Sentences with phrase «make blood vessels»

Placing cold or ice water on a dog suffering from heat stroke can make blood vessels constrict, causing the internal temperature to continue to rise.

Berries are excellent sources of plant chemicals known as anthocyanins, which seem to lower blood pressure and make blood vessels more flexible.

This releases the substance PGE2, which can make the blood vessels in the brain expand and thus cause head pain,» says Master's student Sebastian Bao Dinh Bui.

The gel, with the brand name Intradose CDDP, consists of collagen with added adrenaline, to make blood vessels constrict and reduce the spread of the drug to healthy parts of the liver.

Opioids also may make blood vessels leaky, making tissues more receptive to cancer cells looking for places to build a tumor, Moss says.

As well as weakening the tumour, which makes it less able to grow and spread to other parts of the body, the drug made blood vessels become more leaky, enabling more chemotherapy drugs to spill into the tumour.

The researchers found that when taking the supplement, dilation of subjects» arteries improved by 42 percent, making their blood vessels, at least by that measure, look like those of someone 15 to 20 years younger.

The study showed that beet juice with high amounts of nitrate made the blood vessels relax and return to normal function, while beet juice with no nitrate (the placebo) did not have any effect.

As expected, high altitude made blood vessels contract.

A few years ago, Laura Niklason, one of my postdocs, showed that the only way we could make a blood vessel was to shake it.

Elastin, an elastic protein found in connective tissue throughout the body, makes the blood vessels flexible.

Cheresh said that the results show that the host response to the cancer — whether or not it is making blood vessel - maturing cells, for example — is critical in terms of susceptibility to therapy.

The inflamed conjunctiva (the clear film covering the inner eyelid and the white part of the eye) makes blood vessels appear larger than normal.

Vitamin C helps with collagen manufacture, a protein made use of for making blood vessels, cartilage, ligaments, tendons and skin.

Arachidonic Acid is also responsible for the production of downstream prostaglandins and thromboxanes, which play a role in making the blood vessels dilated and leaky:

According to a small trial of nutritional scientists at Iran University of Medical Sciences, a daily dose of 200 milligrams Q10 makes the blood vessels of heart patients healthier.

Nitric oxide — what it does, it basically improve circulation by making the blood vessels open.

By making blood vessels better able to expand, HIIT can improve the cardiovascular system's ability to respond to added exertion.

Not exact matches

Diuresis Caffeine increases the need to urinate because it increases blood flow through the kidneys and dilates the blood vessels, making the kidneys produce more waste.

The effect of the hormones is to make the heart beat faster, the rate of breathing increase, blood vessels dilate and bring more blood to the muscles, hair become erect, the sugar content of the blood increase.

A: Collagen is the most abundant protein in our bodies — it's found in our muscles, tendons, bones, skin, gut and even our blood vessels — making up 30 percent of the body's protein.

Some fan's also need to be realistic that Wenger will still be the Arsenal manager next season no matter how many banners they make or how many blood vessels they break!

The warmth will help open up your blood vessels and hopefully, help your milk to begin dripping, thereby making it easier for your baby to latch on.

Swollen blood vessels and extra swelling in the breast tissue itself, combined with an abundance of milk, may make your breasts temporarily painful and engorged, but nursing frequently in the first few days will help relieve any discomfort.

Lying on your back for too long might make you feel nauseated because your uterus presses on a large blood vessel called the inferior vena cava.

The umbilical cord linking the placenta and the baby is normally made up of three blood vessels.

All of the lessons I learned during my first pregnancy have come flooding back; from the way I do my eye - make up to cover the red speckles around my eyes (popped blood vessels from the pressure of throwing up) to the way every decision in my day has to be filtered through controlling my nausea.

It is these cells that grow to form the placenta, an organ that is entirely made up of blood vessels.

Otherwise known as a «strawberry mark,» it is a very common type of birthmark that's made of blood vessels.

A change in the way your blood vessels are can help your baby, but can make you feel like you might faint.

Toddlers below three months have a thin cell coating between the blood vessels and the nervous system that make it easy for bacterial or virus to penetrate and cause damage.

Advances in radiology have made it possible for specially trained neurosurgeons, called endovascular neurosurgeons, to make repairs from within blood vessels using catheters and guide wires.

The organs made insulin, grew to the right size and were infiltrated by monkey blood vessels (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.0812253106).

A major obstacle to improving treatment for the 3,470 cases of the disease expected in the United States this year is the blood - brain barrier, the name given to the tight fit of cells that make up the blood vessels in the brain.

This molecule was known to make certain leukocytes attach to blood vessels, and our previous published work using AIDP patient leukocytes in the laboratory provided a clue that it may be crucially important.»

«What we may be looking at,» he adds, «is a future way to prevent metastasis to many organs simultaneously» using drugs that make tumor cells let go of the blood vessels they cling to.

It's used to make everything from shoes and car parts to blood vessels and guns.

Some heart disease patients may not be able to grow new blood vessels around blocked arteries because they can't make enough of a vital protein, according to a report in the latest issue of Circulation.

He and his colleagues grew the vasculature with blood - vessel - making (endothelial) cells.

«I started seeing the little holes in the bone that the blood vessels go through,» said Harpel, an amateur fossil hunter who made this discovery in 2012.

This provided further evidence that VEGF from the amacrine and horizontal cells really does make a difference in blood vessel growth.

Researchers found less evidence for the formation of new blood vessels and fewer protein markers that signal neuroplasticity, or the brain's ability to make new connections between neurons.

Any surgery carries the risk of infection, and the procedure itself can actually damage the blood vessels, making them more vulnerable to clots and aneurysms.

In this study, we found that chloroquine not only has an effect on the growth of the cancer cells, but also makes the tumor environment less aggressive by normalizing the abnormal blood vessels in the tumor,» says Patrizia Agostinis.

Excessive or uncontrolled inflammation can actually make injuries worse and contribute to disease in a couple of different ways — by activating cell death processes, clogging and rupturing blood vessels and producing toxic molecules like free radicals.

Scientists report today that artificial blood vessels made using a person's own skin cells work well in patients receiving kidney dialysis.

The blood vessels and capillaries serving the kidney also become constricted, making the problem worse.

Moreover, a substantial increase in circulating endothelial progenitor cells, which repair damaged blood vessels, was noted after consuming bread made from the ancient grain Verna.

CCL5 attracts tumor cells to the lungs and lymph nodes, and VEGF increases the number of blood vessels and makes them more porous, allowing tumor cells to metastasize and infiltrate the lungs.

The tissue, called the stroma, includes fat cells, or adipocytes, that provide padding; fibroblasts, which make the framework for tissue; pericytes in blood vessels, which are contractile cells that help regulate blood pressure; as well as myoepithelial cells comprising the outer layer of the ductal system through which milk flows.