Sentences with phrase «when other organ»

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Regarding transplants, John Paul II says donating organs is a «particularly praiseworthy» gesture when «performed in an ethically acceptable manner, with a view to offering a chance of health and even of life itself to the sick who sometimes have no other hope.»

Injury to the head takes on unique importance when one understands that the brain is neither capable of regeneration nor, unlike many other body parts and organs, of transplantation.

This extra blood, which is intended to perfuse the newly functioning lungs and other vital organs, is discarded along with the placenta when active management is used, with possible sequellae such as breathing difficulties and anaemia, especially in vulnerable babies.

When we are faced with incurable congenital diseases, when our fellow human beings are afflicted with cancer, diabetes, tumours, arthritis, damaged organs and other body parts, and many others, I believe a miracle is indispensaWhen we are faced with incurable congenital diseases, when our fellow human beings are afflicted with cancer, diabetes, tumours, arthritis, damaged organs and other body parts, and many others, I believe a miracle is indispensawhen our fellow human beings are afflicted with cancer, diabetes, tumours, arthritis, damaged organs and other body parts, and many others, I believe a miracle is indispensable.

Staphylococcus Aureus or Staph is carried harmlessly on the skin in well people, it only becomes a problem when it breaches the skin or enters other organs of vulnerable patients whose immune systems are compromised.

Find that same malignancy when it is larger or has spread to other organs, and she is far more likely to die, even after surgery, radiation and chemotherapy.

Chemotherapy and radiotherapy alone are relatively unsuccessful in treating the disease, and while surgery to remove the tumour offers the best chance of survival, most patients are diagnosed when the cancer has already spread to other organs.

The team found a genetic relationship between the length of a female's sperm storage organ and male's sperm length, meaning when one trait evolves to be longer, the other follows in kind.

People die from Ebola when the rapid fluid loss from bleeding, vomiting and diarrhoea causes the heart to stop pumping blood and other organs to fail.

It is caused when fluids accumulate in the lungs and other organs — compromising circulation to the kidneys and brain — and if not successfully treated can be life threatening.

«If you sign your donor card,» I explained, «at least when they come to wipe you off the road, your organs might save some other people's lives.»

So when pancreatic cancers either spread to other organs or become intertwined with some of these vessels, surgery is off the table.

«When we approach it like every other organ... we can categorise abdominal disease in terms of this organ,» professor Coffey said.

Metastatic melanoma is currently staged primarily according to where the cancer has spread — Stage IVa if melanoma has spread to distant skin, Stage IVb if the cancer has reached the lungs, and Stage IVc when melanoma has spread to other organs, such as the liver or bones.

When the parasympathetic system is active, the bowel and other non-muscle organs receive good blood - flow, the pupils constrict, and the glands all function well and secrete their various compounds.

«For premature babies who weigh less than 1,000 grams (about 2 pounds, 2 ounces), one of the problems is that their lungs and other organs are still developing when they are born.

When the bird flitted to another tree, it passed on the flower's pollen to the receptive female organs of other flowers.

When Tissier and his colleagues revisited the scan, they spotted other tissues, including digestive tract, nerves, muscles and an unidentified organ.

Scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) investigated the composition of bacterial communities in different digestion - associated organs but found no unusual or special microbial communities when they compared these with those of other mammals.

As a result, Hausenloy said the results suggest the procedure may still be beneficial in other medical settings of acute ischemia / reperfusion injury, such as when treating heart attack patients or in organ transplantation.

With Belcher's nanoparticles, surgeons should be able to spot and remove tiny clusters of just a few cells, even when they're hidden behind other organs, thus preventing those seeds from growing into major malignancies.

Barenholz's nanoparticles generally stayed in the bloodstream and avoided the heart and other organs, but when they reached the leaky blood vessels in the tumor, they slipped through those holes.

In contrast, genes involved in the development of other organs were turned on when they should have been off.

«This was very different from all the other organ systems where when you look at the tissue there's something to see that is the physical equivalent or correlate of the disease,» Lichtman tells us.

How Things Grow, Including Cancer A protein discovered in fruit fly eyes has brought a Johns Hopkins team closer to understanding how the human heart and other organs automatically determine when they are the correct size, a piece of information that may hold clues to controlling cancer.

So when this organ collides with bone, some parts of the brain will move faster than others.

Similarly, other methods of developing artificial organs have also surfaced such as in March when researchers were able to successfully utilize spinach leaves to create actual beating human heart tissue.

In other words, when you hit the gym, have some respect for other people's personal space, time and sense organs.

When we breathe in deeply while our bodies are outstretched, the fascia, or thin sheaths of fibrous tissues enclosing our muscles and other organs, are able to release their tension.

To summarize, traditional fermented soy products such as miso, natto and tempeh - which are usually made with organically grown soybeans - have a long history of use that is generally beneficial when combined with other elements of the Oriental diet including rice, sea foods, fish broth, organ meats and fermented vegetables.

When this happens, some of the kidney's workload is passed on to the liver and other organs, and may cause them to be severely stressed.

When you consider what taking those do to other vital organs of your body, that's some amazing news!

«Increases in inflammatory activity are a very adaptive response when you have them once in a while, but to have lots of these activations over the course of a day or a week could potentially lead to chronic levels of inflammation which can be damaging to other cells and to organs.»

Now imagine all the other areas that also rely upon new cells — muscles, bones, internal organs, hair, and nails are just a few that benefit when treatment for GH deficiency begins.

Loren Cordain asks a great question: Are our metabolisms very much faster (when adjusted for our now larger body size) than theirs, or did some other organ shrink in terms of size and metabolic needs?

This «new glucose» is what the brain and other organs use for fuel when they need glucose.

When the liver and other organs involved in detoxification aren't working properly, it can cause a build up of toxins in the body.

When eating organ meats, you have to be careful with what kind of an animal you're dealing with because organs like the liver are the ones that metabolize the toxins and other substances the animal gets exposed to.

It produces the thyroid hormone, which helps control the body's metabolism as well as many other organ functions, from iodine and can not produce hormones when the body lacks iodine.2 Some thyroid troubles originate from an iodine deficiency, leading to a simple increase in iodine intake to improve health.4 However, problems can also occur when the thyroid produces either too much or too little of its hormone because there is trouble with the gland itself or with any of the other glands in the body it communicates with.

In other words, every cell and organ is affected when the «draw» on your pancreas and liver has been exhausted.

When this happens, cholesterol can be deposited in blood vessel walls, causing a narrowing of the lumen (inside) of vessels, which can inhibit the supply of blood to the heart or other organs and tissues of the body.

It's also a large organ that can give or take amino acids (the molecules that, when chained together, form protein itself) to other organs on an as - needed basis.

When blood glucose levels rise, your body releases a hormone called insulin, which allows glucose to enter cells where it can be used to provide fuel for our brains, muscles and other vital organs.

This is why certain groups so quickly degenerate into alcoholism and other chronic diseases when they no longer have access to sea foods and organ meats found traditionally in their diets.

This pattern represents our natural breathing pattern — when we breathe in, the diaphragm flattens and pushes down on the internal organs, causing the belly to stick out, since the organs have no other place to go.

When we eat protein foods our bodies break down the proteins into their respective amino acids, and then builds them back up into new proteins that help build muscle and organs and help run other functions in the body.

Just like other organs or limbs of the body, when the heart looses its coordination, it too will not function at maximum capacity.

When you help the liver heal itself it will be able to do its job more easily and in turn will help your other organs function better since they'll have fewer toxins to deal with.

When Dr. Price analyzed the foods used by isolated peoples he found that, in comparison to the American diet of his day, they provided at least four times the water - soluble vitamins, calcium and other minerals, and at least TEN times the fat - soluble vitamins, from animal foods such as butter, fish eggs, shellfish, organ meats, eggs and animal fats — the very cholesterol - rich foods now shunned by the American public as unhealthful.

When your arteries and blood vessels stiffen, the amount of blood traveling through them can decrease, which limits the blood flow to your heart, brain, kidneys, eyes and other organs.