Sentences with phrase «of kidney or liver»

A veterinarian should be consulted who can check the dog for hormone problems, cancer or some type of kidney or liver disease.

Blood tests showed no evidence of kidney or liver disease, hyperthyroidism, or other detectable ailments.

Metabolic Disease: Diseases of the kidneys or liver can cause halitosis due to toxin build - up in the blood.

Leptospirosis can progress to severe disease of the kidneys or liver, and can be fatal.

A physical exam allows us to pick up on things that your pet may not be showing or telling you — such as a new heart murmur, changes in the size of their kidneys or liver, new growths or lumps, or pain or abnormalities when we palpate certain abdominal organs or joints.

Not exact matches

In recent years, we have seen the growth in living organ donations, usually one kidney or a slice of liver.

And once donation from strangers became reasonable to contemplate, it also became possible to move beyond living donors» gifts of paired vital organs (such as a kidney) to transplantation of unpaired vital organs (such as the heart or liver) from cadaver donors.

NOW... LIFE... «I WAS dead - but I am alive...» God gave earthly things as a reminder of spiritual ones (new birth, promised land etc.) Let's see the function of blood in the living organism: the major one is TRANSPORTING of a) oxygen and carbon dioxide between the lungs and rest of the body, b) nutrients to the body, c) Waste products to be detoxified or removed by the liver and kidneys... See the picture?

Whey protein may cause abnormal heart rhythms, changes in cholesterol levels, headache, increased diabetes risk, increased fracture or osteoporosis risk, kidney dysfunction, liver damage, stomach or intestine symptoms (acid reflux, bloating, constipation, cramps, gas, increased bowel movements, movement problems, nausea, reduced appetite, swelling of limbs, and upset stomach), and thirst.

BabyCentre recommends that you do not use essential oils if you have a history of miscarriage, have had vaginal bleeding during this pregnancy, have epilepsy, heart problems, diabetes, blood clotting, or thyroid, liver, or kidney disease.

It's especially important if you have a history of miscarriage, epilepsy, blood clotting and heart problems, diabetes, liver, thyroid or kidney disease.

There are also a number of medical conditions that should be diagnosed and, if appropriate, treated by a midwife or doctor before you start reflexology treatment, including multiple pregnancies, vaginal discharge, uterine pain, epilepsy, diabetes and any other health problems such as heart, kidney or liver disorders.

Moreover, high dosage of Vitamin A or iron can lead to problems of the kidney like fatty liver.

One person who donates organs (hearts, lungs, liver, kidneys, pancreas and intestines) can save up to eight lives, while a tissue or eye donor (corneas, bone, skin, heart valves, tendons, veins, etc.) can improve more tha 75 lives by restoring eyesight, helping fight infections in burn patients and preventing the loss of mobility and disability.

Antihistamines have proved effective against the itch of mosquito bites, for example, but they do little to soothe the itching caused by kidney failure, liver disease or burns, says Matthias Ringkamp at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

Despite this clue, the little girl had almost none of the classic Beckwith - Wiedemann features, like an oversized tongue that requires surgery to reduce it, low blood sugar, or an enlarged liver and kidneys.

The biologist Silvia Gaus recently called for oiled birds to be killed humanely, claiming 99 per cent of released animals die within days or a few weeks due to stress or kidney and liver damage from ingesting oil.

Hippocrates wrote a treatise on «fetor hepaticus,» or the fishy aroma of liver failure, and noted the sour - scented breath of those with failing kidneys.

Finding funding for in - depth epidemiological studies of kidney cancer can be difficult, however, because the disease is not as common as other cancers, and not as deadly as gliomas, or liver or pancreatic cancer.

«If you want to preserve the intended life expectancy of a heart or liver transplant recipient, you need to find ways to mitigate the risk of kidney injury.

Some scientists have distant dreams of using organoid methods to grow full - size livers or kidneys in the lab for transplantation.

Song, head of UBC's Townsend Family Laboratories, envisions a drug that would bind to amyloid - beta throughout the body, tagging it biochemically in such a way that the liver or kidneys could clear it.

It found that patients who received a liver and kidney at the same time, or a liver alone, had fewer of the cells that leap into action to defend the body from an invader — known as killer cells or T cells — , compared with people who had a kidney transplant alone.

Results of the study published in Hepatology, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, show that incidents of kidney disease, stroke, and heart attack were lower in patients treated with pegylated interferon and ribavirin compared to HCV patients not treated with antivirals or diabetic patients not infected with the virus.

So in this context the muscle's function is reminiscent of that of the kidney or the liver,» says Jorge Ruas, principal investigator at the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet.

«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 is a problem, says Frangioni, because when fluorescent molecules are injected into the blood, only a small fraction is taken up by the tissue of interest; the rest continue to circulate through the blood until filtered either by the kidneys or liver and excreted from the body.

How would you get the thickness of larger organs like livers or kidneys?

«Under normal circumstances, myofibroblasts stimulate wound healing, but when there's an ongoing injury to an organ (e.g., the liver of a hepatitis C patient, the heart of a patient with high blood pressure, or the kidney of a patient with diabetes) these proteins clog up normal functioning,» said Humphreys, a Harvard Medical School associate professor at Brigham and Women's Hospital, who leads the Harvard Stem Cell Institute Kidney Prkidney of a patient with diabetes) these proteins clog up normal functioning,» said Humphreys, a Harvard Medical School associate professor at Brigham and Women's Hospital, who leads the Harvard Stem Cell Institute Kidney PrKidney Program.

«It is feasible to extend the devices to help support functioning of the lungs, liver or kidney.»

Adult stem / progenitor cells are present in many organs and tissues, e.g., bone marrow, teeth, heart, gut, kidney and liver, and remain quiescent for long period of time until activated by a disease or injury trigger.

Scientists are using pluripotent stem cells — the master cells that make any cell in the body — to create small buds of brain, thymus, liver, intestine, eye or kidney tissue that replicate some of the functions we find in these organs.

Scientists need to prompt stem cells to become kidney, liver or lung cells, which must then recreate the complex anatomy of a real organ in order to function in a human recipient.

And there are those in slums who give up their tissues, a piece of their liver, or their kidney, just to get their hands on a few hundred American dollars.

We have measured immune responses including cytokines, chemokines, growth factors, antibodies and other biomarkers of immune response or pathology in a number of disease settings ranging from viral infections (HIV, HCV, HBV, West Nile, Dengue, Zika), parasitic infection (Chagas) and chronic diseases (cardiovascular disease, liver fibrosis, kidney disease and neuropathology).

Each of Emulate's proprietary Organ - Chips — such as the lung, liver, brain, intestine or kidney — contains tiny hollow channels lined with tens of thousands of living human cells and tissues, and is approximately the size of an AA battery.

Even organ transplants may be withheld if you're too heavy — if your weight's too high, your risk of complications goes way up — and doctors don't want to «waste» a perfectly good kidney or liver on someone who's less likely to survive and thrive.

If giving up coffee is too daunting, try substituting half of the coffee grounds for chicory to cleanse the blood, dandelion to cleanse the kidneys, or both to support liver function and balance your blood sugar.

If you're sick, or develop an infection focus on staying hydrated, and rehydrating (with the exception of some types of kidney, liver and adrenal disease which can impair the body's ability to excrete water).

Although all meats contain some amount of vitamin B12, liver (especially beef liver) blows everything else out of the water, with almost three times as much B12 as kidney, seven times as much as heart, and about 17 times as much as tongue or ground beef.

Expecting our liver, kidneys, digestive tract, respiratory system, lymphatic system, and skin to do their work flawlessly for 99 years, despite thousands of times» more exposure than they were designed to handle, is the equivalent of driving your car through the 1930's Dust Bowl for years, without changing your air filter or oil filter.

So, when you're looking at T3 in the blood, what you're really looking at is the ability of the liver and / or kidneys to convert T4 to T3.

But as you know he strongly discourages supplementing with pre-formed Vitamin A, from either supplements or cod liver oil, or, of course, with calcitriol unless you need it due to kidney disease.

Even when overdosing for years on end, as Mr. Karason obviously did, there has still been no apparent damage to his blood cells, and no disruption whatsoever of heart, liver or kidney function.

But the ancient teachings of yoga also dealt with the opening and quieting the organs of the body, like the heart, kidneys and liver that are found in the «kunda» or vessel holding these organs.

Most detoxification occurs in the liver, however some occurs in the wall of the intestines (or «gut»), and a little also in our lungs, brain and kidneys, so it is important to look after all of our organ systems, as opposed to just focusing on our lovely livers.

That puts me right at my 120 grams that I started with:) I just wanted to double check that there was nothing too taxing on the liver or kidneys at those levels, regardless of other considerations such as building or maintaining muscle mass.

Nix your grains and sugars, and anything «fat free or low calorie»; instead, load up on plenty of FATS: good butter, olive oil, coconut oil, egg yolks, chicken skin, the fattier and nutrient dense animal parts, like liver and kidneys, and switch to whole dairy products (yogurt and keifer).

In most need are competitive athletes and patients with liver or kidney diseases, who frequently need higher doses of up to 40g a day.

People with liver or kidney disease should only use essential oils under the guidance of a qualified practitioner.