Sentences with phrase «human lung blood»

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The study drew data from the Pregnancy Outcomes and Community Health (POUCH) and POUCHmoms studies, which were funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

The police had nabbed Ajibade with a fresh human head and other body parts like hands, lungs, liver and blood, which was kept inside a bottle during a stop and search operation in Osogbo, the state capital.

Funding for this study was provided by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; the American Thoracic Society / American Lung Association Partner Grant; and the Respiratory Health Association.

Using a mathematical model known as the Ising model, invented to describe phase transitions in statistical physics, such as how a substance changes from liquid to gas, the Johns Hopkins researchers calculated the probability distribution of methylation along the genome in several different human cell types, including normal and cancerous colon, lung and liver cells, as well as brain, skin, blood and embryonic stem cells.

In their latest study, they tested compounds against cells from nine different types of human cancer, including common types affecting blood, colon, breast, prostate, ovaries, kidneys, and lungs.

In experiments conducted on human lung endothelial cells and in mice, the researchers showed that NS1 caused permeability of the endothelium, which lines the walls of blood and lymph vessels.

After «inhaling» E. coli, for instance, the lung attracted human white blood cells to attack and kill the bacteria, a process scientists have long understood but never before witnessed in vitro.

«There's a potential protective effect here,» says human geneticist Andrew Johnson of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in Framingham, Massachusetts.

Their major hurdle: to come up with a replacement for hemoglobin (an iron - enriched protein in red blood cells that transports oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body) that can be directly introduced into the human circulatory system.

Contributing to the work were researchers from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the NIH Clinical Center, all part of NIH, along with their colleagues in Turkey and the United Kingdom.

The WHI program is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

In the second study in Science, researchers from Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, created a chip 1 to 2 centimeters long in which a 1 millimeter - wide channel, coated with human lung cells on the inside and overlaid with human blood capillaries on the outside, mimicked the air sacs, or alveoli, of the lungs.

In the study, the fungal infection Candida albicans was introduced to mice or human models of the lung vasculature and as blood was pumped over that system, researchers recorded what happened using highly sophisticated microscopes.

All the major organs in the human body, such as the blood vessels, lungs, kidneys, liver, pancreas and the intestine, are formed of an extensive network of tubes.

Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)-- which is funding this initiative jointly with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute — says that having the genomes of three of the most important mammals in biomedical research in hand «will greatly speed the unraveling of the genetics and physiology» of human disHuman Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)-- which is funding this initiative jointly with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute — says that having the genomes of three of the most important mammals in biomedical research in hand «will greatly speed the unraveling of the genetics and physiology» of human dishuman disease.

This study was funded in part by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (contracts HHSN268201100005C, HHSN268201100006C, HHSN268201100007C, HHSN268201100008C, HHSN268201100009C, HHSN268201100010C, HHSN268201100011C, and HHSN268201100012C; and grants R01HL087641, R01HL59367 and R01HL086694), the National Human Genome Research Institute (contract U01HG004402), and National Institutes of Health contract HHSN268200625226C.

This work was supported in part by grants from the US National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R01NS058529), the National Human Genome Research Institute (U54HG003273), a joint NHGRI / National Heart Blood and Lung Institute grant (U54HG006542) to the Baylor Hopkins Center for Mendelian Genomics, and the BCM Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, IDDRC Grant Number 5P30HD024064 - 23, from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Funding: NIH's National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institute on Aging (NIA), National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), National Cancer Institute (NCI), and National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI); and many other funding entities (see reference paper for the full list).

The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Cancer Institute and Wyeth - Ayerst Research Laboratories funded the study, which involved researchers at nine institutions and 15 WHI clinical - study sites nationwide.

The 19 NIH institutes, centers and offices contributing to the Knockout Mouse Project are: the NIH Office of Strategic Coordination / Common Fund; NCRR; the National Eye Institute; NHGRI; the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute; the National Institute on Aging; the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases; the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; NIDCD; the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research; the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; the National Institute of General Medical Sciences; the National Institute of Mental Health; the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke; the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases; the National Cancer Institute; and the Office of AIDS Research.

The 19 NIH institutes, centers and offices contributing to the contracts are: National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Center for Research Resources, National Eye Institute, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institute of Nursing Research, and the Office of AIDS Research.

Funding was provided by the Roddenberry Foundation, National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Eye Institute, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institute of Mental Health, California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, Prostate Cancer Foundation, and the Leona M. & Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust.

«Hemoglobin in the blood takes up oxygen in the gills of fish and the lungs of humans.

In recent years, researchers have developed so - called «senolytic» drugs that wipe out senescent cells in aging mice and mouse models of age - related disease, exploiting the high dependence of these cells on specific biochemical survival pathways.9, 10 In these studies, senolytic drugs have restored exercise capacity9 and formation of new blood and immune precursor cells11 in aging mice to near youthful norms, and prevented or treated mouse models of diseases of aging like osteoarthritis, 12 fibrotic lung disease, 13 hair loss, 14 atherosclerosis, 15,16 and age - related diseases of the heart itself.9 UNITY Biotechnology is leading a growing charge toward the clinic, with human clinical trials expected to begin in 2019.

Rather than keeping oxygen in their lungs like humans do, whales» bodies are specially adapted to store oxygen in their blood and muscles.

Saiyong Zhu, PhD, Shaohua Xu, PhD, Tao Xu, PhD, Yu Zhang, PhD, and Tianhua Ma, PhD also participated in this research at Gladstone, which was supported by the Roddenberry Foundation, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Energy Institute, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, the National Institute of Mental Health / National Institutes of Health, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the United States Department of Defense and the William K. Bowes, Jr..

Funding was provided by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institute of Drug Abuse, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Agilent University Relations, Uehara Memorial Foundation Research, and the UCSF - Gladstone Center for AIDS Research.

Funding was provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Eye Institute, California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, National Basic Research Program of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province.

Additionally, essential metals like calcium can be toxic at supraphysiologic levels and chromium as the Cr +3 ion is an essential trace element important for maintaining correct blood sugar levels, but as the Cr +6 ion is a known human lung carcinogen.

A combination of limited human data and a wealth of animal studies show that phthalates, as only one of many chemicals in fragrances, can impair reproduction and development, alter liver and kidney function, damage the heart and lungs, and effect blood clotting.

In indigenous Australians and Papua New Guineans, mingling with the Denisovans (the «other Neanderthal,» an ancestral human living primarily in Asia) introduced genes related to «spermatogenesis, fertilization, cold acclimation, circadian rhythm, development of brain, neural tube, face, and olfactory pit, immunity,» as well as «female pregnancy, development of face, lung, heart, skin, nervous system, and male gonad, visual and smell perception, response to heat, pain, hypoxia, and UV, lipid transport, metabolism, blood coagulation, wound healing, aging.»

There is INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE [1,4,5] about the effectiveness of lycopene supplements in the prevention or treatment of age - related macular degeneration (AMD), asthma, atherosclerosis, benign prostate hyperplasia, cancer (brain, breast, cervical, lung, ovarian, pancreatic, prostate), cataracts, coronary heart disease, diabetes type 2, gingivitis, high blood pressure, hot flashes in menopausal women, human papilloma virus (HPV) infection, inflammation, infertility, kidney disease, mouth sores (oral leukoplakia), or as an anticoagulant (blood thinner) or antioxidant or as sun protection.

This antioxidant is naturally found in the liver, prostate, skin, adrenal glands, lungs, colon and blood serum in humans.

Studies in animals and humans have shown that dietary glutathione increases blood levels of glutathione, but one study in mice suggested that under ordinary conditions, dietary glutathione can not boost its own concentration in other tissues except in the lung, where large amounts of glutathione are needed to maintain the fluidity of mucus.

Heartworm disease is a preventable yet serious condition caused by parasitic worms living in the arteries of the lungs, heart, and surrounding blood vessels of dogs, cats, wild canines and felines, other mammal species, and in rare cases, humans.

Closest to it is a narrow elongated platform held up by breast - like shapes and vaginal mounds, upon which rests a creature that appears to be all organs, veins and arteries, its structure and coloration evocative of renderings of the human cardiovascular system with lungs, heart, kidneys, and liver and its circulation of oxygen poor and rich blood identified in red and blue.

The internal and external givens of the body, such as limbs, torso, genitals, intestines, lungs, blood, heart, brain, are not experienced by embodied human beings as a collection of discrete parts.