Sentences with phrase «skin tissue on»

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In 1993, Dr. Wood began working with medical scientist Marie Stoner on a method to grow skin tissue directly on patients instead of in a culture flask.

Eventually, the skin on the back hangs in long ribbons, and the entire area is an unrecognizable mass of torn bleeding tissue.

To make supplements, collagen is extracted from cartilaginous animal bones, connective tissues and skin (read more on that below).

The pressure put on the skin can reduce the blood supply to the skin and the tissue and cause a skin infection.

Kenesio tape works by creating a «lift» on the skin and painful tissue underneath, allowing normal motion.

Within moments of application on the skin, DMSO is in the bloodstream, mixing with water from surrounding tissue.

The soothing ingredients like Calendula helps to regenerate skin tissue so you can naturally heal from the inside out, while Olive oil deeply hydrates and soothes the delicate skin on your nipples.

This slightly barrel - chested look is normal, as is the site of your newborn's skin pushing between the striations of muscle tissue on the chest.

The skin and tissue around your breasts are increasingly sensitive during pregnancy and post-birth too, so it is essential that you invest in good quality nursing bras that are gentle on your skin while still providing optimum support as your size fluctuates.

Soothing — It has a cooling effect on the skin and helps damaged skin to rebuild tissue.

More gentle on the skin than tissues, Boogie Wipes clean up sticky mucus and moisturize little noses using a gentle saline (salt & water) solution as well as aloe, chamomile, and vitamin E.

Now, the team has examined whether sepsis has the same impact on tissue resident memory T cells (TRM), which do not circulate but stick to the skin, lungs, and gut — where infections often enter the body.

«Treating psoriasis patients with IL - 17 blockers — some already on the market — could have a beneficial effect on the loss of bone tissue, unlike other compounds that might only affect skin inflammation,» says Uluçkan.

They conclude: «More definitive research might elucidate the effects of vaporized nicotine on the survival of skin and soft tissue flaps, as they most intimately relate to the safe practice of plastic surgery.»

Using magnetic resonance imaging, Dr. Kahleová and colleagues then studied adipose (fat - storage) tissue in the subjects» thighs to see how the two different diets had affected subcutaneous, subfascial and intramuscular fat (that is, fat under the skin, on the surface of muscles and inside muscles).

Besides its potential application in human patients, the newly developed skin tissue also could be used as an alternative to testing cosmetics on animals, the researchers said.

One option Hale favors would be «spray - on skin,» which regenerates epidermal tissue from cells that naturally replenish skin.

The «target» cells on the other side of the BeWo barrier to the nanoparticles were human fibroblast cells, found in skin and connective tissue.

«Surgeons use a variety of techniques to grow skin for tissue expansion procedures designed to grow skin in one region of the body so that it can be auto - grafted on to another site [sometimes used for burn victims],» said Guy German, assistant professor of biomedical engineering within the Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science at Binghamton University.

Active leishmaniasis (left) spurred red patches on the skin and swelling of the nose and surrounding soft tissue.

Deleting telomere elongation capacity throughout the body would also be life - threatening, because it would mean that our regular proliferating cells (like those in the skin or the lining of the gut) would suddenly have iron limits on their ability to reproduce themselves and thus replenish tissue.

Get a cut on your finger and your skin can make new cells to heal the wound; lose your tail — if you are a particular kind of lizard — and tissue regeneration may produce a new one.

Dr. Wang plans to continue studying the effects of TNF and IL - 17 on melanocytes, and would like to expand the research to 3D skin models — fabricated samples of tissue in vitro that behave like human skin — that would give a better visual of how the melanin production process is being disrupted by these two cytokines during skin inflammation or wound healing.

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has analysed the effectiveness of its beauty patch, using a technique for imaging live tissue to demonstrate the patch's beneficial effects on the skin.

The results build on a wave of studies in the last decade in which investigators sewed together the skins of two mice, joining their circulation systems, and studied the effects on various tissues.

It has previously been shown that rougher surfaces (also known as textured surfaces) reduce the amount of scar tissue formed around breast implants, but the Manchester scientists felt that they could improve this by creating a pattern which mimicked body's own surface, such as the basal layer of the skin, providing a better environment for the cells to grow on.

The same printer technology that sits on your desk could soon be a common fixture in rebuilding human tissue, treating burns by laying down layers of a patients» own skin or even rebuilding whole organs.

In ultrasound imaging, the sound is transmitted into the body, where it bounces off of various tissues in a variety of ways and produces waves that can also be detected on the skin.

Researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy are presenting collaborative research on the use of mathematical methods for understanding the transportation of chemical compounds in biological tissues, like the skin.

In their paper, publishing today in Biofabrication, the team show how they utilise 3D bioprinting to control the distribution of melanin - producing skin cells (melanocytes) on a biomimetic tissue substrate, to produce human - like skin pigmentation.

Then, making the leap of placing tissue and skin on those bones is a process fraught with unknowns.

For example, the robot - mass spec combo might be useful to dermatologists who often probe lesions on the skin, which have distinct molecular signatures depending on if the lesion is a tumor or normal skin tissue.

The tissue analyses yielded another surprise: «Our histological 3D reconstruction shows that the skin covering the tubercles on the skull is very thin and consists only of a transparent layer of epidermis, «explains Dr. Martin Heß from the BioCenter of Ludwig - Maximilians - Universität (LMU) in Munich.

While most melanomas appear on the skin as the result of sun exposure, a small subset of melanomas arise spontaneously from mucosal tissues.

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.

After all the soft tissue is in place, Gurche lays on a clay skin and works in realistic wrinkles and textures.

Late in Webster's life, his personal physician had noticed that the skin on his forehead had become «fixed to his scalp,» a shelf of scar tissue built up over 17 years of pro football.

These procedures were performed to bring top - layer skin tissue to the central area of the expansive wound bed on Northstar's neck and shoulders, where all his skin had burned away.

At the time, his varied interests — in the use of skin cell culture to treat burns, in human tissue cultures, and in biopharmaceutical production — led him to do his final year, 6 - month project on culture in a bioreactor.

These tumors occur primarily on the skin but may also arise in other tissues where pigment cells are found.

Recent work from Fousteri Lab revealed a novel metabolic function of active transcription that is rapidly switched on globally in human cells to promote genetic accuracy, and reduce the mutation burden in genotoxins - exposed tissues, such as skin and lung, thus actively participating in lowering oncogenesis.

For a rich source of stem cells to be engineered into new blood vessels or skin tissue, clinicians may one day look no further than the hair on their patients» heads, according to new research published earlier this month by University at Buffalo engineers.

The evidence for the presence of a mycelial fungus in affected areas of the infected bats was obtained when tissue samples from the Williams Hotel Mine were examined by SEM; this imaging method revealed abundant fungal growth on skin and hair shafts (Fig. 1Ci - iv).

Today, pieces of pig skin tissue are used as temporary bandages to cover serious burns on firefighters and other burn victims.

We see that Adipose — Subcutaneous, Lung, Thyroid and Skin — Sun Exposed (Lower leg) are the tissues that consistently appeared on more optimal subsets of all sizes; and these tissues are also the ones that appear among the top most stable ones on the previously mentioned stability analysis.

We focus on squamous tissues, the skin epidermis and the lining of the oesophagus, using transgenic models, novel sequencing approaches, live imaging and single cell analysis to uncover key steps in cancer development, with aim of developing rational interventions to decrease cancer risk.

These cross-links are a major cause of the reduced elasticity in skin and blood vessels that occurs with aging, among many other issues, but even blood vessel stiffening taken on its own is enough to kill people through hypertension, distortion of cardiovascular system tissues, and eventual catastrophic failure of the heart or blood vessel integrity.

There are studies on embryonic stem cells, which can make all the tissues of your body, and people over the past couple years have been able to take a set of genes and put them in and reprogram the skin cells to think they're an embryonic cell and therefore being able to make all the tissues of your body.

This rare, invalidating and frequently fatal disorder causes fibrosis of the skin and connective tissues, with dermal lesions on the trunk and extremities.

And in a certain case by Deepak Srivastava, where he could take skin cells and put them into a - make them into a heart, he actually took the master regulators of the heart cells themselves, these cell - specific regulators that tell a gene to turn on in a heart cell, and that turned these cells into a beating tissue.