Sentences with phrase «like other tissues in our bodies»

Pancreatic cancer and other cancers can only thrive, grow and spread if they have nutrients from blood, just like other tissues in our bodies.

Not exact matches

Blumberg writes, «The success of Dove's experiment depended upon the ability of an isolated horn bud, like the regenerating limb of a newt, to grow independently of other tissues in the calf's body.»

So, at the dawn of our universe — and I have to emphasize our universe, because there could be others — so, dawn of our universe, physicists think there was one type of force, one type of matter and that as the cosmos expanded, as space expanded, it cooled and things started to condense out like snow flakes, and over time that single force broke, it differentiated; and something similar happens in the human body as we develop from a single cell; we differentiate, different tissues form in our bodies, different layers of tissues.

Such «induced pluripotent stem cells,» like other stem cells, are able to transform themselves into any type of cell in the body — making them ideal biological clay for tissue engineers to sculpt.

This gene is believed to signal availability of other substances, like oxygen, and to interact with intracellular pathways regulating growth and nutrient uptake in other tissues of the body.

The Ubx - abdA genes — like other homeotic genes, including the one that can cause a fruit fly to grow a leg out of its head — orient the embryonic tissues as to where they lie in the body.

This paradigm of harnessing cells in nearby areas of damage to replenish lost tissue is not just applicable to the heart; it may be useful in many other organs in the body that have support cells like fibroblasts.

The tissue in our genitals is like none other in the body — and there may be nothing more erotic than spreading oil into those parts of us that are as unique as our fingerprints and alight with nerve endings.

This happens because mucin - 2, the primary constituent of mucus in the gut, is 80 % carbohydrate, and when the body is carb - starved glucose is triaged for the benefit of the brain, starving other tissues like the gut.

Proteins help your body stay strong and builds muscle and other tissues (like organs and immune system) in your body.

A seven and one - half year study conducted on monkeys fed carrageenan, at the Albany Medical College, Albany, N.Y. found no changes in hematology or clinical chemistry values, no changes in organ weight or organ - to - body ratios, no storage of carrageenan - like material in the liver or other organs, and no gross microscopic changes in tissue.

There are instances when conventional medicine is like a miracle, but for the one in five people suffering from autoimmune disease such as Hashimoto's hypothyroidism (a disease in which the immune system attacks and destroys tissue in the body or brain), and countless others suffering from undiagnosed autoimmunity, chronic inflammation, severe pain, environmentally induced illnesses, food sensitivities, chronic viral, bacterial, or parasitic infections, brain chemistry imbalances, hormonal imbalances, hair loss, unexplained weight gain, and more — being told your lab tests are fine and you simply need an antidepressant can feel like a kick in the groin.

In this third installment of my series that is devoted to convincing you that protein, not micronutrients, may be the most under - appreciated supplement from both a preventive and therapeutic standpoint, I would like to discuss two papers that examine in great detail the ideal amount of protein needed to build muscle and maximize anabolic tissue growth / tissue repair mechanisms in many other parts of the bodIn this third installment of my series that is devoted to convincing you that protein, not micronutrients, may be the most under - appreciated supplement from both a preventive and therapeutic standpoint, I would like to discuss two papers that examine in great detail the ideal amount of protein needed to build muscle and maximize anabolic tissue growth / tissue repair mechanisms in many other parts of the bodin great detail the ideal amount of protein needed to build muscle and maximize anabolic tissue growth / tissue repair mechanisms in many other parts of the bodin many other parts of the body.

The brain like every other human tissue is made up of and utilizes protein, so we do have to eat enough protein while the brain is growing and a small amount for daily operation, but the major metabolic price of our larger brains is the large increase in the percentage of total calories used by our brains compared to animals with smaller brain to body weight ratio.