Sentences with phrase «injured cells repair»

The body moves quickly when it gets a high dose; injured cells repair the breaks quickly and efficiently, usually within a few hours.

Not exact matches

«The study culminates years of work and provides physical evidence that sleep deprivation injures cells and that sleep recovery restores the balance between, among other parameters, DNA damage and repair,» Dr. Everson said.

One research group investigating this possibility followed the activity of fetal microchimeric cells in a mother rat after the maternal heart was injured: they discovered that the fetal cells migrated to the maternal heart and differentiated into heart cells helping to repair the damage.

Previous researchers have also used cell transplant technologies to repair injured hearts, but these used CMs organized in two dimensions with a random, myofibril structure, which is different from natural heart tissue.

When the modified cells were injected into mice whose hind limbs had been injured, the tissue that regrew to repair the damage had three times the blood vessel density of similar tissue in mice given unmodified cells.

Next, the research team will examine specifically whether these liver cells obtained from human embryonic stem cells in a dish help repair injured livers in preclinical animal models of liver disease.

First there is a beneficial, early acute inflammation response that removes dead cells and begins repairs to the injured area.

When the liver is injured by infection or toxins like alcohol, it repairs the damage by activating smooth, muscular liver cells.

It feeds back to protect injured cells from dying and simultaneously stimulates tissue repair to patch the damage that has occurred.

Mitochondria help injured muscle cells (myofibers) repair by soaking up calcium that enters from the site of injury and using it to trigger increased production of reactive oxygen species.

First, when muscle is damaged by injury or degenerative disease such as muscular dystrophy, muscle stem cells — or satellite cells — need to differentiate into mature muscle cells to repair injured muscles.

Transplantation of Stem Cells is a potential clinical therapy for repair and regeneration of injured spinal cord, and brings new hope for patients.

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But in earlier work Drs. Summer and Romero have shown that when lung tissue is injured — by things like viral infection, particulate inhalation, or other insults — lung cells eventually stop producing lipids in order to conserve energy for other cellular repairs.

The injured pancreases, forced to repair themselves, soon swelled with double the normal number of beta cells.

Adipose - derived regenerative cells (ADRCs) are understood to promote repair and healing in both scarred and injured tissue.

They are also commonly referred to as «repair cells» for their ability to heal injured organs or body parts by accelerating tissue repair and regeneration, decreasing inflammation as well as increasing blood flow through the growth of new blood vessels.

When injury occurs the inflammatory process developed in the injured area sends out signals activating the stem cells and promoting tissue repair and growth.

Normally, apoE is involved in repairing nerve cells that have been injured, for example, by a concussion.

In dividing cells, BRCA1 helps repair a type of DNA damage known as double - strand breaks that can occur when cells are injured.

«When heart muscle is damaged, the body is unable to repair the dead or injured cells,» explained Deepak Srivastava, MD, director of the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and a co-founder of the new company.

He originally became interested in looking at how the immune system might be involved in regeneration because as a «first responder» when someone is injured, macrophages would be the cells responsible for «preparing the ground for tissue repairs.»

In response to a heart attack, fibroblasts convert to this cell type, which secretes collagen and contracts the matrix of fibers around the injured heart tissue to repair the defect.

We now show that astrocytes generated from the same population of human fetal glial precursor cells, by exposure to either bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) or ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF), promote widely divergent outcomes with respect to repairing the injured adult spinal cord.

Adult stem cells are commonly referred to as «repair cells» for this ability to heal injured tissues, organs or body parts, their primary functions being:

When heart muscle is damaged, the body is unable to repair the dead or injured cells.

Theorists envision creating machines that will be able to travel through the circulatory system, cleaning the arteries as they go; sending out troops to track down and destroy cancer cells and tumors; or repairing injured tissue at the site of the wound, even to the point of replacing missing limbs or damaged organs.

I firmly believe that basic knowledge is absolutely necessary; if we are going to be able to repair injured retinas, we need to know how different retinal cells are made normally, so we can remake them in a culture dish and use them to replace injured retinal cells.

These adult stem cells are commonly referred to as «repair cells» for their ability to heal injured organs or body parts, their primary functions being:

LA JOLLA, CA — Stem cells are key to the promise of regenerative medicine: the repair or replacement of injured tissues with custom grown substitutes.

In other major projects in the laboratory, we investigate the molecular mechanisms that regulate endothelial cell polarization and movement, a critical and initiating event in the formation of new blood vessels and in repair of injured vessels.

In lab experiments, researchers found that just one touch of the TNT completely repaired the injured legs of lab mice over a three - week period by turning the skin cells of the animals into vascular cells.

Bone Marrow — Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Repair of the Injured Lung (October, 2004) in American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology.

These adult stem cells are commonly referred to as «repair cells» for their ability to heal injured organs or body parts.

These adult stem cells are commonly referred to as «repair cells» for their ability to heal injured tissues, organs or body parts, their primary functions being:

His laboratory is currently trying to understand how to regenerate the diseased and injured visual system and is now initiating pre-clinical studies in humans using virtual reality to try to stimulation repair and recovery of retinal cells in glaucoma and other degenerative conditions.

Athletes and hard exercisers may have low body B12 status, due to increased metabolism and demand for this vitamin to repair damaged blood cells and injured muscle tissue, and to carry more oxygen around in the blood while exercising.

Milk thistle's active compounds help to repair cells within the liver, while promoting regeneration of injured tissue (6).