Sentences with phrase «of other body tissues»

The liver can also regenerate very well (unlike some of the other body tissues).

It is one of a large group of proteins that sculpt the skeleton and control growth of other body tissues.

Not exact matches

Based on the definition of endometriosis — which is basically that pieces of endometrial tissue end up in other parts of the body — it can be easy to assume that endometriosis causes intense pain all over the body.

In a rare appearance Dr. Chandan Sen, Director, OSU Center for Regenerative Medicine & Cell - Based Therapies will explain how this breakthrough came about and how the technology is leading to other medical discoveries and how the principle can be used to generate any tissue out of skin or fat which is abundant in human body.

Because our - own bodies establish a frame of reference through which we experience the bodies of other persons, we have trouble relating to someone whose face consists of ragged layers of scar tissue.

There, the amino acids can be used to make a huge variety of tissues, hormones and other materials needed for the healthy function of your body.

Protein, which makes up your muscles and countless other tissues in your body, is actually built out of various amino acids.

Antioxidants are naturally found in most plant - foods, and help counter the inflammatory effects of free radicals — molecules that can damage the skin, and other body tissue.

Just like any other infection, the tissue around the infected area becomes inflamed to keep it from spreading to other parts of the body.

VITAMIN E: Protects body's store of Vitamin A, tissues and fat from destructive oxidation, and breakdown of red corpuscles; strengthens capillary walls; regulates menstrual rhythm; prevents loss of other vitamins; aids blood flow to heart; lowers blood cholesterol and fatty acids; vital to cell health; regulates protein and calcium metabolism.

I was definitely not prepared for the amount of fluid and other tissues that leave your body for WEEKS afterward.

Sometimes breast tissue in the armpit or other parts of the body along the «mammary ridge» can become engorged initially after birth, with no outlet for the milk.

As red blood cells are responsible for transporting oxygen to the cells and tissues of the body, the lack of hemoglobin can lead to lethargy, weakness, breathing problems, heart dysfunction, and other complications.

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

The research team found that when it increased levels of E-NTPDase2 in tadpole embryos that consisted of only eight cells, they could cause parts of the eye to form not only on the heads of the amphibians, but also in tissues in other parts of their bodies, including their tails.

«The cornea is the most densely innervated tissue in the body, so corneal nerve assessment is extremely sensitive for detecting small sensory nerve fiber damage as compared to other tests including measurement of intra-epidermal nerve fibers in the skin,» notes lead investigator Joseph L. Mankowski, DVM, PhD, who is Professor of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Pathology, and Neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD..

«The tongue, like other human tissues, is a flabby body,» says Christophe Jeannin of the Institut de la Communication Parlée.

In the most famous example of cannibalism - related disease transmission, the Fore people of New Guinea were nearly driven to extinction as a result of their ritualized consumption of brains and other tissues cut from the bodies of their deceased kin — kin who had been infected by kuru, an incurable and highly transmissible neurological disease.

Action potentials can be created by many types of cells, but are used most extensively by the nervous system for communication between neurons and to transmit information from neurons to other body tissues such as muscles and glands.

This is where insects and other animals may continue the process of removal of tissue from the body.

Enzyme assays showed that the mutations reduced HYAL2 protein levels in the tissues, which likely inhibited hyaluronan turnover, ultimately impacting development of the palate and other body parts.

Dr Grainger, a Wellcome Trust and Royal Society Fellow, explains what they found: «Our work shows that very soon after the toxoplasma invades the gut the tissue starts to communicate with other parts of the body to alter the immune system.

Autoimmune diseases arise from an overactive immune response of the body against substances and tissues normally present in the body; in other words, the body attacks its own cells.

The ascetic diet of slow starvation eliminated body fat — which tends to decay faster than other types of tissue — and built up chemical compounds toxic to bacteria associated with decomposition.

Esrp1 and Esrp2 are active specifically in epithelial cells, which form the skin, the inner layers of the gut and lung, and other tissues in the body.

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.

And when I look at the regenerative capacity of other tissues in the body, I think «how can we take advantage of what nature has already figured out?»»

The abnormal tissue has to penetrate and grow in other areas of the body.

For example: Why can a surgeon successfully graft skin or other tissue from one part of the body to another but not from one individual to another, except in the case of grafts between identical twins?

FIH is found in all the body's cells and tissues, but is 50 to 100 times more abundant in the muscles than in any other part of the body.

Tuberculosis (TB) tricks the immune system into attacking the body's lung tissue so the bacteria are allowed to spread to other people, new research from the University of Southampton suggests.

Tissue grafted into the central nervous system sparks a far less hostile response than tissue grafted to other parts of the body, prompting scientists to consider the brain «immunologically privileged.&Tissue grafted into the central nervous system sparks a far less hostile response than tissue grafted to other parts of the body, prompting scientists to consider the brain «immunologically privileged.&tissue grafted to other parts of the body, prompting scientists to consider the brain «immunologically privileged.»

In humans, Salmonella Dublin has higher hospitalization and fatality rates than other Salmonella types; it causes systemic infection of body tissues, similar to typhoid.

«We throw out huge volumes of wastewater that contains sweet potato proteins — we hypothesized that these could affect body weight, fat tissue and other factors,» explained Dr. Ishiguro.

The researchers also note that more women are receiving implants rather than recreating breasts using tissue from other parts of their body, called autologous reconstruction.

Blumberg writes, «The success of Dove's experiment depended upon the ability of an isolated horn bud, like the regenerating limb of a newt, to grow independently of other tissues in the calf's body.»

Gartner's group plans to use the technique to investigate what cellular or structural changes in mammary glands can lead to the breakdown of tissue architecture associated with tumors that metastasize, invading other parts of the body and threatening the life of the patient.

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.

With additional funding support from NIBIB, Wang recently overcame the optical diffusion limit, which is the depth at which light can be used to take images of tissues in the body by other existing high - resolution imaging technologies.

Contrast agents, injected into the patient during an MRI procedure and designed to be quickly cleared from the body by the kidneys afterwards, are needed to make fine details of organ structures, blood vessels, and other specific tissues clearly visible in the images.

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.

The few thousand or so people with FOP worldwide live with grueling uncertainty: Some of their muscles or other soft tissues periodically, and abruptly, transform into new bone that permanently immobilizes parts of their bodies.

The study's other senior author, Dr John O'Neill of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, said: «Although the clinical relevance of magnesium in various tissues is beginning to garner more attention, how magnesium regulates our body's internal clock and metabolism has simply not been considered before.

«We know from animal models that there are critical periods during early development when cells are rapidly dividing and forming the circuitry through which cells will communicate with each other to form various tissues of the body,» said Retha Newbold, a reproductive biologist at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in North Carolina.

«Nanosponges alone are difficult to use on local tissues because they diffuse away to other parts of the body very quickly.

Endometriosis, when uterine tissue grows in the ovaries or other parts of the body, often causes pelvic pain and infertility.

Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have, for the first time, taken chimpanzee and bonobo skin cells and turned them into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), a type of cell that has the ability to form any other cell or tissue in the body.

Genes in the liver, pancreas and other tissues (not just the brain) keep the various parts of the body in sync.

It could be the body's way of protecting itself when other tissue becomes resistant to insulin, which often happens as we get older,» says professor and research project manager Charlotte Ling.

Fat cells are not simply big blobs of lipid quietly standingby in the body — instead, they send out hormones and other signaling proteins that affect many types of tissues.