Sentences with phrase «with cell and tissue»

Both medications help with cell and tissue regeneration, the building of muscles while reducing the formation of excess fat tissue.

Dr. Thrall's laboratory currently focuses on understanding the mechanisms in which engineered nanonomaterials interact with cells and tissues.

Not exact matches

Instead of being injected into the bloodstream and exposed to the rest of the body's tissue — with all the unpleasant side effects, as is the case with chemotherapy — these agents only target cancer cells.

The printers start with cells of the desired tissue and combine them with a powdery «ink,» which is molded into the required shape.

For example, using 3 - D bioprinters — which can print the structure of human tissue with biodegradable material — and stem cells, which are used to populate the 3 - D printed structure, researchers can grow actually human tissue.

«Scientists say they have replaced a 65 - year - old patient's upper jaw with a bone transplant cultivated from stem cells isolated from his own fatty tissue and grown inside his abdomen.»

The difficulties associated with obtaining nerve tissue at the correct stage of development and differentiation from aborted embryos means that foetal tissue transplantation is no longer in favour, but the creation of human embryos specifically as sources of stem cells, and the push to use «spare» embryos from IVF treatments is gatheringmomentum.

The building block electronic and protonic actual occasions are, in the case of human beings, swept into vastly more complex, Chinese box - like sets of containing societies within which there are social levels that can be identified with cells, others which answer to Aristotle's levels of tissues and organs, and which finally are presided over by what Whitehead refers to as the regnant nexus, a social thread of complex temporal inheritance which, Whitehead suggests, wanders from part to part of the brain, is the seat of conscious direction of the organism as a whole, and answers to what in Plato and Aristotle is called the soul.

The strict definition of celiac disease — positive antibodies to gliadin, intestinal endomysium, and tissue transglutaminase, together with the presence of HLA - DQ2 or HLA - DQ8 genes and an intestinal biopsy that shows at least 20 - 25 CD3 cells per 100 epithelial cells — will account for about 75 - 80 % of all those sensitive to gluten.

Michaelsson G, Ahs S, Hammastrom I, Pihl Lundin I, Hagforsen E. Gluten - free Diet in Psoriasis Patients with Antibodies to Gliadin Results in Decreased Expression of Tissue Transglutaminase and Fewer Ki67z Cells in the Dermis.

And low milk supply may be linked with low fetal cell levels in breast tissue.

Most other lubricants, freshening gels, and massage oils on the market are hypo or hypertonic (too low or too high of a salt concentration compared with vaginal tissues), and cause water to be pushed into, or pulled out of the vaginal cells.

Other kinds of congenital anomalies that are sometimes found with this condition are, as previously mentioned, Down Syndrome, shorter intestines than normal, lower birth weight, and an imbalance of electrolytes, which are the elements in the blood, tissue and cell fluid needed to help the person balance their energy.

This allowed them to track changes in calcium ion concentrations in the cells around wounds in living tissue (as opposed to the cell cultures used in many previous wound response studies) and to do so with an unprecedented, millisecond precision.

But while chemotherapy and radiation are associated with temporary changes, such as hair loss and tissue swelling, the treatments can have an unseen, permanent effect: infertility due to irreparably damaged sperm or egg cells.

Researchers at the Center for Engineering MechanoBiology (CEMB), an NSF Science and Technology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, study plants like this Arabidopsis thaliana to learn how molecules, cells and tissues integrate mechanics within plant and animal biology, with the aim of creating new materials, biomedical therapies and agricultural technologies.

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.

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.

«What we see with the reporter in adult tissues is very surprising and much more complex than we had thought,» says Stelzer, who is a co-author of the Cell Reports paper.

The team tried this method with two types of body cells: ovarian cells from an adult and connective tissue cells from a fetus.

Coat the surfaces with an adhesive such as Tissue - Tek, sticky gunk that biologists use to affix cells to microscope plates, and chill the plates to freezing.

They pick up fluorescent signals from particles inserted into cells and tissues that are illuminated with specific wavelengths of light.

In cancer research, our goal is to be able to start with a sample of human tissue, extract many cells of interest, and perform genetic analysis upon each of them separately.

In the journal Biomaterials, the team reports culturing cells to make extracellular matrix (ECM) of two types and five different alignments with the strength found in natural tissue and without using any artificial chemicals that could make it incompatible to implant.

A detour on the road to regenerative medicine for people with muscular disorders is figuring out how to coax muscle stem cells to fuse together and form functioning skeletal muscle tissues.

The scientists started with metabolically relevant cells — hepatocytes and adipocytes — representing major functions of the liver and adipose tissues, and thus important aspects of the body's energy processing and storing system.

The discovery is an important advance in the search for new medications to fight obesity, said senior investigator Shingo Kajimura, PhD, UCSF assistant professor of cell and tissue biology, with a joint appointment in the UCSF Diabetes Center and the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at Ucell and tissue biology, with a joint appointment in the UCSF Diabetes Center and the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCell Research at UCSF.

Beginning in the 1970s, physicians learned how to harvest skin stem cells from a patient with extensive burn wounds, grow them in the laboratory, then apply the lab - grown tissue to close and protect a patient's wounds.

To determine local immune control, where the invasive tissue interfaces with normal cells, post-birth placentas and stage - four melanoma tumors were examined.

Discovered in 2005, Th17 cells are thought to have a part in triggering the inflammation and tissue injury associated with autoimmune diseases.

The secret to repairing our tissues and growing new organs is getting all touchy - feely with cells

The researchers — James Robl, a developmental biologist and his colleagues at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Steve Stice at Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Massachusetts — inserted a marker gene fused with a gene for resistance to the chemical neomycin into a culture of connective tissue cells called fibroblasts.

The individual live cells are not communicating, and «cells in a tissue have to communicate with each other».

To address this gap in knowledge, Mirabello and Schiffman teamed up with co-senior author Robert Burk of Albert Einstein College of Medicine to sequence the whole genomes of 5,570 HPV16 - infected cell and tissue samples from women around the world and to identify associations between HPV16 genetic variants and the risk of cervical precancer and cancer.

Small populations of adult stem cells with somewhat limited developmental potential are responsible for the body's ability to heal injuries and replace worn out cells and tissues, and evidence is growing that rare cancer stem cells are responsible for the uncontrolled growth of some malignant tumors, including glioblastoma.

Compared with unheated mice, the animals with the faux fever had twice as many white blood cells migrating out of the blood vessels and into the lymph tissue that lines the skin and gut, which is where they need to be to attack incoming pathogens.

Researchers used tissue and blood samples to show that the gammopathy (a precursor to myeloma) in both mice and patients with Gaucher disease is triggered by specific lipids, and that the antibodies made by tumor cells in nearly a third of myeloma patients are directed against such lipids.

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.

«ENCODE is a living project and the maps that are generated are constantly updated and improved, with information being added on new types of cells and tissues or new complementary genome assays.

The goal of stem cell therapy is to replace the damaged tissue with new heart cells and restore the failing heart to normal function.

Scientists believe these neural stem cells secrete hormonal steroids or proteins that nurse ailing neurons, preventing them from dying, and stimulate the formation of blood vessels that nourish damaged tissue with nutrients and oxygen.

In addition, the substance used to stick cells together (ViaGlue), will provide researchers with tools to create and test 3D in vitro cardiac tissue in their own labs to study heart disease and issues with transplantation.

Analyzing tissue specimens from 10 people with stomach cancer, the researchers found evidence that those same mature cells in the stomach also had reverted to a stem cell - like state and had begun to change and divide rapidly.

The new undifferentiated cells fuse with the retinal neurons and these acquire the ability to regenerate the tissue.

«The embryos lack all [cell types known as] mesoderm and endoderm and are left with skin and some neural tissue, [which derive from the third major cell type, the ectoderm].»

The investigators found that when working through an environment with no pre-existing tracks, tumor cells had to actively stick to the tissue, break it down and then move themselves forward.

These techniques include: human tissue created by reprogramming cells from people with the relevant disease (dubbed «patient in a dish»); «body on a chip» devices, where human tissue samples on a silicon chip are linked by a circulating blood substitute; many computer modelling approaches, such as virtual organs, virtual patients and virtual clinical trials; and microdosing studies, where tiny doses of drugs given to volunteers allow scientists to study their metabolism in humans, safely and with unsurpassed accuracy.

According to this theory, tumor cells tend to «forget» the tissue from which they originated as the disease progresses, acquiring an undifferentiated phenotype associated with heightened aggressiveness and treatment resistance.

The researchers tinkered with the voltage in cell membranes of developing African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis) and found that electric charge plays a role in how big the brain grows and what kind of tissue developing cells grow into.

In 2008 the National Institutes of Health launched the $ 190 - million Roadmap Epigenomics Project with the goal of cataloguing the epigenetic marks in the major human cell types and tissues.