Sentences with phrase «from human cadaver»

AlloDerm Regenerative Tissue Matrix: A hernia patch manufactured from human cadaver tissue, the AlloDerm Regenerative Tissue Matrix has been linked to multiple complications.

There is an art to removing the brain from a human cadaver.

• Fred Gage and his colleagues at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, harvested brain cells from human cadavers and used them to form neural progenitor cells, precursors to adult human brain cells.

He and his team of pathologists were examining the autopsied brains of four people who had once received injections of growth hormone derived from human cadavers.

Not exact matches

Using cells from cadavers, doctors have been experimentally transplanting pancreatic islets into humans for decades, but as many as 60 percent of the transplanted islets die immediately because they are cut off from their blood supply and are killed by an immune response due to direct injection into the bloodstream, and those that survive the transplant usually die within several months.

In a dissection of 18 male and female Caucasian cadavers from Pittsburgh, Waller and her colleagues found that the human face has more variation in muscle than any other body component except possibly the forearm.

Departing from prior studies, the team collected epithelial cells and fibroblasts from human sources: one cadaver and four living people who had their healthy voice boxes removed during unrelated surgeries.

They started pursuing that idea a little closer to home, collecting soil from beneath four human cadavers at the University of Tennessee's outdoor human decomposition laboratory (technically the Anthropology Research Facility, aka the Body Farm).

Meaney's team examined 36 human brains taken from cadavers.

The researchers removed the middle linking bone in the ossicular chain from three human cadavers and imaged the structures with CT..

As you can see in this detail from a work inspired by a cross section of a human head, the papers are natural colours, matched to the photographs of slices of frozen cadavers.

For the study, the researchers first collected vocal cord tissue from four people who had their larynges removed for unrelated reasons, and from one human cadaver.

For four decades, the inability of nonhuman primates to produce human speech sounds has been claimed to stem from limitations in their vocal tract anatomy, a conclusion based on plaster casts made from the vocal tract of a monkey cadaver.

The 2003 book by Mary Roach takes a sweeping look at everything from cadaver farms, where donated bodies rot slowly outside in the name of science, to the use of human bodies as crash - test dummies.

There was evidence that children treated with human growth hormone before 1985 — when it was made from hormone collected from cadavers — might have been exposed to prions and therefore at higher risk of CJD.

Decades ago the only sources of human growth hormone were cadavers, and it could be risky to take human growth hormone from cadavers as various diseases were sometimes transferred along with the human growth hormone.

Tracing the origins of body brokering from the «resurrectionists» of the 19th century to the entrepreneurs of today, Cheney chronicles how demand for cadavers has long driven unscrupulous funeral home, crematorium and medical school personnel to treat human bodies as commodities.

In this fascinating, ennobling account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuries — from the anatomy labs and human - sourced pharmacies of medieval and nineteenth - century Europe to a human decay research facility in Tennessee, to a plastic surgery practice lab, to a Scandinavian funeral directors» conference on human composting.