Sentences with phrase «tissue is dormant»

Since the normal thyroid tissue is dormant, only the tumor cells take up the iodine 131.

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Such was the comfortable vista which, less than a century ago, began abruptly to change beneath our gaze, something in the fashion of those organic tissues in the living body which, after long remaining harmless and dormant, their cells apparently indistinguishable from those of the surrounding tissue, suddenly burst into dangerous growth.

They tolerate antibiotics less well compared to dormant bacteria, but they are present in much larger numbers, and readily restart their growth once antibiotic levels in the tissue drop, thus driving infection and relapse.

«Ours is the first study to define the dormant niche on a cellular and molecular basis, and it is interesting that the culprit is the tissue we so often assume is a passive bystander, the microvascular endothelium,» Ghajar says.

Pretreating the animals with leucine make the reserve stem cells more sensitive to radiation and less able to regenerate tissue following radiation injury, while rapamycin protected the reserve stem cells as they were more likely to remain dormant.

Dr. Yin is seeking to understand how zebrafish regenerate damaged tissue so that therapies can be developed to reawaken our dormant genetic codes for regeneration.

«There are positive signs that the edited cells do end up in tissues that harbour infected white blood cells carrying dormant viruses, known as reservoirs, which is where they would be most useful.

Graber will work in the institution's Kathryn W. Davis Center for Regenerative Biology and Medicine, where scientists are working to identify the molecular pathways responsible for regeneration in organisms that have retained the ability to regenerate lost and damaged tissues and organs, then screening for drugs with the potential to reawaken these dormant regeneration pathways in humans.

The satellite cells in your muscles, which are the dormant precursor cells in charge of repairing the damaged muscle tissue, are a key part of muscle hypertrophy.

It's their unique life cycle and their ability to go dormant in tissue, that make them our most dreaded pest.

The dormant larvae can also infect the nursing mother's mammary tissues and be transmitted to the newborn through her milk where once again they are swallowed and take up residence in the puppy's small intestine.

They are more likely than dogs to continue to shed parasite eggs in their stool and for the parasites to continue to live in their intestines rather than form dormant cysts in other tissues.

Since normal healthy thyroid tissue will become dormant with hyperthyroidism, it can be very easy to distinguish an abnormal thyroid gland with a technetium scan.

In addition, with hyperthyroidism, only part of the gland is affected, and the healthy thyroid tissue will become dormant.

In adult dogs, the situation is usually different: after ingestion, the larvae migrate through the intestinal wall and into other tissues in the body, where they enter a dormant state.