Sentences with phrase «other types of tissue»

Recent studies demonstrate the presence of small bioactive protein molecules (called bioactive peptides) in salmon that may provide special support for joint cartilage (as well as other types of tissue).

With this anti-aging supplement, the increase in stem cells released from the bone marrow into the blood stream have the potential to become other types of tissue cells with specialized function.

* 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.

It's a mystery,» he said, suggesting that it could mean stem cells thought to be committed to a particular lineage may be capable of becoming other types of tissue entirely.

Says Sharma, «Our findings are very relevant not just for bladder regeneration but for other types of tissue regeneration where foreign materials are utilized for structural support.

The ascetic diet of slow starvation eliminated body fat — which tends to decay faster than other types of tissue — and built up chemical compounds toxic to bacteria associated with decomposition.

It can also restore other types of tissues.

Not exact matches

Among other things, vitamin C helps build connective tissue which supports and connects different types of tissues and organs in the body.

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 other team employed a new 3D sensor and computer algorithms on a tablet computer and machine learning — a type of artificial intelligence — for the first time allowing surgeons to precisely measure the area, depth, and tissue type of chronic wounds with a mobile device.

These so - called pluripotent stem cells can be derived from a variety of adult cells and be guided into almost any other tissue type.

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.

There are four types of blast trauma injury: 1) primary injury caused directly by the pressure wave, which can travel through tissue at velocities close to that of sound in water, 2) secondary injury caused by objects put in motion by the blast, 3) tertiary injury caused by an individual thrown into motion by the blast and hitting surrounding objects, and 4) quaternary injury caused by burns, explosion - related injuries, illnesses and diseases not attributed to the other three blast trauma types.

On the other hand, on a molecular level, researchers find that there is a specific response tied to the hormone levels within the tissue, meaning that the plant could tell which type of stress it is being subjected to, and therefore induce the most suitable physiological responses to fight it.

All cells in tissues adhere to each other using molecules called cadherins which interact and connect cells of the same type together.

Women with this type of scarring alopecia should be screened not only for fibroids, but also for other disorders associated with excess fibrous tissue, Aguh says.

Results also showed that riboflavin content differed with sweetpotato tissue type, but was consistently higher in the leaves; mature leaves contained higher amounts of riboflavin than young leaves and other plant tissues, including roots.

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

«We don't yet know if this type of coordination and control works in stem cell niches of other tissue types,» says DiNardo.

But genes in other regions are so close together they overlap: the cluster of 75 genes which determines tissue type and plays a part in controlling our immune responses is packed into only 4 million base pairs.

«This gene is active only in fat tissue and no other tissue when it comes to its effect on type 2 diabetes,» noted Civelek, of UVA's Department of Biomedical Engineering and UVA's Center for Public Health Genomics.

Across all four cancer types, the new method of selecting candidate genes based on inter-tumor variation in gene expression outperformed the other methods, including the standard method of comparing mean expression in adjacent normal and tumor tissues.

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.

The 1 - 3 millimeter granuloma also contains fibrous and necrotic tissue as well as a number of other types of immune cells, making it an extremely complex structure.

The finding made intuitive sense; researchers studying other tissue types had shown that activating mTOR can drive dormant cells out of quiescence, a necessary step for regeneration.

Miniaturising the key steps in DNA analysis could allow computerised machines the size of credit cards to perform forensic tests, tissue typing for transplants and other DNA analyses in minutes, rather than the days or weeks now needed.

In the illustration, each tissue type is followed by the number of genes whose level of activity is controlled by nearby genes on the same chromosome (cis); those whose activity is associated with genes on other chromosomes (trans); and the number of tissue samples studied.

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.

A unique feature of this DREADD system not found in other methods is that it is not limited to the control of neurons — activity levels of certain enzymes in almost every tissue type can be controlled to probe mechanisms of basic cellular function.

«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.»

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.

But many in the field will be waiting for the next steps: testing whether the resulting mouse pups are genetically normal, trying out the technique in other animals, and using other and less controversial types of cells — such as stem cells that can be extracted and cryopreserved from adult testicular tissue — as the starting point.

«Some types of tissue repair take more time to heal than do others,» said Benoit.

A new genetic analysis reveals that our brawny cousins had a number of distinct genes involved in the buildup of certain types of fat in their brains and other tissues — a trait shared by today's Europeans, but not Asians.

Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have, for the first time, taken chimpanzee and bonobo skin cells and turned them into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), a type of cell that has the ability to form any other cell or tissue in the body.

The results show that generation of an optimal immune response to cancer requires cooperation between two types of memory T cell — one circulating in the blood and the other resident in tissues — that can be reactivated with current immunotherapy strategies.

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.

Praveen Arany at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research in Bethesda, Maryland, and his colleagues wondered if they could use lasers and stem cells to provide a longer - lasting solution, because lasers can make other tissue types regenerate.

Fat cells are not simply big blobs of lipid quietly standingby in the body — instead, they send out hormones and other signaling proteins that affect many types of tissues.

But the extracted tissue began producing insulin, glucagon and other hormones after the newly identified cells were added, indicating that they were indeed progenitors capable of differentiating into all the islet cell types, including beta cells.

Two types of fat tissue are present in humans and other mammals: white adipose tissue (WAT) or white fat, which stores fat; and brown adipose tissue (BAT) or brown fat, which burns fat to produce heat.

Signals from pathogens, tissue factors, and other immune cells are involved in defining the immune phenotype of these cell types.

He added: «Truly naive human ES cell lines would not only help answer fundamental questions about how we are made, and be useful for drug screening and tissue therapy, but they would also provide a benchmark against which other types of stem cells could be measured in terms of their effectiveness in stem cell therapy and regenerative medicine.»

One of these tissue types, specifically the mesoderm, develops into skeletal muscle cells (along with other cell types, including cardiac muscle, kidney cells, red blood cells, and smooth muscle).

Following the delineation of some of the basic principles behind bud formation, the researchers then whether they could extend this strategy beyond the liver, and create other organ buds using tissue specific cell types.

The authors note that the formation of each different organ bud type may require some fine tuning to optimize tissue self - organization, and further addition of neural cell types may be necessary, but this research may soon provide exciting model systems for the study of basic biology and pathology as well as providing appropriate replacement tissues for the treatment of many patients with no other viable options.

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have for the first time shown that it is possible to derive from a human embryo so - called «naïve» pluripotent stem cells — one of the most flexible types of stem cell, which can develop into all human tissue other than the placenta.

Such «induced pluripotent stem cells,» like other stem cells, are able to transform themselves into any type of cell in the body — making them ideal biological clay for tissue engineers to sculpt.

«There are other vertebrates, such as zebrafish, bichir and axolotl, which can regenerate many more different types of tissues, including limbs or appendages.

We invite original innovative research on the rational engineering of plant systems at all levels, including proteins, protein complexes, sensors, metabolic and signalling pathways, microcompartments such as carboxysomes, subcellular compartments, cell types or tissues, as well as the engineering of novel plant hybrid species and the interactions of plants with viruses, bacteria, and other organisms.