Sentences with phrase «system tissue»

In comparison with mice, delivery of treatments to affected nervous system tissues can be better tested in pigs, because their size is closer to that of humans.

In comparison with mice, delivery to affected nervous system tissues can be better tested in pigs, because their size is closer to that of humans.

These cells further damage the central nervous system tissue by causing neuronal cell death and scar formation that blocks recovery from paralysis.

«Engineering digestive system tissues: Significant progress.»

Research on animals shows prions accumulate in immune system tissues, such as tonsil and appendixes.

While mammals lack the ability to regenerate nervous system tissue after spinal cord injury, zebrafish can regenerate such tissue.

Unsupervised clustering of cell - type - specific lncRNAs and trait associations showed that related cell types and traits tend to clump together in biologically plausible ways: for example, lncRNAs enriched in nervous system tissues tended to be associated with neuropathy and behavior traits, and the odds ratios of lncRNA genes were comparable to those of mRNA genes.

And both corticosteroids and bronchodilators pills and injections are inefficient, since they circulate systemically rather than targeting the specific respiratory system tissues involved in asthma.

A secondary brain tumor is either cancer that has spread to the brain (a process known as metastasis) from a primary tumor elsewhere in the body, or is a tumor that affects the brain by extending into brain tissue from an adjacent non-nervous system tissue, such as bone or the nasal cavity.

The only totally definitive test is through examination of nervous system tissue upon necropsy.

«Babies fed soy - based formula have changes in reproductive system tissues: CHOP co-author of NIH - led study: Subtle estrogen - like responses in infants point to need for longer - term follow - up of effects.»

In mouse studies, RG3039 increased the expression of SMN in central nervous system tissue by only about 50 % — a «pretty modest» amount, admits Rusche.

This surely contributes to the rarity or nonexistence of human - to - human transmission of rabies (acquired by the bite of an infected dog or bat); cat - scratch disease (which causes skin lesions and swollen lymph nodes); tularemia (a disease, often acquired when hunting and cutting up an infected rabbit, that can cause skin ulcers, swollen lymph nodes, and fever); and BSE (probably acquired by eating the nervous system tissue of infected cows).

Since the 1970s, however, work on isolated chunks of nervous - system tissue has identified a host of molecular players in memory formation.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is among the most common neurological diseases in young adults, affecting 350 000 individuals in the United States and 2 million worldwide.1 Prevailing thought is that MS is an autoimmune disorder whereby an unknown agent or agents triggers a T cell — mediated inflammatory attack, causing demyelination of central nervous system tissue.2

However, this type of treatment would need to be regularly delivered to nervous system tissues.

This protein conformation apparently stupendously reduces the capacity for apoE to shuttle trace metals out of nervous system tissues.

They can lead to a series of health problems like allergy, irritation in the skin, weight gain, and damanged nervous system tissues.

Distemper in domestic dogs is a highly contagious, often fatal viral disease that affects respiratory, urogenital, gastrointestinal, ocular and central nervous system tissue.