Sentences with phrase «tissue damage is the cause»

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This temporary ballooning of tissue is actually what causes the most damage, according to a post on Mongabay.com.

«Capsaicin, the active ingredient in chili, does cause tissue inflammation so the mucosa of the stomach or intestines might be damaged by a sufficiently large dose.»

One is that the battery can generate a little bit of an electrical current that can cause damage to the tissue.

It is not necessary to go to the highest level if it is painful for you and doing so could interfere with the milk ejection reflex and let down and result in reduced milk output to the pump, potentially causing tissue damage.

It's easy to damage the tissue around your breast or nipples and cause long lasting damage.

If you pull them off too quickly, you are likely to cause damage to your nipple tissue.

Using a breast pump at consistently high levels of suction can be painful and it can cause damage to your nipples and breast tissue.

In fact, encouraging or managing a mom to push during this time before the head is on the perineum may cause undue damage to her vaginal tissues, pop capillaries and disorient the mom who instinctively knows her baby will come down with privacy, time and the ability to find the appropriate position.

Reduction surgery can help, but it, too, can cause pain if tissue is damaged during the operation.

This process is accompanied by some minor damage of surface tissues, causing bleeding.

After an extensive investigation aiming at the precise localization of the epileptic focus, brain tissue that is damaged due to malformation, injury or other cause, is surgically removed.

But the No. 1 cause of death in people who are starving is heart failure due to extreme tissue and organ damage.

«We found that A20 was absolutely essential for down - regulating the inflammatory response and averting the damage unrestrained inflammation can cause in multiple tissues,» says team member Averil Ma.

In addition to inflammation, previous microelectrode brain implants made of silicon or microwire have caused neuronal death and glial scarring, which is damage to connective tissue in the nervous system.

Inhibition of EGL - 9 can reduce damage caused by reperfusion of tissues with oxygen, but how such beneficial effects are mediated is not clear.

Restoration of oxygen supply to cells that have been deprived of oxygen actually causes further damage to cells and tissues.

But applying this method to humans would require multifunctional implants that could be installed for long periods of time on the spinal cord without causing any tissue damage.

Moreover, she found, once the toxins are taken up by cells lining the mammalian gut, these sections become activated, setting in motion a chain of intracellular events that causes intestinal inflammation and tissue damage.

Because the device is five to ten times thinner than the smallest commercially available microendoscopes, it can be pushed deeper into the brain tissue without causing significant damage.

What is incredible is that through this simple and gentle chemical process, the MasSpec Pen rapidly provides diagnostic molecular information without causing tissue damage.»

«During surgery a surgeon is cutting in with a scalpel and it's causing a lot of tissue damage,» says Ahern.»

There is a lot of work still to do, and many potential pitfalls before it could be applied to human patients, but in principle almost any illness caused by damaged or ageing tissue — heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer's and dozens of others — could be fixed this way.

These pathologies fall broadly into four categories: coagulopathy, where abnormal blood clotting is caused; haemorrhaging, where bleeding occurs; neurotoxicity, which damages the nervous system causing paralysis, and cytotoxicity, where the bite causes death of cells and destruction of tissue.

Currently, the only definitive way to distinguish rejection from other causes of kidney injury is by performing a biopsy, in which doctors remove a small piece of kidney tissue to look for rejection - associated damage.

The company's scientists are trying to figure out how to cool corpses to temperatures that cause total metabolic arrest — around — 321degrees F — with minimal tissue damage, so the bodies can remain perfectly intact for thousands of years.

Smoking, alcohol, excessive salt intake, and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs cause damage to the tissue lining the stomach, and are associated with stomach ulcers.

Within minutes, accumulation of bacteria interferes with repair of the tissue damage — and these results are the earliest indication showing H. pylori causing disease.

In most cases, CTE is thought to be caused by repeated blows to the head, which damage brain tissue and lead to a buildup of an abnormal protein called tau, according to the CTE Center.

A bruise or contusion or ecchymosis is a kind of injury, usually caused by blunt impact, in which the capillaries are damaged, allowing blood to seep into the surrounding tissue.

Since the honeycomb is flexible and stretches like heart tissue, the patch should be able to be integrated without causing additional damage.

«Lots of things bind to heparan sulfate to trigger various cellular responses, but when active heparanase levels are high, the receptors become degraded, so bound molecules are released and can cause damage to the local tissues,» said Agelidis.

However, because in pregnant women who carry GBS and deliver prematurely, bacterial infection is rarely found in the womb, Anirban Banarjee, from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, and colleagues hypothesized that if GBS produces MVs, they might move up to the womb during pregnancy and cause tissue damage at interface between mother and fetus.

Additionally, it caused no tissue damage or adhesions to surrounding tissues when applied to a liver hemorrhage in mice — side effects that were observed with both super glue and a commercial thrombin - based adhesive.

«Worldwide research efforts have developed powerful agents that can treat diseased tissues but if they can not be steered to where they are needed, they can also cause collateral damage.

Oliver Lieleg's team was able to prove that the lenses caused no tissue damage when they were coated with mucins.

What the microglia do between crises has been unclear, largely because getting the cells under a microscope has required excising a chunk of brain tissue — thereby causing damage that sends the cells into emergency response mode.

Although these cells are necessary to clear infection by viruses and bacteria, in autoimmune conditions they turn on healthy tissue, causing damage and inflammation.

Previous clinical and animal research showed that mice receive less tissue damage under ischemic condition than humans, but the cause of the difference was not clear.

Study co-author Marius Wernig, a postdoctoral biologist at M.I.T., reports in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, that this is the first time scientists have successfully manipulated such cells to integrate into brain tissue and reverse damage caused by a neurodegenerative disease.

Allergens are usually proteins (called antigens) found in a non-infectious allergy - causing substance (for example pollens or dust mites), which ultimately trigger the immune system to respond in a way that can be harmful, causing tissue damage and serious disease.

Visikol, Inc., is developing multiple bio ‐ imaging technology platforms based upon its patent pending Visikol ® technology, a chemical formula that penetrates tissue and renders it transparent without causing structural damage, allowing researchers to effectively visualize biological tissues in 3 ‐ D.

Early radiation treatments caused severe side - effects because the energy beams would damage normal, healthy tissue, but technologies have improved so that beams can be more accurately targeted.

The drug was injected in no more than three sites since we did not want to cause extensive damage to the tissue covering the injection site and cause inflammation.

But the number of neurons at a time with which microelectrode arrays can interface must be increased several-fold while making sure the scale - up does not cause damage to brain tissue.

As insulin levels diminish, cells are unable to convert blood sugar into energy, causing glucose levels to rise and damage tissues.

Although the IL - 15 plus retinoic acid combination leads to inflammation and tissue damage in those at risk for celiac disease, the authors suggest that for those who are less genetically susceptible, the same combination could help enhance vaccines against several bacterial infections that cause diarrheal diseases.

Moreover, recent data also show that in response to brain damage caused by aging, amyloid deposition, demyelination, and other insults, microglial cells activate several genes, including APOE, in order to more efficiently scavenge and clear tissue debris that are very rich in cholesterol due to the natural composition of the brain, which is mostly made of fats.

This approach to derive patient - specific Embryonic Stem cell - like cells (iPS cells) is going to open up research into the genetic causes of disease and the search for therapies not only for such diseases, but also for repairing tissues damaged in other ways.

The problem is that these probes are typically much larger in size than neurons and capillaries (they usually have a cross-sectional area of 103 μm2) and can thus cause significant damage to brain tissue when implanted.

One of the most serious classifications of this disease is known as diffuse scleroderma wherein the «sclerosis» (hardening of the tissue) occurs in the internal systems of the body, causing damage and widespread scarring to the skin as well as to various internal organs such as the lungs, kidneys, heart and gastrointestinal organs.