Sentences with phrase «regenerating lost cells»

The brains of aging humans are prone to neurodegenerative disorders and we are unable to counteract neuronal loss by regenerating lost cells.

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When Pax7 is missing or reduced, the satellite cells undergo premature differentiation, or lose their stem properties and their ability to regenerate injured muscles.

«Novel drug candidate regenerates pancreatic cells lost in diabetes.»

Stem cells, which have to divide regularly to regenerate tissues with new cells, can produce telomerase, but not the amount required to counteract the shortening of telomeres that accumulates with aging: over time, the tissues have fewer fresh cells and they lose their regenerative capacity.

Previous research conducted by Dr. Badylak's team suggested that ECM also could be used to regenerate lost muscle by placing the material in the injury site where it signals the body to recruit stem and other progenitor cells to rebuild healthy tissue.

That's one of the distinguishing features between stem cell therapy, which is to regenerate lost tissue, and gene therapy, which at the moment is there to sustain cells that would otherwise die.»

One idea is that if we could harness the very stem cells that are in the noses of people who are losing smell, maybe we can figure out a way to restore function, by getting them to regenerate the cells that are lost.»

Researchers at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, have now found that adult stem cells in bone marrow gradually lose their ability to regenerate without their normal complement of membrane - bound prions.

Not only did the team's results point to the power of chemical reprogramming to generate a complete transformation, they also revealed that this type of regenerative therapy could use the patient's own cells to regenerate the cells lost to disease.

But in a striking finding, all regenerated heart muscle cells glowed green, indicating that well established cardiomyocytes remaining after injury had likely regressed to a more «youthful» state, started dividing again to replenish lost cells, and then matured a second time into new heart muscle.

The hope, in the wake of Yamanaka's discovery, was that iPS cells could be a controversy - free alternative, conferring on humans a newtlike ability to regenerate lost or diseased tissue.

A central premise of regenerative medicine is that, to discover how we can regenerate lost motor neurons or insulin - secreting pancreatic cells, it is necessary to understand how such cells develop in the first place.

This research lays the groundwork for one day being able to regenerate lost or damaged cells in the body with a drug.

The research lays the groundwork for one day being able to regenerate lost or damaged cells with pharmaceutical drugs.

Stem cells, which have to divide regularly to regenerate tissues with new cells, can produce telomerase, but not the amount required to counteract the shortening of telomeres that accumulates with ageing: over time, the tissues have fewer fresh cells and they lose their regenerative capacity.

The first part of this is to generate — or regenerate — cells that sense glucose and produce insulin that might ultimately be used to replace the beta cells lost as both type 1 and 2 diabetes progresses.

You found this webpage because your veterinarian told you that your pet's liver is no long able to regenerate its lost liver cells (hepatocytes).

Many invertebrates can regenerate body parts like lost tails or arms, but crayfish naturally turn blood cells into brain cells.