Sentences with phrase «of dying tissue»

These are symptoms of release of bacteria toxins and by products of dying tissue into the blood stream.

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His death was a tissue of ironies: a man who had fought for monastic solitude for over 25 years died thousands of miles from his Kentucky hermitage; this passionate pacifist was flown back from Thailand in a military plane, from an airfield that was part of the network of military bases that prospered during the Vietnam years.

When the cord does detach, it can sometimes get a little stinky, Swanson says, and you may notice a yellowish discharge or a little blood streaking — all of this is a normal part of the healthy tissue dying off and scabbing.

Led in evidence by Mrs. Idowu Alakija, the State's Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Obafunwa, who is a Consultant Pathologist to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) and the former Vice-Chancellor of the Lagos State University (LASU), said the victims of the collapsed building died due to multiple injuries, traumatic asphyxia, severe blood loss, severe fracture and compression of the skull with the brain tissue, congested heart failure against the background of hypertension and accumulation of blood in the chest cavity.

During the first 24 hours after death, genetic changes kick in across various human tissues, creating patterns of activity that can be used to roughly predict when someone died,...

«We looked microscopically at the lung tissue of horses that died during or just after races, and quantified the inflammatory cells within their airways,» said Prof. Luis Arroyo, Department of Clinical Studies.

Metastasis, the process that allows some cancer cells to break off from their tumor of origin and take root in a different tissue, is the most common reason people die from cancer.

Scientists believe these neural stem cells secrete hormonal steroids or proteins that nurse ailing neurons, preventing them from dying, and stimulate the formation of blood vessels that nourish damaged tissue with nutrients and oxygen.

«It starts to die as soon as it's out of the tissue,» says Truman's colleague James Krahenbuhl.

They tested neural tissue from people who had died from Huntington's disease, a degenerative disorder of nerve cells in the base of the brain.

They also collected brain tissue from the 23 CJD patients and from seven individuals who died of other causes.

Sure enough, salmon with a certain pattern of gene expression in their gill tissue were 13.5 times more likely to die than those that didn't carry the «you've not got long to live» signature, as co-author and University of British Columbia (U.B.C.) fish physiologist Tony Farrell puts it.

But Dr. Eyal Karzbrun, a member of the Reiner Lab, had to put a bit of a damper on their enthusiasm: the sizes of the organoids they obtained were far from uniform; with no blood vessels, the insides did not have a steady supply of nutrients and started to die; and the thickness of the tissue got in the way of the optical imaging and microscope tracking.

Gaining confidence that their compound was appropriately targeting the plaques, the researchers worked with the National Institutes of Health to obtain brain tissue from people who died of Alzheimer's and performed the same type of staining.

The brains of people with Alzheimer's are dotted with plaques of amyloid beta protein and tangles of tau protein, which together cause brain tissue to atrophy and die.

Using tissue samples from five wild Amur tigers that died or were destroyed due to neurological disease in 2001, 2004, or 2010, McAloose and her colleagues proved that infection with CDV, a type of morbillivirus, is to blame for the deaths of two of the tigers and caused a serious infection in a third.

To test their theory, the researchers examined Del - 1 expression in brain tissue from people who had died from MS.. In MS patients with chronic active MS lesions, Del - 1 was reduced compared to both healthy brain tissue and brain tissue from MS patients who were in remission at the time of their death.

Geoffrey Clements at the Regional Virus Laboratory at Ruchill Hospital, Glasgow, and his colleagues have now found genetic material from the cox - sackie B virus, or a very close relative, in tissue from the spinal cords of 8 out of 11 patients who had died of motor neurone disease.

These are indications that areas of diseased tissue could be dying, while other parts of a tumor could be rapidly growing or becoming more aggressive.

The biggest argument against the polio vaccine theory, says the panel, is the discovery of HIV - 1 in tissue from a Manchester sailor who died in Britain in 1959.

A transplant of fresh RPE tissue could rescue dying photoreceptors.

To investigate that, scientists will need to examine the brain tissue of many people who have died of Alzheimer's, looking for different pathogens and whether the microbes are surrounded by amyloid plaques, he says.

A more attainable goal may be regenerative tissue transplants, for example, replacing dying liver cells in someone with early - stage liver disease with chunks of healthy stem cells from a personalized liver organoid.

Brain tissue in the immediate area of the blockage, known as the core, can not typically be saved from dying, and it can enlarge over time.

The team reports that Sema3D was abundant in the main tumor tissue of only three of 13 (23 percent) patients who died after minimal cancer spread.

Brain tissue can die as the result of stroke, traumatic brain injury, or neurodegenerative disease.

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.

«I'm a breast oncologist, and I've seen too many patients die from triple - negative disease,» said senior author Andrei Goga, MD, PhD, professor of cell and tissue biology and of medicine at UCSF, and a member of the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.

He was a veteran professional football player, in his mid-60s when he died, and a paper - thin cross section of his brain tissue taken at the autopsy appears visibly shrunken and atrophied.

That's one of the distinguishing features between stem cell therapy, which is to regenerate lost tissue, and gene therapy, which at the moment is there to sustain cells that would otherwise die.»

Egg cells can also be preserved in their hundreds of thousands by collecting ovarian tissue from reproductively active females that die in captivity and dunking it in liquid nitrogen.

Until recently, the only ways to test that hypothesis were to measure tau in brain tissue after a person died, or in a sample of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) extracted from a living person by needle.

Najafabadi and McGill graduate student Rached Alkallas then applied the mathematical method to analyze publicly available data on the brain tissues of people who died from Alzheimer's.

It has also been found in tissues of a baby with microcephaly that died shortly after birth.

Therefore, Dr. Fuster stresses reducing the amount of tissue that is damaged or dies during an infarction is of the utmost importance.

For the new analysis, his team spent 5 years collecting brain tissue from 59 people who had died or had such tissue removed during surgery for epilepsy at different ages, ranging from before birth to 77 years of age.

The breakthrough came from the preserved tissues of a 21 - year - old Army private who died in the 1918 pandemic.

Here is the mystery: the body's immune cells usually remove dead and dying cells through a process called phagocytosis, yet the amount of material that is consumed is so great that you'd expect significant inflammation, pain and tissue damage — something that doesn't typically happen when breastfeeding ceases.

HIV may have been associated with humans for hundreds of years rather than recently evolving from a chimpanzee virus, says a virologist from New Orleans after analysing tissue from a young male prostitute who died 30 years ago.

Working with the brains of six normal children and seven autistic children ages 2 to 16, most of whom died of drowning, Courchesne has studied neurons under the microscope and even counted the number of neural cells in different tissue samples.

Rattan joined the Clark group in 1984 and started exploring what happens when skin, bone, and connective tissue cells grow old and enter a state of limbo — called senescence — in which they neither divide nor die (see «More Than a Sum of Our Cells»).

When the researchers put cane toad tadpoles, native frog tadpoles, fish, and leeches in water containing scraps of cane toad tissue, they found that most of the native animals died within about a day (and sometimes much faster)-- even when they couldn't touch the tissue directly.

And in 2007, Taku, a 14 - yar - old male orca, died at SeaWorld San Antonio; unknown to his trainers, he'd been infected with West Nile Virus, the disease's tell - tale lesions spotted during a necropsy of his brain tissue.

In another paper, published yesterday in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, researchers from Brazil and the United States report that Zika virus was present in brain tissue from two newborns in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Norte who were born with microcephaly and died a few hours after birth.

DNA analysis of lung tissue and CT scans of these mummies revealed that more than half of the 265 mummies had tuberculosis when they died.

«In order to prove it, we'd [also] have to find the compound in the tissue of cats that have died or the urine of cats that have gotten sick,» he says.

Some scientists suspect that immune cells activated by the foreign organ but lacking the CD154 signal die soon after a transplant, although it's not clear why new generations of immune cells wouldn't recognize and attack the tissue.

The number of damaged and dying cells in the retina — a light - sensitive layer of nervous tissue in the eye — did not change in the castrated males.

The salamander died 34 to 40 million years ago, yet aside from its skeleton, many of its soft tissues are preserved: an initial examination identified skin and a lung.

A stroke quickly decimates a small area of the brain, but surrounding brain tissue continues to die over several weeks.