Sentences with phrase «new cells throughout the body»

It's important for digestion, nervous - system maintenance, building new cells throughout the body and fueling the immune system, among other functions.

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Calcium, as we know, is integral to bone health, iron is necessary for the generation of new blood cells, which promotes the circulation of oxygen throughout the body.

Based on the pioneering work of Dr. Claire Lugassy and Dr. Raymond Barnhill at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, a new study provides additional support for a process by which melanoma cells, a deadly form of skin cancer, can spread throughout the body by creeping like tiny spiders along the outside of blood vessels without ever entering the blood stream, and that this process is exacerbated by exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light.

The virus that causes chickenpox — varicella zoster virus (VZV)-- possesses a protein that could enhance its ability to hijack white blood cells and spread throughout the body, according to new research published in PLOS Pathogens.

This allows cancer cells to break off from tumors, spread throughout the body (in blood or other fluid) and form new tumors at distant sites — a process called metastasis.

Siva Vanapalli, an associate professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, at Texas Tech University, recently received two grants from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) to study the movement of tumor cells throughout the body and new methods of detecting cancer cells.

The great New York Yankees first baseman was diagnosed with ALS in 1939 and died two years later from the progressive neuromuscular disorder, which attacks nerve cells that lead from the brain and the spinal cord to muscles throughout the body.

Now, a new approach developed by Dr. Ekaterina Galanzha of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock and her colleagues allows for labeling and tracking of individual circulating cancer cells throughout the body, thereby helping researchers elucidate the pathways of single cells from start to finish.

Stem cells are long - lasting suppliers of new cells for a variety of tissues throughout the body, and hair is no exception.

Normal maintenance and cell turnover throughout the planarian body continue unaffected when fst is inhibited, even though these activities rely on the same neoblast cell population that creates new tissue during regeneration.

Ana Kiess, M.D., Ph.D., received the Journal of Nuclear Medicine's Editor's Choice Award for her paper on PSMA - targeted α - particle radiopharmaceutical therapy, a new prostate cancer targeted treatment that delivers radiation - releasing alpha particles to cancer cells that have spread throughout the body.

Now, a new study states that exercise promotes and encourages intercommunication among different organs and cells throughout the body.

Angiogenesis is the formation of new blood vessels and is also the weapon of choice that cancer cells use in their aggressive spread throughout the body.