Sentences with phrase «small organs by»

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In a small, steepled church, people sing a few old hymns backed by an organ, listen to a sermon, share in Communion and have bad coffee as they laugh and catch up in the church basement afterward.

Small example: the death of one person in an accident (bad) can result in saving the life of another by organ transplant (good).

He repeatedly emphasizes the importance of «quality music» — music produced not by choirs and organs, but by praise teams, soloists and a variety of instrumentalists and small ensembles that use synthesizers, drums and electric guitars.

Part of the small intestine and / or other abdominal organs, covered by a thin transparent membrane, protrudes outside the abdomen at the umbilical cord because the abdominal wall muscles don't close properly.

«We believe that small subsets of metastatic tumor cells have the ability to adopt the mechanisms used by immune cells to exit the blood vessels into the lungs, the bone marrow, the brain, and other organs.

Investigators at Duke University, led by Erica Davis, PhD, a co-senior author of the report, blocked the gene's expression in zebrafish, which resulted in abnormal facial cartilage, smaller eyes and structural abnormalities of neurons involved in the development of reproductive organs.

Thus, a small skin cancer becomes life - threatening by spreading to the brain, lungs, liver, or other organs.

Recently, they used TACC's supercomputers to understand the mechanisms by which Burmese pythons regenerate their organs — including their heart, liver, kidney, and small intestines — after feeding.

Some are missing small chunks of their fins — evidence that a shark took an exploratory bite when the animal was slowed by disease or after its organs gave out.

The second discovery involved TSH, which is a hormone produced by the pituitary gland, a small organ at the base of the brain.

To speed things even more, Collins and Tsui joined forces in 1987, unleashing a small army of some 20 scientists to find the suspect gene wreaking havoc in patients» sweat glands, pancreas and lungs — all organs affected by the disease.

Scientists at Joslin Diabetes Center now have identified a route by which fat also can deliver a form of small RNAs called microRNAs that helps to regulate other organs.

Pheromones are detected by the vomeronasal organ, a small opening at the back of the nasal cavity of many mammals.

Building on that project, the researchers have now designed a machine that smokes cigarettes in a very human - like manner, and hooked it up to organs - on - chips lined by human lung small airway cells so the smoke interacts with these cells in a realistic way.

In both mice and people, T cells are «trained» by specialized cells in the thymus, a small organ in front of the heart, to recognize the body's own cells and refrain from attacking them.

GH is made by the pituitary gland, a small organ at the base of the brain.

The mitochondria are small organs within your cells that are responsible for producing all the energy needed by your tissues.

Our adrenal glands — small organs located above the kidneys — usually deal with stress by producing hormones like cortisol.

Restoring Thymic Function for Immune Support and Life Extension By Ward Dean, MD and Jim English The key to a healthy, functioning immune system rests largely with the thymus gland, a small organ lying just beneath the breast - bone (Fig. 1).

Full blood work, evaluating blood cells and organ function, is often warranted, but your veterinarian may elect to start by checking glucose levels, especially if you have a small dog.

Proteins, like all other nutrients and substances that enter the dog's body, have to be processed by a variety of organs but mostly the small intestines, the liver, and the kidneys.

Historically, veterinarians would examine the reproductive organs of birds by inserting a small camera into the bird's network or air sacs, through which they could visualize the organs directly.

An ingredient that is proven harmful in large doses, such as propylene glycol — a synthetic ingredient used to add moisture — can cause irritation and sometimes even organ toxicity in large amounts, but might still be approved by the FDA in very small doses.

Antoni explains how this body of work was inspired by small religious votive charms called milagros («miracles»), which often take the shape of an ailing area of the body, such as a limb or organ.