Sentences with phrase «replace lost cells»

For example, during a stroke, brain cells are irreparably damaged; stem cells could kick - start the regenerative process and undergo specialization to replace the lost cells.

Neurodegenerative disorders devastate the brain, but doctors hope one day to replace lost cells

Previous experiments using stem cells from embryos have shown promise in replacing lost cells, but the use of these is controversial.

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In the course of it, you lose hundreds of millions of muscle cells that won't be replaced, and instead less flexible scar tissue forms on the heart, which can lead to patients needing a heart transplant.

All have had injections of specialised retinal cells in their eyes to replace ones lost through age or disease.

This knowledge is important, as iPSCs hold great promise in the field of regenerative medicine, as they can provide a single source of patient - specific cells to replace those lost to injury or disease.

Others, like the heart and the brain are unable to replace lost or injured cells.

Because heart cells lose their ability to divide soon after we are born, when the cells die — in a heart attack, say — the dead tissue is replaced by scar tissue rather than new muscle.

Redmond and colleagues report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA that only some of the stem cells implanted in the monkey's brains went on to replace the lost dopamine neurons.

He notes that in his study there was evidence of stem cells replacing lost neurons as well as other benefits conferred by the transplant.

If a sea turtle takes a bite out of a jellyfish, the injured animal can quickly grow new cells to replace the lost tissue.

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.

Telomerase is an enzyme that replicates the ends of chromosomes (sections of DNA called telomeres), replacing the DNA lost when chromosomes are copied before cell division and, therefore, maintaining the stability of the genome.

Neither the mice nor the affected boys can replace enough of their routinely lost muscle cells.

«A stem cell's job is twofold: to replace or recreate mature cells that are lost over time, both through normal aging and after injury, and to replace themselves so that the process can continue over the life of the animal,» said senior author John Ngai, the Coates Family Professor of Neuroscience and a member of UC Berkeley's Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and the Berkeley Stem Cell Cencell's job is twofold: to replace or recreate mature cells that are lost over time, both through normal aging and after injury, and to replace themselves so that the process can continue over the life of the animal,» said senior author John Ngai, the Coates Family Professor of Neuroscience and a member of UC Berkeley's Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and the Berkeley Stem Cell CenCell Center.

There are even efforts underway to transplant cultured photoreceptor cells into the retina to replace those lost from advanced disease.

«People say, «we'll just put stem cells in and we're going to replace lost neurons.»

For this reason, investigators are actively looking for ways to lessen this cell death (e.g., with growth factors) as well as ways to replace the cells that are lost (e.g., with RPE cell transplantation).

Researchers hoped that adding telomerase would keep cells dividing long enough to replace tissues lost to injury or disease.

Advocates hope that scientists can turn these cells into ones that produce dopamine, replacing those lost in the disease.

«Because duct cells are lost due to a lack of Jagged function, and are not just malformed as previously thought, we now need to also consider regenerative therapeutic approaches to replace duct cells lost in this disease.

The stem cells probably did not replace the massive number of cells lost during stroke, Sinden clarifies.

In their new Stem Cells Translational Medicine study they show how this strategy can be safely applied to replace the pancreatic cells lost via autoimmune destruction in type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DCells Translational Medicine study they show how this strategy can be safely applied to replace the pancreatic cells lost via autoimmune destruction in type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1Dcells lost via autoimmune destruction in type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D)[1].

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.

The basic principle consists in replacing a type of nerve cells, called dopaminergic neurons, that are lost in the disease.

We're still a long way off from being able to replace the brain cells that are being lost in HD, but this research is an important step down that path, and is a great tool to study HD.

Current therapeutic strategies for glaucoma, the most common cause of irreversible blindness [1], act only to manage the condition and there are currently no means to replace the retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) which are lost in this disease.

«Current treatments can slow these diseases» progression, but they can't replace lost retinal cells.

Apoptosis (programmed cell death) at the tips of the villi - we lose grams of tissue every day in this way, which needs to be constantly replaced by the stem cells buried in the crypts

If the layer is not sustained, which the implant intends to replace, then the photoreceptor cells also die off, and people lose their sight slowly as a result.

And, to be clear, in the long run, you have to remove senescent cells, restore cells as quickly as they're lost, repair (to stable condition) or replace the ECM when it's contaminated, remove amyloids as they accumulate, and scrub out arterial plaques.

The transplants helped to replenish the brain by replacing cells lost due to apoE4, regulating brain activity and improving learning and memory abilities.

Cell transplantation can replace diseased or lost tissue, thereby providing restorative therapy for these conditions.

After losing 80 percent of his skin to a devastating genetic disease, a seven - year - old boy underwent an experimental treatment replacing his epidermis with new skin grown in a lab from genetically modified stem cells.

In the past, neural stem and progenitor cells from various sources were introduced into eyes with the thought that they might differentiate and replace photoreceptors lost in retinal disease [13]--[19].

«Because so many adult cells can't divide, your body can't replace cells that are lost, which causes disease,» explained Deepak Srivastava, MD, president of the Gladstone Institutes and senior investigator.

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.

Thanks to recent technological developments, new insights into brain health, and some creative thinking, two Gladstone scientists are embarking on research to replace lost or malfunctioning brain cells with new ones created from stem cells.

For example, the bone marrow of patients with anorexia nervosa is often populated with numerous fat cells as their body goes into overdrive trying to replace lost fat.

Every minute we lose over 30,000 dead skin cells, which are replaced by new healthy skin cells.

And for those intense workouts, CELL - TECH HYPER - BUILD is also enhanced with electrolytes to help you replace what is lost during exercise.

We also need to consume protein each day replace the millions of muscle cells we normally lose.

Provides carbohydrates to delay the onset of fatigue during strenuous activity, key electrolytes to replace those lost through sweat, and absorbable magnesium for cells.

If your fat cells can be replaced with water after losing fat, then how do we lose that water and how long does it take?

Regenerative anemias are those in which the pet's body is producing new red blood cells to replace those that were lost.

In human beings with analogous conditions, a full - thickness or endothelial corneal transplant replaces the lost endothelial cells.

Like any other blood loss, a transfusion may be needed to keep the puppy alive until it can replace its own lost red blood cells.

As the cells divide, they can also replace lost tissue such as bone and cartilage.

[2] An August 2016 study looking at the effect of Zika infection on the adult brain suggests that adult brain cells responsible for replacing lost or damaged neurons throughout adulthood, cells that are likely critical to learning and memory, may be vulnerable to infection.

A cell phone can be replaced easily; a home can never be replaced after it is lost.