Sentences with phrase «storing human tissue»

The scientists have special expertise when it comes to providing, processing and storing human tissue samples.

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On a normal diet, the human body breaks down carbohydrates into glucose, which are used for energy or stored as glycogen in liver and muscle tissue.

The Arctic ground squirrel does it by tapping thick stores of brown adipose tissue, a kind of fat and muscle common in human infants.

In the human body, adipose tissue acts as a primary energy store.

The researchers also analyzed samples of human neural tissue from embryos that had been stored by a hospital pathologist..

Two types of fat tissue are present in humans and other mammals: white adipose tissue (WAT) or white fat, which stores fat; and brown adipose tissue (BAT) or brown fat, which burns fat to produce heat.

All slides mounted with FFPE human prostate cancer tissue sections were baked at 56 °C for 4 hours to fix the tissue onto the slides and were then stored at room temperature.

Generally speaking, a healthy 160 pound human male can store about 120 - 130 grams of glycogen in the liver (which is re-synthesized rapidly, and available to all cells in the body), and about 10 grams per kilogram of muscle tissue (which CAN NOT be released to other tissues - it's selfish in that regard).

Normally, human bodies are sugar - driven machines: ingested carbohydrates are broken down into glucose, which is mainly transported and used as energy or stored as glycogen in liver and muscle tissue.

Once your glutathione levels have been increased (if they do increase in humans), and the existing toxins in the bloodstream have been removed, your fat tissues could release stored toxins into the bloodstream as they sense the increased detoxification capacity.

Muscle tissue contains more Mitochondria, the powerhouse of the cell where fatty acids (from stored fat) are sent to be burned, than any other tissue in the human body.

Human breast tissue and breast milk contain higher concentrations of iodine than the thyroid gland itself, which contains just 30 % of the body's iodine stores.18, 36,370 Breast tissue is rich in the same iodine - transporting proteins used by the thyroid gland to take up iodine from the blood.18, 38 The evolutionary reasons for this are clear: iodine is essential to the developing newborn brain, so the mother's body must have a direct means of supplying iodine to the nursing infant.18, 39