Sentences with phrase «most other body tissues»

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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.

«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..

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.

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.

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

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).

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.

HGH is one of the most important hormones the human body produces, as it controls building, repair and healing of muscle tissues, bones as well as many other cells in our body.

In most mammals, fasting conditions will cause an increase in the production of ketone bodies in the liver, which is accompanied by an increase in ketone utilization by the heart, skeletal muscle, brain, and other tissues.

This is significant because your ovarian tissue is literally THE most sensitive to aging than any other tissue in the human body (whaaat!)

Although most drug metabolites are water soluble and therefore excreted rapidly from the body, THC - COOH is not and therefore stays much inside fatty tissues and cells than most other metabolites.

In order to lose body fat and achieve good gains in muscle mass, your nutrition program needs to provide your body with quality nutrients in the form of carbohydrates (which serve to provide energy), proteins (which provide the amino acids to repair muscle tissue and other tissues in the body), good fats (which support healthy hormonal production) and finally water (as most of your body is made up of water).

In this third installment of my series that is devoted to convincing you that protein, not micronutrients, may be the most under - appreciated supplement from both a preventive and therapeutic standpoint, I would like to discuss two papers that examine in great detail the ideal amount of protein needed to build muscle and maximize anabolic tissue growth / tissue repair mechanisms in many other parts of the body.

Lipomas are made of fatty adipose tissue — in other words they are simply unusual deposits of fat around the body that are most common in older or overweight dogs.