Sentences with phrase «many tiny blood vessels»

In some very rare instances, a forceful spit up or vomit can cause a tear in a tiny blood vessel in your baby's esophagus.

I remembered nursing her in those early days, when her eyelids were still translucent, tiny blood vessels visible.

Spider veins are tiny blood vessels that become misshapen.

This can, however, disrupt the tiny blood vessels leading to loss of your nipple later on.

The inner nose is full of tiny blood vessels and is one of the most sensitive parts of the body.

When the embryo implants in the uterus, it can intrude on the tiny blood vessels in the spot that it attaches to.

These skin patches are caused by dilations in your baby's capillaries (tiny blood vessels), which are visible beneath his super-thin skin.

The H5N1 strain causes tiny blood vessels throughout the body of a chicken, for example, to collapse.

Many develop headaches, pain and fever, but some develop a life - threatening condition where tiny blood vessels in the body begin to leak.

In sickle cell anemia, a single genetic mutation leads to abnormal, crescent - shaped red blood cells that clot in tiny blood vessels throughout the body, causing severe pain and eventual organ damage.

First, they 3 - D - printed wormlike strands of a gel called agarose, each serving as a cast of a tiny blood vessel.

In May, a second team, led by Ali Khademhosseini, reported building tiny blood vessels that branch or merge in three dimensions, as blood vessels do in human organs.

To 3D print vessels on such a small scale — 100 microns, small enough for tiny blood vessels — Chen leveraged his connection to Innolign, a Boston biomedical technology company he helped found.

As a result, fewer infected red blood cells might clog up the tiny blood vessels in patients» organs.

After analyzing the videos, they found that, as the animal dipped its tongue in and out of the flower, tiny blood vessels on the hairs of its tongue became engorged with blood, prompting the hairs to stand straight up and drag even more nectar up from the flower.

Instead of dilating and increasing blood flow to the heart during stress, in women the tiny blood vessels are constricted, leading to areas of reduced blood flow,» said Vaccarino, who is also chair of the department of epidemiology at the Emory University School of Public Health.

One of the main obstacles to such tissue engineering has been producing the network of tiny blood vessels that keep newly growing natural tissue alive.

Cambridge, Mass. — February 19, 2014 — A new bioprinting method developed at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University creates intricately patterned, three - dimensional tissue constructs with multiple types of cells and tiny blood vessels.

The researcher will present evidence showing that tiny blood vessels that supply the brainstem become inflamed in animal models with high blood pressure, potentially because sticky molecules trap inflammatory white blood cells.

For example, he explains, smooth muscle cells grow thicker in large blood vessels like arteries, but similar type of contractile cells begin to die off in tiny blood vessels in the eye.

In an NIH - funded study, scientists were able to direct human stem cells to form networks of tiny blood vessels that can connect to the existing circulation in mice.

Implantation occurs when the cells nestle into the uterine lining and rupture tiny blood vessels.

In a new study, scientists led by Selvi C. Jeyaraj of the Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital have identified a biological mechanism that may be responsible for icy extremities: an interaction between a series of molecules and receptors on smooth muscle cells that line the skin's tiny blood vessels.

Jeyaraj and her colleagues studied smooth muscle cells derived from tiny blood vessels harvested from human skin biopsies and similar cells from mouse tail arteries.

He has watched the inflammation - producing proteins ADAM17 sets free into the bloodstream make a beeline for the heart, where they thicken and stiffen the walls of the tiny blood vessels that help feed the important muscle.

For example, the structural integrity of tiny blood vessels, the physical limits of synthetic tubing, the complex molecular exchange between fetus and placenta, and the often - poor outcomes of premature infants (despite receiving today's most cutting - edge interventions) all speak to the immeasurably complex science attending fetal viability outside the human womb.

The kidneys house tiny blood vessels that filter waste products from the blood.

Sinus blockage triggered by a food or seasonal allergy can cause swelling of the tiny blood vessels near the surface of the skin — and, voila, «darkened» areas around your nose and eyes.

Tiny black dots that look like seeds (actually dried blood from tiny blood vessels) may appear on the surface of warts.

Second, it affects tiny blood vessels and the brain's ability to control blood flow, which is essential to keep it working normally, he explained.

Tiny blood vessels may become more visible under the skin.

Note: He makes comments about Vitamin P in citrus fruits (i.e. citrin), which helps the blood to flow through the tiny blood vessels, niacin also does this (a B vitamin)

• Kidney failure • Peripheral vascular disease, hardening and narrowing of the arteries (atherosclerosis) that supply blood to the arms, legs, and other parts of the body • Retinopathy, or damage to the tiny blood vessels that supply blood to the light - sensitive lining of the back of the eye • Stroke

Alpha lipoic acid is one of the few aubstances that can pass the blood - brain barrier, a wall of tiny blood vessels.

In the nephron, a glomerulus — which is a tiny blood vessel, or capillary — intertwines with a tiny urine - collecting tube called a tubule.

Rutin is sometimes used therapeutically to strengthen capillaries (our tiny blood vessels) and so taken for things like varicose veins and haemorrhoids.

In both cases, the B vitamins may work by protecting tiny blood vessels in the retina of the eye and the inner ear.

The sudden change in temperature also strengthens our capillaries — tiny blood vessels that do a big job when it comes to blood circulation, tissue oxygenation and detox.

Also, one of the other changeable factors he talks about in the book is capillary density in the muscles... basically the number and density of the tiny blood vessels where oxygen and nutrient exchange take place.

The transport of interstitial fluid, which fills the spaces between cells, and maintaining its balance with circulatory fluids is another function of the lymphatic system.Tiny amounts of plasma migrate through the tiny blood vessels known as capillaries and into the spaces between cells.

Horse Chestnut reduces inflammation and tones up vein walls, plugs up minute holes and microscopic leaks in the tiniest blood vessels, reforces the strength of veins which promotes elasticity and prevents swelling and improves overall circulation.

As you drink and force your body to metabolize alcohol, you're converting ethanol into acetaldehyde and acetate in your liver, and this causes increased production of tiny blood vessel constrictors called thromboxanes.

-LSB-...] work by protecting tiny blood vessels in the retina of the eye and the inner ear.

Particularly organs that contain lots of tiny blood vessels, such as the brain, can be heavily impacted.

As a result the blood can't flow through those tiny blood vessels and oxygen and nutrients are not delivered to the joint tissue leading to gradual damage.

These cells live in the tiny blood vessels in the cat's lungs and fight to get rid of intruders, but the cat becomes ill as these cells try to kill off the larvae.

When a mite infested cat constantly scratches its ear, it can tear open tiny blood vessels in the ear flap, which can lead to permanent disfigurement.

Mosquitoes carrying heartworm larvae bite dogs and inject the infective larvae into the dog under the skin or into tiny blood vessels as the mosquito takes its blood meal.

All other living cells in the body are nourished by tiny blood vessels.

Human skin has many sweat glands in it, and beneath the surface of the skin is a vast network of tiny blood vessels called capillaries.