Sentences with phrase «potential damage to tissues»

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According to Irene Zoppi, a clinical education specialist at Medela, «many mothers with breast implants are able to breastfeed with little difficulty, but the surgical procedure has the potential to damage some of the milk - making tissue, milk ducts and nerves in the breast.»

Stem cell research and diabetes Stem cell research is a relatively new area of investigation, believed by many in the scientific and medical communities to have important new potential for the treatment of many diseases and conditions particularly those like diabetes, which are characterised by severe damage to certain cells and tissues..

Anticipating a proliferation of nanoproducts, researchers hope to get a leg up on the potential dangers of the tiny particles spreading into the environment, where their minute size might let them enter and damage living tissue.

«It is our hope that Dr. Yin's research will lead to additional potential therapeutic agents like ZF143 to reactivate mechanisms for the repair and regeneration of damaged heart muscle tissue in humans.»

The use of artificial supporting tissues has the potential to significantly ameliorate damage to soft tissues.

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.

Since embryonic stem cells can differentiate into any type of tissue, they have the potential to treat an almost unending array of medical conditions — replacing damaged or lost body parts or tissues, slowing degenerative diseases, even growing new organs.

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.

Researchers at Washington State University in Spokane have identified a potential new approach to combating the joint pain, inflammation and tissue damage caused by rheumatoid arthritis.

The all - powerful potential of stem cells to become any kind of cell is what makes them so promising for restoring diseased or damaged tissues throughout the body — and also what makes them so difficult for scientists to control.

That means they have the potential to repair damaged tissue and even grow into new organs.

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.

«Fishing line not only causes coral tissue injuries and skeleton damage, but also provides an additional surface for potential pathogens to colonise, increasing their capacity to infect wounds caused by entangled fishing line,» Dr Lamb says.

In addition to potential side effects, the number of renal biopsies a patient can undergo is limited because of damage to the kidney tissue.

The potential of iPS cells to help treat everything from damaged heart tissue to Parkinson's disease, has prompted intensive research that has looked into the use of skin fibroblast cells as an alternative to controversial embryonic stem cells.

The differentiation of patient - specific induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) into has the potential to provide differentiated cells to test drugs, model diseases, and, most importantly, to replace lost or damaged tissues.

Avoiding the pluripotent state is important because it avoids the potential danger that «rogue» iPS cells could develop into a tumor if used to replace or repair damaged organs or tissue.

Graber will work in the institution's Kathryn W. Davis Center for Regenerative Biology and Medicine, where scientists are working to identify the molecular pathways responsible for regeneration in organisms that have retained the ability to regenerate lost and damaged tissues and organs, then screening for drugs with the potential to reawaken these dormant regeneration pathways in humans.

Regenerative medicine is dedicated to the study of repairing, replacing or regenerating damaged human cells, tissues or organs to restore or establish normal function; and it has potential applications to treat a wide variety of conditions.

Research at the MDI Biological Laboratory has led to the launching of a new company to investigate the therapeutic potential of drugs that speed tissue healing and stimulate regeneration of lost and damaged body parts.

Dr. Deepak Srivastava discusses the exciting potential of using our bodies» own cells to regenerate damaged tissue.

In seven years, the MDI Biological Laboratory has already developed potential therapies to activate the regeneration of damaged tissues and delay the onset of age - related degenerative diseases.

... In recent years, researchers have grappled with the challenge of administering therapeutics in a way that boosts their effectiveness by targeting specific cells in the body while minimizing their potential damage to healthy tissue.

The method has broad potential applications, from creating healthy liver cells to replace damaged or diseased liver tissue to offering highly targeted drugs for individualized patient care.

I don't know of having highly developed, or even overdeveloped, stomach muscles would necessarily cause a problem, but there is something there that we should discuss, which is if people have had abdominal trauma, meaning maybe a hernia surgery, or a C - section, or an ovarectomy, or any kind of abdominal trauma that may cause scarring or damage, or even if a woman has really bad uterine fibroids, for example, which can cause pelvic obstruction, anything in the abdominal pelvic area that creates scar tissue, whether it be surgical, or impact trauma, or what have you, has the potential, because the abdomen and pelvis rest up against your intestines, has the potential to impede the movement of stuff through the intestines.

While swelling allows important healing components such as white blood cells and other chemicals involved in the healing process to migrate into damaged tissues through increased vascular permeability, and also physically protects an injured area through decreasing it's potential range of motion, there is no physiological reason to allow swelling to freely progress for hours or days after an injury occurs.

Titanium dioxide, one of the most popular sunscreen compounds, is a «potential occupational carcinogen» according to the government, and octyl methoxycinnamate (OMC), found in 90 % of conventional sunscreens, has been shown to cause damage to living tissue if it penetrates too deeply.

The drugs used to treat lymphosarcoma are very strong and have the potential to do great damage to healthy organs, so your doctor must valance this strong treatment to kill cancer cells versus damaging healthy tissue.

Just one mothball has the potential to sicken a dog or cat and mothballs that contain naphthalene can cause serious illness, including digestive tract irritation, liver, kidney and blood cell damage, swelling of the brain tissues, seizures, coma, respiratory tract damage (if inhaled) and even death (if ingested).

I also see these combinations causing mast cell disease and cytokine storms (an overreaction of the immune system in which too many immune cells are activated in a single place, creating the potential for damage to body tissues and organs).

Roundworms have the potential to migrate beyond the intestines, damaging internal organs and tissues.

If you suspect that your cat is infected with Feline Herpes Keratitis, it is of utmost importance to seek medical help as soon as possible because the virus has the potential to severely damage the corneal tissue.

A pedestrian vs. motor vehicle accident has the potential to cause death, traumatic brain injuries, disfigurement, scarring, muscle and tissue damage, nerve damage, loss of a limb, depression and other physical and mental impairments.

From this perspective, social adversity and perceived threat in childhood should upregulate the innate immune system, a system that provides immediate defense against infection, and enhance pro-inflammatory response tendencies as a way to prepare for potential impending tissue damage and infection.