Sentences with phrase «more marrow»

Long bones contain more marrow than flat bones, so flat bones may be a better choice if loose stools are a problem.

But surprisingly, Pierce said, examination of two major bones in the leg, the tibia and femur, in a living animal showed the receptor deficient mice actually had more marrow fat and lower bone mass.

Not exact matches

Today, the organization employs approximately 30 people, has registered more than 160,000 U.S. donors and has facilitated more than 300 bone marrow transplants.

Gandhi said he chooses to walk in the meat and marrow of life, and that nonviolent change isn't wishful — it's more powerful and it's a lasting way of getting conflict resolved.

When the erosions of age begin to leave their mark on my body, and still more on my mind; when the ills that must diminish my life or put an end to it strike me down from without or grow up from within me; when I reach that painful moment at which I suddenly realize that I am a sick man or that I am growing old; above all at that final moment when I feel I am losing hold on myself and becoming wholly passive in the hands of those great unknown forces which first formed me: at all these sombre moments grant me, Lord, to understand that it is you (provided my faith is strong enough) who are painfully separating the fibres of my being so as to penetrate to the very marrow of my substance and draw me into yourself

Nowhere is this more apparent than in the ancient and deep identification of women with nature, an identification so profound that it touches the very marrow of our being: our birth from the bodies of our mothers and our nourishment from the body of the earth.

Right now, scientists think that the reason for this is that the amygdala activity causes more bone marrow, which increases the plaque in the arteries, they become inflamed and then leads to the problems.

Such embryo research might teach us more about cell differentiation and early embryo development, it might make possible greater success in bone marrow transplants, and it might help us to treat more successfully degenerative diseases and spinal cord injuries.

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Then there's Marrow, which is more of an American comfort food concept.

Share plates including New York City favorites Tuna Poke Wonton Tacos, Thai Style Crispy Shrimp and Tomato Tartare join Roasted Bone Marrow, Oven Braised Chicken Meatballs and more.

Here is the 2004 Heisman winner, the senior quarterback who turned down millions in order to draw the marrow from college life, to hang out with his boys one more year.

If your baby shows signs of «failure to thrive,» such as slow weight gain or not reaching developmental milestones, offer your baby bone marrow more frequently and in the place of fats like butter and ghee.

Zucchini (or Italian squash)-- a popular summer squash — is also known as a courgette in many parts of the world... and to confuse matters even more, some people also call it a vegetable marrow!

While scientists have previously had success in 3D printing a range of human stem cell cultures developed from bone marrow or skin cells, a team from Scotland's Heriot - Watt University claims to be the first to print the more delicate, yet more flexible, human embryonic stem cells (hESCs).

In mice undergoing a bone marrow transplant, ATG16L1 - deficient mice were three times more likely to die or show signs of transplant rejection than mice with the protective action of ATG16L1 in place.

For more than a decade, physicians convinced breast cancer patients that bone marrow transplants were their best hope of salvation.

Individuals with bone marrow lesions (BMLs) on their MRI scan were found to have osteoarthritis that progressed more rapidly than those that did not.

This monocyte production created a vicious cycle whereby high blood sugar levels boosted neutrophil numbers, leading to excess secretion of S100A8 / S100A9, which in turn stimulated bone marrow cells to produce more monocytes.

So Izpisúa Belmonte and his colleagues harvested fibroblasts, which are far more common than stem cells, from the skin of people with the bone marrow disease Fanconi anaemia.

The work could help make marrow transplants more effective by improving the survival of transplanted cells.

Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) scientists have taken the first steps toward developing a treatment that would make bone marrow — blood stem cell — transplantation safer and, as a result, more widely available to the millions of people living with blood disorders like sickle cell anemia, thalassemia, and AIDS.

More nutritious than muscle, marrow becomes accessible when the radius is cracked in two.

Being overweight or obese has been known to increase the risk of multiple myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cells in the blood and bone marrow that develops more often after age 60.

They also plan to adapt the technology so that it can generate more precise white blood cell counts, which would make it useful for monitoring bone marrow transplant recipients or people with certain infectious diseases, Castro - Gonzalez says.

Studying mouse monocytes in more detail, the researchers found that the increase in TNF levels that occurs with age causes premature release of immature monocytes from the bone marrow into the blood stream.

In the paper that is now published, they make the stem cells in the bone marrow to produce more telomerase, thus enabling them to repair their excessively shortened telomeres.

«Ferric citrate binds the phosphorus in food and also increases iron in the blood, and it allows patients to need less or no IV iron and medicines to make their bone marrow produce more blood cells,» said Dr. Lewis.

Another is dyskeratosis congenita, a rare bone marrow disorder accompanied by much more serious effects such as early aging and predisposition to cancer.

If validated in clinical trials, the signature would help physicians better identify which AML patients would benefit from chemotherapy and which patients have a prognosis so grave that they may be candidates for more aggressive treatments such as bone - marrow transplantation.

A personalized method for testing the effectiveness of drugs that treat multiple myeloma may predict quickly and more accurately the best treatments for individual patients with the bone marrow cancer.

Scientists were even more stunned in July 2002 when researchers led by stem cell biologist Catherine Verfaillie at the University of Minnesota reported that bone marrow — derived cells they had injected into young embryos contributed to all three embryonic layers, just as embryonic stem cells would do.

The leading theory for this observation is that the foreign bone marrow cells can more easily recognize and attack cancer cells in their new host's body.

In contrast, a more specialized group of stem cells found in the bone marrow generally begets blood cells and immune cells exclusively.

The presence of unstable hemoglobins is extremely harmful; the bone marrow must overwork to make more hemoglobin and the liver and spleen become stressed by the need to remove wastes from the breakdown of the unstable hemoglobin.

This makes bone marrow stem cells more likely to form cells that hold bone together than cells that make bone itself.

Within bone marrow, stem cells can differentiate into mature blood cells or self - renew, meaning make more stem cells.

More recently, physicians have learned how to harvest blood - forming stem cells from a donor's blood and transplant them into a patient, sidestepping the need for an operating room and a needle stick into the pelvis to extract bone marrow.

Antibody PF - 06747143 both attacks AML tumor cells and moves them from the nurturing bone marrow environment into the peripheral blood streams, where they are more vulnerable.

GVHD affects up to half of the more than 30,000 people worldwide each year who receive an immune system transplanted from a donor, as either bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cells.

Not only does our approach have the potential to get these cells out of the marrow, making them more susceptible to standards of care, it is designed to also directly attacks the cancer cells.

According to the National Marrow Donor Program, depending on race, between 60 percent and 87 percent of potential recipients find at least one match, and a total of more than 260 patients receive transplants every month.

In another finding, female scoliosis patients received two times more X-rays than non-surgical patients, amounting to twice the radiation exposure to the breasts, ovaries and bone marrow, and correlating to an over two percent increased lifetime risk of fatal breast cancer, almost one percent risk of fatal leukemia, and three percent risk of genetic defects.

In their report published in Cancer Immunology Research, a team from the Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center (VIC) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) describes how adding AMD3100 (plerixafor)-- previously approved for the stimulation of stem cell production prior to bone marrow transplantation — to their investigational drug VIC - 008 more than doubled the animals» survival time.

As part of a clinical trial conducted at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, Ildstad and colleagues extracted bone marrow - producing cells from kidney donors and then removed cells likely to cause GVHD while expanding the number of «facilitating cells» that make an organ recipient's system more receptive.

More than 30 patients have been treated for SCID, and more than 90 percent of those children have been cured of their disorder — an improvement over the 50 percent chance of recovery offered by bone marrow transplaMore than 30 patients have been treated for SCID, and more than 90 percent of those children have been cured of their disorder — an improvement over the 50 percent chance of recovery offered by bone marrow transplamore than 90 percent of those children have been cured of their disorder — an improvement over the 50 percent chance of recovery offered by bone marrow transplants.

More than 40 clinical trials are underway using other kinds of stem cells, mainly bone marrow cells from the patients themselves.

«Transplantation allows clinicians to treat the cancer most effectively by using more intense doses of chemotherapy than can typically be given, while avoiding fears of wiping out the bone marrow.

Importantly, researchers found that the drugs are only effective when administered directly into a vein (intravenous), rather than the more commonly used technique of administering the drugs directly into bone marrow (intraosseous).

At that key point, Takebe added two more types of cell known to help to recreate organ - like function in animals: endothelial cells, which line blood vessels, taken from an umbilical cord; and mesenchymal cells, which can differentiate into bone, cartilage or fat, taken from bone marrow.