Sentences with phrase «of organ disease»

A decreased risk of organ disease associated with oral bacteria.

Being aware of your dog's water intake is important because drinking too little water can lead to dehydration while drinking too much water can be an indication of organ disease.

Yearly dental cleanings and home dental care can help prevent some types of organ diseases by minimizing spread of bacteria from the mouth into the bloodstream.

Not exact matches

«The idea of being able to use biology to design and engineer living things that can do things like cure disease or eliminate organ waiting lists, or even revert climate change, or help us live on other planets — that's more what was exciting about it,» he says.

He conducted his postdoctoral research at Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School, where he researched the role of the Wnt signaling pathway in mouse models of kidney disease, and was part of a team that discovered a stem cell subtype responsible for solid organ fibrosis.

The technology may correct loss of organ and tissue function with age, diseases or trauma.

New advances in the world of sensors, chips, hardware devices, swallowable cameras, 3D printing, artificial organs, data mining technologies, and more could help us diagnose diseases earlier, provide better treatments to patients, and even ease things like chronic pain and depression.

Its drug development expertise is being applied primarily to the fields of pain management, central nervous system disorders, acute organ injury and metabolic diseases such as nonalcoholic fatty liver disease / nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.

Our teeth rot and fall out, our knees and hips fail, we have a host of organs which are more likely to kill than help us, we are susceptible to cancers, heart disease,....

In medicine, victory Over all the major diseases appears not too distant, and the replacement of organs, including diseased hearts, has been predicted.

I adhere to a strict low carb diet and daily exercise, and still, I can see the effects of the disease on several of my organ systems.

[1] It is comprised of a network of cells and organs working together to defend the body against infection and sickness by producing secretions and disease - fighting cells.

Reduce your risk of heart disease and protect this vital organ with these simple lifestyle strategies.

Post-race, the blood of a marathoner can paint a picture of diseased organs and biochemical decay thanks to compounds tossed off by the skeletal muscle, heart, and liver, such as troponin, a cardiac enzyme whose elevation signals trauma to the heart.

Infertility can often occur because of damage to the reproductive organs caused by disease or injury.

Due to poor forming of the organs and bones, your child will easily be ill with congenital heart diseases and osteoporosis.

If you have one of these diseases, your immune system begins to attack itself - going over your tissues and organs.

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!

The wife of ailing former Assembly Speaker Mel Miller has launched a desperate campaign to find him an organ donor, saying he is suffering from end stage kidney disease and needs a transplant to save his life.

The bill notes one organ donor can help save the lives of up to eight people on the donation waiting list and can improve the lives of up to 50 people by restoring eyesight, treating burn patients and helping patients avoid disabilities by replacing malfunctioning, diseased or damaged organs and tissue.

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease that occurs when the immune system attacks the body instead of defending it, causing inflammation that often results in serious damage to bones, joints and tendons, and can also affect internal organs like the heart, eyes and lungs.

There are hopes in the medical community that stem cell research and therapeutic cloning will facilitate organ cloning and enable the replacement of damaged cells with healthy ones for sufferers of degenerative diseases.

Payne keyed in the symptoms, and the computer program suggested a handful of potential conditions, including a rare disease called amyloidosis, in which abnormal proteins build up in the body, interfering with normal organ function and causing nerve damage.

«Sepsis is the leading cause of death in intensive care units in the United States, and patients with the diagnosis of sepsis have a minimum of a 30 percent chance of dying of their disease; if their vital organ systems — brain, heart, lungs, liver, kidneys — are affected, they have a 70 percent chance of dying.

It is unknown whether delirium can be treated to improve prognosis in critically ill patients, or whether it is a marker of organ dysfunction or systemic disease and an early sign that complications are likely.

Indeed, psychiatric and neurological disorders are at least as genetically determined, and in many cases more so, than common diseases of other organ systems.

These techniques include: human tissue created by reprogramming cells from people with the relevant disease (dubbed «patient in a dish»); «body on a chip» devices, where human tissue samples on a silicon chip are linked by a circulating blood substitute; many computer modelling approaches, such as virtual organs, virtual patients and virtual clinical trials; and microdosing studies, where tiny doses of drugs given to volunteers allow scientists to study their metabolism in humans, safely and with unsurpassed accuracy.

As prostate cancer progresses, tumor cells may infiltrate this periprostatic adipose tissue: this is a key step in the progression of this cancer, as it signals locally advanced disease (where the cancer can progress to nearby organs).

Huh's team could give the organ the symptoms of dry eye disease by making it blink less frequently, so the device could be used to test the safety and effectiveness of new eye drop medications.

Chemotherapy and radiotherapy alone are relatively unsuccessful in treating the disease, and while surgery to remove the tumour offers the best chance of survival, most patients are diagnosed when the cancer has already spread to other organs.

The finding, reported in next month's issue of Nature Medicine, raises new questions about whether people could contract exotic diseases if animal organs become routinely transplanted into human patients.

In humans, the goal of SCNT is «nonreproductive cloning» — making embryos, then removing stem cells from the embryo and cultivating them to grow into tissues that could cure diseases, replace organs and heal injuries.

In the disease state, the blood cells are sickle - shaped instead of round, leading to stabs of pain and eventual organ damage.

A new understanding of the blood - brain barrier as a living, mutable organ may revolutionize the treatment of diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer's

These conditions are associated with high blood sugar, which can damage the vessels that supply blood to vital organs and can also increase the risk of heart disease and stroke.

The Center's goal is to understand basic mechanisms of tissue and organ formation, and then to use this knowledge to regenerate, repair, and replace tissues damaged by aging, disease and injury.

Mitochondrial defects are often observed in a variety of diseases, including cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and Parkinson's disease, and are the hallmarks of a number of genetic mitochondrial disorders whose manifestations range from muscle weakness to organ failure.

«Our hope is that we can leverage our understanding of how snakes accomplish organ regeneration to one day help treat human diseases.»

Your report makes the statement that «Peer reviewers thus need not be scientific «competitors» of the applicant, or even be studying the same disease or organ system».

Tissues outside of the bones don't naturally calcify, yet mineralization of organs, including the heart, blood vessels, and kidneys, occurs with age and is exacerbated in people with diabetes or kidney disease.

Uranium - 235 (U-235) is an isotope of uranium widely used for nuclear power generation and, like all other radioactive isotopes used in medicine, it has been also employed for diagnosis and treatment of diseased organs and tumors.

Because the danger of melanoma comes from its metastasis from the skin to the vital organs, being able to slow down or stop metastasis could turn a disease that was often a death sentence into a manageable chronic illness with relatively little risk of death.

The longer - term dream, however, is that the nascent technology of regenerative medicine might someday routinely use them to regrow diseased, damaged or missing tissues and organs.

Interdisciplinary research at the University of Pennsylvania is showing how cells interact over long distances within fibrous tissue, like that associated with many diseases of the liver, lungs and other organs.

Autoimmune diseases result when the immune system mistakes some of the body's proteins for invaders and attacks organs.

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.

If researchers can unlock the secrets of this cellular process, therapies that replace diseased cells with healthy ones may one day be possible — brain - cell transplants to combat Alzheimer's, for instance, or even the creation of whole organs from scratch.

Other diseases claim limbs or organs; Alzheimer's devours the self, making it one of the few afflictions widely regarded as being worse than death.

But even more far - ranging treatments may be possible with embryonic stem cells, the blank - slate cells that give rise to all organs and tissue types and that (theoretically) can repair all forms of organic damage and disease.

The investigators suggest that the premature loss of estrogen caused by the oophorectomy may affect a series of aging mechanisms at the cellular and tissue level across the whole body leading to diseases in multiple systems and organs.