Sentences with phrase «normal blood vessel»

Research has shown that either alpha - lipoic acid or acetyl - L - carnitine can help to reduce damage to mitochondria and improve normal blood vessel tone, allowing blood vessels to relax.

Cooke said recent lab research suggests that proton pump inhibitors can interfere with normal blood vessel function — a potential mechanism by which the drugs could affect heart attack risk.

ADAM17 is crucial to normal blood vessel development but high levels also are suspect in diseases like Alzheimer's and arthritis.

But normal blood vessel function depends on the body's ability to naturally produce a compound called nitric oxide (NO).

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.

«This peptide acts as a «zip code» in that it enables the binding of the nanoparticles only to blood vessels within the tumor and not normal blood vessels,» says Alnawaz Rehemtulla, a radiologist and environmental health scientist who co-authored the study.

«In contrast, there was no visualization of normal blood vessels.

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Flavanols are a plant - based antioxidant that help maintain the elasticity of blood vessels, contributing to normal blood flow & supporting:

Flavanols are a type of plant - based antioxidant, which help maintain the elasticity of blood vessels, supporting normal:

Women run 5 to 7 times the risk of death with cesarean section compared with vaginal birth.14, 29 Complications during and after the surgery include surgical injury to the bladder, uterus and blood vessels (2 per 100), 30 hemorrhage (1 to 6 women per 100 require a blood transfusion), 30 anesthesia accidents, blood clots in the legs (6 to 20 per 1000), 30 pulmonary embolism (1 to 2 per 1000), 30 paralyzed bowel (10 to 20 per 100 mild cases, 1 in 100 severe), 30 and infection (up to 50 times morecommon).1 One in ten women report difficulties with normal activities two months after the birth, 23 and one in four report pain at the incision site as a major problem.9 One in fourteen still report incisional pain six months or more after delivery.9 Twice as many women require rehospitalization as women having normal vaginal birth.18 Especially with unplanned cesarean section, women are more likely to experience negative emotions, including lower self - esteem, a sense of failure, loss of control, and disappointment.

The cause would seem to be a spasm of the blood vessels in the nipple (when the nipple is white), followed by relaxation of these blood vessels (when the nipple returns to its normal colour).

Cancer cells can break away from a primary tumor, penetrate into lymphatic and blood vessels, circulate through the bloodstream, and grow in a distant focus (metastasize) in normal tissues elsewhere in the body.

Tienush Rassaf, MD (University Hospital Essen, Germany) and his colleagues tested the potential of cocoa flavanols, a subgroup of plant - derived polyphenols that are present in cocoa and have been shown to have beneficial effects on blood vessel function in individuals with normal kidney function.

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.

As a person ages, these plaques, along with leaky blood vessels, tend to interrupt normal rod and cone functioning.

Fat cells cultured from the body mass index of a morbidly obese patient cause multiple myeloma cells to anchor to a much greater extent than normal cells and produce a significantly larger number of blood vessels to sustain the cancer cells.

Because HIF signals cells to produce VEGF, the researchers wondered whether deleting HIF in amacrine and horizontal cells would also stop the pipeline of VEGF and normal intermediate layer blood vessel development.

genes, the team has shown that B. theta helps guide the normal development and functioning of the intestines — including the growth of blood vessels, the proper turnover of epithelial cells, and the marshaling of components of the immune system needed to keep less well behaved bacteria at bay.

«The effect of the precursors that boost NAD is to counteract the decline that occurs with normal aging, to reactivate SIRT1, and to restore function in endothelial cells to give rise to more blood vessels.»

Larger - than - normal holes that once carried blood vessels and nerves through the bones of the snout suggest the dolphin had enlarged lips needed to feed via suction, the researchers report today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

In ROP, blood vessels in the retina grow outside of their normal space.

For example, chronic wounds are the result of insufficient blood vessel formation, while age - related macular degeneration is the result of abnormal expansion of blood vessels which interfere with normal processes.

The cells immediately began sticking to blood vessel walls, while normal mice were unaffected.

They didn't develop tumors any faster than normal, and they didn't have any alterations in their blood vessels, which the researchers had anticipated based on BAI1's role in regulating blood vessel growth.

In the less common, wet form of the disease, rogue blood vessels escape normal growth control and leak fluid into the macula, the area at the center of the retina that enables a person to see fine detail.

Yet, unlike normal tissue, these newly formed blood vessels are disorganized, twisty, and leaky.

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

«ECPR and a factor in the blood called protein C act as a «brake» on blood coagulation and endothelial cell inflammation and also enhance the viability and integrity of blood vessels, but when the malaria parasites use PfEMP1 to bind EPCR, they may interfere with the normal function of EPCR, and thus the binding can be the catalyst for the violent reaction,» he explains.

«Under normal conditions, ECPR plays a crucial role in regulating blood clotting, inflammation, cell death and the permeability of blood vessels.

The research team devised ways to prevent immune cells, called leucocytes, from moving from their normal location inside the blood vessels to potential sites of arthritic inflammation.

The study showed that beet juice with high amounts of nitrate made the blood vessels relax and return to normal function, while beet juice with no nitrate (the placebo) did not have any effect.

Compared to normal mice with broken tibias, PlGF - deficient mice had fewer inflammatory cells at the wound and reduced blood vessel growth.

Researchers knew at the time that tumors can induce normal endothelial cells to form new blood vessels, a process called angiogenesis.

The researchers also showed that DENV NS1 caused similar levels of blood vessel leak in normal mice as in mice bred to have inhibited cytokine activity, suggesting that cytokines were not necessary for this effect.

As part of the body's normal, healthy immune response to infection, the barrier formed by blood vessel cells temporarily loosens, allowing white blood cells to exit the bloodstream and attack the invading bacteria or virus, Rehman said.

The scientists also have demonstrated in animals that the PKal molecular pathway can induce retinal edema through mechanisms that are independent of the VEGF pathway, which at normal levels helps to build and maintain blood vessels but at high concentrations can induce abnormal vessel growth and contribute to DME.

Mice that received normal levels of prenatal vitamin A, from a regular diet, were born with more fat - loading white fat cells, fewer brown fat cells and fewer blood vessels.

Instead, cutting levels of VEGF in a tumor actually props up existing blood vessels, making them stronger and more normal, and in some cases the tumors larger.

-- The symptoms result from an excess of the growth factor PDGF, which prevents the temporary blood vessels of the foetal stage from disappearing, which in turn prevents normal development of blood vessels in the retina, says Karin Forsberg Nilsson, professor at the Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology at the Rudbeck Laboratory, who directed the study.

«It appears that the drugs, in shutting down VEGF activity, are actively maturing blood vessels, causing them to become stable and more normal, as opposed to reducing blood vessels.»

To do this we need to understand how this mechanism works normally, so we will test this therapeutic approach using an animal model where the pathway regulating normal retinal blood vessel growth has been removed genetically.

This doorway is located at the base of normal liver cells, hidden from the blood vessels.

The researchers found that, when stimulated by insulin, diabetic fibroblasts produced less of the VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor) signaling protein, a key player in boosting the growth of blood vessel cells, than normal fibroblasts did.

The normal cells, molecules, and blood vessels that surround and feed a tumor cell.

The inflamed conjunctiva (the clear film covering the inner eyelid and the white part of the eye) makes blood vessels appear larger than normal.

Overdo drops: Redness - reducing eye drops make eyes appear normal by temporarily shrinking blood vessels, but there's a catch.

Over the counter eye drops can help lessen the redness, and as the alcohol leaves your system in the hours after your drinking binge, the blood vessels will return to normal.

It decreases normal cell activity, constricts blood vessels, numbs nerves and slows down breathing.

This means there are more blood vessels in the cervix when a malignancy is present compared to a normal, healthy cervix.

Other common uses include support for normal blood sugar levels as well as for maintaining healthy heart and blood vessel functions.