Sentences with phrase «skin tissue including»

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An essential component of many enzymes, copper plays a role in a wide range of physiological processes including iron utilization, elimination of free radicals, development of bone and connective tissue, and the production of the skin and hair pigment called melanin.

Increased amounts of COX - 2 are commonly found in both malignant tissues and tumors, including skin cancer (20).

Collagen is a key structural protein that ensures the cohesion, elasticity and regeneration of all our connective tissues including skin, cartilage and bones.

Desiccated coconut provides minerals you need to keep your connective tissues — a group of tissues that includes your skin, tendons, ligaments, bones and teeth — strong.

«We saw normal, well - orchestrated regeneration of tissue, including hair follicles and the skin's supportive collagen network.»

Search through 1000s of anatomical structures (tendons, arteries, veins, organs, etc.) and browse your body's system layers (including skin, skeletal, connective tissue and more).

«The cornea is the most densely innervated tissue in the body, so corneal nerve assessment is extremely sensitive for detecting small sensory nerve fiber damage as compared to other tests including measurement of intra-epidermal nerve fibers in the skin,» notes lead investigator Joseph L. Mankowski, DVM, PhD, who is Professor of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Pathology, and Neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD..

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has expressed several concerns regarding population - wide screening for skin cancer, including uncertainty whether screening would reduce deaths, having patients undergo unnecessary tissue biopsies and the cost associated with screening individuals who have a low - risk for developing skin cancer.

Immediate applications for the oxygen - sensing bandage include monitoring patients with a risk of developing ischemic (restricted blood supply) conditions, postoperative monitoring of skin grafts or flaps, and burn - depth determination as a guide for surgical debridement — the removal of dead or damaged tissue from the body.

As you might guess from its antiscorbutic role, vitamin C is crucial for the synthesis of connective tissue, including the matrix of skin.

Fossilisation can include the preservation of organic material, such as body tissues, organs and skin.

Yin is using zebrafish to study the regeneration of heart tissue because of the amazing capacity of these common aquarium fish to regenerate the form and function of almost any body part, including heart, bone, skin and blood vessels, regardless of their age.

More than a hundred sites in the genome showed strong evidence of recent selection, including genes that affect muscle tissue, hair, hearing, immune - system function, skin pigmentation, sense of smell, and the body's response to heat stress.

Kaposi sarcoma is a cancer that causes lesions in soft tissue, including skin, the oral cavity, lymph nodes and internal organs.

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.

Pluripotent stem cells include embryonic stem cells, which are derived from early embryos, and induced pluripotent stem cells, which are made by reprogramming cells taken from adult tissues such as skin.

The technique is currently being tested in a number of clinical applications, including imaging breast tumors, detecting skin cancer, and tracking blood oxygenation in tissues.

Previous research shows that certain fat cells can be coaxed to turn into other tissue, including skin, bone, and cartilage.

SLE is a genetically complex chronic relapsing autoimmune disease characterised by inflammation that may affect different tissues, including the skin, joint linings, lungs, kidneys and other organs.

Now, the exquisitely preserved fossil of a tiny mammal from the time of the dinosaurs reveals a variety of soft tissues, including skin, fur, and spines; even remnants of its external ear were fossilized.

The researchers tested their adhesive on a variety of both dry and wet pig tissues including skin, cartilage, heart, artery, and liver, and found that it bound to all of them with significantly greater strength than other medical adhesives.

She says they can now identify the mechanisms that cause tumor growth in half of all adenocarcinomas, a family of cancer that affects skin and other tissue, including the lungs.

The researchers have tested the probe with many types of tissue samples, but because it is currently designed for forward view mode, the primary applications of the probe would likely include skin, brain or head and neck surgery.

A group that included researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the University of Cambridge, both in the United Kingdom, developed a possible treatment for A1ATD by first reprogramming a skin cell from a patient into iPS cells, which are embryonic - like cells that can develop into many tissue types.

It's known that some T cell sentinels take up residence in specific tissues, including the brain, liver, intestines, skin and lungs.

The mesoderm, for example, gives rise to key cell types, including cardiac and skeletal muscle, connective tissue, bone, blood vessels, blood cells, cartilage and portions of the kidneys and skin.

The majority of metastatic specimens were lung metastases but also included several other visceral sites, skin, soft tissue and soft tissue components of bone metastases.

* Adult mammals can restore other types of tissue, including bone, liver and skin tissue, but by the strictest definition — the faithful replacement of damaged or resected body parts — they can only regenerate their fingertips.

Interestingly, the most informative tissues to predict time of death included readily accessible ones, such as skin and subcutaneous adipose.

Researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and Newcastle University have collected genomic data from over 250 thousand cells from a range of donated developing human tissues including liver, skin, kidney and placenta.

«Fibroblasts are also abundant and integrally involved in many other tissues, including skin, breast, lung and some cancers.

Those fixed for histology, placed in tissue culture, and snap - frozen in OCT for cryosectioning included the heart, pericardium, bladder, knee and elbow joint tissues, skeletal muscle (bicep and quadriceps), dura mater, brain (cerebrum, cerebellum and brainstem), back skin, axillary and mesenteric lymph nodes, spleen, spinal cord and dorsal root ganglia, and peripheral nerves (sural, tibial, ulnar and median).

Last year Thomson shook the field again when his lab and a Japanese team showed a way of genetically reprogramming adult skin cells to act like stem cells, including the ability to form any of the body's tissues.

With full - color diagrams and photographs, this book explains the roles of specialized cells, including skin cells, blood cells, neurons, and the cells in connective tissue.

The collection also includes complete, or nearly complete, skeletons associated with preserved soft tissues such as feathers, fur, skin or even, in some of the salamanders, external gills.

These included the tissue that gives rise to the nervous system, to the musculoskeletal system, and to skin.

The technique uses cells from a patient's skin to generate induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), which are capable of developing into various types of mature tissues — including blood.

Results From a total population of 446480 patients, 1539 community - associated MRSA, 1335 health care - associated MRSA, 2895 skin and soft - tissue infection cases, and 2914 controls were included.

Like veins bringing blood and nutrients to all the parts of your body, the meridians bring vital energy to your organs, muscles, and other tissues including your skin.

The body needs healthy fats, including saturated fats, monounsaturated fats, and Omega - 3 fats, to regenerate skin tissue, and these fats are the preferred building blocks in the body.

«Adipose tissue [fat in the stomach] along with fat below the skin has been associated with abnormalities, including high triglyceride levels, low HDL levels [good cholesterol], high blood pressure and greater risk of diabetes,» said Dr. Gregg Fonarow.

The first layer of the koshas represents the physical body, including the skin, muscles, connective tissue, fat and bones.

The body needs healthy fats, including saturated fats and Omega - 3 fats, to regenerate skin tissue.

They make up our tissues and organs (including skin, which is actually a major organ), and they play a huge role in how efficiently we function, affecting our ability to «manufacture» proteins, vitamins, hormones, neurotransmitters, and enzymes and even how we make energy.

Its benefits include detoxifying the body, nourishing the skin, and imparting tone to the tissues of the body.

However, drinking more water can help you with anything including improvement of your skin tissue, weight loss, lowering cholesterol, helping digestion, eczema and preventing fatigue.

Vitamin C helps stabilize collagen and improves the connective tissue in the entire body, including the skin and bones.

Protein is an essential salad component for several reasons: it boosts satiety, revs metabolism, and provides the raw materials for maintaining or building lean tissue, including both muscle as well as hormones, healthy hair, skin, and immune cells.

Lean Body Mass — Everything in the body except fat, including bone, organs, skin, nails and all body tissue including muscle.

The inflammatory autoimmune disease that affects multiple organs and connective tissue in the body including the heart, brain, lungs, joints, blood vessels, skin and kidneys among others is called Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE).