Sentences with phrase «tissues and organs change»

Human tissues and organs change as we grow older.

Not exact matches

Change the size from 10 nanometers to 100 nanometers, and the drugs can end up in the wrong cells or organs and thereby damage healthy tissues.

Adult stem cells: They have less flexibility and «stemness» to change into different cell types, but they can still produce new cells, specialized to become part of a particular organ or tissue, such as muscle cells or neural cells.

Recent experiments, for instance, suggest that when an organ lacks LGR -5-positive cells, differentiated cells may be able to «dedifferentiate» and repair tissues — a radical change from the one - way street toward specific identities that stem cells were thought to travel.

In the messy, crowded environment of a soft - tissue surgery, robots struggle to keep track of where the features of the organs are relative to each other, let alone change those features with a deft nip and tuck.

More broadly, the biggest change that I think will come is the ability to grow new tissues and organs, combined with the ability to implant machines in people.

BUSM researchers compared genetic, micro-environmental, stromal (connective tissue cells of any organ) and epigenetic changes common between breast and ovarian cancer cells, as well as the clinical relevance of these changes.

Rather, I hypothesized that, because of their fundamental and non-autonomous role in the control of tissue growth and patterning, alterations in morphogen signaling might underlie changes in organ size.

Mounting evidence suggests that intermittent fasting causes significant changes to various organs and tissue types.

Aging is a systemic process of progressive dysfunction of tissues and organs associated with chronic inflammation, changes in tissue composition and the quality of cells within the tissues.

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Therefore the group studies with sophisticated imaging technology in vitro and ex vivo: i) the molecular mechanism driving the migration of HIV through the intestinal epithelial barrier; ii) the cellular targets in the mucosa, in specific macrophages and DCs, to identify the possible pathways to invade the tissue and disseminate to other organs; iii) the involvement of DCs and their functional properties in mediating adaptive immune responses at mucosal level; and iv) the role of antibodies with different effector functions in changing the pathways of the virus.

They are chemical messengers that signal changes in cells, organs, and tissues.

The nervous system can make very quick changes in a fraction of a second by sending electrical impulses through the spinal cord to the muscles, or it can make slow changes by sending chemical messengers, called hormones, into the blood to reach the tissues and the organs.

A seven and one - half year study conducted on monkeys fed carrageenan, at the Albany Medical College, Albany, N.Y. found no changes in hematology or clinical chemistry values, no changes in organ weight or organ - to - body ratios, no storage of carrageenan - like material in the liver or other organs, and no gross microscopic changes in tissue.

As a matter of fact, results of a comprehensive double - blind scientific study with The Original Himalayan Crystal Salt conducted at the Inter-University of Graz, Austria, demonstrated that the patients in the study who used Original Himalayan Crystal Salt «saw significant positive changes in respiratory, circulatory, organ, connective tissue and nervous system functions.»

This change prevents the hemoglobin from carrying oxygen molecules to the organs and tissues of the dog's body.

The returning «echoes» give your doctor information about changes or abnormalities in the size, shape, density, and disease patterns in those organs and tissues.

Case in point, here is what the National Insititutes of Health lists as symptoms of swallowing or merely breathing in oven cleaners: Breathing difficulty; throat swelling; severe pain in the throat; severe pain or burning in the nose, eyes, ears, lips, or tongue; vision loss; abdominal pain; bloody stools; burns and possible holes of the esophagus; vomiting, possibly bloody; collapse; low blood pressure — develops rapidly; severe change in blood acid level — leads to organ damage; skin burns; holes in the skin or underlying tissues; irritation.