Sentences with phrase «result of dying cells»

«Amyloid is one of many substances that builds up in plaques as a result of dying cells and atrophy in the brain,» he says.

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Also, they have chosen a cheap populist theme, attacking cell phone, bank and credit - card charges instead of hammering the Conservatives on their dangerous, right - wing deregulation agenda — even though people are still dying as a result of Harper's «self - regulation» changes to food safety.

The act of reprogramming cells to make them as capable as ones from embryos apparently can result in aberrant cells that age and die abnormally, suggesting there is a long way to go to prove such cells are really like embryonic stem cells and can find use in therapies.

Nearly all of the cancer cells died as a result, but a residual population of tumor cells survived and became dormant.

One of them was used to reproduce acquired aplastic anemia: due to various types of damage, some of the stem cells die, and those that remain need to divide more frequently in order to maintain the production of blood cells; as a result of so many divisions, the telomeres shorten and the disease appears.

The researchers hypothesize that guanabenz stimulates a protective cascade — because fewer oligodendrocytes die, less immune cells are recruited to the brain, which results in a decreased inflammatory response and preservation of myelin levels.

The therapy employs a virus to insert a gene for a common ion channel into normally blind cells of the retina that survive after the light - responsive rod and cone photoreceptor cells die as a result of diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa.

Previously, Dr. Smeyne and his collaborator Dr. Stacey Schultz - Cherry in the Department of Infectious Disease at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN, showed that a deadly H5N1 strain of influenza (so - called Bird Flu) that has a high mortality rate (60 percent of those infected died from the disease) was able to infect nerve cells, travel to the brain, and cause inflammation that, the researchers showed, would later result in Parkinson's - like symptoms in mice.

With the passage of time, patches of retinal pigment epithelial cells may die, resulting in bare spots known as geographic atrophy.

Earlier research had shown that cells surrounding an HIV - infected cell die as a result of apoptosis, or programmed cell suicide, and scientists knew that Nef had a hand in starting that process.

On closer inspection Håkansson noticed the cells had died as a result of a process called apoptosis — programmed cell suicide — which is one of the ways that the body gets rid of unwanted or damaged cells.

Partly because of the resulting protein buildup, the cancer cells become stressed and die.

They all result in the death of neurons, but the cells that die are somewhat different in each case.

An abnormal mass of tissue that results when cells divide more than they should or do not die when they should.

One of them was used to reproduce acquired aplastic anaemia: due to various types of damage, some of the stem cells die, and those that remain need to divide more frequently in order to maintain the production of blood cells; as a result of so many divisions, the telomeres shorten and the disease appears.

Myocardial infarction (MI) or acute myocardial infarction (AMI), commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die.

We have shown that most CD4 T cells die as a result of an innate immune response launched against cytoplasmic viral DNA accumulating as a result of abortive infection in these «bystander» CD4 T cells.

The facts are real: Smoking causes cells to be starved of oxygen (because capillaries are dying and closing off), resulting in dull, sallow, tired - looking skin with an absence of a glow.

The results were impressive, as 75 percent of the cells died within 24 hours.

Cells are supposed to die off and be replaced, but cancer is the result of cells that continue to grow out of conCells are supposed to die off and be replaced, but cancer is the result of cells that continue to grow out of concells that continue to grow out of control.

Some cells die as a result of this damage.

Some of these cells simply die, while others develop mutations that eventually result in disease.

This condition is a result of cartilage cells dying, which in turn causes inflammation.

A delay or misdiagnosis of these types of fractures can result in paraplegia or quadriplegia; the need for bone grafts, pins or screws to stabilize the bone; joint replacement in the future; or avascular necrosis, a serious condition in which bone cells die prematurely due to an interruption in blood supply.

Our client died as a result of the failure to identify the transitional cell carcinoma on a CT scan.

Although there are two types of strokes, each result when blood flow to the brain is cut off and the brain cells are deprived of oxygen and begin to die.