Sentences with phrase «tissue types of the body»

The newly discovered human cells, named «cord - blood - derived embryonic - like stem cells» or CBEs, are not quite as primitive as embryonic stem cells, which can give rise to any tissue type of the body.

The way to think of this is that you have a tree with branches that give rise to all of the different tissue types of the body.

Not exact matches

The human body contains two types of fat tissue, white fat and brown fat.

It has heart - protective properties, helps in the repair of body tissue, and may substantially reduce type 2 diabetes risk.

Since it is a complete protein, whey contains all of the amino acids that your body needs to perform at its best and build any type of tissue it might need — including muscle.

Myofascial release is a type of soft tissue body work that may help your baby.

Among other things, vitamin C helps build connective tissue which supports and connects different types of tissues and organs in the body.

To develop their «disease in a dish» model, the team took skin cells from patients with Allan - Herndon - Dudley syndrome and reprogrammed them into induced pluripotent stem cells, which then can be developed into any type of tissue in the body.

The team tried this method with two types of body cells: ovarian cells from an adult and connective tissue cells from a fetus.

The Human Genome Project, which sequenced the 3 billion pairs of nucleotide bases in human DNA, was a piece of cake in comparison: Epigenetic markers and patterns are different in every tissue type in the human body and also change over time.

Action potentials can be created by many types of cells, but are used most extensively by the nervous system for communication between neurons and to transmit information from neurons to other body tissues such as muscles and glands.

Even harder to swallow was the claim that the material could transform, in a matter of months, into whatever type of body tissue had been damaged — muscle, skin, or blood vessel.

Building upon their earlier research on the biology of fat metabolism, Joslin scientists discovered that microRNAs - small RNA molecules that play important roles in regulation in many types of tissue — play a major role in the distribution and determination of fat cells and whole body metabolism.

The ascetic diet of slow starvation eliminated body fat — which tends to decay faster than other types of tissue — and built up chemical compounds toxic to bacteria associated with decomposition.

Crystal Aguh, M.D., assistant professor of dermatology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, says the scarring associated with CCCA is similar to the scarring associated with excess fibrous tissue elsewhere in the body, a situation that may explain why women with this type of hair loss are at a higher risk for fibroids.

Their finding explains an apparent paradox in which proteins linked to a series of genetic diseases can be found in cells throughout the body, but impact only on some tissue types.

Since embryonic stem cells can differentiate into any type of tissue, they have the potential to treat an almost unending array of medical conditions — replacing damaged or lost body parts or tissues, slowing degenerative diseases, even growing new organs.

The results help fill in the scientific puzzle kicked off by Dolly's cloning, which proved that mammalian egg cells were capable of dissolving the genetic roadblocks that limit the potential of most adult cells to give rise to only a single type of tissue — that of the organ from which they hail — whereas embryonic stem cells have the potential to become virtually any kind of body tissue.

In humans, Salmonella Dublin has higher hospitalization and fatality rates than other Salmonella types; it causes systemic infection of body tissues, similar to typhoid.

When you're using certain tissue types that can't replicate multiple times outside of the body — liver and nerve cells, for example — «that's where stem cells are most relevant.»

As «immature» somatic cells, stem cells can mature into different types of cells, thus making them responsible for the development of all the tissues and organs in the body.

These cells — capable of generating all cell types in the body — could be used as the «Lego bricks» to build tissue constructs, larger structures of tissues, and potentially even micro-organs.

Many tissues of our bodies, such as our skin, can heal because they contain stem cells that can divide and differentiate into the type of cells needed to repair damaged tissue.

Studies in animals suggest that mesenchymal stem cells play important roles in the body's ability to heal after an injury, although researchers are still working out the signals and steps required to steer their differentiation into one type of tissue or another.

Some tissues show a natural contrast on MRI, but for some specific types of imaging, patients are administered a MRI contrast agent to enhance the difference between the target area and the rest of the body.

So, at the dawn of our universe — and I have to emphasize our universe, because there could be others — so, dawn of our universe, physicists think there was one type of force, one type of matter and that as the cosmos expanded, as space expanded, it cooled and things started to condense out like snow flakes, and over time that single force broke, it differentiated; and something similar happens in the human body as we develop from a single cell; we differentiate, different tissues form in our bodies, different layers of tissues.

They have enormous clinical potential; unlike stem cells isolated from adult tissue that have been the basis of stem cell treatments so far, hESCs can be grown into any of the body's 200 tissue types.

Scientists had high hopes for reprogrammed stem cells, which could be derived from a patient's own tissue and grown into any type of cell in the body.

We think the laser coaxes the body to respond like it would to a lesser type of injury, triggering messages that cause skin to regenerate instead of create more scar tissue.»

Because stem cells have the unique ability to develop into many different types of cells, they are an important part of the mechanism for repairing body tissue.

The researchers profiled the microRNA in samples of blood and heart tissue from healthy people and people suffering from one of two types of heart failure, which develops when the heart's pumping action weakens, making it unable to deliver blood throughout the body.

Stem cells can differentiate into any type of cell in the body and create new tissues to repair injuries.

The team say their findings could also shed light on how inflammation occurs in certain types of autoinflammatory diseases, where the immune system attacks the body's own tissues.

«Now that we have the cellular and molecular information, the future promises to be very exciting when this knowledge can be used to understand how this system is formed during gestation and how the different neuron types go about controlling the body's functions,» says study leader Patrik Ernfors, professor of tissue biology

Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have, for the first time, taken chimpanzee and bonobo skin cells and turned them into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), a type of cell that has the ability to form any other cell or tissue in the body.

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.

Scientists hope to use stem cells, which can develop into nearly any type of tissue in the body, to treat a variety of diseases as well as to study basic biology (ScienceNOW, 30 November).

Pluripotent cells can become any of the cell types usually found in the body — although there are certain special types of tissue, such as placenta, that they can't form.

This causes the body's white blood cells to release type 1 interferon - alpha, a small cytokine protein that acts as a systemic alarm, triggering a cascade of additional immune activity as it binds with receptors in different tissues.

Fat cells are not simply big blobs of lipid quietly standingby in the body — instead, they send out hormones and other signaling proteins that affect many types of tissues.

Sheep have more than 20,000 different genes but not all of these are expressed in each tissue type in the body.

The organization of these tissues let different cell types work together, to enable organs in the body to perform their functions.

Stereotactic body radiation is a newer type of radiation therapy which delivers higher doses of radiation to the tumor but spares the surrounding tissue.

The body needs many different types of stem cells to replace sick, aging or dying cells in its many different tissues.

Origins of Muscle Stem Cells: During development, the embryo has three different tissue types that, together with the germ cells, will make up the animal's entire body.

Typically, this involves creating a «scaffold» of natural or synthetic materials, seeding it with human stem cells that can differentiate themselves into particular tissue types, and providing the cells with nutrients and a physical environment that encourages them to take on the three - dimensional structures and functions of a particular body part.

Such «induced pluripotent stem cells,» like other stem cells, are able to transform themselves into any type of cell in the body — making them ideal biological clay for tissue engineers to sculpt.

When fluid is pumped slowly across both sides of the membrane, replicating the flow of liquid along the inside and outside of intestinal tissue in the body, the seeded cells not only differentiate into the four types found in the small intestine, but form tissue that spontaneously folds, develops villi, secretes mucus and even supports microbes commonly found in the small intestine.

Unlike other cell types, stem cells are unspecialized cells uniquely capable of making copies of themselves (self - renewing), differentiating into specialized cell types, and helping to maintain some tissues in the human body.

Our therapeutic siRNA molecules are combined with delivery systems, which markedly enhance the efficiency and specificity of our siRNA drugs by directing them to the right cell type in the body and sparing healthy tissues.