Sentences with phrase «studied organ in the body»

A human being's skin is the largest, least studied organ in the body, and it deserves more attention than it gets.

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Louie, who is familiar with but did not participate in the study, notes the importance of being able to «tune» the nanoparticles so that they stay in the body long enough to do their job without accumulating in internal organs.

These techniques include: human tissue created by reprogramming cells from people with the relevant disease (dubbed «patient in a dish»); «body on a chip» devices, where human tissue samples on a silicon chip are linked by a circulating blood substitute; many computer modelling approaches, such as virtual organs, virtual patients and virtual clinical trials; and microdosing studies, where tiny doses of drugs given to volunteers allow scientists to study their metabolism in humans, safely and with unsurpassed accuracy.

To study how a dead body decays in isolation, Peter Noble at Alabama State University in Montgomery sampled microbes from a selection of internal organs, as «these aren't influenced by environmental conditions», he says.

But the body's biggest organ is the skin, and recent studies show «that we're big sponges for these chemicals,» says John Kissel of the University of Washington in Seattle.

Instead, birds produce sound using an organ unique to birds called the syrinx that is located deep in the body and therefore very difficult to study.

«This study adds to an important body of work that has shown the ubiquity of a circadian clock across species, including humans, and its role in metabolic regulation in cells, organs, and organisms,» said Dr. Michael Sesma, Program Director in the Division of Genetics and Developmental Biology at the of the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of General Medical Sciences, which partially funded the research.

Recent studies have shown that shifts in this clock can have devastating health effects because it controls not only our wakefulness but also individual clocks that dictate function in the body's organs.

No organ in the human body is as resistant to study as the brain.

«In this study, we have a narrow focus on diabetes only,» wrote Tolstrup, «but since alcohol is related to more than 50 different diseases and conditions — reflecting that alcohol affects virtually every organ system of the body — any recommendations about how to drink and how much to drink should not be inferred from this study or any study investigating associations between alcohol and a single outcome.»

To understand the functions of our body organs in health and disease, it is necessary to study the molecular composition of individual cells that make up the organ's cell communities in the organs.

Rather than simply study genes, molecules, or even organs in isolation, Bio-X investigators attempt to understand entire systems within the body.

Tiny «Organ Chips» Promise Big Boost to Testing of Food, Drugs: Scientists at the FDA hope to use «organs on chips» to study how certain chemicals from foods, cosmetics and supplements affect organs in the body.

The chip's fluid channels allow us to reproduce the body's blood flow; its flexibility allows us to make the Organ - Chip breath or undergo peristalsis; its transparency allows us to watch and study organ function in real time and with high fideOrgan - Chip breath or undergo peristalsis; its transparency allows us to watch and study organ function in real time and with high fideorgan function in real time and with high fidelity.

But if, as this study suggests, the way that cells become proliferative again is similar across many different organs, we can imagine therapies that interfere with cancer initiation in a more global way, regardless of where that cancer may appear in the body,» he explains.

Group research aims to study the relations between nutraceuticals, physical activity, intracellular mechanisms, gene expression and microbiota using a translational approach to characterize the impact in the whole body of metabolic interactions studied in individual organs and tissues (in vitro / ex vivo: skeletal muscle, heart, bone, liver and kidney).

Authors of the study and the accompanying editorial suggest that the series of events and biological interactions they identified could be responsible for the mechanism the body uses to limit blood supply to the skin in cold temperatures, which conserves more blood flow — and hence, warmth — for the body's internal organs.

According to a new study published in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers have found fluid - filled spaces in connective tissue all over the body, from beneath our skin to the lining of our digestive tracts that constitute a brand - new organ.

It causes massive inflammation in the body in many individuals, especially those with thyroid conditions, and studies have proven that it can cause the immune system to produce antibodies that attack its own organs or tissues.

Another powerful study published in 2003 Environmental Health Perspectives evaluated the levels of pesticide metabolites in the urine of two groups of children and found that children eating organic fruits and vegetables, consuming organic milk and drinking organic juices had levels of pesticide metabolites six to nine times lower than children eating conventionally grown food.17 Bear in mind, pesticides are up to ten times more toxic to children than adults, due to their smaller body size and developing organ systems, so it is especially important to minimize their exposure whenever possible during the growing years.18

«My argument is that the three classic areas of neuroscience, endocrinology, and immunology, with their various organs — the brain (which is the key organ that the neuroscientists study), the glands, and the immune system (consisting of the spleen, the bone marrow, the lymph nodes, and of course the cells circulating throughout the body)-- that these three areas are actually joined to each other in a bidirectional network of communication and that the information «carriers» are the neuropeptides.»

A study published in Liver International found that curcumin has a remarkable ability to protect the liver from the everyday toxins that tend to overwhelm this organ, which is responsible for cleansing impurities from our bodies.

This diet study used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology for the first time, measuring changes in body and organ fat during 18 months on a Mediterranean / low - carb diet, with and without moderate physical exercise.

Study of nutrients and how the body handles them based on principles of chemistry and molecular biology; the effect of nutrition choices on diabetes, hypoglycemia and disorders of the major organ systems; food choices and diet planning principles; nutrition prescription for illness; the development and evaluation of nutrition plans; nutrition assessment; the relationship between nutrition and illness; strategies for providing nutritional support for people with serious illness; practical examples in clinical nutrition case studies.

A seven and one - half year study conducted on monkeys fed carrageenan, at the Albany Medical College, Albany, N.Y. found no changes in hematology or clinical chemistry values, no changes in organ weight or organ - to - body ratios, no storage of carrageenan - like material in the liver or other organs, and no gross microscopic changes in tissue.

diverse and powerfully rich in antioxidant and anti-inflammatory actions that thousands of studies have shown that it protects and improves the health of virtually every organ in the body.

All told, dozens of studies have now been published on PQQ's spectacular health benefits, finding it effective in triggering new mitochondrial growth, protecting mitochondrial function, and delivering all the health benefits that having robust mitochondria offers for your heart, your brain and every other cell, muscle and organ in your body.

However, given that these diseases affect many organs of the body and Gaucher in particular has a high incidence of certain cancers, including myeloma, I would suggest that eating the most healthy diet for general health (whole food plant based; scientifically proven) would also be a good idea in these diseases (although I have not seen any studies that say this).

Hi Traportka — The China Study is a great start in undertanding what our bodies, organs and cells go through each time we consume anything made from an animal.

In the former method, the body is divided into regions, such as the wrist, arm, forearm, etc., whereas in the latter, various organ systems are studied, such as skeleton system, nervous system, etcIn the former method, the body is divided into regions, such as the wrist, arm, forearm, etc., whereas in the latter, various organ systems are studied, such as skeleton system, nervous system, etcin the latter, various organ systems are studied, such as skeleton system, nervous system, etc..

Veterinarians tend to study each of your pet's organ systems through a group of tests or parameters that they consider as a group to determine where in the dog or cat's body the problem is likely to be located, how serious the problem might be and what might be the underlying cause.

3,5 During the study, no clinically significant changes in liver, kidney or coagulation parameters were noted and there were no noticeable effects on food consumption, body weight, ECG, organ weight or hematology.