Sentences with phrase «particular tissue»

These hormones mix with body fluids and get transported within the body to particular tissues responsible for influencing sexual behavior among the females.

Typically, this involves creating a «scaffold» of natural or synthetic materials, seeding it with human stem cells that can differentiate themselves into particular tissue types, and providing the cells with nutrients and a physical environment that encourages them to take on the three - dimensional structures and functions of a particular body part.

It is conceivable the techniques being developed might have some application in future stem cell therapies in humans where a cloning process was used to generate particular tissues for transplantation.

Moreover, individual animals — and even particular tissues within an individual — differ in their style of methylation, so researchers may need many samples to tease evolutionarily meaningful differences from all the variability, says Catherine Suter at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, who co-led the bison research with Cooper.

Instead, says Denis Duboule of the University of Geneva in Switzerland, minor variations in the amount of protein present might trigger development of particular tissues.

Not surprisingly, the sequencing also revealed hundreds of other genes specific to the octopus and highly expressed in particular tissues.

The ultrasound creates bubbles in a fluid, which then implode and create little jets that put the drug into a particular tissue in the body.

These «organs on a chip,» as they are called, are typically glass slides coated with human cells that have been configured to mimic a particular tissue or interface between tissues.

Pääbo agrees that «contaminating» nuclear mtDNA sequences are probably only an issue for particular tissues in particular animals.

«Heart failure is a disease where oxygen delivery to particular tissues, especially working skeletal muscles, is impaired, decreasing the capacity to move the arms or legs and be physically active,» Poole said.

«During development, particular tissues are formed by gradients of signaling molecules.

If mitochondrial DNA with a harmful mutation becomes the predominant type in a particular tissue, serious symptoms will emerge.

To investigate this question, Fallin and her colleagues started by surveying four different tissue types — blood and cord blood from their own collections, as well as lung and fetal brain tissue from public collections — to find small variations in the genetic code of each sample that appear to be responsible for DNA methylation state, a type of epigenetic modification, in that particular tissue.

Gene set enrichment analysis — A limitation of GO analysis is that the predetermined categories may not match the ones of functional interest in a particular tissue.

To do that, he needs to make the ribonucleoprotein complex stable in the bloodstream, able to escape the cell's endosome, and even able to home in on a particular tissue type.

So either experimentally in a dish, you have to figure out how to overcome those biases, or you may want to start with the tissue that was diseased in the first place and reprogram that particular tissue.

At the heart of Clevers» work were adult stem cells, a type of cell that can replenish itself while also maintaining the ability to change into the many types of mature cells that a particular tissue or organ requires.

Degenerative aging is a consequence of the progressive accumulation of damage to tissue cellular and molecular structures over time; specific diseases of aging emerge when the cumulative burden of such damage in a particular tissue exceeds the minimum required to sustain its core biological functions.

ES cells develop soon after fertilization, and they, too, have not yet committed to any particular tissue type.

Refinements of the gene targeting technique are even allowing investigators to create a desired mutation in one particular tissue or at one particular time in the animal's life.

Unfortunately, serum thyroid levels often do not accurately reflect intracellular tissue levels or levels in a particular tissue.

A positive (or equivocal) response indicates the immune system is tagging that particular tissue for destruction.

You can identify an autoimmunity such as Hashimoto's hypothyroidism by screening for antibodies against a particular tissue with a blood test.

We identify autoimmune disorders such as Hashimoto's hypothyroidism by testing for antibodies in the blood against a particular tissue.