Sentences with phrase «like human lungs»

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I would like to repeat, the brain is just like any other organ and just as capable of failing as a human heart, a kidney or a lung.

He believes that the popularly «conservative» refusal to relate global warming to human activity is like tobacco company executives» denial of a link between smoking and lung cancer.

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.

I suspected if we could comprehensively measure all Olympians in finals, we would see significant differences [when compared to non-Olympians], but we would not see them having freakish things like 200 percent more lung capacity, or muscles that can contract at twice the [maximum] force of a normal human muscle.

Compared to a control (left), epalrestat treatment (right) reduces the number of metastatic tumors (arrowheads) in the lungs of mice injected with human basal - like breast cancer cells.

One sponge - like rangeomorph had a surface area of 58 square metres, about the same as the interior of a human lung (PNAS, doi.org/t6d).

She expects she will find laminum - 8 uniquely overexpressed in other invasive cancers, like lung and colon cancer, but to date she has tested for it in only human brain and metastatic breast cancer.

Human lungs, like all organs, begin their existence as clumps of undifferentiated stem cells.

In the human voice box, or larynx, air from the lungs is pushed past the vocal cords, which then start moving back and forth sideways like a flag fluttering in the wind.

They also hope to use what they learn from simple models of different tissue types to ultimately build functional human tissues like lung and kidney and neural circuits using larger - scale techniques.

Wiedinmyer wondered if this burning waste could be an underappreciated source of air pollutants, from greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide to tiny particles and toxic chemicals that can harm human lungs.

«The virus found in Betty was one that looked like it came from a human, and the level of virus in the lung was comparable to what we see in children.»

Resulting environmental problems, including smog, haze, and acid rain, contribute to human health problems like asthma, lung cancer, respiratory diseases, and premature death.

Hyperoxia - induced DNA damage causes decreased DNA methylation in human lung epithelial - like A549 cells.

Elevated expression of hexokinase II protects human lung epithelial - like A549 cells against oxidative injury.

Building on that project, the researchers have now designed a machine that smokes cigarettes in a very human - like manner, and hooked it up to organs - on - chips lined by human lung small airway cells so the smoke interacts with these cells in a realistic way.

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.

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.

(2) Under the bed looks like the top of a coffin, but (3) There is weight, human weight on top that you can slip into and make heavier, and you listen to the heart beat while you watch it pump and hear the nostrils hiss when their lungs press air and envy even the shortest breath.

Most pets don't perspire like humans, but use their lungs to get rid of excess heat.

The effects of smoke on horses are similar to effects on humans: irritation of the eyes and respiratory tract, aggravation of conditions like heaves (recurrent airway obstruction), and reduced lung function.

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.

It's like saying «well, I want to see how the living human body works, so to simplify my study of the living lungs, I'm gonna take out his kidneys to remove the kidney variations»... you are pulling out part of the very system that you are studying.