Sentences with phrase «kidney tissues taken»

Kristin Møller Gabrielsen of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim and colleagues report in the journal Environmental Research that they examined the liver, muscle and kidney tissues taken from seven polar bears killed by Inuit hunters in East Greenland in 2011 and analysed the effect of more than 50 contaminants in plasma samples from Ursus maritimus, to see what effect organohalogen compounds could have on the bears» thyroid systems.

Not exact matches

As fat cells bulge, the body tries to store glucose in other tissues, including the liver, kidney, heart, muscles, and blood vessels, where the rotting process takes hold.

This is a problem, says Frangioni, because when fluorescent molecules are injected into the blood, only a small fraction is taken up by the tissue of interest; the rest continue to circulate through the blood until filtered either by the kidneys or liver and excreted from the body.

The researchers analyzed the concentrations of 5,713 different lipids, or fat molecules and their derivatives, present in samples of brain, kidney and muscle tissues taken from humans, chimpanzees, macaques and mice.

Statin intolerance is a known but rare adverse effect of the drugs; early studies found that some people taking them developed muscle weakness that could develop into severe degeneration of muscle tissue that then damages the kidneys and other organs.

The liver and the kidney take the brunt of this impact, but inevitably some toxic residues make their way directly into the bloodstream and are ultimately stored in fatty tissue.

This assumption, however, has now been called to question by recent evidence suggesting that people taking calcium supplementation are more likely to develop heart attacks, strokes, kidney stones, and painful bone spurs affecting their soft tissues and joints.

A small collection of other tissues rely substantially on anaerobic glycolysis simply because they do not take up enough oxygen from the blood, and these include the lens and cornea of the eye, the kidney medulla and the testes.

Kidney biopsies (a snippet of tissue taken laparoscopically or surgically) might tell your vet more about what undesirable processes are occurring in an individual pet's kidneys.

That is because it takes time for these fluid - filled cysts to enlarge sufficiently to destroy the normal kidney tissue around them.

The increasing size eventually takes over healthy kidney tissue and can lead to potentially fatal kidney failure.