Sentences with phrase «of the involved tissues»

Aside from the pigment deposit, the gross and microscopic appearance of the involved tissues is normal.

Not exact matches

The process involves putting a flexible tube in a patient's nose or mouth, and using a heatable electrode array to help decrease the amount of excess muscle tissue restricting air flow.

Suwan Jayasinghe, leader of the biophysics group at University College London, is involved in trying to create synthetic biological tissues.

The CPI represents 70 member companies involved in the supply chain for paper, comprising recovered paper merchants, paper and board manufacturers and converters, corrugated packaging producers and makers of soft tissue papers.

An old - fashioned and in fact discredited method of cyst removal involves a hearty smash with something like — well, a polo mallet, to release the fluid into surrounding tissues.

Training and competing with incorrect sport technique increases the level of stress in those tissues involved in the movements.

A hip labral tear involves the ring of soft elastic tissue, called the labrum, that follows the outside rim of the socket of your hip joint (much like a bumper around a pool table).

It is not an Achilles injury, as has been suggested but instead it involves the band of tissue which runs under the foot.

After a mastectomy, depending on how much of the breast tissue was removed, the breast involved may not be able to produce much milk, if any at all.

Cardiac muscle mass tissue can be an especially specialised variety of muscle mass tissue that may be involved with pumping blood all the way through the human body.

Acupuncture is a system of complementary medicine that involves pricking the skin or tissues with needles, used to alleviate pain and to treat various physical, mental, and emotional conditions.

They involve the formation of cysts that becomes swollen in the breast tissue.

Another highly effective treatment for both plugged ducts and mastitis is therapeutic breast massage, which involves gentle stroking of breast tissue toward the direction of the armpit, alternating with gentle hand expression.

There are so many issues involving vaccinations, such as state requirements and the use of animal / human tissue, that Dr. Sears does an amazing job covering the subject.

Another highly effective treatment for engorgement, is therapeutic breast massage, which involves gentle stroking of breast tissue toward the direction of the armpit, alternating with gentle hand expression.

The NOCSAE action to move forward the development of a more comprehensive helmet standard was taken on the heels of new NOCSAE - funded research which identified brain tissue response from a concussive event and the development of a new method to test helmets which replicates some of the rotational forces involved in a concussion.

A breast biopsy involves the removal of a small tissue sample from the breast for lab testing to determine if any cancerous cell changes are present.

She demonstrated that early experience leads to lasting changes in the molecular structure of the brain and discovered a gene involved in the spread of brain cancer cells into healthy brain tissue.

The first approach involves suturing two pieces of tissue together with a needle and thread.

«It was particularly exciting to observe that the repair of the skin epidermis involves the activation of very different stem cells that react the same way to the emergency situation of the wound and have the power to completely restore the damaged tissue», comments Mariaceleste Aragona, the first author of the study.

The procedure involves general anesthesia and imaging guided use of a wire catheter threaded through a vein to the heart to make scores of tiny burns of tissue in which the irregular heartbeats arise.

Defined as the harnessing of living processes to achieve healing and repair of damaged and diseased tissues by Tim Hardingham, director of the UK Centre for Tissue Engineering, it is a field that requires collaborative research involving cell and molecular biologists, chemical engineers, materials scientists, and surgeons.

Research involving the derivation and use of stem cells from adult tissues is permissible, subject to the informed consent of the tissue donor.

Research involving the derivation and use of stem cells from cadaveric foetal tissues is permissible, subject to the informed consent of the tissue donor.

The surgical procedure involves removing the top two layers of skin from a healthy donor site, and transplanting the tissue to an injured area.

Scientists for decades have been seeking ways to repair cartilage without resorting to traditional surgery, which typically involves removing damaged cartilage through an incision in the joint while trying to preserve as much of the healthy tissue as possible.

They did this by testing tissue concentrations of fatty acids in liver, muscle and brain tissue, along with the expression of genes involved in regulating EPA status and its physiological benefits.

The findings tallied with another study which involved screening post-mortem brain tissue from people who had had some form of psychosis.

The treatment, called catheter ablation, involves burning selected spots of tissue inside the heart with the tip of a catheter.

As structural proteins, they are involved in the growth of tissue, such as nails or hairs.

To do so, researchers will need to find non-invasive ways to record the firing of individual neurons, because all current methods involve opening the skull and, often, sticking electrodes into brain tissue.

«Importantly, this knowledge will help us better understand healthy tissue homeostasis and the wide range of diseases that involve abnormal tissue mechanics, especially cancer.»

Now, many research advocates are wondering how Price's mix of views might play out in the new administration's approach to a wide range of issues, including funding, research involving human embryonic stem cells and fetal tissue, and the appointment of a new NIH director.

Reconstruction operations with implants involves the use of prosthetic breasts made of saline or silicone gel, while reconstruction using the patient's own abdominal tissue, known as autologous transfer, requires additional incisions, harvesting of tissue and transplantation of that to the breast.

Since the species involved are already rare and difficult to sample in the wild, the researchers resorted to material from a total of 13 museum specimens — and extracted DNA from samples of bone, skin and the dried remains of soft tissues.

A postmortem analysis of human brain tissue, for example, conducted by Witelson and her colleagues at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster, revealed that women's neurons were 11 percent denser than men's in the prefrontal cortex and in a region of the temporal cortex that is involved with language processing, comprehension, and memory.

Now, with new kinds of technologies that are coming up, new types of tissue engineering and, you know, some of the hopes that people have for stem cells and [the] like, it may be interesting to see if there are other ways, alternatives to dealing with really badly damaged hearts that would involve growing a new heart or replacing or repairing the damage d to a badly damaged heart that might make artificial hearts less important in the somewhat more distant future.

«We discovered that three particular proteins involved in the Wnt signaling pathway aren't just involved in the development of severe illnesses, but also in the qualitative refinement of highly developed tissue,» says co-first author Claudio Cantù from the molecular biologist research group lead by Prof. Konrad Basler.

The difficulty is that tissue samples necessary for this kind of genetic profiling are currently obtained from the airways, which requires bronchoscopy, an invasive procedure involving sedation.

Plakoglobin is a component of two important structures involved in cell - to - cell adhesion, and the investigators found that suppressing its expression caused CTC clusters to fall apart, reducing their metastatic potential, and also disrupted cell - to - cell contact between breast cancer cells but not normal breast tissue.

A sprain involves the overstretching or tearing of the ligaments, which are the fibrous connective tissues that connect bones to each other and stabilize them.

By pairing a receptor that targets neurons with a molecule that degrades the main component of Alzheimer's plaques, the biologists were able to substantially dissolve these plaques in mice brains and human brain tissue, offering a potential mechanism for treating the debilitating disease, as well as other conditions that involve either the brain or the eyes.

The discoloration gradually faded out at the upper and lower margins of the involved segment, so that there was no definite line of demarcation between healthy and sick tissue.

That reaction results when a localized accumulation of immune complexes — antibodies bound to their antigens — is deposited in tissue and sets off an inflammatory response involving the infiltration and activation of immune cells, initially the neutrophil.

Notch — a critical molecule involved in the development and maintenance of most of tissues and organs — has been a focus of the Kopan laboratory since 1990.

Patient - derived xenographs involve the implantation of tumor tissue into an immunodeficient mouse which becomes an avatar to help identify which drug or drug combinations are most likely to be effective for an individual cancer patient.

That type of procedure is usually a day - long operation which involves removing part of the skull, cutting through healthy brain matter and physically removing the problem tissue, followed by a weeklong hospital stay and prolonged recovery period.

For the manatee, walrus, dolphin, and killer whale, the return to the sea involved many evolutionary trade - offs amongst hundreds of genes: a general loss of the number of sensory genes for smell and taste, new functions for genes forming skin and connective tissue, and genes involved in muscle structure and metabolism.

All of these findings were supplemented with several other experiments that were designed to learn how CHI3L1 interacts with other cells involved in the tissue repair response in both human and mouse lungs.

«Aortic valve stenosis, even though it involves only a little piece of tissue, has a catastrophic effect on the heart,» said W. David Merryman, associate professor of biomedical engineering.