Sentences with phrase «with other blood vessels»

Not exact matches

Plants are not like us with pumping mechanism that pushes our blood around, so water moves up the vessel by adhesion (being attracted to the side of the vessel) and cohesion (water molecules being attracted to each other).

Because people take a lot of it - and often take it with other drugs such as ketamine - it can also cause blood vessels to narrow and bring on a cardiac arrest.»

Breast cancer tumors can fuse with blood vessel cells, allowing clumps of cancer cells to break away from the main tumor and ride the bloodstream to other locations in the body, suggests preliminary research.

Hyperlipidemia, or raised levels of cholesterol and other fats in the blood, is associated with erectile dysfunction in men, because the build - up of fats in blood vessel walls can reduce blood flow to erectile tissue.

When mixed with two other types of cells, the fabricated primitive liver cells organized themselves into three - dimensional structures, complete with blood vessels.

Some of the heart muscle courses with blood, but other areas are deserts of dead tissue without blood vessels.

In other words, the same «old» medicine simultaneously targets the cancer cells themselves and the blood vessels with great efficiency.

In another study of mice injected with GDF11, postdoc Lida Katsimpardi and others in the lab of Harvard neuroscientist Lee Rubin found that GDF11 also encourages growth of new blood vessels and olfactory neurons in the mouse brain.

But one challenge with printing out organs — a heart, for example — is that they require connections to blood vessels, nerves and other tissue in order to function properly.

In a worst - case scenario, malaria - clogged blood vessels in the brain and other organs bring death within days, especially in youngsters, who have immature immune systems, and adults (like the Marines in Liberia) with no immunity to malaria.

«Therapeutic nitric oxide generated from air with an electric spark: Lightweight, portable devices to deliver pulmonary - blood - vessel - relaxing gas will allow trials of other important uses.»

«However, perhaps someday a PAI - 1 inhibitor can be used in combination with other approaches such as proper diet and exercise, aspirin and cholesterol medications to prevent blood vessel blockages and reduce heart attack and stroke risk.»

The researchers found that, after adjusting for age, sex and other factors, using any vasodilator such as Apresoline and Loniten, which open (dilate) the blood vessels — was associated with a 72 percent greater risk of developing early - stage AMD.

The team's experiments in cell cultures, conducted with funding from an American Brain Tumor Association Discovery Grant, showed that coibamide A cuts off the cancer cells» ability to communicate with blood vessels and other cells, eventually starving the cell and triggering its death.

One of the studies, by Johns Hopkins University scientists in collaboration with many other groups, turned up unexpected hints that biochemical signals controlling blood pressure may spring from within cells that line blood vessels themselves.

The Arizona researchers studied whether cage conditions affect mice with one copy of a gene called fibulin - 4, a member of a family of genes believed to code for proteins that stabilize the connective tissue found between cells in arteries and other blood vessels.

Prior studies with animals suggested that another function of the drug is to turn on the genes for elastin (a protein found in elastic fibers) and other elastic fiber genes, such as Fbn - 1 and Lox, causing elastin deposits within the blood vessel wall.

These cross-links are a major cause of the reduced elasticity in skin and blood vessels that occurs with aging, among many other issues, but even blood vessel stiffening taken on its own is enough to kill people through hypertension, distortion of cardiovascular system tissues, and eventual catastrophic failure of the heart or blood vessel integrity.

It would not presumably be specific enough if there were any other growing blood vessels present, for example in growing infants or in people with healing wounds.

In the present study the researchers show how leakage arises through a reaction where VEGF and various other proteins in the blood vessel cell interact, with the result that the cell looses contact with its neighbouring cells.

Blood starts to actively circulate in vessels, enriching organs with oxygen and other nutritional substances.

The chronically stressed mice had decreased immune function and experienced tumor development significantly earlier than the non-stressed mice.16 Other mouse studies of ovarian cancer showed that chronic stress resulted in increased cancer growth as well as increased angiogenesis, the process with which cancer forms new blood vessels to feed itself nutrients for growth and metastases.17 Chronic stress has also been shown to decrease our body's ability to mount an attack against foreign invaders, including viruses.18 As we know that several viruses can cause cancer (HPV and cervical cancer, and EBV and nasopharyngeal cancer), we can extrapolate that any decrease in immune function could increase cancer risk.

It supports the immune system, connective tissues, and blood vessels, while also aiding other antioxidants such as vitamin E. Foods with vitamin C also generally have high levels of bioflavonoids which work together to support eye health.

There are many blood vessels in addition which have smooth muscles, and many of these can potentially go into a state of contraction with sympathetic stress overload, resulting in cramps, spasms and the many and varied other symptoms produced by circulatory insufficiency.

As with other cardiovascular conditions, magnesium is used to treat this (usually through IV) and is thought to relax the blood vessels, thus decreasing the blood pressure.

The nutrient also helps your cells interact and communicate with each other, helps regulate inflammation in your body and controls the dilation of your blood vessels.

These blood vessels supply the hair and surrounding skin with oxygen and other vital nutrients.

Diseases of particular interest to Dr. Culp include malignant obstructions (cancer resulting in blockage of the urethra, ureter, trachea, esophagus, and colon), non-resectable tumors (tumors that can not be removed with traditional surgical techniques), tumors that can be treated with direct delivery of chemotherapy to their blood vessels, vascular abnormalities (portosystemic shunts, arteriovenous malformations) and other conditions causing blockage of the ureter.

The distended and twisted stomach may interfere with the function of other organs and with vital processes such as the flow of blood in blood vessels.

Pimobendan also opens the blood vessels which return blood to the heart, reducing pressure on the heart Often used in conjunction with other drugs Reasons for prescribing:

Veterinarians are sometimes asked to surgically correct cryptorchidism by moving the testicle (s) down into the scrotum, but this is an extremely difficult and delicate operation with very little chance of success because of the length of the spermatic cord, the effect on attached tissues and blood vessels, and other technical reasons.

She explores the relationship between internal and external, how individuals are linked to the tissues and blood vessels of other organisms, and in so doing, she suggests relationships with the universe at large.

Maquettes, notes, charts, and collages zoom in on the body — its blood vessels, neurons, and sex organs — and investigate what these share with the makeup of other, non-human forms, like spider webs, umbrellas, and bullhorns.

In anglioplasty, a thin tube with a balloon or other device on the end is first threaded through a blood vessel in the arm or groin up to the site of a narrowing or blockage in a coronary artery.