Sentences with phrase «tissue health and disease»

Current clinical MRI uses hydrogen in the body's water and fat to produce scans, but this does not provide all the information about tissue health and disease progression stages.

A novel technique to use the body's natural sodium (salt) content to provide a more detailed picture of tissue health and disease is to be pioneered by MRI experts at The University of Nottingham.

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«In health care, patients sometimes want to donate tissue to scientific research that can help lead to medical breakthroughs, such as treatments and cures for serious diseases,» he writes on Planned Parenthood's website.

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

In much of California, on the other hand, a witches» brew of pollutants cooked in the atmosphere can sear the delicate tissue lining the lungs and aggravate an astonishing array of other health problems, ranging from heart disease and lung cancer to dementia.

On the other hand, in a given tissue, the same tRNA sequences will produce different fragments in health and disease and across disease subtypes.

«This will help us understand like never before how tissues develop and function in health and disease.»

Raydiance's technology has attracted the attention of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which in July 2007 signed the company to a two - year cooperative research and development agreement that has allowed the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) to evaluate the use, safety and effectiveness of Raydiance's USP laser system in a number of areas, including the ablation of corneal tissues in refractive surgery and corneal repair; the administration of light therapy for treating cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes; and the removal of plaque on teeth without damaging the enamel.

What is clearly evident in the Swedish health care registers is the fact that those who lack a thymus have an increased incidence of autoimmune diseases in which the immune system attacks the body's own tissue; Type 1 diabetes; thyroid disease; rheumatic disease; and hypersensitivity to gluten.

These students and faculty work on a broad spectrum of research problems that share at least one of the four goals of Bio-X: to image and simulate life from molecules to mind, to restore the health of cells and tissues, to decode the genetics of health and disease, and to design therapeutic devices and molecular machines.

Matthews» laboratory research, with long - term support from the National Institutes of Health, focuses on the fundamental mechanisms used by epithelial tissues to regulate salt secretion — which goes awry in several diseases, including cystic fibrosis and many forms of diarrhea.

For setting cancer in the context of ageing tissue, study of normal adult homeostasis is important — we are studying mutational processes, clonal dynamics and cellular competition in thousands of non-cancerous cells and samples from a range of tissue types, in health and disease.

APS is the nation's premier nonprofit organization devoted to fostering education, scientific research, and dissemination of information in the physiological science — the study of how molecules, cells, tissues and organs function to create health or disease.

Transcriptome studies such as the National Institute of Health's Genotype - Tissue Expression (GTEx) program aim to overcome this limitation by studying gene expression levels and regulation mechanisms and their relationship with diseases, instead of only DNA sequence.

Topics covered will include how the immune system and commensal microbes interact in the context of health and disease; how dendritic cells respond to infectious or inflammatory stimuli and the roles they play in the induction and polarization of adaptive immune responses against pathogens; how the innate immune pathways regulate inflammation at mucosal barrier tissue sites and how the macrophages are involved in intestinal inflammation.

Physiology is the study of how molecules, cells, tissues and organs function to create health or disease.

The next phase in our scientific understanding of human health and disease is to decipher the molecular basis of cell and tissue circuits and the impact of genetic variations on these circuits.

During this Cell Symposium, we will delve into the fascinating mechanistic and physiological complexities of exercise biology at the cellular, tissue, and systemic levels and explore how exercise improves human health, including in disease settings and during aging.

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Our proprietary discovery platform enables the identification of disease - specific hydroxymethylated (5hmC) DNA from blood and tissue samples — enhancing human health through more accurate and earlier diagnosis, improved patient stratification and the development of liquid biopsy - based tests.

In a substudy, review outcomes were also compared across different types of clinical research, based in large part on the designations and definitions derived from a number of sources, including a report by Nathan, 14 the Institute of Medicine, 20 the NIH Director's Panel on Clinical Research, 9 the Association of American Medical Colleges and American Medical Association, 21 and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.22 All 3599 R01 applications involving human subjects that were submitted to NIH for the October 2002 council were categorized into 1 of the following: (1) patient - oriented studies of mechanisms of human disease (bench to bedside); (2) clinical trials and other clinical interventions; (3) patient - oriented research focusing on development of new technologies; (4) epidemiological studies; (5) behavioral studies (including studies of normal human behavior); (6) health services research; and (7) use of deidentified human tissue.

A complete Human Cell Atlas would give us a unique ID card for each cell type, a three - dimensional map of how cell types work together to form tissues, knowledge of how all body systems are connected, and insights into how changes in the map underlie health and disease.

The method could go far in interrogating human tissue organization and helping elucidate key aspects of development, human health and disease.

Some health experts claim that our modern habit of eating large amounts of muscle meat (like steak) without eating the organs and connective tissue or making broth with the bones may be contributing to modern disease.

Adults over 65 are at increased risk for complications from pneumonia, and serious cases that require hospitalization have been linked to long - term health issues like cardiovascular tissue damage and an increased risk of heart disease.

GSH is unique in that it plays a crucial role in protecting us from a wide variety of substances that can do significant damage to our tissues Those suffering from many chronic diseases such as AIDS, advanced diabetes, and cancer have very low levels, hence the obvious importance in human health and why researchers continue to study it.

Decreasing the amount of fat tissue you have on your body is not only good for your heart health by decreasing the risks of cardiovascular diseases like strokes and heart attacks.

The overall goal of IV Nutritional Therapy is to achieve blood plasma nutrient concentrations not obtainable by oral supplement administration to achieve health optimization and to directly target diseased or nutritionally deficient cells / organs / tissues of the body.

As a result tissues can become more sensitive to insulin, the brain can become more sensitive to leptin and the low - grade metabolic disorder that appears to underly many chronic diseases will subside to some degree and allow the patient or client to experience better health, energy and mental outlook that is signified by improvement to their bio-markers or symptoms that gave them a diagnosis.

While protein is necessary for tissue repair, a diet high in fat and cholesterol puts you at risk of heart disease, some types of cancer and many other health concerns.

-- Heart disease risk is escalated — Total and LDL cholesterol and triglyceride values increase — Risk of fibrocystic breast disease and possibly breast cancer increase (breast tissue concentrates iodine)-- Gingivitis and poor oral health increase (salivary glands concentrate iodine)

The plant based diet may be temporarily effective for CORRECTING poor health from these factors, but for the growing population of responsibly physically active individuals that require higher protein diets, a strictly plant based diet will only starve their muscles, bones and tendons leading to injury, tissue damage and disease.

HMB free acid gel could improve HMB availability and efficacy to tissues in health and disease.

«Given the numerous health benefits, its participation in important intracellular biochemical pathways, normal physiological presence in our cells,» and tissues, and blood, and «the levels of which fluctuate with intake, epidemiologic [al] correlates of phytate deficiency with disease and reversal of those conditions [with] adequate intake, and safety — all strongly suggest for [phytate's] inclusion as an essential nutrient,... perhaps a vitamin.

Great revision tool to support pupils before assessments on: Cell structure and cell division Transport in cells Tissues, organs, health and disease Enzymes and digestion Infection and response Bioenergetics Allows up to 4 teams to play together.

A veterinary ophthalmologist is a doctor who specializes in diseases that affect the health of your pet's eye, its surrounding tissues and structures, and your pet's vision.

Tissue is collected to aid research in various important health studies including: - Syringomyelia Genetic Studies at Montreal University in Canada (Dr Zoha Kibar & Dr Clare Rusbridge) Mitral Valve Disease in Edinburgh (Dr Brendan Corcoran) and Chronic pancreatitis and diabetes mellitus in dogs at Cambridge Veterinary School (pathologist Penny Watson).

To facilitate health research on genetic diseases affecting Bernese Mountain Dogs, the Berner - Garde Foundation (BGF) had a vision of creating a repository of DNA and tumor tissue that would augment the pedigree and current medical information stored in the Berner - Garde Database.

To facilitate health research on genetic diseases affecting Bernese Mountain Dogs, the Berner - Garde Foundation had a goal of creating a repository of DNA and tumor tissue that would augment the pedigree and medical information stored in the Berner - Garde Database.

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«In health care, patients sometimes want to donate tissue to scientific research that can help lead to medical breakthroughs, such as treatments and cures for serious diseases.