Sentences with phrase «leaky blood vessels»

The researchers evaluated the use of the EyePACS «tele - ophthalmology» system to detect edema (wetness) resulting from leaky blood vessels in the retina at the back of the eye.

In wet AMD, the growth of leaky blood vessels which damage the retina can be stopped..

As a person ages, these plaques, along with leaky blood vessels, tend to interrupt normal rod and cone functioning.

This helped to confirm that in addition to relying on leaky blood vessels for nanoparticles to gain access to the tumor, a major inducible vascular transit pathway is available in the form of the vesicle transport system.

«Plugging leaky blood vessels to save vision.»

In AMD, the retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells that support the cells in the eye that detect light wear out, and there is also the growth of abnormal, leaky blood vessels below the retina.

Mice that lacked HIF2alpha had much lower levels of VE - PTP and had much leakier blood vessels than mice that can make HIF2alpha.

These findings suggest that systemic blockade of PKal is well tolerated and effective in treating leaky blood vessels caused by another disease.

«Importantly, this analysis helped us identify the protein fibrinogen as the key culprit in MS, by demonstrating how its entry into the brain through leaky blood vessels impacted the health of individual nerve cells.»

Leaky blood vessels in the brain called cerebral microbleeds are associated with an increased risk of physical and cognitive disability in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a new study by researchers in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo.

VEGF has been tried before, but in quantities too large, it stimulates the growth of leaky blood vessels that don't provide long - term oxygenation.

Scurvy — joint pain, rotting gums, leaky blood vessels, physical and mental degeneration — plagued European and U.S. expeditions even in the 20th century.

If the problems continue, they progress into full - blown diabetes characterized by blood glucose levels of 140 milligrams per deciliter or higher, organ failure, leaky blood vessels, damaged nerves and heightened risk of stroke and heart disease.

Infection with the mosquito - borne dengue virus can be mild, but it sometimes results in shock or death due to leaky blood vessels.

Once the sensors have traveled into a tumor's leaky blood vessels, they use special targeting molecules to bind to receptors on the surface of blood vessel cells.

Barenholz's nanoparticles generally stayed in the bloodstream and avoided the heart and other organs, but when they reached the leaky blood vessels in the tumor, they slipped through those holes.

High levels or prolonged release of TNF can lead to systemic problems, including widespread loss of fluid from distended and leaky blood vessels.

Choroidal neovascularization is the out - of - control growth of fragile, leaky blood vessels that distort vision and damage the retina, which is seen in both diabetic retinopathy and the «wet» form of age - related macular degeneration (AMD).