Sentences with phrase «specific organs and tissues»

«Glandular» supplements are derived from specific organs and tissues in the body, such as adrenal or thyroid glands, and are particularly helpful at providing the nutritional constituents that these organ systems need to function properly.

Freeze - dried concentrates of specific organs and tissues are used to treat degenerative conditions.

Different types of tumors show a preference for specific organs and tissues; circulating breast cancer cells, for example, are likely to take root in bones, lungs, and the brain.

Understanding exactly how stem cells form into specific organs and tissues is the holy grail of regenerative medicine.

Not exact matches

The TEER measurement is used to quantify the flow of ions between electrodes and across the tissue - tissue interface made of an organ - specific epithelium and endothelium that is a core component of many of the Institute's human Organ Corgan - specific epithelium and endothelium that is a core component of many of the Institute's human Organ COrgan Chips.

This work provides a proof of principle for a new approach in the study and treatment of cancer: the aberrant expression in a tissue or organ of genes specific to other tissues could become a new tool for establishing a prognosis and personalizing therapeutic care.

«Once we had discovered 120 new variants, we started testing them and, lo and behold, some were significantly better in terms of gene transfer efficiency to specific tissues and organs,» Wilson says.

Key proteins, produced and regulated by these important genes, activated a cascade of diverse, tissue - specific signals that led to regenerative organ growth.

Recent experiments, for instance, suggest that when an organ lacks LGR -5-positive cells, differentiated cells may be able to «dedifferentiate» and repair tissues — a radical change from the one - way street toward specific identities that stem cells were thought to travel.

These «nanoswimmers» cross the blood — brain barrier highly efficiently, and could lead to the development of drug delivery systems that navigate through tissues and organs to target specific sites precisely.

A series of headline - grabbing results in the late 1990s and early this decade suggested that specific adult stem cells such as those from the blood seemed able to exceed expectations and transform themselves into other organs and tissues.

Contrast agents, injected into the patient during an MRI procedure and designed to be quickly cleared from the body by the kidneys afterwards, are needed to make fine details of organ structures, blood vessels, and other specific tissues clearly visible in the images.

From these three cell populations different functional tissue cells arise, such as skin cells, muscle cells, and specific organ cells.

«Linking the navigation capability with these new results would allow therapeutics to be delivered directly to a specific site of the brain, potentially improving significantly the efficacy of the treatment while avoiding systemic circulation of toxic agents that affect healthy tissues and organs,» Carret added.

The Salk researchers stopped the cells from differentiating further, but each germ layer was theoretically capable of giving rise to specific tissues and organs.

The atlas now also includes RNA transcript data for 27 of these organ - specific tissues using next generation sequencing, providing a tissue distribution map of both protein and gene expression.

«This data allows classification of all human protein - coding genes into those coding for house - hold functions (present in all cells) and those that are tissue - specific genes with highly specialized expression in particular organs and tissues, such as kidney, liver, brain, heart, pancreas.

«We are truly excited about the RNA transcript data and the map of gene expression that we now have for 27 different organ - specific tissues», says Professor Mathias Uhlén, Program Director of the Human Protein Atlas.

We can obtain iPS cells from an individual's skin or blood and program them into different tissue types to create patient - specific Organ - Chips.

Following the delineation of some of the basic principles behind bud formation, the researchers then whether they could extend this strategy beyond the liver, and create other organ buds using tissue specific cell types.

Moreover, tissues, organs and organ systems team up to perform specific tasks such as the body's first line of defense against bacteria or viruses.

Ideally, the researchers found that the best targets were genes or proteins primarily expressed in one specific tissue, so the drug treats the disease at its core, without interfering with other, healthy tissues or organs, and thus causes fewer side - effects.

Therefore the group studies with sophisticated imaging technology in vitro and ex vivo: i) the molecular mechanism driving the migration of HIV through the intestinal epithelial barrier; ii) the cellular targets in the mucosa, in specific macrophages and DCs, to identify the possible pathways to invade the tissue and disseminate to other organs; iii) the involvement of DCs and their functional properties in mediating adaptive immune responses at mucosal level; and iv) the role of antibodies with different effector functions in changing the pathways of the virus.

In other words, peptides are tissue - specific and have beneficial effects on the organs which they were extracted from.

Endogenous (produced inside the body) HGH puts its actions into effect by «molecularly» joining straight to particular receptors on specific muscle tissues which includes muscles, connective tissue (tendons, ligaments, bone, and fat), as well as just about every major organ.

Autoimmune diseases are characterized by tissue damage and loss of function due to an immune response that is directed against specific organs.

They drip, if you will, into the bloodstream where they travel to the distant tissues and organs, where they then bind to the tissues» and organs» specific cell sites called receptors.

HCG can be found in every tissue of the body, including both male and female specific organs.

Eventually, studies done using dye showed that enzymes, hormones, peptides and proteins in fact are absorbed intact and are able to target specific tissues and organs.

The current uproar was ignited when an antiabortion activist, posing as a biomedical research company representative, captured on video — which he then edited in the most misleading way possible — discussions by Planned Parenthood physicians of the procedures they use (when recovering specific fetal organ tissues) and the cost ($ 30 to $ 100 to reimburse for costs).