Sentences with phrase «regeneration after injury»

β - Cell autoimmunity probably propagates continuing destruction of β - cells and prevents islet cell regeneration after injury (90).

In 2014, the Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine demonstrated Lion's Mane's capability of activating nerve regeneration after injury.

Professor Ryoichi Nagatomi has been studying the body's adaptation to physical training, especially skeletal muscle regeneration after an injury.

«Low - calorie diet enhances intestinal regeneration after injury.»

Immune cells are normally associated with fighting infection but in a new study, scientists have discovered how they also help the nervous system clear debris, clearing the way for nerve regeneration after injury.

The Regenerative Research Foundation in Rensselaer, an affiliate of the Neural Stem Cell Institute, will receive nearly one - fifth of the funds, or almost $ 1.1 million, for work aimed at promoting spinal cord regeneration after injury.

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LC - PUFAs are thought to be important for cognitive development because they are required for efficient neurotransmission (22) and are involved in neurite outgrowth, dendritic arborization, and neuron regeneration after cell injury (23).

The team showed that REV - ERB is a regulator of muscle differentiation, and that a drug that inhibits this receptor, called SR8278, stimulates muscle regeneration after acute injury.

«Technique to promote nerve regeneration after spinal cord injury restores bladder function in rats.»

Keating notes that «the implication, which isn't proven, but is quite exciting, is that by enhancing human cardiomyocyte proliferation after heart injury, one may be able to enhance cardiac regeneration and reduce cardiac scarring.»

After other researchers reported that bone marrow stem cell therapy led to a modest but promising 5 percent improvement in the regeneration of sensory nerve fibers in rats with spinal cord injuries, he performed a critical reality check.

The group also plans to follow up on other proteins secreted after injury that were identified in their initial search, which may provide additional hints into the zebrafish's secrets of regeneration.

When the team added the human version of CTGF to the injury site in fish, it boosted regeneration and the fish swam better by two weeks after the injury.

Normally, in the absence of injury, the tissue can tolerate the loss, due to the presence of the active stem cells, but, when you injure the animal, the regeneration is compromised and the enhanced regeneration after calorie restriction was compromised in the absence of the reserve stem cell pool.»

Previous research has described at least some of the fundamental processes involved in healthy, on - going peripheral nerve growth regeneration, including the critical role of mitochondria — cellular organelles that produce adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the energy - carrying molecule found in all cells that is vital to driving nerve recovery after injury.

An inflammatory response acts as a protective mechanism to enable repair and regeneration, helping the body to heal after injuries such as wounds and burns.

Syntaphilin - deficient mature neurons therefore regained the ability to regrow after injury, just like young neurons, and removing syntaphilin from adult mice facilitated the regeneration of their sciatic nerves after injury.

Such combined approaches may represent a valid therapeutic strategy to facilitate regeneration in the central and peripheral nervous systems after injury or disease,» Sheng says.

Scientists have been investigating the molecular aspects that underline regeneration aiming to understand why some animals have the ability to regrow entire tissue structures after amputation or injury whereas humans can just regenerate few organs, such as the liver or the skin.

Presence of this inhibitor disrupts regeneration of fin tissue after amputation injury.

Led by first author Junsu Kang, the scientists identified anatomical structures that male fish use during mating that produce a signal that impedes regeneration of the pectoral fins after injury.

Growth factor delivery from hydrogel particle aggregates to promote tubular regeneration after acute kidney injury.

These endogenous muscle stem cells promote regeneration of skeletal muscles after injury and that participate in adaptation to exercise.

There's no retinal ganglion cell regeneration or replacement after optic nerve injury.

«Humans have very limited capacity for regeneration, while other species like salamanders have the remarkable ability to functionally regenerate limbs, heart tissue and even the spinal cord after injury,» said lead researcher Karen Echeverri, PhD, assistant professor in the department of genetics, cell biology and development at the University of Minnesota.

In particular, we are asking how molecules that are important in eye development both prevent and protect against damage in disease states such as AMD and encourage regeneration of cells and their nerve fibers after injury.