Sentences with phrase «most body tissue»

Just like most body tissue, muscles are in a constant state of breakdown and repair.

When in the pH range in most body tissues, the proteins are shapeless and limp, unable to get through cell membranes.

Plasma free or non-esterified fatty acids are an important energy source for most body tissues.

COX is present in most body tissues, including the gastrointestinal, or digestive, tract (stomach and intestines) and kidneys.

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294 G 10.4 oz Collagen is the most abundant protein in the body and is a key constituent of all connective tissue.

Collagen is the most abundant protein in the body and is a key constituent of all connective tissue.

Your muscles — like most tissues in your body — are essentially made of protein.

Antioxidants are naturally found in most plant - foods, and help counter the inflammatory effects of free radicals — molecules that can damage the skin, and other body tissue.

It's the most abundant protein in the body, the key to all connective tissues, and the base infrastructure of the musculoskeletal system.

In recent years, medical science has learned a lot about the benefits of collagen for virtually every part of your body, but most especially to bones and tissue.

«The cornea is the most densely innervated tissue in the body, so corneal nerve assessment is extremely sensitive for detecting small sensory nerve fiber damage as compared to other tests including measurement of intra-epidermal nerve fibers in the skin,» notes lead investigator Joseph L. Mankowski, DVM, PhD, who is Professor of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Pathology, and Neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD..

Stem cells have the potential to repair most tissues in the body.

In the most famous example of cannibalism - related disease transmission, the Fore people of New Guinea were nearly driven to extinction as a result of their ritualized consumption of brains and other tissues cut from the bodies of their deceased kin — kin who had been infected by kuru, an incurable and highly transmissible neurological disease.

Most commonly, patients receive transfusions of red blood cells, the component of blood that shuttles oxygen to tissues throughout the body.

Action potentials can be created by many types of cells, but are used most extensively by the nervous system for communication between neurons and to transmit information from neurons to other body tissues such as muscles and glands.

Most animals, including humans, have two copies of their genome — the full set of instructions needed to make every cell, tissue, and organ in the body.

Last February he and collaborators announced that they had regenerated one of the body's most scar - prone tissues, the inner lining of the esophagus, in five cancer patients.

It's relatively easy to remove immune cells or blood stem cells, edit them, and then return them to the body, but this isn't possible with most bodily tissues.

Many of the most important proteins are such multi-taskers, including the blood protein hemoglobin that carries four copies of oxygen from the lungs to the body's tissues.

Marfan syndrome is a relatively rare genetic condition in which the body's connective tissue is defective, but its most dangerous manifestation is in the aorta.

The results help fill in the scientific puzzle kicked off by Dolly's cloning, which proved that mammalian egg cells were capable of dissolving the genetic roadblocks that limit the potential of most adult cells to give rise to only a single type of tissue — that of the organ from which they hail — whereas embryonic stem cells have the potential to become virtually any kind of body tissue.

When you're using certain tissue types that can't replicate multiple times outside of the body — liver and nerve cells, for example — «that's where stem cells are most relevant.»

Researchers have isolated stem cells from only some of the body's organs and tissues, including the blood, brain, skeletal muscle, heart muscle and most recently from skin.

In bone marrow transplants, for example, effects of SW033291 in accelerating tissue growth would provide the body the cells required to fight off the two most common and sometimes fatal complications, infection and bleeding.

If we know which organs or tissues are most responsible for transporting copper throughout the body, we can focus on making sure the gene is expressed in those areas.

Infrared is absorbed by less than a millimetre of tissue but microwaves penetrate about five centimetres, indicating the temperature of most of the body's interior.

While most bone cancers have their origin in other body tissues and spread to the bones through metastases, OS originates in the bone tissue.

The gut, the largest of the mucosal tissues, harbors most of the body's CD4 + T cells.

The use of muscle tissue in post-mortem studies is a novel approach which presents several advantages: first, muscle tissue is the most abundant tissue of the human body and can therefore be sampled easily.

Holstege says this implies that most or all of the blood stem cells van Andel - Schipper started life with had already burned out and died, diminishing her body's capacity to keep regenerating vital tissues and cells.

The brain and nervous system are some of the most complex tissues in the human body.

Abstract Skeletal muscle is a major site of metabolic activity and the most abundant tissue in the human body accounting for almost 40 % of the total body mass.

The lining or epithelium of the gut is one of the body's most diverse and dynamic tissues, an ecosystem of cells that acts as one of the body's main interfaces with the outside world.

Not only were Miconazole and clobetasol able to stimulate the differentiation of stem cells into mature oligodendrocytes, most importantly, these drugs stimulated the formation of new insulation (myelin) and reversed disease severity in animal models of MS.. While not all adult tissues in our body contain stem cells, this approach may change the way MS is managed.

2007 also saw one of the most game - changing developments in the stem cell field; researchers learned how to create cells like embryonic stem cells, but instead of coming from an embryo these cells are created from adult cells, potentially cells from any tissue in the human body.

One of the most serious classifications of this disease is known as diffuse scleroderma wherein the «sclerosis» (hardening of the tissue) occurs in the internal systems of the body, causing damage and widespread scarring to the skin as well as to various internal organs such as the lungs, kidneys, heart and gastrointestinal organs.

Chief among them was the finding that in all placental mammals FOXP3 acts through a snippet of DNA called the CNS1 enhancer to trigger the formation of a cohort of Tregs designated «peripheral» (whereas most Tregs are produced in the thymus gland, which sits between the lungs, a subset of the cells act as sentinels suppressing runaway immune responses in the body's peripheral tissues).

According to recent research, the most common solid tumors (that is, cancer that occurs as clusters of cells in or on organs, rather than in liquid form within the blood or lymphatic system) have up to 66 mutations that influence how the cancer cells operate — how fast they divide, whether they are susceptible to the signals that would normally cause a cell to die, when they detach from the main tumor to colonize another organ in the body, when and where they attach blood vessels to healthy tissues.

Most evidence for feeding on the host body was accumulated for Caribbean Typton species (T. carneus and T. distinctus); however, stomach analyses confirmed that many other taxa also feed on their host tissues (Table 1).

A biopsy, most commonly performed by removing a small piece of tissue from the body for examination under a microscope, will help your doctor make a definitive diagnosis.

Your fat tissue contains the most abundant source of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in your body — a class of repair cells which have the ability to decrease inflammation, repair or replace damaged tissue while stimulating new blood vessel growth for improved blood flow.

It can spread (metastasize) to other parts of the body, most often the lungs, other bones, and other soft tissue.

Most brain cancers are invasive and may crowd out healthy cells and damage normal tissue, although they rarely spread to other parts of the body.

Most of us don't think too much about cartilage (soft, flexible connective tissue found in the body) unless it's damaged in which case it's importance becomes immediately apparent.

Your own adipose tissue (fat) is one of the most potent and concentrated source of mesenchymal stem cells (or MSCs) in your body.

Remarkably, adipose tissue (body fat) contains the most potent source of adult stem cells in the body.

Surprisingly, your adipose (fat tissue) is one of the most potent and concentrated sources of adult stem cells in your body.

PD has become a focus of adult stem cell therapy experts in recent years, for the fact that your own adipose (fat) tissue contains one of the most potent and accessible sources of powerful adult stem cells in your body.

Unfortunately, the number of adult stem cells present in local areas of the body vary greatly in number and most researchers agree that there are simply not enough stem cells «at the ready» within brain tissue to heal itself in the same way the skin does after a cut.

The increase in calorie expenditure is most likely because the body is forced to burn more calories in order to build and maintain new muscle tissue, which is in itself a very expensive activity in regards to calorie usage.