Sentences with phrase «grow skin tissue»

In 1993, Dr. Wood began working with medical scientist Marie Stoner on a method to grow skin tissue directly on patients instead of in a culture flask.

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The silver nitrate cauterizes and dries up the tissue at the stump - base, enabling normal skin to grow over.

As we age, our skin loses some of its elastic properties and if it stretched significantly — like say, over two growing babies — the connective tissue often tears rather than stretches.

Beginning in the 1970s, physicians learned how to harvest skin stem cells from a patient with extensive burn wounds, grow them in the laboratory, then apply the lab - grown tissue to close and protect a patient's wounds.

Wells's team first turned human skin cells into pluripotent stem cells, which can grow into any type of tissue.

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.

Co-author Jennifer Anné said: «Bone does not form scar tissue, like a scratch to your skin, so the body has to completely reform new bone following the same stages that occurred as the skeleton grew in the first place.

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

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.

But with this technique, we can just take a small sample of non-muscle tissue, like skin or blood, revert the obtained cells to a pluripotent state, and eventually grow an endless amount of functioning muscle fibers to test.»

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.

The skin's ability to grow back after a wound led scientists to assume that it must contain stem cells, immature cells that can rapidly differentiate into many different types of tissue.

Since the 1970s tissue engineers have been figuring out how to grow skin, bone, cartilage, and even parts of vital organs using cells harvested directly from patients.

Regenerated skin tissue, however, is different: After it is grafted it absorbs plasma, and blood vessels eventually grow into it.

In 2006, Japanese biologist Shinya Yamanaka found a solution: He reprogrammed skin cells from a mouse, turning them back into embryo - like cells, with the potential to grow into any tissue, simply by adding four genes.

This inflammation is important in the normal healing process, affecting tissue growth and blood flow changes that allow the tissue to heal; when the inflammation subsides, skin cells start growing to cover the wound and help the tissue knit together.

A team at University Hospital in Lausanne, Switzerland, reported in September that they had perfected a technique of growing skin from fetal tissues and attaching it to burned areas without having to resort to surgery.

Rattan joined the Clark group in 1984 and started exploring what happens when skin, bone, and connective tissue cells grow old and enter a state of limbo — called senescence — in which they neither divide nor die (see «More Than a Sum of Our Cells»).

Over the past ten years, researchers have developed several promising gene therapy techniques to grow skin, bone, and other tissues for reconstructive surgery.

«In addition to making the skin around your nails feel sore, repeated nail biting can damage the tissue that makes nails grow, resulting in abnormal - looking nails.

Burn victims or those with spinal cord injuries might be provided with replacement skin or nerve tissue grown from their own body cells.

And iPS cells may have a particular advantage: Taking a person's own skin cells, say, making them pluripotent, and then using those cells to grow whatever kind of tissue is needed could eliminate the use of debilitating immunosuppressive drugs, which are required when transplanting cells or tissue from a donor.

In addition to growing new skin for burn victims, cells from hair follicles could potentially be used to engineer vascular grafts and possibly regenerate cardiac tissues for patients with heart problems.

Yet this study brings us tantalisingly close to using skin cells to grow many different types of human tissues.

Some researchers are using induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells — tissue - specific cells (usually skin cells, but sometimes other tissue cells) that are reprogrammed in the lab to behave like embryonic stem cells — to grow rods and cones or RPE cells.

Moreover, some tissues (for example, skeletal muscles and skin) will soon be easier to print or grow in a bioreactor than to mess with their cell therapy.

How this drug works is by attacking cells that cause inflammation in joint tissues (or in the rapidly growing and inflamed skin of the psoriasis patient) reducing its function, thereby reducing the inflammation along with any painful symptoms.

Without sleep your body can not repair day to day damage, which begins to show as the bags under your eyes grow and your skin tissue fades.

Most of the ones that are soft, freely movable in the subcutaneous (under the skin) tissue and don't grow very quickly are usually benign but not always.

The cells responsible for the production of the fibers that makes this connective tissue are called fibroblasts, and if these cells are overactive, this can cause an abundance of fibrous tissue, resulting in a slow - growing mass near or on the skin.

Radiation therapy may cause severe damage to normally growing cellular populations, like those of epithelial (outer layer of the skin) and skin tissues.

Compared to benign growths, malignant growths may grow rapidly, have irregular shape, feel «fixed» to the skin or underlying tissue, and / or become ulcerated.

However, if not treated it can grow into nearby areas and spread into bone or tissues under the skin.