Sentences with phrase «replacing lost tissue»

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

RepleniSENS - Replacing Lost Tissues (that has me puzzled, replacing tissues is great kind of like being a cybord, replacing parts... I guess this could be a way out somehow.

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

Not exact matches

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.

Although missing bone can be replaced by titanium, «there is no better substitute for lost tissue than living tissue,» bioengineer Gordana Vunjak - Novakovic at Columbia University explains.

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.

The normal response of any mammal's body to significant damage is to create scar tissue, a hasty but crude way of replacing what has been lost.

Although wounds healed up as expected, with the tissue around the cut closing up in just a few hours, the researchers noticed something unexpected: the jellyfish were not regenerating tissues to replace the lost arms.

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.

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

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.

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

C - DOCTOR will recruit, cultivate and clinically translate innovative regenerative technologies that replace oral, dental and craniofacial tissues lost to congenital disorders, trauma and disease.

Dialysis and kidney transplantation can serve as successful strategies to treat patients who have lost kidney function; however, regenerative medicine could make it possible to replace lost or damaged tissue, or replace the kidney entirely.

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

When you lose muscle tissue faster than it is replaced your body is in a catabolic state.

Intravenous fluids help maintain blood pressure in the anesthetized patient and will replace lost fluids (during surgery, fluids are lost through evaporation from body cavity surfaces, through bleeding, and in any tissues that are being removed).