Sentences with phrase «on lung tissue»

«Running, or any kind high - intensity exercise, puts a strain on the heart muscle, as it does on lung tissue, and leg and arm muscles,» said Neel Chokshi, MD, an assistant professor of Clinical Cardiovascular Medicine, and medical director of the Penn Sports Cardiology and Fitness Program.

Not exact matches

«If you grill a brain on the barbecue, you need to add fat from the kidneys, and you put the brain in lung tissue.»

Now, the team has examined whether sepsis has the same impact on tissue resident memory T cells (TRM), which do not circulate but stick to the skin, lungs, and gut — where infections often enter the body.

These probes are to be used on lung paraffin - embedded tissue sections.

The team has now also tested the bacteria on a woman with tumours in her liver, lungs and soft tissue that didn't respond to standard treatment.

One postdoc presents data on her efforts to develop an organoid model for small - cell lung cancer; another reports progress on culturing hormone - secreting organoids from human gut tissue.

In much of California, on the other hand, a witches» brew of pollutants cooked in the atmosphere can sear the delicate tissue lining the lungs and aggravate an astonishing array of other health problems, ranging from heart disease and lung cancer to dementia.

These opportunistic bacteria can grow on hospital surfaces or in lungs and tissues.

Keytruda is the first approved drug that targets tumors with specific biomarkers, rather than based solely on their tissue origin (i.e. breast, lung, or colon).

During PTE, surgeons put a patient on a heart - lung machine, cool the body to reduce its need for oxygen and then turn the machine off for up to 20 minutes so they can remove clots and scar tissue from the patient's arteries.

Dr Kaye Morgan, lead researcher on the paper from Monash University, said the new x-ray imaging method allows researchers to look at soft tissue structures, for example the brain, airways and lungs, which are effectively invisible in conventional x-ray images.

EGFR, present on the cell membrane, is involved in cell proliferation and the development of dermis, lung, and digestive tissues.

RTI's lung - on - a-chip emulates the multilayer airway tissue microarchitecture.

Inclusion Criteria: • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1 • Have histologically or cytologically confirmed advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)(Stage IIIb or greater) • Measurable disease, as defined by Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) 1.1 • Known PD - L1 tumor status as determined by an immunohistochemistry (IHC) assay performed by the central laboratory on tissue obtained at Screening • A woman of childbearing potential must have a negative highly sensitive serum (beta - human chorionic gonadotropin [beta - hCG]-RRB- at Screening within 14 days prior to study drug administration Inclusion Criteria for Crossover: • Participants must have been randomized to Arm A of the study and had radiographic disease progression according to RECIST 1.1 • Participants must have a mandatory biopsy at the time of disease progression according to RECIST 1.1 prior to crossing over.

The Division of Pulmonary Medicine deals with the breath of life in all its aspects: control of breathing; sleep disorders; obstruction to airflow in the common diseases of upper and lower airways such as croup, bronchiolitis, asthma, cystic fibrosis, and bronchopulmonary dysplasia; restriction to lung function from disorders affecting the chest wall, the musculature, the nervous system, or lung tissue itself; congenital anomalies; accidents such as inhalation of foreign bodies, hydrocarbons, or toxic gases; secondary effects of non-pulmonary system disorders such as gastrointestinal reflux, myopathy, or cardiac dysfunction; disease of the upper respiratory tract including rhinitis and sinusitis; and so on.

Maria Gaertner (Koch, TUD)-- «Combining high - resolution optical coherence tomography with fluorescence microscopy for lung tissue imaging on the alveolar level» (2013)

Injections of iPSC - EPCs did not however have significant effect on tumor growth or on overall survival, but transducing cells with a baculovirus expressing CD40L, a member of the TNF gene family which can induce apoptosis [6, 7], and injection into the breast cancer lung metastasis, increased levels of pro-apoptotic cytokines in lung tissues, indicating the induction of apoptosis by CD40L carried by the EPCs (See figure).

Recent work from Fousteri Lab revealed a novel metabolic function of active transcription that is rapidly switched on globally in human cells to promote genetic accuracy, and reduce the mutation burden in genotoxins - exposed tissues, such as skin and lung, thus actively participating in lowering oncogenesis.

We see that Adipose — Subcutaneous, Lung, Thyroid and Skin — Sun Exposed (Lower leg) are the tissues that consistently appeared on more optimal subsets of all sizes; and these tissues are also the ones that appear among the top most stable ones on the previously mentioned stability analysis.

Work in the 1960s on the lungs of guinea pigs led to a greater understanding of the function of chemicals that are released by tissues when normal biological processes are disturbedANCHOR.

Cheng and Lobo have focused on a set of stem cells and support cells that reside in the lungs and can be reliably cultured from biopsied lung tissue.

Featuring lectures by speakers from the University of Minnesota, UNC, Duke, NCSU and Wake Forest University, the symposium is open to the entire scientific community and a broad spectrum of topics will be covered including the Brain Connectome project, the effect of music on brain function, novel MR and OCT imaging techniques for the lungs, and advanced ultrasound methodologies for tissue characterization.

Interval training helps body lose fat, boost heart and lung capacity, improve insulin sensitivity & lean tissue and so on.

While endometriosis most commonly occurs on the ovaries or immediately around the uterus, tissue can also adhere to the intestines, the bladder, the vagina, or very rarely in the chest cavity or lungs.

Rosemary is included in most lung cleansing blends because it also has an effect on relaxing smooth muscle tissue in the lungs.

Oxygen transport in your body relies on hemoglobin, a red - hued protein that binds to oxygen in your lungs and releases it into your tissues.

Depending on what chemo drug is used, different damages can be done to the blood systems including: cardiac toxicity, damage to blood - cell forming tissues, and lung damage.

Only the affected portions of lung tissue should receive coupage, since performing it on healthy lung tissue can lead to lung collapse.

Drugs commonly used are diuretics (e.g. furosemide to remove fluid that has accumulated in the abdomen or lungs and can cause your dog to drink more water and urinate more), angiotensin - converting enzyme inhibitors (ACE inhibitors to relax blood vessels to allow more efficient blood flow from the heart and to ease the workload on the heart) and positive inotropic agents (e.g. pimobendan to increase the strength of contractility of the heart muscle tissue).

To make matters worse, the increased quantity of tissue puts an increased demand on the lungs to supply oxygen.

• The immature adult worms disintegrate within the lung tissue and are very difficult to find on necropsy.

[1] The parasite is commonly called «heartworm»; however, adults often reside in the pulmonary arterial system (lung arteries), as well as the heart, and a major effect on the health for the animal is a manifestation of damage to the lung vessels and tissues.

Every organ (liver, lungs, spleen, kidneys and so on) contains a supporting framework of fibrous connective tissue as well as nerves to relay information to and from the brain.

The shelter medicine team has also been on the forefront of curbing strep zoo, a horrific infectious disease that eats away at lung tissue; a dog can be healthy in the morning and drop dead in the afternoon.

The presence of malignant melanoma may be first discovered in the lungs where diffuse pulmonary infiltration of tumors will be displayed throughout the lung tissue on a radiograph (x-ray).

A pleural fissure line is present overlying the cardiac silhouette on the lateral view, and the caudal lung lobes are slightly separated from the thoracic wall by soft tissue opacity material on the DV view.

This increased pressure within the lungs results in fluid buildup or fluid on the lungs when this occurs fluid actually leaves the blood vessels and leaks into the tissues.

Tendons, spinal cord tissue and lung tissue, however, won't be visible on an x-ray.

We've previously posted on the adverse toxicological effects of carbon nano - tube exosures to lung tissue.