Sentences with phrase «to damage lung tissue»

Such cells might one day be used to treat people with damaged lung tissue, but only if the cells can be made from a person's own tissue.

The antacid neutralizes your stomach acid so it won't damage your lung tissue if you vomit and accidently inhale that material.

Last year two research teams reported preliminary evidence that carbon nanotubes can damage lung tissue in rats.

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the process of manufacturing glass not only contributes its share of greenhouse gas emissions but also generates nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide and tiny particulates that can damage lung tissue when breathed in.

When viral infections, pollution or other injuries damage lung tissue, AEC2 cells come to the rescue.

Now an international team of researchers led by the lung researcher Marianne Geiser from the Institute of Anatomy at the University of Bern and the aerosol researcher Josef Dommen from the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI has shown that secondary particles from gasoline combustion in Euro 5 engines directly damage lung tissue as well as weaken its defense functions.

Induced pluripotent stem cells are a type of pluripotent stem cell that can be generated directly from adult cells; they have the ability to be differentiated into a variety of tissue types and, in this case, MSCs that can regenerate damaged lung tissue.

Available treatments ease symptoms, but there are no therapies that rejuvenate damaged lung tissue.

The prognosis for dogs with emphysema following surgical resection of damaged lung tissue is very good to excellent, provided that sufficient healthy lung tissue remains to carry out the essential functions of oxygen and carbon dioxide exchange.

Carbonaceous PM is made up of black carbon, primary organic aerosol (POA) and, especially, secondary organic aerosol (SOA), which is known to contain harmful reactive oxygen species and can damage lung tissue.

Clay litter may contain silica, which can damage lung tissue, resulting in fluid accumulation and scarring («silicosis»).

Nitrogen oxides can create ozone, better known as smog, which can damage lung tissue.

This can damage lung tissue and lead to lung cancer over the course of your lifetime.»