Sentences with phrase «of different body tissues»

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HPCs can travel to wherever the body needs them and become different kinds of tissue.

Knowing TH17 cells need to function in a variety of tissue environments throughout the body, Sundrud's team wondered if and how these cells might use different tools to behave normally in one environment — or tissue — than they'd use in another.

Among other things, vitamin C helps build connective tissue which supports and connects different types of tissues and organs in the body.

The Human Genome Project, which sequenced the 3 billion pairs of nucleotide bases in human DNA, was a piece of cake in comparison: Epigenetic markers and patterns are different in every tissue type in the human body and also change over time.

The body's tissue is full of small gaps in between the different proteins and cells that make it up.

IDPs may also provide cues that allow cells to take on traits specific to different tissues or parts of the body.

Be it through mucosa or the intestinal lining, different tissues and surfaces of our body are entry gates for bacterial pathogens.

In embryos, they guide differentiation from the single fertilized egg into all cells that form the different tissues and structures of the body.

The BBSRC - funded ARK - Genomics facility — which is part of Edinburgh Genomics at the University of Edinburgh — provided a substantial body of sequence data, including information on which genes are expressed in a spectrum of 40 different tissues.

3D printing and tissue engineering has the potential to replace lots of different parts of the human body.

They counted the numbers of APs and ALs in different body tissues — intestine, muscle, pharynx (i.e., the animal's foregut), and neurons — at different time points during the adult life of C. elegans, and used chemical blockers to learn more about the dynamics of the process.

As «immature» somatic cells, stem cells can mature into different types of cells, thus making them responsible for the development of all the tissues and organs in the body.

«Understanding how the drug also enables crosstalk between fat cells and the liver in obese mice allows us to see more of the amlexanox picture — and also sheds light on communication between different tissues in the body.»

Because bone marrow, colon, and liver are significantly different tissues, the investigators believe the pathway by which SW033291 speeds tissue regeneration is likely to work as well for treating diseases of many other tissues of the body.

In MRI, for example, the pointing angle of the spin gives information about where in the body the atom is located, while the amount of spin (the amplitude) is used to distinguish different kinds of tissue.

The way to think of this is that you have a tree with branches that give rise to all of the different tissue types of the body.

So, at the dawn of our universe — and I have to emphasize our universe, because there could be others — so, dawn of our universe, physicists think there was one type of force, one type of matter and that as the cosmos expanded, as space expanded, it cooled and things started to condense out like snow flakes, and over time that single force broke, it differentiated; and something similar happens in the human body as we develop from a single cell; we differentiate, different tissues form in our bodies, different layers of tissues.

Sheltzer's team proposes that these cells rapidly evolved to acquire different mutations that would confer a survival benefit — perhaps enabling them to grow in new environments, just as cancer cells that become metastatic evolve so as to be able to detach from their tissue of origin and grow at different sites in the body.

Because stem cells have the unique ability to develop into many different types of cells, they are an important part of the mechanism for repairing body tissue.

They showed that the iKnife could distinguish normal and tumor tissues from different organs, such as breast, liver, and brain, and could even identify the origin of a tumor that was a metastasis, a secondary growth seeded by a primary tumor elsewhere in the body.

«Now that we have the cellular and molecular information, the future promises to be very exciting when this knowledge can be used to understand how this system is formed during gestation and how the different neuron types go about controlling the body's functions,» says study leader Patrik Ernfors, professor of tissue biology

KOBE, JAPAN — Embryonic stem cells develop into all the different tissues of the body at the beginning of life; cancer cells often end life.

This causes the body's white blood cells to release type 1 interferon - alpha, a small cytokine protein that acts as a systemic alarm, triggering a cascade of additional immune activity as it binds with receptors in different tissues.

Sheep have more than 20,000 different genes but not all of these are expressed in each tissue type in the body.

Women need daily doses of the antiviral medication Truvada to prevent HIV infection while men only need two doses per week due to the way the drug accumulates in different body tissues, according to a new study from pharmacy researchers the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The organization of these tissues let different cell types work together, to enable organs in the body to perform their functions.

Proteins are the essential building blocks of cells, making up the structure of different parts of the body as well as carrying out and regulating the functions of organs and tissues.

The body needs many different types of stem cells to replace sick, aging or dying cells in its many different tissues.

Our Areas of Interest IFATS current scientific areas of interest relate to facilitating the development of treatments for excess body fat, the generation of new fat tissue for reconstruction after cancer or birth - related defects and the use of adipose tissue as a source of mesenchymal stem cells that have the potential to regenerate and repair different body tissues.

Origins of Muscle Stem Cells: During development, the embryo has three different tissue types that, together with the germ cells, will make up the animal's entire body.

In their 2015 study, Tomasetti and Vogelstein compared cancer incidence in the United States to the total number of cell divisions to different kinds of tissues in the body.

But, thanks to the simultaneous presence of different protein modifications, stem cells are primed and poised, ready to develop into specialized body tissue, Singapore scientists reported in the journal Cell Stem Cell.

Myofibroblasts can proliferate elsewhere in the body as well — although they may arise from different cell types in different tissues — and fibrotic remodeling of the kidney, liver (cirrhosis of the liver) and lungs follows a similar progression, Genin says.

SLC16A11 belongs to a family of genes known to transport molecules across cell membranes, but the proteins that genes produce can perform many different roles in the body, and they can be active in some tissue types but not others.

Stem cells have the capacity to differentiate into any of the different tissues making up the human body, thus holding the promise of treating or curing diseases such as multiple sclerosis or spinal - cord injury by replacing diseased cells with healthy cells.

The WFIRM research team is working to engineer replacement tissues and organs and develop healing cell therapies for more than 30 different areas of the body.

, chief of the Division of Experimental Medicine at UCSF, will lead efforts to find out where HIV hides in reservoirs within specific tissues in the body and determine how factors such as sex and age affect the relative abundance of HIV in different tissues.

But it would allow so - called therapeutic cloning in which a patient's cells are coaxed to an embryonic state where they regain the potential to create all of the body's different tissue types.

Mike McCune, MD, PhD, chief of the Division of Experimental Medicine at UCSF, will lead efforts to find out where HIV hides in reservoirs within specific tissues in the body and determine how factors such as sex and age affect the relative abundance of HIV in different tissues.

In contrast to germline variants, somatic variants are not propagated to the whole individual but to a subpopulation of cells in the body, with the final consequence that adult human tissues are a mosaic of genetically different cells.

In addition, drawing on earlier work, they determined that these effects varied depending on the location of the infection — leading them to the conclusion that IL - 8 monomers and dimers interact differently with GAGs in different body tissues.

However, using a foam roller onto different muscles of your body can have a similar effect in regards to the loosening up of connective tissue around the muscles and lowering the stiffness, which in turn increases the overall mobility of your muscles and joints.

Sprains and strains sound similar, but they involve different types of soft tissues and parts of the body.

While this technique of massage is very different in temperament from a Swedish or sports massage, which mainly work on the muscular system of the body, Abhyanga works on the layers of tissue in the body.

Under ideal circumstances... (Say a person is very well nourished and they have good body stores of all the different nutrients floating around in their tissues, blood and cells) Fasting would lower the load on the body of various...

Iron is useful for participating in lots of different chemical reactions in the body, as part of normal metabolism, but it's also important for caring oxygen to our tissues and oxygen is what we need in a process called oxidative phosphorylation, which gives us energy.

The body is in a constant state of building and destroying tissues, and muscle is no different in this regard.

So, when the thyroid makes thyroid hormone, it makes it, the majority is T4, also known as thyroxine, and then, really in a number of different tissues in the body, the liver and the kidney, well, I'll say this, T4 is converted to T3 in just about every cell of the body.

With chronic inflammation, the immune system can become uncoordinated and begin targeting different tissues of the body, such as the skin.

There are many different layers of fasciae within the body, but all layers include thin and elastic connective tissues that wrap around structures within the body.