Sentences with phrase «see the blood vessels»

In contrast with the first round of scans, the researchers saw blood vessels in the dura but no lymph vessels regardless of how they tuned the scanner, confirming their suspicions.

At first, when the researchers set the MRI to see blood vessels, the dura lit up brightly, and they could not see any signs of the lymphatic system.

You can see the blood vessels flexing inside.»

Dr. Alfredo Dubra: The work in Vivek's lab is very synergistic and collaborative with ours and one of the main examples is the fact that since we can now see blood vessels and capillaries noninvasively in humans, we can now take advantage of some of the really advanced mathematical tools developed by Vivek and his team to actually quantify those blood vessels and have the shape in three dimensions.

«Fair skin may allow you to see blood vessels underneath the surface giving a bluish appearance,» notes Dr. Zeichner.

In fact, we only suggest that you attempt this at home if your bird is small and has white nails (which allow you to see the blood vessels).

MRAs help doctors see blood vessels up close; however, when enhanced with gadolinium they can place some patients — particularly patients with kidney disorders — at risk of developing serious gadolinium side effects.

Not exact matches

The product they eventually created, SafeSnips, is a technology that can be built into surgical tools to detect blood vessels that surgeons can't see with the naked eye.

If you could see into your womb, you would be able to see your baby's tiny veins, because the network of blood vessels that run underneath the skin can be seen easily, in addition to bones.

Retinopathy affects the blood vessels supplying the retina - the seeing part of the eye.

In a vacuum the gases and liquids in the body expand rapidly, animal studies show, but your skin and blood vessels maintain enough pressure on your body and its fluids that you will not instantly explode — no matter what you've seen in Hollywood films.

She was diagnosed with a heart attack, and a coronary angiography (a procedure that uses X-ray imaging to see the heart's blood vessels) showed a spontaneous coronary dissection.

Frostbite kills exposed skin but also damages deeper tissue by restricting blood vessels, preventing oxygen from reaching cells [see image above].

In the AlloSphere, it's as if Marth's researchers are standing inside blood vessels, visualizing data on a human scale that is normally too small to see.

After the mosquito's needlelike snout pierces the mouse's skin, the mouthpart becomes flexible and can be seen snaking between cells until it locates a blood vessel.

I wasn't expecting to see such perfect blood vessel growth into the islets.»

«I started seeing the little holes in the bone that the blood vessels go through,» said Harpel, an amateur fossil hunter who made this discovery in 2012.

«One of the advantages of using an endoscope so thin is that as you lower it into the brain, you can see all the blood vessels and navigate the fiber to avoid hitting them,» said Ohayon.

«We saw the formation of new blood vessels in tumors reduced by 70 percent,» she says.

Hands - on stations uncover the patterns of what we see and hear, and even allow you to observe the math of your own body, from limb and torso proportions to the way blood vessels branch in your eyes.

So Silvestri and colleagues devised a see - through synthetic version of a blood vessel.

At the implantation site, blood vessels proliferate in the uterine wall — the same hallmark of inflammation seen in the opossum — but the signaling molecule IL - 17, which recruits neutrophils, is missing, Chavan reported at the meeting.

But they only saw infected cells within blood vessels, and these cells were not able to cross the blood brain barrier.

Fractal objects have repeating patterns at many scales and are seen in nature in such things as tree branches, rivers, snowflakes, blood vessels and neurons.

«These are areas of the brain where large populations of neurons are firing often, and this uses up a lot of energy, so it's not surprising that we see an altered metabolic profile with a massive expansion of blood vessels.»

You can see delicate features where blood vessels passed through and the attachments of muscles and ligaments on the bone.

In the less common, wet form of the disease, rogue blood vessels escape normal growth control and leak fluid into the macula, the area at the center of the retina that enables a person to see fine detail.

Photoacoustic imaging picks out blood vessels better, but it can't see flow in a continuous stream.

The combo is then injected into people who have been declared brain dead — M. D. Anderson patients who often wished to be organ donors but weren't eligible, so their families agreed to this study instead — to see which blood vessels the peptide hooks up to.

The disappearing blood vessels could also act as a feedback loop, signaling to the animals to eat less — and indeed, Arap and Pasqualini saw that the treated monkeys consumed less of their regular food but ate just as many treats as control monkeys, suggesting that they weren't feeling nauseous from the therapy.

Next, they implanted these buds in mice with disabled immune systems to see if they would engraft, or attach to the blood vessels of the animal, and continue to mature.

«We saw that fewer patients in the IMRT group developed skin telangiectasia (dilated blood vessels near the surface of the skin), and the overall cosmetic effect in the breast was better,» she said.

«In emergency medicine, we use ultrasound to look at every part of the body — to look at blood vessels that we put catheters into, to checking on a trauma patient to see where they're bleeding,» Broder said.

Previous research has shown that blood vessels tend to contract at high altitude, so researchers decided to see if they could improve blood vessel function at high altitude simply by having test subjects drink beet juice.

In dry AMD, physicians often see soft, lipid - rich drusen in the outer retina, similar to the build - up of lipid material in the inner walls of blood vessels in atherosclerosis.

These spaces surround the blood vessels that drain brain fluid and communicate with the lymph system; widening of these VR spaces is seen in the elderly but rarely in the young.

Within days, bright green blood vessels could be seen sprouting in and around these little balls of cells.

The C.S. Mott Children's Hospital Pediatric Radiology Department offers for children, from newborns to teens, standard CT studies as well as state - of - the - art high resolution and 3D CT angiography (to see inside the blood vessels), all supervised and interpreted by board - certified pediatric experts.

For the visitors, seeing a tiny embryo down a microscope was certainly interesting, but when the fluorescent light was turned on, revealing such things as red - labelled blood flowing through glowing green vessels, the exclamation heard was usually «wow»!

It can take pictures fast enough to follow an injected dye that can be seen by x-rays, as it travels through the blood vessels.

If everything looks good, we will have a model of pathological blood vessel growth in hand, and we can get down to the business of seeing whether the proposed therapy helps shut down bad blood vessel growth and protects eye cells.

That was the research niche that we set out to explore to see if we could find a new way of targeting the abnormal blood vessel growth that occurs in wet AMD.

Less â $ œdisturbed flowâ $ should mean better heart healing for the patient down the road. The study uses OCT (optical coherence tomography) and IVUS (intravascular ultrasound) to monitor the blood vessel and see how healing is affected by fluid dynamics after stent placement.

Three recent experimental studies focused on low consumption / exposure.949596 In one study, 29 smokers each consumed a single cigarette, immediately after which they had a significant decrease in blood vessel output power and significant increase in blood vessel ageing level and remaining blood volume 25 minutes later, as markers of atherosclerosis.94 In another study, human coronary artery endothelial cells were exposed to the smoke equivalent to one cigarette, which led to activation of oxidant stress sensing transcription factor NFR2 and up - regulation of cytochrome p450, considered to have a role in the development of heart disease.95 These effects were not seen when heart cells were exposed to the vapour from one e - cigarette.95 A study exposed adult mice to low intensity tobacco smoke (two cigarettes) for one to two months and found adverse histopathological effects on brain cells.96

Choroidal neovascularization is the out - of - control growth of fragile, leaky blood vessels that distort vision and damage the retina, which is seen in both diabetic retinopathy and the «wet» form of age - related macular degeneration (AMD).

BriteVu, a novel contrast agent developed during the project, allows researchers to see the entire network of blood vessels in an animal, down to the capillary level.

It wasn't until the 36 - year - old actress and model saw an ear - nose - and - throat doctor, and underwent imaging scans, that she got a correct diagnosis: an irregularity in the arteries lining her brain, called an ateriovenous malformation (AVM), that was causing the blood vessels above her ear to pulsate.

Each individual had tests to see how well their blood vessels accommodated an increased blood flow, a healthy blood vessel function test, or vascular function test.

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You see it more in bigger muscle bound athletes who are doing explosive speed type of sports but you can also see it in endurance athletes and basically what it is, is that your arms, your legs, your appendages, they have these groupings, these compartments where a bunch of muscles and blood vessels and nerves are all bundled and you take each of these bundles and then they're encased by this thick layer of connective tissue.