Sentences with phrase «with skin tissue»

The researchers are currently trying to generate other organs that are associated with skin tissue, such as teeth and salivary glands, Tsuji said.

Not exact matches

In 1993, Dr. Wood began working with medical scientist Marie Stoner on a method to grow skin tissue directly on patients instead of in a culture flask.

Unlike the controversial method of tissue harvesting that requires some human embryos to be destroyed, the new cloning technique can use a patient's own skin cells — combined with an unfertilized human egg — to create tissue with a DNA match.

When preparing a whole tenderloin for roasting, Bob explained that it's important to trim the «silver» skin (connective tissue) from the surface of the meat (it's tough and will not tenderize with cooking) and tuck the «tail» (the thinner, tapered end) under the tenderloin to create a roast of even thickness.

What we eat becomes our cells, our blood, tissues, organs, skin... We create health with what we put in our bodies.

The black olives in this recipe help with cancer prevention, skin and hair health, digestive tract health, and bone and connective tissue health.

We love to mix it with Tocos, a powerhouse adaptogen rich in Vitamins E and D, both of which will do wonders for your skin, muscles and tissues.

The surgeons removed a softball - sized tumor along with skin and muscle tissue surrounding it.

His eyes are swollen with scar tissue, the skin around them grooved by needles that couldn't completely mend the ravages of the ring.

Within moments of application on the skin, DMSO is in the bloodstream, mixing with water from surrounding tissue.

Many are packed with toxins that can easily be absorbed into your baby's tissue like skin.

Clients notice their skin's tissue becoming more even and clear with frequent sessions.

This can cause tingling sensations beneath the skin, itching that can not be relieved with scratching or medication, burning deep in the muscle tissue of the back, and more.

It's like his whole face is covered with slime that won't wipe away, no matter how many tissues are scraped across his skin, chapping it and making it red.

Acupuncture is a system of complementary medicine that involves pricking the skin or tissues with needles, used to alleviate pain and to treat various physical, mental, and emotional conditions.

With the extended skin from pregnancy cut for the cesarean delivery, tissue binding is of utmost importance after baby arrives.

She rather looks like an old man, due to a red wrinkled skin with an insufficiently developed subcutaneous tissue.

NIACIN: (as Niacinamide): Aids normal functioning of tissues, particularly skin, gastrointestinal tract and nervous system; used with other vitamins in converting carbohydrates to energy.NATURAL SOURCES: Liver, lean meat, whole wheat, brewer's yeast, wheat germ, fish, eggs, roasted peanuts, poultry, sesame seeds, nuts.

A little back story, in case you are lost... Nearly 2 years ago, Emily, one of my younger sisters, was diagnosed with Scleroderma, an autoimmune disease that leads to the hardening of the skin, internal organs, connective tissues, etc... It's rough!

After a recovery period of approximately two months — during which the woman's chest skin heals, blood supply replenishes, and the expanders are gradually inflated to stretch the skin — the patient returns for an outpatient surgical procedure to replace the tissue expanders with permanent breast implants.

Scar tissue also does not have any hair follicles associated with it, which is another factor that gives it an abnormal appearance from the rest of the skin.

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.

«Treating psoriasis patients with IL - 17 blockers — some already on the market — could have a beneficial effect on the loss of bone tissue, unlike other compounds that might only affect skin inflammation,» says Uluçkan.

Now, the «smart» bandage developed by the team provides direct, noninvasive measurement of tissue oxygenation by combining three simple, compact and inexpensive components: a bright sensor molecule with a long phosphorescence lifetime and appropriate dynamic range; a bandage material compatible with the sensor molecule that conforms to the skin's surface to form an airtight seal; and an imaging device capable of capturing the oxygen - dependent signals from the bandage with high signal - to - noise ratio.

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.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has expressed several concerns regarding population - wide screening for skin cancer, including uncertainty whether screening would reduce deaths, having patients undergo unnecessary tissue biopsies and the cost associated with screening individuals who have a low - risk for developing skin cancer.

Immediate applications for the oxygen - sensing bandage include monitoring patients with a risk of developing ischemic (restricted blood supply) conditions, postoperative monitoring of skin grafts or flaps, and burn - depth determination as a guide for surgical debridement — the removal of dead or damaged tissue from the body.

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.

The quantity of protein clumps was calculated using a computer program that measured the amount of tissue in a skin slice with protein clumps expressed as a percentage of the tissue's total area.

Small flies: For this Kandinsky - like image, researchers stained cross sections of 20 fruit fly embryos with antibodies to reveal three distinct tissue types: muscle, nerve and skin.

«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].»

«We also had success with swabbing inside distinct bite holes, and in the muscle tissue where the bears have stripped the skin off the salmon.»

It is more profound in cancers that arise in tissues with a high turnover rate, such as the skin and the epithelium, the thin layer of cells that line many organs.

With 355 separate scans, the collaborators identified bone and dried tissues, and determined where skin ended and bandages began.

Tissue engineers have been unable to grow epidermis with the functional barrier needed for drug testing, and have been further limited in producing an in vitro (lab) model for large - scale drug screening by the number of cells that can be grown from a single skin biopsy sample.

For more than 600 years, patients with amputations above the knee received a prosthesis that fit over the skin and soft tissue of the amputation stump.

Twenty - six patients had no infection, but reported other complications such as problems with the orthopaedic hardware, problems with skin and soft tissue, or fracture of the femur bone.

But with this technique, we can just take a small sample of non-muscle tissue, like skin or blood, revert the obtained cells to a pluripotent state, and eventually grow an endless amount of functioning muscle fibers to test.»

So far the biggest advances have been with thin tissues such as skin, blood vessels, and bladders (Science, 16 April 1999, p. 422 and 19 November 1999, p. 1493), because foams with holes big enough to house living cells tend to come in thin sheets.

Individuals with darker pigmentation — in particular people with African, Hispanic or South - Asian genetic background — are more likely to develop this skin tissue disorder.

Perhaps in the future it may be possible for doctors to apply flexible bandages to severely burnt skin to reprogram the cells to heal that injury with functional tissue instead of forming a scar.

In the malignant tissue, they found up to 1500 genes with mutations — a level higher than has been found for either lung cancer in smokers or skin cancer in patients with heavy exposure to ultraviolet radiation.

Tissue engineers have new sources of cells with which to make 3D constructs of bone, skin, and heart tTissue engineers have new sources of cells with which to make 3D constructs of bone, skin, and heart tissuetissue.

In 2006, Japanese biologist Shinya Yamanaka found a solution: He reprogrammed skin cells from a mouse, turning them back into embryo - like cells, with the potential to grow into any tissue, simply by adding four genes.

Then, making the leap of placing tissue and skin on those bones is a process fraught with unknowns.

He rolled the larvae between his fingers, rubbing its skin against a stick he used as a pestle, and then extracted its tissue in one of his special tools — an old giraffe or kudu knuckle bone, where he could mix it with the rest of the ingredients.

The researchers tested their adhesive on a variety of both dry and wet pig tissues including skin, cartilage, heart, artery, and liver, and found that it bound to all of them with significantly greater strength than other medical adhesives.

In this new study, the scientists mimicked human tissue formation by starting with stem cells genetically reprogrammed from adult skin tissue to form small chambers with beating human heart cells.

One small study reported promising results with tissue - engineered products to promote healing of diabetic skin ulcers.

The researchers have tested the probe with many types of tissue samples, but because it is currently designed for forward view mode, the primary applications of the probe would likely include skin, brain or head and neck surgery.