Sentences with phrase «of lost tissue»

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In the course of it, you lose hundreds of millions of muscle cells that won't be replaced, and instead less flexible scar tissue forms on the heart, which can lead to patients needing a heart transplant.

He pressed his clear advantage, and cajoled: It's nothing but a little patch of tissue — Girls lose it every day.

I think the least that we can do in order to comfort those that lost a loved one on that perilous day, is to ask Congress that an appropriations bill be authorized to send each each survivor of that infamous attack, a king - size box of Kleenex tissues.

The body loses increasing amounts of nitrogen into the urine, usually as a result of the breakdown of protein in muscle tissue.

These are the building blocks of protein, which make up the structure of new muscle tissue — so important whatever your aim, whether it's losing weight or toning up.

Our little magician had almost lost his foot to gangrene (decay around tissue because of a lack of blood flow to the area) after contracting a dangerous infection.

I had been trying to breastfeed her and a series of events (my milk not coming in, jaundice, insufficient glandular tissue) and some really poor medical advice (just keep nursing, it's normal for a newborn to sleep that much) resulted in her losing 20 percent of her birth weight.

Newborn babies are born with more fluids in their tissues than they need, which is one of the reasons that most babies lose weight in the early days.

Work by Haslam and Shyamala reveals that progesterone receptors are lost in lactating mammary tissues, thus decreasing the inhibitory effect of circulating progesterone.

As we age, our skin loses some of its elastic properties and if it stretched significantly — like say, over two growing babies — the connective tissue often tears rather than stretches.

A little back story, in case you are lost... Nearly 2 years ago, Emily, one of my younger sisters, was diagnosed with Scleroderma, an autoimmune disease that leads to the hardening of the skin, internal organs, connective tissues, etc... It's rough!

This takes place in a number of ways: the child loses its appetite and eats less; parents may withhold food from the sick child; nutrients are poorly absorbed by the intestines during and after the diarrhoea episode; and body tissues are broken down metabolically.

But the biological secrets inside their arm regeneration feat do hold the promise of learning more about how we might better regenerate our own diseased or lost tissue.

After surgical removal, the metabolic processes in a tumor change in a very short period of time, so that valuable information about the tumor tissue is lost during a conventional sampling procedure.

The normal response of any mammal's body to significant damage is to create scar tissue, a hasty but crude way of replacing what has been lost.

A remarkable substance extracted from pigs enables the body to regenerate lost tissue, including fingertips and big chunks of muscle.

Within about 130 days, all of the animals developed what looked like prion disease: their heads twitched, they lost muscle tissue, and they became lethargic.

The device can treat either form of age - related macular degeneration: the dry stage, where the delicate tissues of the macula become thinned and slowly lose function, or the less common wet stage that's caused by the growth of abnormal blood vessels behind the macula.

If a sea turtle takes a bite out of a jellyfish, the injured animal can quickly grow new cells to replace the lost tissue.

Get a cut on your finger and your skin can make new cells to heal the wound; lose your tail — if you are a particular kind of lizard — and tissue regeneration may produce a new one.

The newt can regenerate lost tissue, including heart muscle, components of its central nervous system and even the lens of its eye.

He is the co-founder and chief scientific officer of Novo Biosciences, a for - profit spinoff of the MDI Biological Laboratory whose goal is to realize the therapeutic potential of ZF143 and other drugs that speed tissue healing and stimulate the regeneration of lost and damaged body parts.

If we introduced stem cells with nice, long telomeres in the first place, we could let them wind down and eventually be lost to apoptosis, senescence, or other sources of damage — and just top our tissues up with more stem cells before enough of those cells were lost to begin to impair tissue function.

«When you lose weight, about two - thirds of it tends to be fat tissue, and the other third is lean tissue,» Mittendorfer said.

Among the 19 study volunteers who lost 5 percent of their body weight, the function of insulin - secreting beta cells improved, as did insulin sensitivity in fat tissue, liver and skeletal muscle tissue.

A research team at York has adapted the astonishing capacity of animals such as newts to regenerate lost tissues and organs caused when they have a limb severed.

Living plant tissue from hundreds of thousands of years ago might also be revived, helping scientists to understand the lost ecologies

He had lost hearing on one side, and the area was a mass of scar tissue and relocated nerves.

Since embryonic stem cells can differentiate into any type of tissue, they have the potential to treat an almost unending array of medical conditions — replacing damaged or lost body parts or tissues, slowing degenerative diseases, even growing new organs.

For the Muscle Tendon Tissue Unit Repair and Reinforcement Reconstructive Surgery Research Study, which is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense and is continuing to enroll new participants, five men who had at least six months earlier lost at least 25 percent of leg muscle volume and function compared to the uninjured limb underwent a customized regimen of physical therapy for 12 to 26 weeks until their function and strength plateaued for a minimum of two weeks.

Strikingly, a majority of the imprinted candidates were paternally expressed, and this expression bias was lost when the transcriptomes of fetal tissues were examined.

For the Muscle Tendon Tissue Unit Repair and Reinforcement Reconstructive Surgery Research Study, which was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense, 11 men and two women who had lost at least 25 percent of leg or arm muscle volume and function first underwent a customized regimen of physical therapy for four to 16 weeks.

Stem cells, which have to divide regularly to regenerate tissues with new cells, can produce telomerase, but not the amount required to counteract the shortening of telomeres that accumulates with aging: over time, the tissues have fewer fresh cells and they lose their regenerative capacity.

«Given the limited number of successful therapies available today for repairing lost tissues, we need to look to animals like zebrafish for new clues about how to stimulate regeneration.»

When transplanted to an animal model of corneal blindness, these tissues are shown to repair the front of the eye and restore vision, which scientists say could pave the way for human clinical trials of anterior eye transplantation to restore lost or damaged vision.

One study found that after two weeks of minor calorie restriction (10 percent less than their daily energy expenditure), subjects who were getting 5.5 hours in bed a night lost just 0.6 kilogram of fat but 2.4 kilograms of other tissue, such as muscle; subjects who got 8.5 hours slumber each night lost 1.4 kilograms of fat and 1.5 kilograms of other tissue.

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.»

Importantly, individual classes of inhibitory neurons are quite sparse in the brain, so any unique features of those cells would likely have been lost in earlier studies that looked at the tissue as a whole.

Cut off from their oceanic relatives for millions of years, the golden jellies, Mastigias papua etpisoni, have lost much of their sting and evolved a symbiotic relationship with algae that live in their tissues, lending their eponymous golden color.

MDI Biological Laboratory Associate Professor James A. Coffman, Ph.D., is studying the regenerative capacity of sea urchins in hopes that a deeper understanding of the process of regeneration, which governs the regeneration of aging tissues as well as lost or damaged body parts, will lead to a deeper understanding of the aging process in humans, with whom sea urchins share a close genetic relationship.

Crawford lost an eye and much of his nose when doctors removed the infected tissue.

«At present, if you lose an arm, a leg or soft tissue as part of cancer treatment or burns, you have very limited options.»

Center cells lost the expression of octamer - binding transcription factor 4 (OCT4) and epithelial cadherin (E-cadherin) faster than perimeter cells, which are critical to the development of heart tissue.

Many schizophrenics show chronic inflammation and lose brain tissue over time, and these changes correlate with the severity of their symptoms.

The means to enhance the production of cartilage - specific extracellular matrix is needed for cell - based tissue engineering applications, since cultured chondrocytes quickly lose their cartilage - specific phenotype.

Rieger and other scientists working in the institution's Kathryn W. Davis Center for Regenerative Medicine study tissue repair, regeneration and aging in a diverse range of organisms that have robust mechanisms to repair and regenerate lost and damaged tissues.

The differentiation of patient - specific induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) into has the potential to provide differentiated cells to test drugs, model diseases, and, most importantly, to replace lost or damaged tissues.

What if we could take a drug that would stimulate the regeneration of lost and damaged tissues and organs?

In the experiments, mutant flies without functioning copies of the scrawny prematurely lost their stem cells in reproductive tissue, skin, and intestinal tissue.

The hope, in the wake of Yamanaka's discovery, was that iPS cells could be a controversy - free alternative, conferring on humans a newtlike ability to regenerate lost or diseased tissue.