Sentences with word «omentum»

Ovarian cancer can rapidly convert the entire omentum, a soft fat pad, into a solid mass of cancer cells.

These include the liver, kidneys, intestines, and spleen, as well as omentum and other lymph nodes.

Dr. Brown removed the stones (subsequently found to be cystine stones) from Skye's bladder and prostate gland, neutered him to reduce the size of the prostate, repaired the prostate, and then used omentum, the vascularized fatty lining of the stomach, to repair the ruptured urethral wall.

Turnage RH, Mizell J, Badgwell B. Abdominal wall, umbilicus, peritoneum, mesenteries, omentum, and retroperitoneum.

In phase one, the tubes were implanted in the omentum, which is fatty tissue in the lower abdomen, for four weeks.

A FATTY apron of tissue called the omentum, which sits over the stomach and intestines, may be the perfect spot to grow patches of cells for heart repair.

The team attributes the success to the omentum - grown cells developing a denser, more mature set of blood vessels.

To solve this problem, Smadar Cohen, a tissue engineer at Ben - Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba, Israel, and colleagues seeded rat cardiac cells onto scaffolds which they transplanted into the omentums of eight rats.

In humans, the equivalent structure is called the omentum, a blood vessel - rich region that other researchers are evaluating as an islet transplant location.

You can then implant these in a jelly - like structure in the abdomen called the omentum.

While the size and shape of the omentum varies, milky spots speckle the entire tissue and serve as a filter for surrounding fluid.

Recent research has shown that they aid the omentum by collecting information about the health of the abdominal cavity.

«Get to know the omentum: The apron of fat that protects your abdomen.»

«In concerns to tumor cells, the omentum makes the wrong decision,» Randall says.

The omentum's immune functions come from groups of small, white filters located among the fat cells.

Humans develop milky spots in their omentum during early development, before bacteria even appears, indicating its role as a primary immune organ.

The milky spots» analyses cause the omentum to respond immunologically by releasing inflammatory molecules, tolerating the presence of an antigen, or beginning the process of fibrosis.

Sometimes called the «policeman of the abdomen,» the omentum is known to secrete hormones related to obesity, and we're still learning new information about its functions.

While tumors of the omentum are uncommon, the circulating fluids bring back cancer cells into the milky spots, where they get trapped like grass in a pool filter, promoting metastasis.

In a review published June 1 in Trends in Immunology, researchers discuss how the omentum is also an important immune organ that serves as a first line of defense against toxins and infection — hardly what you'd expect from a layer of fat.

The omentum is a large sheet of fat that stretches across the gut, and researchers believe it may play an important role in the immune response to certain tumors.

Once ovarian cancer cells reach the omentum, they quickly develop the tools to devour the sustenance provided by this fatty tissue, reprogramming their metabolism to thrive on lipids acquired from fat cells.

The researchers found that protein signals emitted by the omentum can attract the tumor cells.

The first step was to understand the biological signals that attract ovarian cancer cells to the omentum and use it for rapid growth.

Often, cancer growth in the omentum exceeds the growth of the original ovarian cancer.

The spread of ovarian cancer cells to the omentum can happen quickly.

«The cells that make up the omentum contain the biological equivalent of jet fuel.

When the researchers compared primary ovarian cancer tissue with ovarian cancer tissue which had spread to the omentum, they found that tumor cells next to omental fat cells produced high levels of FABP4.

The model reconstructs the surfaces of the omentum and the peritoneum, membranes that line the abdominal cavity, which are the most frequent sites of ovarian cancer metastasis.

Ovarian cancer cells injected into the abdomen of healthy mice find their way to the omentum within 20 minutes.

In 80 percent of women, by the time ovarian cancer is diagnosed, it has spread to the pad of fat cells, called the omentum.

Turnage RH, Mizell J, Badgwell B. Abdominal wall, umbilicus, peritoneum, mesenteries, omentum, and retroperitoneum.

Ironically, the only time the glossary was referenced by this reviewer was to look up the meaning of «omentum», which should have been placed between «neuron» and «pacemaker» in the glossary, but was not included!

Small umbilical hernias contain nothing but a fatty veil called the omentum which normally covers the intestines.

Small umbilical hernias contain nothing but a fatty veil we all share called the omentum which normally covers the intestines.

The spread of cancer often affects the liver, but can also spread to the lungs, omentum and lymph nodes.

In the case of stomach cancer, cancer starts in the stomach wall and quickly spreads to the gastric lymph nodes, omentum (fat on the bottom edge of the stomach), liver, duodenum (first part of the small intestine), pancreas, spleen, esophagus, adrenal glands and lungs.