Sentences with phrase «replenish lost cells»

But in a striking finding, all regenerated heart muscle cells glowed green, indicating that well established cardiomyocytes remaining after injury had likely regressed to a more «youthful» state, started dividing again to replenish lost cells, and then matured a second time into new heart muscle.

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers created new nerve cells in the brains and spinal cords of living mammals without the need for stem cell transplants to replenish lost cells.

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However, when mature blood cells are lost, for example through severe bleeding or during infections, HSCs become activated to generate new «progenitor» cells — the cells that replenish the blood supply and produce immune cells to fight disease.

«In the future we are hoping to manipulate these cells to replenish any lost retinal neurons, either in diseased or physically damaged retinas,» he noted.

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

This paradigm of harnessing cells in nearby areas of damage to replenish lost tissue is not just applicable to the heart; it may be useful in many other organs in the body that have support cells like fibroblasts.

Another major focus of recovery immediately following exercise has to do with replenishing energy stores and fluids lost during exercise and optimizing protein synthesis (the process of increasing the protein content of muscle cells, preventing muscle breakdown and increasing muscle size) by eating the right foods in the post-exercise meal.

Generally, losing dead skin cells through your scalp is a normal and vital bodily function that replenishes your skin.

These lost cells are replenished — like the water from the faucet — by «factory» tissues in the bone marrow.