Sentences with phrase «nearby blood vessels»

Most people assume that all busy nerve cells, or neurons, signal nearby blood vessels to replenish themselves.

If the uterus contracts too strongly, it can press against nearby blood vessels, cutting off the supply of oxygen to the muscle tissue of the uterus.

Cancer cells and tumors at first rely on nearby blood vessels to get what they need to survive, but, as tumors grow, they need to form new vessels.

For example, tumor cells can signal nearby blood vessels to grow in their direction, thereby facilitating tumor growth.

Eighteen patients had borderline resectable PDA (the cancer was primarily located within the pancreas), and 16 patients had locally advanced PDA (the cancer had spread into nearby blood vessels).

The invading cancer cell relies on the cycle of invadopodium formation / disappearance to successfully travel from the tumor and enter nearby blood vessels to be carried to distant parts of the body.

One particular area of interest is determining if softening can reduce nearby blood vessel leaking and improve drug delivery.

Tumor cells engage nearby blood vessels to grow new capillaries that nourish the tumor and thereby facilitate its growth.

The videos confirmed the unorthodox new mode of division Obernier's labeling experiments had implied, but also revealed the cells» surprising dynamism: a long tail that touches and probes nearby blood vessels, short arms that poke and prod other stem cells, and a tongue - like antenna that pokes into the nearby ventricular space, as if to «taste» the cerebrospinal fluid there.

A lymphaticovenular bypass helps relieve the problem by allowing excess fluid to drain into nearby blood vessels.

The enlarged stomach presses against nearby blood vessels, compressing them enough to stop the passage of blood in them.

Doppler ultrasound is used to check the nearby blood vessels such as the superior mesenteric vein (SMV) which show red blood flow.

Excess water flows into the kidney, which upsets the balance and forces the electrolytes out into a nearby blood vessel to be circulated through the body.

Stage IV cancer is when the cancer has progressed beyond the original area to other organs of the body as well as lymph nodes and nearby blood vessels.

The nitric oxide in turn signals to nearby blood vessels that they need to dilate now in order to deliver more of the oxygen, glucose, glutamate

These worms then migrate to the heart and lungs and nearby blood vessels.

The adult worms live in the heart, lungs, and nearby blood vessels, where they can grow up to 12 inches long.

Mosquito bites cause heartworm to exist in a dog and will reside in your pet's heart and nearby blood vessels.