Sentences with phrase «skeletal muscle tissue from»

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Cardiac or skeletal muscle tissues (they also pass electrical impulses from cell to cell)?

«In normal conditions, skeletal muscle is a self - healing tissue and can recover promptly from most trauma because of the satellite cells.

«While these tumors appear to be muscle cells under the microscope, and clinicians had thought that they arose from muscle progenitor cells, that didn't explain why the tumors can occur in tissues that don't have skeletal muscle, like bladder, prostate and liver,» he continued.

Furthermore, in heart tissue from these mice, the scientists found genes turned on that are normally seen in skeletal muscle, not heart muscle.

Results of a study conducted by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine showed significant improvement in strength and range of motion, as well as evidence for skeletal muscle regeneration, in 13 patients who were surgically implanted with bioscaffolds derived from pig tissue to treat muscle injuries.

«Under no circumstances should it be concluded from our work that consumption of marijuana can be a way to cure diabetes,» Prof. Dobrzyn warns and explains: «The concentration of glucose in the blood is determined by the balance between the activities of alpha and beta cells of the pancreas and insulin target tissues such as skeletal muscle and adipose tissue.

Researchers have isolated stem cells from only some of the body's organs and tissues, including the blood, brain, skeletal muscle, heart muscle and most recently from skin.

«The protocol teaches every step of building a bio-bot, from 3D printing the skeleton to tissue engineering the skeletal muscle actuator, including manufacturers and part numbers for every single thing we use in the lab,» explained Ritu Raman, now a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Bioengineering and first author of the paper, «A modular approach to the design, fabrication, and characterization of muscle - powered biological machines.»

Furthermore, we analyzed sections from tissues directly associated with glucose homeostasis (liver and skeletal muscle), stained with hematoxylin and eosin, over a range of 250 µm.

Review of «Engineering human pluripotent stem cells into a functional skeletal muscle tissue» from Nature Communications by Stuart P. Atkinson

Working from memory, while insulin is necessary to draw the GLUT4 glucose transporter to the cell membrane and thus enhance uptake of glucose in skeletal muscle and adipose tissue, this is not true in the brain and several other tissues.

Body structures made from protein include skin, hair, nails, bones, connective tissue and of course skeletal muscle.

The recent recognition that de novo lipogenesis might have relevance for lipid homeostasis in skeletal muscle stems from the realization that Sterol regulatory element binding protein - 1c (SREBP - 1c), a member of the family of transcription factors that regulate the expression of genes involved in lipid storage in liver and adipose tissue, is also present in skeletal muscle at a level close to that observed in the liver, 41,42... [M] ost fascinating are the very recent demonstrations that glucose alone (in the absence of insulin) can stimulate de novo lipogenesis in skeletal muscle cells....

Therefore, it is not surprising to find that the muscle hypertrophy resulting from strength training was associated with the increases in whole - body insulin sensitivity we observed, because skeletal muscle constitutes the target tissue where most of the insulin - stimulated glucose uptake takes place [34].