Sentences with phrase «via our blood vessels»

Every growing cell in our body is provided with oxygen and nutrients via our blood vessels.

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There's no physiological requirement whatsoever to have pain in labor, unlike a baby's need to inflate its lungs after birth with a vigorous cry, and negotiate the change between fetal and infant blood circulation via a different route through the heart and pulmonary vessels.

One of HDL's jobs is to ferry cholesterol from blood vessels to liver cells, where it is eliminated from the body in bile via the intestines.

The immune cells appear to travel to the lens via a web of ligaments that suspends the lens and connects it to the surrounding muscle tissue called the ciliary body, rich with immune - cell - carrying blood vessels.

Upon entering lymphatic vessels, they migrate to nearby lymph nodes, which then swell up, and from there, to other organs via the blood.

HDL particles remove cholesterol from the blood vessel walls and transport it to the liver to be excreted from the body via bile.

Larger - than - normal holes that once carried blood vessels and nerves through the bones of the snout suggest the dolphin had enlarged lips needed to feed via suction, the researchers report today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Ultrasound vibrations penetrate bodily tissue including bone, and are widely used to image anatomical structures via echo effects, e.g. visualizing unborn babies in mothers» wombs, and organs, blood vessels, nerves and other structures in medical procedures.

If fertilized, the egg grows in place, supporting itself via placental tissues that eat into the wall of the tube and by releasing chemicals that stimulate the formation of new blood vessels.

Sometimes they'll spread, or metastasize, to other organs via tight blood vessels.

Cancer treatments often target tumors by cutting off blood vessels and other nutrient supply routes, so Monje and others are interested to learn whether it may be possible to target nerves via analogous therapies or by simply blocking secreted neural growth factors.

The scar tissue blocks the flow of blood through the liver leading to increased pressure in the blood vessels in the intestine and thus to the leakage of intestinal bacteria, which reach the liver via the blood.

As a malignant tumour progresses, cells or clumps of cells break off and spread, or metastasise, around the body via the lymphatic system and blood vessels.

By supplying the heart with additional blood and oxygen via these new vessels, the heart muscle can begin a process of repairing itself.

Thus, dissemination of cancer cells occurs after prolonged tumor development and following access to neighboring blood vessels via transit through stromal tissue.

The growth of new blood vessels tends to occur quite early for most cancers; even small tumors found via mammogram frequently have a high microvessel count (MVC).

When the body cools down via the ice bath or room, the blood vessels narrow and heart rate slows.

Lymph nodes also control the transport of infection - fighting liquid called lymphatic fluid around your body, delivering white blood cells via lymph vessels (similarly to how veins transport blood).

The rest of the alcohol is sent for digestion and is absorbed through the small intestine, travelling via a large blood vessel to your liver.

They're in close contact with your immune system via the gum's blood vessels.

· Cancer Growth and Spread — Healing Angiogenesis and Metastasis, discussing blood vessel development and growth factors, dysregulation including hypoxia and other blood supply stress responses in cancer and other diseases and how cancer cells travel and invade — metastasis via the complex tumour microenvironment — TME — comprised of immune cells, cytokines, growth factors, reactive oxygen species (ROS) and cancer - associated fibroblast (CAF);

Rabies viral antigen can be documented in the walls of dermal blood vessels and in the epithelium of hair follicles via immunofluorescent testing.

Heartworm treatment generally causes problems in the lungs, via the damage to the blood vessels that supply them (the pulmonary arteries).

In these procedures, entry to a peripheral vein or artery is gained either directly via a needle through the skin or through an incision through the skin and the blood vessel.

Normally, the blood from the placenta bypasses the liver and goes into circulation via the ductus venosus, a blood vessel found in the fetus.