Sentences with phrase «used by the liver»

Coconut Fat is used by the liver for energy and is easily digestible.

Brassica vegetables contain high levels of glutathione which is an antioxidant used by the liver during detoxification.

Several of these components had connections to a specific mechanism used by the liver to activate inflammation.

K1 is necessary for proper blood clotting and is used by the liver, while K2 benefits the bones and controls proper utilization of calcium.

Glutathione is the master detox chemical used by the liver to remove toxins.

The coffee contains some alkaloids which also stimulate the production of glutathione - S - transferase, an enzyme used by the liver to make the detoxification pathways run.

Saturated fat is used by the liver to manufacture cholesterol, that's true.

After this process occurs, the amino acids are immediately used by the liver to synthesize glucose for energy.

Taurine is involved in ocular, reproductive, and cardiac health and is also used by the liver to make bile, which in turn is involved in fat digestion.

Fiber prevents blood glucose levels from surging shortly after eating, and fiber also helps pets produce short - chain fatty acids that are used by the liver to control blood sugar levels.

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But, as journalist Steve Connor reports, the reference to editing was intentional: «Scientists have used the genome - editing technology to cure adult laboratory mice of an inherited liver disease by correcting a single «letter» of the genetic alphabet which had been mutated in a vital gene involved in liver metabolism.»

It also helps to use up bile acid, which is a substance the liver makes by using up cholesterol.

I used organic chicken livers and I slightly adapted it by not using chilli for obvious reasons or frozen spinach — because I didn't have any.

Reducing sugar content by minimizing the use of coconut sugar, honey, maple syrup, etc. is very critical to maximizing energy, liver detoxification, digestive function and hormonal control.

The short - chain fatty acids that aren't used by the cells in the colon travel to the bloodstream, liver and to the rest of the body, where they may lead to various beneficial effects (19, 20).

Riggs» vitamin - based health kick program — for which he is paying a cool $ 5,000 to the same nutritional scientist used by Lawrence Welk — includes a high - protein diet and pills made up of concentrations of crude wheat - germ oil, liver extract and other horrible - sounding items.

According to a Mothering Magazine article, entitled «The Joy of Cloth Diapers» «Dioxin, which in various forms has been shown to cause cancer, birth defects, liver damage, and skin diseases, is a by - product of the paper - bleaching process used in manufacturing disposable diapers, and trace quantities may exist in the diapers themselves.»

Metformin is used to lower blood glucose levels by reducing glucose production in the liver.

A version of Corexit was widely used after the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill and, according to a literature review performed by the group the Alaska Community Action on Toxics, was later linked with health impacts in people including respiratory, nervous system, liver, kidney and blood disorders.

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.

«By using an optimized map, we would be able to cut geographic disparities in liver allocation in half,» says study author Dorry Segev, a transplant surgeon at Johns Hopkins.

«By using various approaches, we validated that NOX1 and NOX4 have a key mediation role in liver fibrosis, including the direct activation of HSCs,» said Brenner.

Recently, they used TACC's supercomputers to understand the mechanisms by which Burmese pythons regenerate their organs — including their heart, liver, kidney, and small intestines — after feeding.

And by creating personalized organoids from the reprogrammed cells of patients, scientists could study disease in a very individualized way — or maybe even use organoid structures to replace certain damaged tissues, such as in the liver or spinal cord.

Using swine as subjects, researchers induced liver injury by wrapping a wire around the organ during surgery, closing the animal, and then pulling on a portion of the wire that had been left protruding through the skin.

As a case study, they consider recent public health efforts in Thailand, using everything from village - wide presentations to children's comics, to elaborate traditional song - and - dance routines to try to stamp out infections caused by the parasitic liver fluke.

After excluding patients with liver cancer before the follow ‐ up index dates, 1,553 patients who had continuously received daily aspirin for at least 90 days were randomly matched 1:4 with 6,212 patients who had never received anti platelet therapy by means of propensity scores consisting of baseline characteristics, the index date and nucleos (t) ide analogue (NA) use during follow ‐ up.

Another method used broadly by RNAi companies is «GalNAc» — a sugar derivative that's attached to RNAi drugs to help it safely work in the liver.

«If our further research is successful, in the future we can envisage a small portable breath analyser that can be used by GPs and other health professionals to screen for early stage liver disease, leading to earlier treatment and better survival rates.»

Toxic side - effects of a drug used to treat liver cancer could be reduced with a filtration system developed by surgeons in the US.

To trace the lineage of liver cells, scientists used a telltale marker — the cells» response to signals delivered by a known stem - cell regulator called Wnt.

The researchers collected liver samples, and looked at genes in the liver affected by e-cigarettes using a technique called RNA sequence analysis.

The action, taken despite a denial by the study's authors that such organs were used, comes after clinical ethicist Wendy Rogers of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and colleagues authored a letter to the editor of Liver International on 30 January, calling for the paper's retraction in the «absence of credible evidence of ethical sourcing of organs.»

Using a novel method — design - based stereology — which enabled researchers to estimate the volume of the liver and the total numbers and sizes of its cells in 3D, it was found that the liver of mice on a low protein diet had decreased by 65 %.

The researchers have managed to reverse fatty liver disease in mice by treatment with a drug called Tudca, which is currently used for other disorders.

Using an animal model, they found that TIMP - 1 recruits immune cells by increasing the levels of a specific signaling molecule in the liver.

An international team led by metabolism experts Matthias Tschöp (Helmholtz Zentrum München / Technische Universität Müchen), Richard diMarchi (Indiana University) and Timo Müller (Helmholtz Zentrum München) report in the current issue of the journal Cell that liver - specific delivery of the thyroid hormone T3 using glucagon corrects obesity, glucose intolerance, fatty liver disease and atherosclerosis without causing adverse effects in other tissues.

The study builds on recent work by Tyler Jacks, the director of the Koch Institute, who has also used CRISPR to generate lung and liver tumors in mice.

Thus, these results indicate that FOXO3 is an important general mechanism by activating multiple cellular protective functions that the normal liver uses to resist the toxic effects of alcohol.»

In a normal human body, the liver helps regulate blood sugar by stimulating the body to absorb glucose as glycogen (for future use as energy).

For tissue samples, lung or liver tissue was homogenized in a 15 mL Eppendorf tube using a disposable microtube pestle (Eppendorf, San Diego, CA) and scalpel, and RNA extraction was then performed using TRIzol LS (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA), followed by isopropanol precipitation and two washes in 70 % ethanol.

A new study presented today at The International Liver Congress 2015 shows that by using genomic analyses to understand how and when carcinogenic mutations occur in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), it is possible...

The authors also highlight a recent report on the production of platelet from mouse fetal - liver culture - derived MKs using a biomimetic microfluidic platelet bioreactor [5], which may allow the further enhancement of MK production from hiPSCs by the recapitulation of the bone marrow and blood vessel microenvironments.

Two patients did report that they had experienced a transient spike in their liver enzymes shortly after the therapy, but these effects were corrected by ceasing their use of corticosteroids.

To do this, they used a mouse model of liver cancer driven by inflammation.

He noted that while no technique has emerged as a proven clinical approach, the use of human rather than rodent cells as demonstrated by Pollok et al. is an important step in advancing the science behind liver cell transplantation.

La Jolla, CA — With the aid of a common virus used to ferry a clotting factor gene into liver cells, a team led by researchers at The Salk Institute...

Some testing will be required and may include a complete blood count, an alpha — fetoprotein test (a protein produced by the liver that can be used both for diagnosing and determining response to treatment), an x-ray, an ultrasound, a CT scan, an MRI, and a bone scan.

As part of a «Body on a Chip» project funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, scientists at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, in collaboration with partners from around the country, are developing miniature hearts, livers, blood vessels and lungs that will be used to predict the effects of chemical and biologic agents and used to test the effectiveness of potential treatments.

â $ œWe have solved a major obstacle of using anti-miRNA as a therapeutic by being able to do a targeted delivery to only inflamed endothelial cells while all other tissues examined, including liver, lung, kidney, blood cells, spleen, etc showed no detectable side - effects, â $ Jo says.