Sentences with phrase «other human tissue»

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.

Human milk banks should be operated like blood banks or any other human tissue bank.

«Breast milk is a human tissue and therefore carries the same risks that transferring other human tissues carry,» said Ron Harkey, section chief of tissue, blood banking and cytology surveillance for the California Department of Health Services.

«The tongue, like other human tissues, is a flabby body,» says Christophe Jeannin of the Institut de la Communication Parlée.

Doing so enabled them to identify the liver - specific drug targets whose inhibition will not cause any side effect to other human tissues, says lead author Adil Mardinoglu, a SciLifeLab fellow, who had earlier established a connection between NAFLD and HCC and increased fat synthesis in liver tissue.

Doing so enabled us to identify the liver - specific drug targets whose inhibition will not cause any side effect to other human tissues», says Adil Mardinoglu.

«We mapped the metabolic changes caused by accumulated fat in liver cells, and combined this data with an analysis of biological networks of liver and other human tissues.

We are also investigating mutant clones in other human tissues.

Not exact matches

In a rare appearance Dr. Chandan Sen, Director, OSU Center for Regenerative Medicine & Cell - Based Therapies will explain how this breakthrough came about and how the technology is leading to other medical discoveries and how the principle can be used to generate any tissue out of skin or fat which is abundant in human body.

The building block electronic and protonic actual occasions are, in the case of human beings, swept into vastly more complex, Chinese box - like sets of containing societies within which there are social levels that can be identified with cells, others which answer to Aristotle's levels of tissues and organs, and which finally are presided over by what Whitehead refers to as the regnant nexus, a social thread of complex temporal inheritance which, Whitehead suggests, wanders from part to part of the brain, is the seat of conscious direction of the organism as a whole, and answers to what in Plato and Aristotle is called the soul.

It is our ability to think and reason that makes us human and distinguishes us from all other animals, a piece of tissue, and a baby from an embryo with no measurable brain waves.

StemExpress describes itself as «a multi-million dollar company that supplies human blood, tissue products, primary cells and other clinical specimens to biomedical researchers,» according to the company website.

Such women can not obtain breast milk from other women on the open market, because U.S. regulations treat breast milk as human tissue and prohibit its free sale.

Riordan & Wambach (2012) state, «Human milk is similar to unstructured living tissue, such as blood, and is capable or transporting nutrients, affecting biochemical systems, enhancing immunity, and destroying pathogens» They they go on to say, «Breastmilk, like all other animal milks, is species - specific.

Other measures approved at the last minute would authorize hunting with crossbows, allow ticket scalping to continue, prohibit unauthorized commerce in human tissue, continue health insurance coverage and revise workplace terms for midwives and utility maintenance workers.

Researchers there are examining the role of other signaling factory beyond BMP as well as conducting further studies using human cells and human scar tissue.

The fact that heart valves and other «inert» tissues from pigs are already successfully used in humans without rejection suggests that this will not be a big problem.

Stem cells from breast milk can grow into many other kinds of human tissue, raising hopes of an ethical source of embryonic - like stem cells

The «target» cells on the other side of the BeWo barrier to the nanoparticles were human fibroblast cells, found in skin and connective tissue.

As it can take weeks to grow human cells into intact differentiated and functional tissues within Organ Chips, such as those that mimic the lung and intestine, and researchers seek to understand how drugs, toxins or other perturbations alter tissue structure and function, the team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering led by Donald Ingber has been searching for ways to non-invasively monitor the health and maturity of cells cultured within these microfluidic devices over extended times.

When the researchers applied a human form of Ctgf protein to lesions in zebrafish, they observed similar recovery of spinal cord function, hinting that other factors within zebrafish spinal tissue may explain the healing differences between mammals and zebrafish.

«Several letters [from the Association of American Medical Colleges and others]... suggest that human fetal tissue is used for modern vaccine production.

Why do some tissues give rise to cancer in humans a million times more frequently than others?

Niklason hopes that other simple engineered tissues, such as the blood vessels she has been working on, will be ready for human trials within a year.

They also applied it to human brain tissue collected by the Genotype - Tissue Expression (GTEx) Project, finding that they could a) identify expression signatures unique to neurons, glial cells, and other cell types in the brain (including rare types), and b) differentiate between closely related cell subtissue collected by the Genotype - Tissue Expression (GTEx) Project, finding that they could a) identify expression signatures unique to neurons, glial cells, and other cell types in the brain (including rare types), and b) differentiate between closely related cell subTissue Expression (GTEx) Project, finding that they could a) identify expression signatures unique to neurons, glial cells, and other cell types in the brain (including rare types), and b) differentiate between closely related cell subtypes.

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 majority of my time is office based now and I do not work in the laboratory any more, other than to offer guidance on unusual donations or techniques at UKHTB or offer advice to biomedical researchers on how to best utilise human tissue donations.

Just as elephant seals restrict blood flow to their nonessential tissues during deep dives, blood flow is interrupted in humans during organ transplantation, stroke, heart attack and other injuries.

In recent years, several groups of scientists have grown lung cells from human iPSCs, but the recipes aren't perfect — the resulting lung cells grow amidst a jumble of liver cells, intestinal cells, and other tissues.

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.

They've even injected white blood cells into the vessels and watched as they squeezed through gaps in the vessel wall to reach the tissue on the other side, just as they do in the human body.

In humans, Salmonella Dublin has higher hospitalization and fatality rates than other Salmonella types; it causes systemic infection of body tissues, similar to typhoid.

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.

But if homologous recombination could be worked out in human (embryonic) stem cells, then cardiomyocytes with mutations in ion channels could be derived, as well as a large number of other very useful disease models of other tissues.

Humans will always need protein, the stuff of our muscles, organs and other tissues.

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).

To achieve this, the researchers needed new equipment — a platform that would allow tissues to grow and interact with each other — as well as engineered tissue that would accurately mimic the functions of human organs.

Stem cells obtained from human embryos seem to offer the best chance of new therapies, because unlike other stem cells they have the ability to morph into almost any type of tissue.

But the report concludes that many pathologists violated the Human Tissue Act of 1961 that demanded a family's consent to remove tissue for reasons other than determining the cause of Tissue Act of 1961 that demanded a family's consent to remove tissue for reasons other than determining the cause of tissue for reasons other than determining the cause of death.

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.

The findings, now published in PLOS Genetics, reveal how mice can actually mimic human breast cancer tissue and its genes, even more so than previously thought, as well as other cancers including lung, oral and esophagus.

So, at the dawn of our universe — and I have to emphasize our universe, because there could be others — so, dawn of our universe, physicists think there was one type of force, one type of matter and that as the cosmos expanded, as space expanded, it cooled and things started to condense out like snow flakes, and over time that single force broke, it differentiated; and something similar happens in the human body as we develop from a single cell; we differentiate, different tissues form in our bodies, different layers of tissues.

«Our work outlines the genetic similarities of the tissue and cells in different types of tumors and shows the strong relationships mice can have to other human cancers too.»

The study of human astrocytes has faced issues related to access (samples of living tissue must be obtained from brain cancer or epilepsy surgeries or fetal tissue) and purification (breaking apart astrocytes away from other cells often killed them and many experiments ended in failure).

In the Nature papers, the researchers compared gene transcription, chromatin modification and other processes that control gene activity in a wide range of mouse and human tissues and cell types.

«This process contributes to about 200 different cell types in humans and other mammals, but analyzing them will be difficult, because they will need to be studied in a tissue.»

The reason why some animals can regenerate tissues after severe organ loss or amputation while others, such as humans, can not renew some structures has always intrigued scientists.

«An immediate use of our study will be to look into other human epithelial tissues to see if this finding is unique to the breast or a more general phenomenon,» says Dr. Gilley.

After confirming in mouse models that cells from HER2 - positive breast cancers became resistant to anti-HER2 treatment when implanted into the brain but not into other tissues, the investigators found that HER3 is overexpressed in brain metastases of HER2 - positive breast cancers from both mice and human patients.

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.