Sentences with phrase «supplied by the blood»

The body cells being supplied by these vessels are deprived of the nutrients and oxygen normally supplied by the blood.

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Akorn was burdened last year by supply disruptions and competition for a range of products, such as ephedrine injections for low blood pressure under anesthesia and lidocaine anesthetic ointment.

The Red Cross supplies our hospital partners in Puerto Rico with blood products collected in the continental U.S. With local blood collections on the island significantly impacted by Hurricane Maria, the Red Cross has provided more than 1,000 blood and platelet products to help hospitals the Red Cross does not typically supply.

The lizard with severed tail able to grow a new one, a sea star with severed arm able to regenerate what was lost, a forest taken out by fire able to start anew, a body that has lost blood able to restore its supply.

Soluble fibre as found in chickpeas helps stabilize blood sugar levels, which one of the aims of this cleanse, by provides slow burning complex carbohydrates for steady energy supply.

High quality, bioavailable multi-vitamins help the body by supplying tons of easily absorbable trace minerals and B vitamins that are critical for healthy blood sugar levels.

Iron is necessary for healthy supply of blood hemoglobin which gives you energy by carrying the oxygen rich blood to every cell in your body, while preventing anaemia.

This basically worked, he had the natural desire to suck down, as attested by the blood blisters all over my boobs where he had missed the nipples but no one told me to try feeding him little and often to start with and get my mild supply going.

However, so does a skilled midwife team, and testing blood sugar can be done by anyone with a glucometer and testing supplies.

Your nipples and areolas are connected to your blood supply by your axillary arteries.

This is done by putting a pulse oximeter on baby's wrist and foot to check the oxygenation of their blood supply on two different limbs.

During this time, there is a steady decrease in blood calcium levels, and some women have had success stabilizing their supply by adding a calcium / magnesium supplement to their diet during this time.

Plasma Resources UK, which provides blood supplies to the NHS, has been sold to Bain Capital, a private equity firm set up by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

«There is blood on many hands, from those who incited violence under the guise of protest all the way to the mayor's office at City Hall,» Lynch said in a statement supplied by spokesman Albert O'Leary.

The family turned their grief into something wonderful by helping the Red Cross replenish its blood supply during a critical shortage.

ALBANY — Hoosick Falls residents who drank from the tainted municipal water supply have, on average, more than 30 times the national level of a toxic chemical in their blood, according to state health department data obtained by POLITICO.

Now licensed by Tissue Science Laboratories for use in Europe and the U.S., it is derived from porcine skin, chemically treated to produce a collagenous, sterile, nonallergenic product, which resists biodegradation and can provide a permanent support for the ingrowth of new tissue and associated blood supply.

What they discovered was that an inflammatory factor known as TGF - beta (transforming growth factor - beta) can give cancer cells properties of immune cells by supplying the surface of the cancer cell with a receptor that normally only exists on the white blood cells that travel through the lymphatic system.

Using cells from cadavers, doctors have been experimentally transplanting pancreatic islets into humans for decades, but as many as 60 percent of the transplanted islets die immediately because they are cut off from their blood supply and are killed by an immune response due to direct injection into the bloodstream, and those that survive the transplant usually die within several months.

Ischaemic (or ischemic) heart disease is a disease characterized by reduced blood supply to the heart.

These studies demonstrated that, at higher levels, leptin worked as a primary mechanism in inducing precancerous colon cells by increasing the blood supply to them and promoting their progression.

The metra device works by supplying the liver with oxygenated blood, anti-clotting drugs and assorted nutrients, all while keeping the organ at a steady 37 °C.

Two years ago, he and his colleagues reported in Aging Cell that cutting the calories ingested by mice by 30 % for up to 4 weeks protected the rodents» kidneys when their blood supply was cut off and then restored.

MRI scan of tuberculosis meningitis patient reveals a loss of blood supply to part of the brain (white patch highlighted by the white arrow).

If we can stop cancers from growing by choking off their blood supply, we can help our patients feel better and live longer.»

FAT AS A FIXER Adipose tissue, a collection of fat - storing cells (red) surrounded by connective tissue (yellow), has its own supply of blood and immune cells.

This contraction would choke off the blood supply wherever it occurs in the brain and exacerbate an injury by starving brain tissue of oxygen, Parker says.

«However, the capillary constriction produced by pericytes may, by restricting the blood supply for a long time, cause further damage to nerve cells even after the clot is removed.

Aware that cancers rewire their metabolism in ways that could change the epigenome and that distant metastases in pancreatic cancer naturally spread to organs fed by a sugar - rich blood supply, the researchers wondered if the tumor cells had altered the way they use the basic form of sugar, glucose.

The latest research reveals that the brain's blood supply is in fact chiefly controlled by the narrowing or widening of capillaries as pericytes tighten or loosen around them.

Transient ischemic attack (TIA), like stroke, is caused by restricted blood supply to the brain.

In addition, Zeitels notes, the treatment's mechanism of eradicating the blood vessels supplying a tumor — highly effective for conventional vocal - cord cancer — is even more useful for treating tumors caused by HPV infection, which are characterized by an excessive overgrowth of blood vessels.

A STEMI (ST segment elevation myocardial infarction) heart attack happens when an artery is completely blocked by the blood clot, which causes damage to virtually all of the heart muscle supplied by that artery.

NSTEMI (non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction) is the less severe type, occurring when a blood clot partly clogs a coronary artery and only a portion of the heart muscle supplied by that artery is damaged.

According to the report, high levels of sFlt1 could result in a compromised vascular system by reducing the available amount of these growth factors in the blood supply.

WHEN malaria kills, it does so by slowly depriving the brain of its blood supply.

Surprisingly, reducing blood supply in one of the animal's limbs, simply by squeezing it, produced the same benefit.

The study focused on search trends and hospitalization data related to coronary heart disease, the most common type of heart disease and the leading cause of death in the U.S. Caused by the buildup of plaque in the arteries that supply blood to the heart, coronary heart disease can lead to chronic chest pain, heart attacks and other heart problems.

Several studies show that this cuts damage to heart muscle by about one - third following surgery to bypass blocked arteries, when the heart's blood supply must be stopped for up to an hour.

Total remission, Alani said, may be possible with metronomic dosage, but the initial goal is not only to kill cancer cells but to create an environment in which it's very difficult for them to grow, largely by cutting off the large blood supply these types of cells often need.

Cancer treatments often target tumors by cutting off blood vessels and other nutrient supply routes, so Monje and others are interested to learn whether it may be possible to target nerves via analogous therapies or by simply blocking secreted neural growth factors.

In an earlier review, Ngun and Vilain cited evidence that methylation may be determined by subtle differences in the environment each fetus experiences during gestation, such as their exact locations within the womb and how much of the maternal blood supply each receives.

STEMI is a severe form of heart attack caused by prolonged blockage of blood supply in the heart.

This rare and deadly disease mainly affects young women, and is characterized by very high pressure in the arteries supplying blood to the lungs.

The damage is often caused by constriction of the arteries supplying blood, and hence oxygen and glucose, to the brain.

To determine whether Langerhans cells replenish by dividing in the skin or by recruiting replacements from the bloodstream, pathologist Miriam Merad of Stanford University and colleagues surgically joined two mice so that they shared a blood supply.

The most common type, ischaemic stroke, occurs because the blood supply to the brain is interrupted by small clots.

The skin responds by narrowing its blood vessels in order to constrict the supply of blood and retain body heat (vasoconstriction).

While studies have found that only 8 percent to 14.5 percent of such cases are due to inadequate blood supply to the brain during delivery, the syndrome remains a leading cause of allegations of mismanagement by obstetricians.

Anti-angiogenic inhibitors slow down cancer growth by disrupting the blood supply to the tumor.