Sentences with phrase «type of tissue which»

As time passes and the cells start dividing further and further, they start specializing into becoming a specific type of tissue which has a specific function, thus forming all the different parts that comprise a human.

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This type of dermal filler is biocompatible, which means that it will have very little reaction to human tissue.

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

These cells protect many types of tissues from infection, but they can also promote chronic inflammatory conditions like Crohn's disease, which specifically targets the intestinal tract.

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 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.

It is a type of branched DNA ISH that uses pairs of «Z - probes,» which are highly specific to target genes, but also small enough to easily diffuse into the tissues under study.

The histological differences of these corneas have been studied to determine whether the use of those which have been frozen to study the absorption through this type of tissue can be used.

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.

Wells's team first turned human skin cells into pluripotent stem cells, which can grow into any type of tissue.

Using what's known as multimodal imaging technologies, which combine several methods such as PET - CT and simultaneous measurement, scientists can represent the different types of tissue without penetrating them.

The latter type of research, in which human cells or tissue are integrated into animals, was given the green light in the United Kingdom in October 2008, when the British House of Commons approved a bill that expanded the country's rules governing work with human embryos.

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.

Last week, scientists at Harvard University and Columbia University announced that they had proved the viability of a new way to study a disease — amyotrophic lateral sclerosis — by reprogramming cells from a patient to become pluripotent stem cells, which can then become any type of cell or tissue.

There are four types of blast trauma injury: 1) primary injury caused directly by the pressure wave, which can travel through tissue at velocities close to that of sound in water, 2) secondary injury caused by objects put in motion by the blast, 3) tertiary injury caused by an individual thrown into motion by the blast and hitting surrounding objects, and 4) quaternary injury caused by burns, explosion - related injuries, illnesses and diseases not attributed to the other three blast trauma types.

On the other hand, on a molecular level, researchers find that there is a specific response tied to the hormone levels within the tissue, meaning that the plant could tell which type of stress it is being subjected to, and therefore induce the most suitable physiological responses to fight it.

Researchers also plan to modify the genetic set up of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS), which can be differentiated into specialized cell types or tissues.

Greg Fahy of the American Red Cross in Bethesda, Maryland, said last week that he and his colleagues hope to have developed a method for preserving rabbit kidneys — which are very similar in tissue type and structure to human ones — by Christmas.

One such mechanism is «DNA methylation,» which shuts off or silences parts of the genetic code to form a specific pattern that identifies each tissue type.

All cells in tissues adhere to each other using molecules called cadherins which interact and connect cells of the same type together.

That type of procedure is usually a day - long operation which involves removing part of the skull, cutting through healthy brain matter and physically removing the problem tissue, followed by a weeklong hospital stay and prolonged recovery period.

Two types of cell maintain bone: osteoblasts, which create new bone tissue, and osteoclasts, which remove old tissue.

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.

The researchers next will turn to analyzing the presence of myoferlin in samples from numerous human tumor types available in an Ohio State tissue bank, which will allow them to compare protein levels in tumors to clinical outcomes for the patients who provided the samples.

The excess scar tissue that forms as a result of this type of hair loss may also explain the higher risk for uterine fibroids, which are characterized by fibrous growths in the lining of the womb.

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.

Historically, clinicians evaluating a patient for transplant have sought to identify donor cells that are perfectly matched to the patient's cell type, which is considered to be the optimal approach to help ensure successful outcomes and to minimize risk of graft - versus - host disease (GVHD), a serious and potentially life - threatening complication that occurs when the donated immune cells attack the patient's cells as foreign tissue.

Understanding stem / progenitor cells — which can develop into various types of tissue — are key to developing novel approaches for regenerative medicine.

Techniques enabling the isolation of specific cell populations have advanced our ability to identify and characterize niche cell types which may be used to replace or engineer cells / tissue.

All formed the same types of stem cells, which give rise to «progenitor» cells that, in turn, divide into neurons and eventually organize themselves in six layers of brain tissue.

«These include different types of MRI scans, which use strong magnetic fields and radio waves to produce detailed images of the inside of the brain, and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans, which use a small amount of a radioactive drug, or tracer, to test how tissues in the brain are actually functioning.

But genes in other regions are so close together they overlap: the cluster of 75 genes which determines tissue type and plays a part in controlling our immune responses is packed into only 4 million base pairs.

Normally, adult stem cells can only morph into the type of tissue in which they reside, such as blood, brain or muscle.

Their stem cells, which can mature into any type of tissue, were isolated and cultured in a dish around dots of gel - like growth medium.

They say the size of the pores in sapwood — which contains xylem tissue evolved to transport sap up the length of a tree — also allows water through while blocking most types of bacteria.

There are two types of fat in humans: white adipose tissue, which makes up nearly all the fat in adults, and brown adipose tissue, which is found in babies but disappears as they age.

At this early stage of their development, embryos are made of pluripotent stem cells, each of which can give rise to many, though not all, tissue types.

People who inherit p53 mutations develop a rare disorder called Li - Fraumeni Syndrome, which confers a near 100 percent risk of developing cancer in a wide range of tissue types.

The nose is lined with sensory tissue, the olfactory epithelium, that contains various types of cells, all of which arise from olfactory stem cells (green).

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.

Basically, when you look at different types of cells, such as fibroblasts, which form connective tissue, or epithelial cells, from saliva, you see general correlations within a person.

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.

It's not clear to independent stem cell or Down's experts how stem cells — which can form many types of tissue — might treat Down's, a genetic disorder caused by having an extra chromosome.

In a letter faxed to the White House this morning, they argue that the cells — which have the capacity to develop into any tissue type — could help treat a variety of diseases.

Previous studies have revealed that exercise induces the production of irisin and its precursor molecule, FNDC5 (fibronectin - type III domain - containing 5) protein, which convert white fat tissue into beneficial, calorie - burning brown fat.

«Our new type of treatment only targets metastatic tissue, which enables us to avoid some of conventional chemotherapy's unwanted side effects,» said Zhao, who is a member of the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center at UCI.

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).

Researchers think that OCT4 is important for pluripotent cells, which can ultimately become any type of tissue.

A group that included researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the University of Cambridge, both in the United Kingdom, developed a possible treatment for A1ATD by first reprogramming a skin cell from a patient into iPS cells, which are embryonic - like cells that can develop into many tissue types.