Sentences with phrase «other body tissues by»

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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.

The cocaine vaccine works the same way other vaccines do: by stimulating the immune system to produce antibodies that bind to a foreign entity, preventing it from entering the brain or otherwise interacting with the body's organs and tissues.

Previous research conducted by Dr. Badylak's team suggested that ECM also could be used to regenerate lost muscle by placing the material in the injury site where it signals the body to recruit stem and other progenitor cells to rebuild healthy tissue.

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.

Extracellular aggregates can be removed from the brain and other areas of the body by specialized antibodies that hone in specifically on them and remove them from the tissue.

Adipose tissue has a central role in whole - body energy metabolism as a dynamic store of triglycerides, and as an endocrine organ that coordinates energy intake and use by other tissues (2).

* Adult mammals can restore other types of tissue, including bone, liver and skin tissue, but by the strictest definition — the faithful replacement of damaged or resected body parts — they can only regenerate their fingertips.

In eukaryotes, a homeobox encodes a protein domain (the homeodomain) which can bind DNA that act as part of transcription factors to switch on cascades of other genes that induce cellular differentiation by initiating the cascades of coregulated genes required to make individual tissues, organs, or body parts.

Among many other important biological and immunological functions, Growth Factors cause the growth of new blood vessels, connective and nerve tissues by the activation of Stem Cells that are normally found in all parts of the human body.

So if your liver is overwhelmed by excess estrogen (and isn't working well, in other words) those toxins get deposited into your fat tissue, making it toxic fat tissue, which is the kind that the body really does not want to deal with.

In other words, the fat that is stored in your body's adipose tissue is broken down by the thermogenesis outlined above (increased fat burning) and the fatty acids are transported to the cells that build up your muscles.

The dementia in the other half appeared to have been caused by abnormal protein deposits (known as Lewy bodies), stroke - related tissue death (microinfarcts), cell damage, or some combination thereof.

It is later used by the human body to aid various processes like the breakdown of food, repairing of various body tissues, their growth and various other body functions.

These amino acids can be reassembled in the body by various mechanisms into tissues, organs, enzymes and a host of other protein based components.

Every tissue of your body both inside and out is going to be dominated by bacteria one way or the other.

Proteins are made up of amino acids and are used by the body to maintain, repair, and build tissues, including muscles and other organ systems...

* A growing body of research indicates that Grape Seed OPCs may help to support the health of vascular, bone, kidney, brain and other tissues by supporting a healthy immune response to normal oxidative and metabolic stress.

In most mammals, fasting conditions will cause an increase in the production of ketone bodies in the liver, which is accompanied by an increase in ketone utilization by the heart, skeletal muscle, brain, and other tissues.

Even if brown fat thermogenesis can be ramped up to increase calorie consumption, the body may compensate for the calorie deficit by increasing hunger or increasing the metabolic efficiency of other tissues such as muscle.

Detox stands for detoxification, and is a period of time over which the body activates its natural healing mechanisms by pouring toxins stored in the cells and tissues back into the bloodstream for elimination through the kidneys and other organs.

The wrong level of current will stimulate cancer growth (by as much as 300 %), burn tissues, and cause direct electrolysis of body fluids resulting in the creation of gasses and other possible dangerous compounds.

Other studies have explained that caffeine increases sports - related performance by mobilizing the fatty acids in our fat tissues, therefore allowing the body to use them for energy (4).

When taken by individuals who have mercury dental amalgams or a body burden of mercury, alpha lipoic acid can pull mercury from the teeth and other tissues in an attempt to equilibrate levels throughout the body and brain.

Other studies have shown that soy protein is less effective for body builders than whey protein because its amino acids are more likely to go into splanchnic circulation (stomach, small intestines, colon, liver, pancreas and spleen) than into peripheral regions such as muscle tissues.4, 5 This makes sense because whey protein provides greater amounts of the branched chain amino acids (BCAAs) leucine, isoleucine and valine as well as more methionine and lysine, all of which are critically needed for muscle building.6 - 9 Researchers have also found the low BCAA content of soy protein adversely affects muscle building by disrupting both leucine signaling10 and the activation of myogenic translation initiation factors.

The ability of a drug or other chemical to be taken up by the body and made available in the tissue where it is needed.

It is quickly absorbed by the body to provide the important essential amino acids needed to nourish the muscles and other body tissues.

It accomplishes this task by producing ketone bodies that are released into the blood for our brain and other tissues that don't utilize fat for energy.

These antibodies cause damage in the body by causing inflammation as they attack other tissues.

The third punch they deliver to cancer is by acting as natural detoxifiers, ridding the body of accumulated dead cells and tissues, wastes and other substances that can act as potential carcinogens.

The brain like every other human tissue is made up of and utilizes protein, so we do have to eat enough protein while the brain is growing and a small amount for daily operation, but the major metabolic price of our larger brains is the large increase in the percentage of total calories used by our brains compared to animals with smaller brain to body weight ratio.

Cellulite, the dimpled orange peel effect mainly seen on thighs and buttocks (but can also be found in other areas of the body), is caused by connective tissue (collagen fibers) becoming damaged, brittle or inflexible allowing pockets of fat to push up under the surface of the skin.

A growing body of research indicates that OPCs from grape seeds may help to support the health of vascular, bone, kidney, brain and other tissues by supporting a healthy, balanced immune response to oxidative and metabolic stress.

So, it is no surprise that we need these two amino acids to heal, not only gaping wounds, but also the microscopic damage done to blood vessels and other tissues in our body caused by inflammation and infection.

While some clinicians believe this is caused by the cross-linking of antibodies as explained in the model above, others believe it is because the body is starting to mobilize toxins that had been store in fat tissue and other storage sites in the body.

By - products include fatty tissue, stomach, intestines, kidney, spleen, lungs, or other body parts.

Some of these tests are designed to detect the presence of the Chlamydia organism in swabs of tissues, mouth or feces while other tests are designed to detect antibodies in the blood (antibodies are specialized proteins produced by the body to protect it from the Chlamydia organism).

The iodine is taken up by the thyroid gland but not by other body tissues.

Inflammatory substances are released to attempt to limit the tissue injury by creating a protective wall around the injury so that other reparative and healing cells of the canine body can get to work.

Often, by the time symptoms are present, the cancer has spread to other tissues of the body.

By saturating not only the blood but the tissue and other fluids in the body with oxygen, wounds are able to heal faster through stem - cell mobilization, bacteria are hindered, swelling and inflammation are drastically reduced and post-operative complications are mitigated.

Diabetes can do quite a bit of damage to your cat's body — every major organ and tissue is subject to being damaged by the effects that ketones and other aspects of diabetes cause.

Benign tumors, although they may grow and penetrate below the surface layer of tissue, do not spread by metastasis to other parts of the body.

that results in fibromyalgia (a syndrome characterised by chronic pain in the muscles and soft tissues surrounding joints, fatigue and tenderness at specific sites in the body), myalgic encephalomyelitis (muscle pains and inflammation of the brain and spinal cord), chronic fatigue syndrome, post-traumatic stress disorder or other anxiety disorder, any mental disorder or any disease of the nervous system;

Perform the tasks of restoring the form and function by moving bone, skin, nerves, and tissues from other parts of the body to reconstruct the face and jaws