Sentences with phrase «healthy cells and tissues»

Unfortunately, the donated bone marrow can produce an immune response that also attacks a person's own body, with the donor white blood cells judging the host's healthy cells and tissues as foreign.

These antioxidants suggested by the AREDS formula help maintain healthy cells and tissues and may prevent damage in the macula.

In fact, celiac is an autoimmune disease, which means that gluten causes the immune system to go haywire, attacking healthy cells and tissues.

«Silver has antimicrobial properties, and we are capable of obtaining a dose that can kill microbes but would not hurt healthy cells and tissues,» she said.

The researchers are developing a potential new immunotherapy strategy for melanoma based on their insights into Autoimmune Polyendocrinopathy Type 1, a rare, inherited disorder in which T - cells attack healthy cells and tissues.

Therefore, these «self - reactive» T cells survive destruction within an organ called the thymus, the central immune organ in which T - cells mature, and attack healthy cells and tissues, including melanocytes.

Millet is one of the least allergic grains out there and it's mineral and vitamin content helps boost energy and build healthy cells and tissue.

This makes room for the regeneration of new, healthier cells and tissues, which affects longevity and helps reverse diseases of all kinds.

Autoimmune conditions, including rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, and inflammatory bowel disease, arise when the body's immune system goes awry and begins attacking healthy cells and tissue.

Unfortunately when they «steal» those electrons from other molecules, they initiate chain reactions that inflict damage on healthy cells and tissue.

The healthy cells and tissue are slowly destroyed and the gland is not able to produce enough thyroid hormones to maintain the body's metabolism.

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But in the following hours and days, the body's self - defense mechanisms backfire: White blood cells come in to clean up dead tissue, which causes massive inflammation, which in turn triggers healthy cells in the surrounding tissue to self - destruct in a process called apoptosis.

If the egg is fertilized by a sperm cell, it stays in the uterus and grows into a baby, using that extra blood and tissue to keep it healthy and protected as it's developing.

Instead, IsoLove re-hydrates tissue to normal, healthy levels, and helps maintain the integrity of the vaginal cell structure and ecosystem.

It also makes tissue and cell development a lot more healthy as well.

When you have anemia, your blood doesn't have enough healthy red blood cells to carry oxygen to your tissues and to your baby.

Eating enough protein is essential for healthy development of new cells in the placenta and maternal tissues and encourages healthy blood production.

Cancer cells travel around the body and begin to attack healthy tissue in a process called metastasis.

She demonstrated that early experience leads to lasting changes in the molecular structure of the brain and discovered a gene involved in the spread of brain cancer cells into healthy brain tissue.

On Thursday, the United Nations» member states will consider two resolutions: One resolution would ban all human cloning methods, including efforts to use cloned embryonic stem cells to try and generate healthy tissues, or to treat degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's.

For unknown reasons our immune system attacks healthy cells, tissues and organs in a process called autoimmunity, which can result in diseases such as multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes, lupus or rheumatoid arthritis.

As might be expected of an autoimmune disease, where the immune system turns on healthy tissue, all the genes play a role in controlling the growth and multiplication of cells in the immune system.

This early stage research will explore how the virus targets stem cells and provide the starting point to develop new treatments that seek out the tumour and spare the surrounding healthy brain tissue.

In a study published in the journal Science, an international collaboration of investigators from Dana - Farber, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital, and the University of Strasbourg uncovered a mechanism that allows key immune system cells to keep a steady rein on their more belligerent brother cells, thereby protecting normal, healthy tissue from assault.

Whether building organs or maintaining healthy adult tissues, cells use biochemical and mechanical cues from their environment to make important decisions, such as becoming a neuron, a skin cell or a heart cell.

«Our immune system is made up of specialised cells that move through blood and tissue, preventing disease and fighting infection by distinguishing between what is the body's own healthy tissue and what is foreign.

When chlorotoxin is tagged with a fluorescent dye, it will illuminate a tumour — a trick that makes the surgeon's job easier by helping to pinpoint cancerous growth and ensure that all the cancerous cells are removed and healthy tissue spared.

The scientists» findings have wide implications in the effort to understand how organs are sculpted into their shapes and how cells respond to their native mechanical environment both in healthy tissues and during disease.

Unlike chemotherapy and radiation — which indiscriminately damage cells and tissues, healthy or otherwise — the CD45 - targeting antibodies leave the thymus and the bone marrow, environments critical to the formation of T cells and innate immune cells, unharmed.

Change the size from 10 nanometers to 100 nanometers, and the drugs can end up in the wrong cells or organs and thereby damage healthy tissues.

Compared to people with periodontitis or gingivitis who were otherwise healthy, one molecule in particular stood out: people with LAD had very high levels of IL - 17 mRNA and IL -17-expressing cells in their gum tissue.

Switching Apc on again made the frenzied cells morph back into healthy gut tissue, which contains intestinal cells (below, green) and clusters of stem cells (below

In healthy breast tissue, the percentage of cells expressing molecular marker Ki67 (green) and p27 (red) was low.

In a bid to progress beyond the shotgun approach to fighting cancer — blasting malignant cells with toxic chemicals or radiation, which kills surrounding healthy cells in the process — researchers at the Harvard - MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) are using nanotechnology to develop seek - and - destroy models to zero in on and dismantle tumors without damaging nearby normal tissue.

Lupus, or systemic lupus erythematosus, is a progressive, degenerative disease in which the immune system turns against itself, attacking a person's healthy tissue, cells and organs.

They treated a variety of healthy tissues and 23 samples of cancer cells taken from leukemia patients with AG1295, a drug known to selectively block the kinase.

«The exosomes appear to contain the signaling information needed to regenerate healthy heart tissue, they are naturally able to permeate cells, and they have a coating that protects their payloads from degradation as they shuttle from cell to cell,» said Marbán, senior author of an article in the May 6, 2014 Stem Cell Repocell to cell,» said Marbán, senior author of an article in the May 6, 2014 Stem Cell Repocell,» said Marbán, senior author of an article in the May 6, 2014 Stem Cell RepoCell Reports.

But working with human smooth muscle cells isolated and grown from the healthy parts of airway tissue surrounding excised tumors, Benjamin Kalbe and his colleagues applied a large number of odor molecules and watched two of them activate the muscle cells.

Dr. Ella Evron and Dr. Ayelet Avraham of the TAU - affiliated Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, together with Prof. Saraswati Sukumar of Johns Hopkins, have found that «gene regulation,» the process that shuts off certain parts of a cell's DNA code or blueprint in healthy breast tissue cells, may also play a critical role in the development of breast cancer.

Investigators at the Cedars - Sinai Heart Institute — whose previous research showed that cardiac stem cell therapy reduces scarring and regenerates healthy tissue after a heart attack in humans — have identified components of those stem cells responsible for the beneficial effects.

Researchers are creating organoids from tumor cells to mimic cancers and introducing specific mutations into organoids made from healthy tissue to study how cancer arises.

Healthy wound healing has four phases: blood clotting to stop bleeding, inflammation to remove dead and damaged cells, proliferation of new tissue and the remodeling of tissues to be stronger and better organized.

Exploiting that power, researchers are now using microRNAs to convert the scar tissue of damaged hearts into healthy muscle cells, opening the door for a better therapy after heart attacks and heart failure.

Previous research conducted by Dr. Badylak's team suggested that ECM also could be used to regenerate lost muscle by placing the material in the injury site where it signals the body to recruit stem and other progenitor cells to rebuild healthy tissue.

The new approach builds on information gleaned from developmental studies of embryonic stem cells (see story # 16) and one day may be used to create healthy replacements for harmed or diseased tissue.

Once inside, researchers found that the antibodies zeroed in on their targets — viral antigens — and the radioisotopes destroyed nearby cancer cells without damaging surrounding healthy tissue.

The Scripps Research Institute team found «progenitor» cells isolated from healthy lacrimal glands can improve the appearance and function of diseased tissue.

Now, in a study recently published in the journal PLOS ONE, a team of scientists from VCU Massey Cancer Center have shown a genetic relationship between the reactivation of hCMV and the onset of graft - versus - host disease (GVHD), a potentially deadly condition in which the immune system attacks healthy tissue following a bone marrow or stem cell transplant.

This means Tsen does not have to focus the laser beam as tightly and can kill more virus particles in less time without damaging the healthy cells around the damaged tissue.

VIRUS VICTORY Zika virus (green) infects and kills stem cells (red) in human glioblastoma tissue, without infecting healthy brain cells.