and Boston University.

In the microcirculation, the layer forms because red blood cells tend to naturally deform and lift away from the vessel walls.

Aortic dissection is a tear in the wall of the aorta (the large blood vessel that carries blood from the heart) to the body, causing the inner and middle layers of the aorta to separate (dissect).

The leakage from the blood vessels is controlled by specific protein complexes that connect the cells in the blood vessel walls.

Pericytes and adventitial reticular cells (ARCs) are perivascular cells, found in many tissues, which are recruited to blood - vessel walls from the surrounding tissue during organ development and growth.

How do long lived species such as Whales avoid dying from heart disease resulting from glucosepane cross linking in the walls of their blood vessels?

Even then, Ingber notes, «you need to know how the drug crosses in and out of the bloodstream across the blood vessel wall, and from one tissue and into another tissue» — something organoids can't yet test.

The connection appears to be between Bmal1, a transcription factor that senses light and drives our master circadian clock, and ADAM17, an enzyme that sets inflammation - producing proteins free from our cells to target and thicken our blood vessel walls.

«The body then sends the cholesterol like a scab to cover over it to protect the blood system and the vessel wall from further damage.»

Vitamin E is a fat - soluble vitamin that's essential for the immune system to function properly and prevents blood platelets from clotting and sticking to blood vessel walls.

When laboratory animals with high cholesterol were given eggplant juice, their blood cholesterol, the cholesterol in their artery walls and the cholesterol in their aortas (the aorta is the artery that returns blood from the heart back into circulation into the body) was significantly reduced, while the walls of their blood vessels relaxed, improving blood flow.

Researchers at the University of Palermo in Italy found that the betalains contained in prickly pears appears to protect the endothelial cell walls of blood vessels from oxidative damage by free radicals.

The cause of heart disease is not animal fats and cholesterol but rather a number of factors inherent in modern diets, including excess consumption of vegetables oils and hydrogenated fats; excess consumption of refined carbohydrates in the form of sugar and white flour; mineral deficiencies, particularly low levels of protective magnesium and iodine; deficiencies of vitamins, particularly of vitamin C, needed for the integrity of the blood vessel walls, and of antioxidants like selenium and vitamin E, which protect us from free radicals; and, finally, the disappearance of antimicrobial fats from the food supply, namely, animal fats and tropical oils.52 These once protected us against the kinds of viruses and bacteria that have been associated with the onset of pathogenic plaque leading to heart disease.

The cruciferous phytochemical sulforaphane has also been found to protect the blood vessel wall from inflammatory signaling that can lead to heart disease.

Capsicum speeds up blood flow preventing harmful fats from attaching to the walls of blood vessels.

High - density lipoproteins (HDL): «good» cholesterol that carries cholesterol away from your cells and blood vessel walls to your liver to be removed from the body.

Originating from epithelial cells (skin cells that cover the lining of body surfaces), Carcinomas can occur on the skin, bladder wall, and blood vessels that then pass into the surrounding tissues and organs.

Despite their small size, they suck large amounts of blood from the tiny vessels in the intestinal wall.

In severe cases, however, the virus attacks the walls of the blood vessels and the dog starts bleeding from the mouth, nose, rectum, and urinary tract.

The increased blood pressure in the abdominal vessels causes fluid to leak from the vessel walls into the abdominal cavity.

Despite their small size, they suck large amounts of blood from tiny vessels in the intestinal wall.