Sentences with phrase «healthy eye cells»

These eye nutrients filter harsh, high - energy blue wavelengths of light, helping protect and maintain healthy eye cells, which is translated into a reduced risk of chronic eye diseases, such as macular degeneration and cataracts.

By the end of the two years, we will have worked out how good this experimental approach is at preventing blood vessel growth, and also any possible side effects on healthy eye cells.

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The variety of nutrients in liver boosts the immune system, improves the production of red blood cells and supports healthy eyes and skin.»

Vitamin A is important for healthy white blood cells, good immunity and for vibrant eyes, skin and hair.

One example of this research is the practice of using stem cells taken from a healthy eye's limbus, the area around the cornea where stem cells are stored, to create a layer of healthy cells to replace damaged ones in the cornea, the transparent, dome - shaped layer of cells covering the front of the eye.

In a healthy eye, light enters the retina and activates photoreceptors which process visual information and send it to ganglion cells.

A healthy optic nerve has axons transmitting information from the eye to the brain along the nerve after considerable information processing and synaptic transmission between various cell types within the retina.

During surgery, melanocyte skin cells responsible for giving color to the skin, hair and eyes are harvested from healthy, pigmented areas of the body and transferred to an area that lost its pigment.

Of all of these, one in particular caught the researchers» eyes: a microRNA called miR - 487b, which was consistently underexpressed in tumor tissue compared to healthy cells.

These cells help keep the eye's light - detecting rods and cones healthy.

Being able to image them in the human eye at high enough resolution to use the presence of those markers — in this case the presence of axons and some of the shipment of different protein cargo and other things that are important for the ganglion cell health — to monitor those as a way to understand whether or not ganglion cells are healthy or not or getting sicker or not.

I have worked the last 25 years trying to understand how eye cells are made, connect to one another, and stay healthy as we age.

In a healthy eye, the visual signal goes through several stages of processing before it reaches the ganglion cells.

Having discovered a genetic «key» (called P - TEFb) that is important in both cancer cell growth and immune cell differentiation, they tested the drugs on a mouse model for uveitis, an incurable eye condition in which the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue leading to inflammation of the uvea (the middle layer of the eye).

It is an autologous limbal stem cell composite graft, prepared from the limbal biopsy excised from the healthy eye of the patient.

Vitamin A is responsible for promoting good vision and keeping our eyes healthy; vitamin D helps us absorb calcium; vitamin E neutralizes free radicals, protecting cells in the process; and vitamin K is essential for blood clotting.

Because Age Related Macular Degeneration comes from the breaking down of retinal cells, the vitamins and nutrients which have been found to protect eyes from AMD are aiding the body by keeping the eyes healthy and improving eyesight.

Our bodies convert this into vitamin A, which can support immune function and eye health, promote proper cell growth, and help maintain healthy blood sugar levels.

Additionally, folate - rich foods prevent birth defects and build red blood cells, and vitamin A gives you healthy skin and eyes.

One of the classic problems caused by free radicals is blindness, due to healthy cells of your eyes being attacked.

And dried Montmorency tart cherries are also rich in vitamin A, which is necessary for skin and eye cell growth, and it's vital for a healthy immune system and reproductive system.

Generally healthy little terriers, Cairns can occasionally be prone to skin allergies, cataracts and other eye diseases, heart defects, thyroid problems, globoid cell leukodystrophy (a degenerative brain disease), von Willebrand's disease (a bleeding disorder), epilepsy, and joint problems like luxating patellas (kneecaps that slip out of place) and Legg - Perthes (a hip disease).