Sentences with phrase «lung cells eventually»

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.

Not exact matches

As CHI3L1 rescues cell after cell, the scarring builds up, eventually compromising the lung's ability to breathe.

For example, smoking changes the epigenetic makeup of lung cells, eventually leading to cancer.

Without these cells, the immune system recognizes a newly transplanted lung as harmful and mounts an attack that eventually can lead to rejection of the organ.

The researchers suggest that a single expandable embryonic lung progenitor population with broader developmental competence may eventually be used as an alternative for region - restricted adult tissue stem cells in regenerative medicine.