Sentences with phrase «more types of tissues»

Inflammation refers to irritation, perhaps swelling and even damage, to one or more types of tissues in the body.

Projects that would previously have taken hundreds of people and long time schedules can now be done by individual labs, meaning more types of tissues in more conditions can be investigated.

Not exact matches

Now, with new kinds of technologies that are coming up, new types of tissue engineering and, you know, some of the hopes that people have for stem cells and [the] like, it may be interesting to see if there are other ways, alternatives to dealing with really badly damaged hearts that would involve growing a new heart or replacing or repairing the damage d to a badly damaged heart that might make artificial hearts less important in the somewhat more distant future.

Besides displaying more natural signaling patterns, 3D cultures allow researchers to mix cell types in ways that mimic their interactions in living tissue, providing more accurate models of normal physiology and pathogenesis.

But even more far - ranging treatments may be possible with embryonic stem cells, the blank - slate cells that give rise to all organs and tissue types and that (theoretically) can repair all forms of organic damage and disease.

In the new study, the researchers found that the offspring of pregnant mice that consumed a high - fat diet developed liver fibrosis, a type of tissue scarring that is a sign that more serious disease will develop.

Dr Barber added, «The MRI allows us to distinguish between the brown fat, and the more well - known white fat that people associate with weight gain, due to the different water to fat ratio of the two tissue types.

One theory has been that calorie restriction slows age - related degeneration and enables more efficient tissue function by influencing the integrity and activity of adult stem cells, the precursor cells that dwell within specific tissues and give rise to the diversity of cell types that compose that tissue.

Scientists are beginning to identify cancer by its mutations rather than just its tissue of origin, allowing them to find drugs more precisely targeted to a particular disease type.

In June the team announced that the cells had given rise to almost every type of tissue — neurons, blood, liver, muscle, and more (researchers have not yet spotted sperm or egg tissue but hope to find them).

We think the laser coaxes the body to respond like it would to a lesser type of injury, triggering messages that cause skin to regenerate instead of create more scar tissue.»

«The edge of a tumor is more challenging to detect than cancer versus healthy tissue due to a mix of different tissue types, and it is the edge that surgeons want to know about,» Ramanujam says.

Then they rerouted blood vessels and one or more types of nerves to the transplanted tissue from the nonparalyzed side of the face.

«Some types of tissue repair take more time to heal than do others,» said Benoit.

Sheep have more than 20,000 different genes but not all of these are expressed in each tissue type in the body.

«This study opens up new areas to investigate how to rejuvenate tissues without necessarily increasing cancer risk, although many more tests will have to be done to determine how the risk of all types of liver cancers are altered.»

After a planarian is wounded, the type of injury determines the level fst expression ---- the more extreme the loss of tissue, the higher the level of fst expressed.

Though it's long been known that there are two forms of fat or adipose tissue, white, which stores calories, and brown, which burns them for energy and warmth, figuring out how to safely create more of the desirable brown type has remained elusive.

«There are other vertebrates, such as zebrafish, bichir and axolotl, which can regenerate many more different types of tissues, including limbs or appendages.

And if it wasn't hard enough, I heard more reports of somatic mosaicism (mutations present only in certain cell or tissue types) underlying disease susceptibility, meaning that DNA from blood cells may not be informative in some patients for some diseases.

With the recent development of transgenic mouse models, which allow labelling and manipulation of specific cell types, more and more emphasis has been placed on the tissue scale: How does the collective behavior of many cells gives rise to the architecture that is characteristic for given kind of tissue?

Inclusion Criteria: • Availability of tumor tissue for mesothelin expression testing • Histologically - confirmed, mesothelin - expressing metastatic or advanced non-metastatic disease (tumour type specific inclusion criteria) • At least one measurable lesion according to either Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) 1.1 or International Thymic Malignancy Interest Group (ITMIG) modified RECIST 1.1 as applicable • Adequate bone marrow, liver, renal and coagulation function • Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ≥ 50 % of the lower limit of normal (LLN) according to local institutional ranges • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) 0 or 1 Exclusion Criteria: • More than one prior anti - tubulin / microtubule agent • Corneal epitheliopathy or any eye disorder that may predispose the patients to this condition • Symptomatic Central nervous system (CNS) metastases and / or carcinomatous meningitis • Contraindication to both CT and MRI contrast agents • Active hepatitis B or C infection • Pregnant or breast - feeding patients • Tumor type specific exclusion criteria

And so again, I think that's a great advantage of this type of a system, and hopefully as people need more organ donors, this will be another set of tissues that could be used.

Adult stem cells were once believed to be more limited than embryonic stem cells, only giving rise to the same type of tissue from which they originated.

And in a similar way you have heart tissue that's embryonic, fetal and adult, and we don't really know which type of tissue is being developed, and that needs to be worked on more specifically.

The next step is to beef up the database of molecular profiles with many more samples of cancer tissue beyond the four varieties that Eberlin and her team studied initially, including types like brain cancer and melanoma.

To do this, scientists will examine part of the more than 30 tissue types available, which were collected through autopsies or organ and tissue transplant programs.

Among the diseases more likely to occur in children with older fathers are achondroplasia (which causes dwarfism), progeria (premature aging), Marfan's syndrome (a connective tissue disorder), a predisposition toward a certain type of skin cancer, and some congenital heart defects.

For more than a century, scientists thought that glial cells were responsible for scar formation; now, however, a paper published in Science shows that spinal cord scar tissue largely derives from a completely unexpected type of cell called a pericyte, opening new opportunities for the treatment of damaged nerve tissue.Lesions to the brain or spinal cord rarely heal fully, which leads to permanent functional impairment.

We've gathered three types of diets made for bulking up, and they all have the end goal of creating more muscle tissue and not putting on useless weight.

This visceral fat, or fat stored around the organs, produces more cortisol compared to other types of fat tissue, she says, which could help explain why it's so easy to gain weight, but so hard to lose it.

Women may also have more of a type of B cell that makes autoantibodies that attack the body's own tissue, per research from National Jewish Health in Denver.

Because your tissues are made up mostly of saturated and monounsaturated fats, your body needs more of these two types of fat than it needs polyunsaturated fats.

I've been drawn to a lot of healing things lately, healing sounds, healing frequencies, infrared sauna, meditation, breath work, really good deep tissue work, and, you know, I was speaking with my wife about a week ago and she commented on the fact that in the thirteen years that we've been married, when she met me, I was a bodybuilder and a spin instructor, she doesn't think she's ever seen me take any more than, perhaps, a couple of days off of an extremely hard charging life, in which I'm replying to literally hundreds of emails a day, squeezing in the type of exercise sessions that allow me to do masochistic things, volunteering, jetting around the globe, you name it.

You see it more in bigger muscle bound athletes who are doing explosive speed type of sports but you can also see it in endurance athletes and basically what it is, is that your arms, your legs, your appendages, they have these groupings, these compartments where a bunch of muscles and blood vessels and nerves are all bundled and you take each of these bundles and then they're encased by this thick layer of connective tissue.

The breast tissue of normally cycling women contains three identifiable types of lobules: the previously described Lob 1, and the more developed Lobules type 2 (Lob 2) and Lobules type 3 (Lob 3)[21 — 23].

If you carry excess weight, especially your midsection, you are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes because the fat in your tissues causes an imbalance of insulin in the body.

We termed this «Capillary Conditioning» to maximize the ability of the capillaries to deliver blood in and out of muscle cells to prepare the athlete to be able to lift more weight, with more repetitions / work by stimulating development of Type llA Fast Twitch Muscle Fiber (Fast Oxidative / Glycolytic or FOG) and less buildup of bulky muscle tissue which is poorly conditioned for aerobic capacity (Type llX Fast Twitch or FG muscle fiber).

More Efficient Use of Your Time Modern Class IV lasers employ sophisticated software that helps technicians apply a tailored protocol that adjusts the light intensity, wavelength, and pulse frequency based on the specific tissue - types they are treating, but all behind the scenes of an easy - to - use, touchscreen user interface.

The continued build - up of tartar both above and below the gum line can eventually produce an environment for certain types of bacteria that may be more destructive to the periodontal tissues and also produce a more noticeable odor.

This can also occur when the dog heart is pumping correctly, but some type of disease in the body is causing the tissue to require more blood.

We use multiple types of pain medication before and after surgery, but more importantly, experienced surgeons limit tissue trauma.

The bacteria contained in plaque is 1,000 times more resistant to antibiotics than other types of bacteria, and secretes toxins which invade surrounding tissues and cause inflammation.

This type of liver shunt is more commonly noted in dogs that have severe and chronic hepatic (liver) disease; especially those diseases involving a large population of hepatic tissues, hepatitis, cirrhosis and fibrosis.

If you are suffering from chronic pain from a soft tissue injury, you will likely be referred to one or more of these types of practitioners.

While many types of soft - tissue injuries heal on their own, some are much more - serious and can lead to permanent loss of function.

Treatment of whiplash differs from treatment of other types of soft tissue injuries in that immobilization of the neck muscle can actually cause more harm.