Sentences with phrase «new kidney tissue»
Insert a section of that new kidney tissue, equal in weight to maybe 20 percent of the existing organ.
http://discovermagazine.com/ Not exact matches
The researchers say their findings also shed new light on how kidney disease leads to an abnormal thickening of heart muscle tissue called hypertrophy, which is a leading cause of death in people with kidney disease caused by high blood pressure, diabetes, and other illnesses.
Using virtual tissue technology, researchers at Indiana University have identified a potential new drug target in the fight against polycystic kidney disease, an illness with no effective FDA - approved treatment that affects 200,000 people per year in the United States.
«Virtual tissue technology reveals new drug target in polycystic kidney disease: Advanced computer simulations show that failures of cell adhesion and inhibition cause two types of kidney cyst formation.»
Gorelick would also like to make sure that no dangerous levels of radiation are released as the bacteria die, noting that some buildup was seen in the kidney tissue of the mice treated in the new study.
«Our stem cells also survive outside of mice, in a culture, so we can also manipulate them in a laboratory,» said Abad, adding that: «The next step is studying if these new stem cells are capable of efficiently generating different tissues such as that of the pancreas, liver or kidney.»
This new approach offers a safer alternative to metal complexes, such as gadolinium that are commonly used to enhance MRI images but can have side effects in kidney patients and may build - up in the tissues of individuals needing multiple MRIs.
The mechanisms we have learned from fish are helping us conduct experiments with stem cells in order to generate renal tissue and eventually new kidneys, like the fish.
These animals can make new renal tissues when their kidneys are damaged.
«If we can tell the human iPSCs in an animal host to develop into a kidney or other organ, for example, it could provide an entirely new source for transplant tissues,» says Izpisua Belmonte.
The thyroid is the biggest converter of T4 to T3 in the body (relatively new research)- more than the liver and kidneys and peripheral tissues.
«Newer reports have emerged regarding the accumulation of gadolinium in various tissues of patients who do not have renal impairment, including bone, brain, and kidneys.»
All those findings indicate that kidneys are a filtering system in our body (nothing new here) and the protein (that damages our tissues, provokes inflamation, ect.)