Vitamin C is an important water - soluble vitamin that has been shown to boost immunity, prevent aging, and aid in
repairing cells and tissues.
Your body uses phosphorus to synthesize protein and
repair cells and tissues.
They neutralize free radical damage by offering up one of their own electrons, thereby helping to prevent and
repair cell and tissue breakdown that can result in further damage and disease — everything from wrinkles to hyperpigmentation.
Not exact matches
Drawing on Toronto's leading stem
cell and tissue engineering expertise, one group will focus on new models for
repairing damaged hearts.
The antioxidants in AppleActiv play an important role in neutralizing oxidative damage caused by free radicals,
repairing damage
and protecting the normal functioning of
cells and tissues.
Phosphorus is also used by the body to synthesize protein for
cell and tissue growth
and repair.
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.
A FATTY apron of
tissue called the omentum, which sits over the stomach
and intestines, may be the perfect spot to grow patches of
cells for heart
repair.
«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.
Researchers from the Institute for Integrated
Cell - Material Sciences (iCeMS) of Kyoto University
and the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery of Osaka University have developed effective
and convenient Cardiac
Tissue - Like Constructs (CTLCs) for
repairing myocardial infarctions.
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.
The secret to
repairing our
tissues and growing new organs is getting all touchy - feely with
cells
The pairing of the two delivered the breakthrough solution, the researchers said, as neurons responded to the molecule, regenerating synapses in mouse ear
tissue that led to
repair of the hair
cells and neurons, which are essential to hearing.
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.
Hartgerink is a pioneer in the development of self - assembling multidomain peptide (MDP) hydrogels, which mimic the body's extracellular matrix to encourage the growth of
cells and vascular systems for
tissue repair.
«The time is coming when we'll
repair heart
tissue after a heart attack
and restore blood flow to limbs that would otherwise be amputated,» says stem
cell researcher Robert Lanza of Advanced Cell Technology in Massachuse
cell researcher Robert Lanza of Advanced
Cell Technology in Massachuse
Cell Technology in Massachusetts.
The enzyme, called tankyrase, may prove useful for extending the lives of cultured
cells grown to
repair burned skin
and other damaged
tissue.
Once stem
cells can be grown
and differentiated in a controlled way to replace degenerated
cells and repair tissues, medical science may then be able to diagnose
and cure many intractable diseases at their earliest stages, such as type 1 diabetes, Parkinson's disease, various cardiovascular diseases, liver disease,
and cancer.
Labs could rejuvenate
cells from patients
and perhaps then grow them into new
tissue that could
repair parts worn out by old age or disease.
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.
As the wound heals, the gel breaks down into amino acids — the building blocks of proteins — that can be taken up by nearby
cells and used for
tissue repair, according to MIT neuroscientist Rutledge Ellis - Behnke.
However, ChABC gene therapy decreased the presence of these
cells and increased the presence of other immune
cells called M2 macrophages that help to reduce inflammation
and enhance
tissue repair.
Nevertheless, as people grow older the number of stem
cells decreases
and those that remain are less able to grow
and repair tissue.
Some data suggest that the mechanisms for each CHI3L1 function -
cell protection
and tissue repair - involve different pathways
and or receptors.
Blood stem
cells can occasionally become muscle
cells and help
repair damaged
tissue, new research finds.
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.
The lingering of the fetal DNA, research suggests, may be a mixed blessing for a mom: The
cells may benefit the mother's health — by promoting
tissue repair and improving the immune system — but may also cause adverse effects, such as autoimmune reactions.
Importantly, the micro environment created by the features of a breast implant is critical for breast
tissue cells to adhere to that surface
and grow on,» said Dr Ardeshir Bayat, from the University's Institute of Inflammation
and Repair, who led the study.
It feeds back to protect injured
cells from dying
and simultaneously stimulates
tissue repair to patch the damage that has occurred.
All of these findings were supplemented with several other experiments that were designed to learn how CHI3L1 interacts with other
cells involved in the
tissue repair response in both human
and mouse lungs.
Their series of experiments showed that a single application of concentrated, mature B
cells accelerated wound healing
and improved the quality of
tissue repair in both animal models.
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.
The substance may be used for biomedical applications, ranging from
cell culture
and drug delivery to
repairing and replacing
tissue, organs
and cartilage.
Recent experiments, for instance, suggest that when an organ lacks LGR -5-positive
cells, differentiated
cells may be able to «dedifferentiate»
and repair tissues — a radical change from the one - way street toward specific identities that stem
cells were thought to travel.
Twenty - five years from now, our kids will only know some diseases, such as osteoporosis, from old books,
and by then we will probably know how to
repair tissues with stem
cells.
Stem
cell treatments are already a reality for diseases of the blood, such as leukemia
and sickle -
cell anemia (like Paizley's),
and for
tissue repair of the skin
and the cornea.
Burdick's team
and other research groups are also designing hydrogels that contain drugs or
cells that can
repair heart
tissue.
Understanding stem
cell biology may mean we can control stem
cell behaviour
and harness their power for
tissue repair.
Dr. Stoddart's main research focus is using autologous stem
cells and gene transfer to
repair musculoskeletal
tissues using a
cell therapy approach.
In vitro experiments used human colon carcinoma
cells with
and without MMP9
and mouse embryonic fibroblasts, which are connective
tissue cells that make the extracellular matrix
and collagen
and play an important role in
tissue repair.
Under these circumstances, the rationale for stem
cell therapy seems straightforward: bathe the injury in a healing, concentrated wave of
tissue - mending
cells,
and the body will
repair itself that much more quickly.
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.
The fda
and the International Society for Stem
Cell Research warn that no rigorous studies have demonstrated that such treatments safely
and effectively
repair damaged connective
tissue in people.
In normal
cells, this is a part of the wound
repair process when PGE2 induces
tissues stem
cells to regrow; in cancer PGE2 ironically induces regrowth of more cancer stem
cells in between chemotherapy cycles, Kurtova
and Xiao said.
The ERK pathway plays a critical role in embryonic development
and tissue repair because it instructs
cells to multiply
and start dividing, but when over activated cancer growth occurs.
Surfaces of these
cells had lower concentrations of hyaluronan, a chemical substance that promotes
tissue repair and renewal.
These
cells are being tested widely as a way to
repair tissue lost in diseases as varied as spinal cord injury, heart failure
and diabetes.
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.
I don't know too many other consortia which can integrate expertise in embryonic
and tissue stem
cell biology,
tissue regeneration
and repair, bioengineering
and nanotechnology, materials science, genomics
and bio-informatics.