Sentences with phrase «other damaged tissue»

The enzyme, called tankyrase, may prove useful for extending the lives of cultured cells grown to repair burned skin and other damaged tissue.

Not exact matches

Unfortunately, like most water - soluble vitamins, Vitamin B12 is stored in the liver, kidneys & other tissues & a deficiency may not show up for several years, which is a huge concern because after about 7 years of B12 deficiency there can be irreversible brain damage.

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.

They destroy bacteria and viruses and remove damaged tissue and other irritating materials from the body.

«There are several methods of adding implants — some methods damage breast tissue while others do not.»

Other uses include stimulating the immune system, preventing tissue damage related to aging, promoting healthy intestinal bacteria, preventing cancer, and regulating the way the body processes iron.

Eligible conditions include cancer, HIV / AIDS, ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease), Parkinson's Disease, multiple sclerosis, damage to the nervous tissue of the spinal cord with objective neurological indication of intractable spasticity, epilepsy, inflammatory bowel disease, neuropathies, Huntington's Disease, or others as added by the New York State Commissioner of Health.

After an extensive investigation aiming at the precise localization of the epileptic focus, brain tissue that is damaged due to malformation, injury or other cause, is surgically removed.

Tissue engineers at Pitt are using the technique to help others regrow muscle in damaged arms and legs.

«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 enzyme enhances tissue repair after damage and helps activate other anti-inflammatory proteins.

The resulting lack of adequate blood flow can damage heart muscle and other tissues by depriving them of oxygen.

Beasley said that various species of trematodes penetrate tadpoles, sometimes killing them and at other times weakening them with tissue damage, kidney failure, or severe limb deformities when the tadpoles develop into frogs.

The results explain why lonely people suffer from chronic inflammation in spite of their high levels of cortisol and are vulnerable to microbes, viruses, and other sources of tissue damage, the researchers say.

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.

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.

If we introduced stem cells with nice, long telomeres in the first place, we could let them wind down and eventually be lost to apoptosis, senescence, or other sources of damage — and just top our tissues up with more stem cells before enough of those cells were lost to begin to impair tissue function.

Unable to fight the pollen and other allergens, they will let these toxic molecules pass into their bodies, where they will damage organs and tissues.

High intensity, focused ultrasound can damage tissue by heating and cavitation, and has been used to ablate tumors and other lesions.

«It seems that TB tricks the immune system into damaging our own lung tissue, which therefore makes the person highly infectious through coughing and the TB then spreads by aerosol droplets to other individuals.

Their research showed that systemic loss of ATG7 caused loss of fat tissue and sensitivity to fasting, but few other damaging consequences to normal tissue in the short - term.

But the other report, published by the Ministry of Defence in March, did acknowledge that troops could have inhaled DU dust in the Gulf and that this «could theoretically lead to damage to lung tissue and subsequently to a raised probability of lung cancer some years later».

The team also saw no significant side effects on the mice during the study: there was no damage to other tissue or organs, and none of the mice showed any significant weight loss.

There is a lot of work still to do, and many potential pitfalls before it could be applied to human patients, but in principle almost any illness caused by damaged or ageing tissue — heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer's and dozens of others — could be fixed this way.

The effects of Zika virus can be severe and include microcephaly where the skull has partially collapsed, decreased brain tissue, joints with limited range of motion, nervous system damage, and other health issues.

This allows the user to simply tune to a required stain, for as many different stains as are necessary — all without damaging the original tissue sample, which can then be used for other tests.

Currently, the only definitive way to distinguish rejection from other causes of kidney injury is by performing a biopsy, in which doctors remove a small piece of kidney tissue to look for rejection - associated damage.

The result — the second such finding in the past year — suggests that similar cells from human testicles might have similar powers, paving the way to creating replacement tissue for men who have suffered damage from heart attacks or other injuries and avoiding some of the controversy surrounding embryonic stem cells (ESC).

Adult organisms ranging from fruit flies to humans harbor adult stem cells, some of which renew themselves through cell division while others differentiate into the specialized cells needed to replace worn - out or damaged organs and tissues.

This triggers the blood vessel to expand, allowing other white blood cells to pass into the damaged tissue and mop up intruding bodies.

But their publications announcing damage in other components of the endocrine system, such as the pancreas, adrenal glands, bone, and mammary tissue, got no farther than headlines in newspapers.

When viral infections, pollution or other injuries damage lung tissue, AEC2 cells come to the rescue.

One of the most promising technologies for the treatment of various cancers is nanotechnology, creating drugs that directly attack the cancer cells without damaging other tissues» development.

Osteoarthritis occurs when a joint becomes inflamed, usually because the protective cartilage and other tissues that cushion joints like the knee become damaged and worn over time.

The ability of scientists to convert human skin cells into other cell types, such as neurons, has the potential to enhance understanding of disease and lead to finding new ways to heal damaged tissues and organs, a field called regenerative medicine.

Pinton and colleagues, with help from recent advances in a technology called ultrasound elastography, developed an ultrasound imaging device and data - processing algorithms to track the larger, more powerful shear waves that they and other researchers suspect cause tissue damage after head injuries.

If the infection isn't stopped, it can progress into rheumatic fever — a highly contagious disease that affects more than 400,000 people worldwide each year and leaves survivors with lasting damage to heart valves and other tissue.

Harvard Stem Cell Institute scientists at Brigham and Women's Hospital have found the cellular origin of the tissue scarring caused by organ damage associated with diabetes, lung disease, high blood pressure, kidney disease, and other conditions.

Nevertheless, the NGF antibodies had no ill effect on any other organs or tissues and for unexplained reasons did not damage the peripherally located sympathetic ganglia that control the sex organs in both sexes.

On the other hand, if the stressful conditions prevail, accumulation of the damaged symbiotic zooxanthellae may not maintain the expulsion, which will gradually accumulate in coral tissues.

When bacteria slip out of the gut and reach other tissues, the body may overreact with a damaging inflammatory response.

Rieger and other scientists working in the institution's Kathryn W. Davis Center for Regenerative Medicine study tissue repair, regeneration and aging in a diverse range of organisms that have robust mechanisms to repair and regenerate lost and damaged tissues.

* As nurses — supplying growth factors and other supportive signals, but not becoming part of damaged tissues

Moreover, recent data also show that in response to brain damage caused by aging, amyloid deposition, demyelination, and other insults, microglial cells activate several genes, including APOE, in order to more efficiently scavenge and clear tissue debris that are very rich in cholesterol due to the natural composition of the brain, which is mostly made of fats.

They damage the fish with the toxin, then feed on the epidermal tissue, blood, and other substances that leak from sores on the incapacitated fish.

This approach to derive patient - specific Embryonic Stem cell - like cells (iPS cells) is going to open up research into the genetic causes of disease and the search for therapies not only for such diseases, but also for repairing tissues damaged in other ways.

In cases of Parkinson's Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer's or other neurodegenerative disease, adult stem cells can slow the degenerative progression of your symptoms while restoring blood flow to the brain and repairing or replacing damaged tissue.

(6) However, it would be useful to see a more thorough analysis of the effect of ablating p16Ink4a - expressing senescent cells, and whether there may instead be evidence of a short - term rejuvenation of tissue function that is slowly lost over time to rising levels of other kinds of aging damage that INK - ATTAC activation does not address.

That, in turn, generates free radicals — unstable molecules that can damage DNA, creating additional mutations that allow the tumor to become more invasive, infiltrating tissues and migrating to other parts of the body.

Our group is interested in identifying tissue specific mechanisms, to reduce the unwanted side effects of damaging other tissues.