Sentences with phrase «new blood vessels»

«We saw the formation of new blood vessels in tumors reduced by 70 percent,» she says.

Also the potential to form new blood vessels assisting athletes achieve a more vascular look.

The stem cells stored in your body fat have the capability of stimulating new blood vessel growth — a process which supplies wounds with sufficient blood for healing.

Normal cells have an integral blood supply, while cancer cells must create new blood vessels as it grows.

This is the production of new blood vessels from previous vessels.

The regeneration process following brain injury involves complex processes, such as building new blood vessels and rebuilding connections between neurons, and requires much energy.

Alternatively, they may have stimulated the formation of new blood vessels into the damaged areas.

Current approaches to block new blood vessels from forming are not effective in many patients and they have serious side - effects, and new therapies are needed.

Some of these molecules encourage new blood vessels to form — both between your body and the placenta, and between the placenta and your baby — to carry oxygen to the fetus.

These abnormal cells release signals that stimulate the growth of small new blood vessels.

Eventually, it could form the basis for a treatment to prevent a tumor from attracting new blood vessels.

Some tumors may take advantage of the latter ability to create new blood vessels that support their ability to grow.

In mice, exercise generally stimulates growth of new blood vessels and boosts muscle mass.

These cells require energy to be able to form new blood vessels.

Earlier studies by Basu and others have shown that dopamine blocks the growth of new blood vessels in tumors by inhibiting the action of vascular endothelial growth factor - A (VEGF - A).

The tyrosol and hydroxytyrosol in EVOO may decrease the likelihood of cancer cell regeneration by interfering with angiogenesis and lowering the supply of oxygen that would otherwise be available for new blood vessel formation.

Avastin works by slowing the growth of new blood vessels needed by cancer tumours to grow.

The toxicity of chokeberry extract on normal blood vessel lining cells was tested and found to have no effects up to the highest levels used (50 ug / ml), suggesting that the cell death effect is happening in a way other than through preventing new blood vessel formation (anti-angiogenesis), a process that is important in cancer cell growth.

For example, proteins related to angiogenesis, the process through which new blood vessels form to ensure supply of oxygen and nutrients to a tissue such as a tumor, are found to be clearly associated to clinical outcome in HPV - positive samples.

CCN1 promotes new blood vessel growth in both normal and cancer tissues.

However, the wounds of the rats on the ARG+PRO diet showed more new blood vessel growth on day 5.

«Prototype «nanoneedles» generate new blood vessels in mice, paving way for new regenerative medicine.»

«Heart Therapy,» by Gabor Rubanyi, explains how the heart can develop new blood vessels in response to blockages in the coronary arteries (although it does not do so enough to get around the blockages for most patients).

One goal of drug designers has been to prevent tumors from making new blood vessels, a process known as angiogenesis.

In 2009 research, from the City of Hope, in California had concluded that grape seed extract reduced a protein (VEGE) that produces new blood vessels essential to growing cancers.

Some heart disease patients may not be able to grow new blood vessels around blocked arteries because they can't make enough of a vital protein, according to a report in the latest issue of Circulation.

The VEGF then prompts new blood vessel growth, bringing more oxygen to the area.

«Development of new blood vessels not essential to growth of lymph node metastases: Findings may help explain why angiogenesis inhibitors are not effective against node metastases, indicate need for other therapies.»

«Wounds treated with manuka also showed improved new blood vessel and skin surface growth compared to control wounds,» Dr Bischofberger added.

Nevertheless, older individuals form fewer new blood vessels within brain structures and possess a smaller pool of progenitor cells — descendants of stem cells that are more constrained in their capacity to differentiate and self - renew.

He and his colleagues have injected hemangioblasts into animals with obstructed blood flow to their limbs and eyes and observed robust new blood vessel growth.

We also saw new blood vessel growth.

Compared to their unmodified counterparts, the growth factors containing the PIGF - 2 sequence resulted in much faster wound closing and production of granulation tissue, and also led to a more pronounced new blood vessel formation, which is essential in sustaining the latter.

AMD is described in stages — early, intermediate, and late — with vision loss occurring in late - stage AMD, either from atrophy or abnormal new blood vessels.

All these strategies are designed to retard new blood vessel growth without significantly damaging the overlying retina (as occurs with conventional laser treatment).

In their paper published online in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, an MGH research team reports finding that the growth of metastases in lymph nodes — the most common site of cancer spread — does not require new blood vessels but instead takes advantage of existing blood vessels.

Both of these strategies are designed to identify treatable new blood vessel membranes as early as possible.

The researchers said that the association between the fine particulate matter and cancer could be the result of damage to the body's DNA - repair function, changes in the immune response or inflammation that triggers the growth of new blood vessels fueling the spread of tumors.

The growth of new blood vessels tends to occur quite early for most cancers; even small tumors found via mammogram frequently have a high microvessel count (MVC).

Imagine how difficult it is for a patient and their family and friends when they lose vision, as is the case in a disorder such as age - related macular degeneration (AMD), where the unexpected sprouting of weak and leaky new blood vessels leads to death the ath of the nerve cells of the retina.

The combination of these growth factors along with new blood vessel growth produces visible improvements of chronic wounds such as:

The normal function of VEGF is to create new blood vessels during embryonic development, after an injury or to bypass blocked blood vessels.

«Generating new blood vessels is similar to the way trees grow; sprouts develop from existing vessels and then branch out further and further to restore vascularity,» Dr. Li added.

In retinal diseases including age - related macular degeneration (AMD) and diabetic retinopathy, the growth of new blood vessels damages the retina and causes blindness.

Nature's Own Medicine for Vision Loss: Inhibitor of Angiogenesis Found by TSRI Biologists A potentially potent inhibitor of angiogenesis, the process whereby new blood vessels are formed from existing ones, can be found in one of the very molecules involved in the same process.

When breast tumour cells develop in reaction to MPA, they promote the formation of new blood vessels inside tumours, which then supply necessary nutrients for the growth and multiplication of tumours.

They also had more VEGF, a growth factor whose functions include stimulating new blood vessel development.

When oxygen levels are restored to normal, the eye senses it as a lack of oxygen and responds by growing new blood vessels, which often leads to excessive growth and damage to vision.

VEGF normally promotes the growth of endothelial cells, which in turn helps build new blood vessels in tumors.