Sentences with phrase «repair damage to tissues»

Our bodies use protein to build muscle and to repair damage to tissues in the body.

At least six patients had to undergo revision surgery to replace the defective implants with a properly - functioning implant and / or to repair damage to the tissue and bone.

Not exact matches

Beyond that the adrenal gland responsible for secreting the stress response hormone becomes fatigued, resulting in decreased immunity to infection, reduced ability to repair the body and increased inflammation and tissue damage.

A seriously ill person in need of embryonic stem cells to repair damaged tissue.

That occurs because chia seeds contain enough protein to repair damaged muscle tissues.

In response, your brain starts to repair the damaged tissue.

that it cools your body down to such a low temperature that your body goes into defensive mode and releases endorphins which in turn induce analgesia to repair the body / tissue damage / etc faster.....

The body has the ability to repair normal wear and tear every day to maintain the health of the tissues, but if the wear and tear exceeds the body's ability to repair, there will start to be gradual, permanent damage to tissues,» Moseley said.

Wait until around six weeks after delivery before cutting back on calorie intake, La Leche League International advises; you need adequate calorie intake to repair damaged tissues after delivery.

Despite a tremendous amount of scientific study, many outstanding mysteries still surround the way in which cells in living tissue respond to and repair physical damage.

«It was particularly exciting to observe that the repair of the skin epidermis involves the activation of very different stem cells that react the same way to the emergency situation of the wound and have the power to completely restore the damaged tissue», comments Mariaceleste Aragona, the first author of the study.

«Three - dimensional bioprinting is a disruptive technology and is expected to revolutionize tissue engineering and regenerative medicine,» says Paul Gatenholm, Ph.D. «Our team's interest is in working with plastic surgeons to create cartilage to repair damage from injuries or cancer.

One of the key questions in biology is to identify how tissues are repaired after trauma and understand how stem cells migrate, proliferate, and differentiate to repair tissue damage.

When the modified cells were injected into mice whose hind limbs had been injured, the tissue that regrew to repair the damage had three times the blood vessel density of similar tissue in mice given unmodified cells.

Defined as the harnessing of living processes to achieve healing and repair of damaged and diseased tissues by Tim Hardingham, director of the UK Centre for Tissue Engineering, it is a field that requires collaborative research involving cell and molecular biologists, chemical engineers, materials scientists, and surgeons.

Furthermore, the same team is applying new microgravity technology — originally developed by NASA for the International Space Station — to make large enough quantities of the stem cells to repair tissue damage in patients.

But the neurosurgeon who fused Boesen's neck bones to stabilize his spine offered a ray of hope: Boesen might qualify for an experimental treatment that uses stem cells to repair damaged tissue.

Scientists for decades have been seeking ways to repair cartilage without resorting to traditional surgery, which typically involves removing damaged cartilage through an incision in the joint while trying to preserve as much of the healthy tissue as possible.

This happens because the loss of blood flow in a vessel causes the local oxygen level to drop, which stimulates local production of vascular endothelial growth factor, or VEGF, a protein which in most tissues causes the growth of new blood vessels to repair damage.

One field that stands to benefit is tissue engineering, where the goal is to replace damaged biological tissues, such as in knee repairs or in creating artificial livers,» said Professor Subra Suresh, who will be assuming office as the NTU President on 1 January 2018.

And in some areas, like the medical repair of damaged tissues, it may soon cease to matter.

The enzyme, called tankyrase, may prove useful for extending the lives of cultured cells grown to repair burned skin and other damaged tissue.

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.

As fluid and white blood cells rush to the damaged tissue, it becomes inflamed in an effort to repair the tissue and protect it from further damage.

«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.»

When soft supporting human tissues — including cartilage and ligaments, which are joined firmly to bones — are damaged, they can not spontaneously repair inside the body.

The Center's goal is to understand basic mechanisms of tissue and organ formation, and then to use this knowledge to regenerate, repair, and replace tissues damaged by aging, disease and injury.

In the United States, about 720,000 residents experience a heart attack annually, which means that hundreds of thousands of heart patients are living with the disabling complications of heart disease who could benefit from therapies to repair and regenerate damaged heart tissue.

The scientists, led by Dr Paul Genever in the Arthritis Research UK Tissue Engineering Centre in the University's Department of Biology, have developed a technique to rejuvenate cells from older people with osteoarthritis to repair worn or damaged cartilage thus reducing pain.

The inflammation changes its nature after a while, and signals to the body that it's time to build new tissue to repair the damage.

«The next stage is to find out more about the dedifferentiation process so that we can find the right treatment to encourage tissue repair in the damaged joint.

The Center's goals are to understand the basic mechanisms underlying tissue and organ formation, and then to use this knowledge to regenerate, repair, and replace tissues damaged by aging and injury.

In a study published online in Circulation Research late last year, Chaudhry and colleagues found that fetal cells in mice migrated to the mother's heart, differentiated into functioning cardiac cells, and accelerated repair to damaged heart tissue.

It feeds back to protect injured cells from dying and simultaneously stimulates tissue repair to patch the damage that has occurred.

But even more far - ranging treatments may be possible with embryonic stem cells, the blank - slate cells that give rise to all organs and tissue types and that (theoretically) can repair all forms of organic damage and disease.

In future, Radisic envisions her lab - grown tissues being implanted into the body to repair organs damaged by disease.

Gene therapy might supply the correct gene, drugs might deliver a substitute molecule, tissue engineering might enable the tissue to repair itself, or a surgeon might repair the damage after a hernia has occurred.

When transplanted to an animal model of corneal blindness, these tissues are shown to repair the front of the eye and restore vision, which scientists say could pave the way for human clinical trials of anterior eye transplantation to restore lost or damaged vision.

Many tissues of our bodies, such as our skin, can heal because they contain stem cells that can divide and differentiate into the type of cells needed to repair damaged tissue.

Furthermore, since the cells responsible for synthesising new bone tissue (osteoblasts) are known to attach close to the tip, it would appear that the electric field distribution signals this point as the centre of damage, becoming a moving beacon for repair efforts as the crack is healed.

But in the future, the scaffold could be inserted into the body to repair damaged tissue.

Researchers at Sanford - Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford - Burnham) have developed a novel technique to promote tissue repair in damaged muscles.

Raydiance's technology has attracted the attention of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which in July 2007 signed the company to a two - year cooperative research and development agreement that has allowed the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) to evaluate the use, safety and effectiveness of Raydiance's USP laser system in a number of areas, including the ablation of corneal tissues in refractive surgery and corneal repair; the administration of light therapy for treating cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes; and the removal of plaque on teeth without damaging the enamel.

The MDI Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, is an independent, nonprofit biomedical research institution focused on increasing healthy lifespan and harnessing the natural ability to repair and regenerate tissues damaged by injury or disease.

But some signal provided by muscular injury or degeneration prompts satellite cells to start dividing and then to integrate themselves into damaged fibers, repairing the muscle tissue.

Using their model, the team has shown that induced neural stem cells, or iNSCs, can replace stroke - damaged brain tissue and stimulate neuroplasticity — the brain's ability to naturally repair itself.

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

Shape is thought to play an important role in the effectiveness of cells grown to repair or replace damaged tissue in the body.

It promised to realise the dream of repairing damaged tissues and organs using a patient's own cells.

Surgeons can currently create scar - like tissue to repair damaged cartilage, but ultimately most patients have to have joint replacements, which reduces mobility.