Sentences with phrase «use body tissues»

This means that they require more energy for milk production than they get from their diet and must use body tissues to meet energy needs.

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The forms allow United Tissue, at its «sole discretion,» to use a body as deemed necessary «to facilitate the gift.»

Scientists can create tissue to see how it will respond to chemicals or medicines, and an individual's own cells can be used to create a replica tissue sample for a more accurate forecast of how that person's body will react.

The more amino acids we absorb, the easier it is for our muscles and tissues to put them to good use to keep our bodies running smoothly.

On a normal diet, the human body breaks down carbohydrates into glucose, which are used for energy or stored as glycogen in liver and muscle tissue.

In a rare appearance Dr. Chandan Sen, Director, OSU Center for Regenerative Medicine & Cell - Based Therapies will explain how this breakthrough came about and how the technology is leading to other medical discoveries and how the principle can be used to generate any tissue out of skin or fat which is abundant in human body.

CMP used two people to pose as procurement middlemen to expose the allegedly criminal trade in fetal body parts and tissue.

Whilst acknowledging that many questions remain unanswered in the debate between those who would advocate the use of stem cells taken from human embryos, and those experimenting on stem cells drawn from tissues of the adult human body, there is a lengthy discussion of the moral status of the human embryo as being a crucial matter in this regard.

There, the amino acids can be used to make a huge variety of tissues, hormones and other materials needed for the healthy function of your body.

These amino acids can be used to build or repair muscle fiber, to create any number of cells, to concoct hormones or to build any number of tissues that the body might need.

Phosphorus is also used by the body to synthesize protein for cell and tissue growth and repair.

I had always been an athlete and loved the fact that these modalities use the body's self - healing, self - organizing mechanisms, which have evolved over millions of years, to work to organize the cells and tissues in the healing process.

A fact sheet from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), indicates that about 90 % of exposure for humans is due to eating contaminated food, since dioxins and furans typically accumulate in the fatty tissues of fish and animals that are exposed when these by - products are released into the water and air during manufacturing.2 Dioxin is not metabolized in our bodies, and is passed to our children through the placenta and breastfeeding.3 Sodium Polyacrylate - Super Absorbent Polymers While actual contact with disposable diapers does not contribute to dioxin accumulation in your baby, your baby's bottom does come in contact with chemicals used to increase the absorbency of the diapers.

Your body uses iron to produce red blood cells which then provide oxygen to your tissues and organs (and your baby!).

Other uses include stimulating the immune system, preventing tissue damage related to aging, promoting healthy intestinal bacteria, preventing cancer, and regulating the way the body processes iron.

It is used in a multitude of functions throughout the body, including the growth of tissues, healing after wounds and protection against the common cold!

Knowing TH17 cells need to function in a variety of tissue environments throughout the body, Sundrud's team wondered if and how these cells might use different tools to behave normally in one environment — or tissue — than they'd use in another.

Unlike conventional chemotherapies and radiation that indiscriminately eradicate fast - growing tissues and ravage people's bodies with side effects, new therapies specifically target tumors using tailored cells from individual patients.

Such resistance genes are rare to nonexistent in specimens of human tissue and body fluid taken 60 years ago, before the use of antibiotics became widespread.

Now, in mice, the same cells that can drive the body to destroy its own tissue have been used to fight cancer.

Medical ethics covers the appropriate use of biomaterials in patients and for certain applications, but it also can help you deal with difficult situations, such as when you discover that a particular biomaterial you've spent several years developing «has some toxicity, or some adverse reaction with the tissue or with the body.

And it was less toxic in the body than a commonly used commercialized tissue adhesive, researchers report July 28 in Science.

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.

Ours is the first study to rebuild the native tracks and gaps that exist in tissue to investigate how cells use these as superhighways to move quickly to spread throughout the body,» says Reinhart - King.

Chien Ho, professor of biological sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, and his colleagues have developed a novel way to improve delivery of chemotherapy nanodrugs by using Intralipid ®, an FDA - approved nutrition source to temporarily blunt the reticuloendothelial system — a network of cells and tissues found throughout the body, including in the blood, lymph nodes, spleen and liver, that play an important role in the immune system.

Using embryos of zebrafish, which was selected for its rapid development and optical transparency, they could show that the mechanical properties of the tissue change along the body axis, facilitating the extension of the body at its posterior end.

«Surgeons use a variety of techniques to grow skin for tissue expansion procedures designed to grow skin in one region of the body so that it can be auto - grafted on to another site [sometimes used for burn victims],» said Guy German, assistant professor of biomedical engineering within the Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science at Binghamton University.

Yin is using zebrafish to study the regeneration of heart tissue because of the amazing capacity of these common aquarium fish to regenerate the form and function of almost any body part, including heart, bone, skin and blood vessels, regardless of their age.

The principle component of the new panel, hydrogel — a polymer network filled with water — is safe to use in and on the human body, having already found use in applications ranging from drug delivery to creating scaffolds for tissue engineering and wound healing.

So Welham's team set out to engineer vocal fold mucosae in the lab using the two main cell types that make up the tissue — connective fibroblasts, which form the main body, and epithelial cells, which line the surface.

The exit procedure: Place used clothing in hampers; blow your nose in a tissue; clear your throat and expectorate to remove mucus, which may contain particles inhaled in a lab; place glasses in the decontaminating solution for three minutes; take a full - body shower.

The former is ideal for soft - tissue contrast, and the latter has extremely fine imaging resolution due to a revolution in the technology called dynamic nuclear spin polarization, which is used to track minute biochemistry in the body — such as the transition of the naturally occurring chemical pyruvate to lactate.

The revolutionary technology has been successfully used for minimally invasive heart surgery in pigs, giving an unprecedented, high - resolution view of soft tissues up to 2.5 cm in front of the instrument, inside the body.

Because calcium imaging is widely used to identify cells in tissues throughout the body, researchers studying other systems will be able to benefit from the published methodology.

A novel technique to use the body's natural sodium (salt) content to provide a more detailed picture of tissue health and disease is to be pioneered by MRI experts at The University of Nottingham.

Taking advantage of this, researchers can insert therapeutic genes into a virus, then use the viruses to shuttle the genes to the appropriate cells or tissues inside a human body.

«When they are good, they can be grown to large number in the lab and used to give rise to tissues, organs, or body parts.

The researchers used the new lab - on - a-chip to study how adult stem cells in adipose tissue develop into mature fat cells, conducting their investigations outside the body.

Today stem cells have been used to grow ears, tracheae, and bladders; tomorrow it will be just about any tissue, any structure, of the human body.

Current clinical MRI uses hydrogen in the body's water and fat to produce scans, but this does not provide all the information about tissue health and disease progression stages.

Ultrasound technologies make visible what remains hidden from our naked eyes: Physicians study tissue changes in our bodies with the aid of sonography; submarines equipped use sonar systems to get their bearings in the darkness of the deep sea; and for materials and components testing, ultrasound provides a non-destructive alternative to costly technologies that are not real - time capable.

The researchers also note that more women are receiving implants rather than recreating breasts using tissue from other parts of their body, called autologous reconstruction.

They counted the numbers of APs and ALs in different body tissues — intestine, muscle, pharynx (i.e., the animal's foregut), and neurons — at different time points during the adult life of C. elegans, and used chemical blockers to learn more about the dynamics of the process.

The technique of using sodium ions in the body as a biomarker for imaging is very challenging because of the lower detectability of the sodium signal in biological tissue by currently available MRI scanners.

Previous research conducted by Dr. Badylak's team suggested that ECM also could be used to regenerate lost muscle by placing the material in the injury site where it signals the body to recruit stem and other progenitor cells to rebuild healthy tissue.

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.»

We converted mouse skin cells into induced pluripotent stem cells — undifferentiated cells that can be used to generate any tissue in the body.

Gartner's group plans to use the technique to investigate what cellular or structural changes in mammary glands can lead to the breakdown of tissue architecture associated with tumors that metastasize, invading other parts of the body and threatening the life of the patient.

Heightened cortisol prompts the body to store more fat and be more inclined to use other soft tissue, such as muscle, as energy, which means that sleep - deprived dieters lose more muscle and gain more fat than do those who are well rested.

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.