• Similarly, there was interest in using the procedure to produce cloned tissue and organs for possible future transplantation in the nuclear donor and perhaps other tissue- compatible recipients. (who.int)
  • What if we could make new kidney tissue from stem cells to increase access to transplantation? (rogosin.org)
  • Report of the Human Fetal Tissue Transplantation Research Panel, December 1988 / consultants to the Advisory Committee to the Director, National Institutes of Health. (who.int)
  • Organ and tissue transplantation in the European union : management of difficulties and health risks linked to donors / edited by Yvon Englert. (who.int)
  • Human organ transplantation : a report on developments under the auspices of WHO (1987-1991. (who.int)
  • Schematic representation of the maternal-fetal interface and its immunologicalplayers. (frontiersin.org)
  • This study aims to investigate the effects of high glucose on proliferation as well as adipogenic and osteogenic differentiation of human MSCs derived from bone marrow and several gestational tissues including chorion, placenta, and umbilical cord. (hindawi.com)
  • [5] Conditions such as anemias and immunodeficiencies, for which fetal tissue attempts largely failed, are now treated routinely with adult stem cells, including umbilical cord blood stem cells, [6] even while the patient is still in the womb. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • The stem cells suits human needs, does not cause harm and can be obtained from both adult and fetal does not conflict with religious beliefs, it has tissues, umbilical cord and early embryos. (who.int)
  • During pregnancy the placenta also has several important endocrine functions, producing important hormones such as human chorionic gonadotropin and human placental lactogen [ 4 , 5 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Vertical transmission of LCMV during pregnancy has been associated with increased risk for spontaneous abortion and severe birth defects which can result in fetal death. (medscape.com)
  • Therefore, given the great importance of these hormones during pregnancy, this chapter will explain the preclinical and clinical participation of sex hormones in maternal-fetal development. (intechopen.com)
  • Medication use during pregnancy in the absence of pharmacokinetic and safety data is common, particularly for antiretrovirals, as pregnant women are not usually included in clinical trials leading to drug licensure. (springer.com)
  • During this period, health care providers lack key information on human placental transfer, fetal exposure, optimal maternal dosing in pregnancy, and maternal and fetal drug toxicity, including teratogenicity risk. (springer.com)
  • Fetal and infant safety concerns have led to the exclusion of pregnant and lactating women from clinical trials during drug development programs for licensure, unless the drug is intended for a pregnancy-specific condition [ 4 , 5 ]. (springer.com)
  • Pregnancy changes the human body dramatically. (technologynetworks.com)
  • One of the smallest alterations that pregnancy produces may also be the most important, suggests new research exploring cell populations passed between mother and child. (technologynetworks.com)
  • She and her collaborators are focusing on pregnancy research and fetal and maternal health. (mun.ca)
  • Zika virus infection during pregnancy may cause birth defects including microcephaly, fetal brain abnormalities, eye abnormalities, hearing loss, and other consequences of central nervous system damage in infants exposed in utero. (cdc.gov)
  • Breakdown of immune tolerance may result in sterile inflammation and cause adverse pregnancy outcomes such as preeclampsia, a vascular disease of the pregnancy with unpredictable course and symptoms from several organs. (frontiersin.org)
  • Preeclampsia is a heterogeneous vascular disease of the human pregnancy that presents in a previously normotensive woman during the second half of the pregnancy with hypertension and proteinuria, or preeclampsia-associated signs in the absence of proteinuria ( 1 , 2 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • Immunogenetic susceptibility to preeclampsia may have effect in the early stages of pregnancy whereby through loss of maternal tolerance toward the fetal components, the process of placentation is impaired. (frontiersin.org)
  • There are limited data on the effects of tear gas during pregnancy, but the risk of fetal toxicity is thought to be minimal. (medscape.com)
  • The Organization of Teratology Information Specialists is a network of risk-assessment counselors in the United States and Canada who specialize in researching and communicating the risks associated with drug exposures in pregnancy. (medscape.com)
  • Human embryonic and fetal tissues are available from the Central Laboratory for Human Embryology at the University of Washington. (blessedquietness.com)
  • The prolife lobby also received help from Do No Harm, a coalition of researchers, bioethicists, and doctors who spearheaded a nationwide petition urging Bush to oppose destructive human embryonic stem-cell research. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Bush's announcement grieved patients' groups and many in the scientific and medical communities who believe embryonic stem-cell research could provide a cure for millions. (christianitytoday.com)
  • A report published by the nonpartisan Center for Public Integrity (CPI) quoted a National Institutes of Health official who said that "the fledgling stem-cell industry would profit tremendously from federal funding that would cover embryonic stem-cell research. (christianitytoday.com)
  • However, in humans Thalidomide interfered with embryonic and fetal development in ways not observed in rodent tests. (asu.edu)
  • This abnormality is caused by exposure to the drug in a short time period in early human embryonic development. (asu.edu)
  • The aim of the present study is to replace the potentially infectious supplement fetal bovine serum during the cryopreservation procedure in order to perform future clinical trials. (elsevierpure.com)
  • The recent results of AIDS Clinical Trials Group Protocol 076, a controlled clinical trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health in collaboration with the National Institute of Health and Medical Research and the National Agency of Research on AIDS in France, indicate that zidovudine administered to a selected group of HIV-infected women and their infants can reduce the risk for perinatal transmission of HIV by approximately two-thirds. (cdc.gov)
  • The recently reported results of AIDS Clinical Trials Group Protocol 076 demonstrated that ZDV administered to a selected group of HIV-infected pregnant women and their infants can reduce the risk for perinatal HIV transmission by approximately two-thirds. (cdc.gov)
  • X-ray and ultrasound) by supporting the design and delivery of preclinical and clinical trials. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • The MSk lab is always accepting volunteers and new members for our Bone Patient Involvement Group to be informed of upcoming research, events and trials. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • The investigators hope that this research will eventually lead to clinical trials of targeted treatments for LMS patients. (sarcomahelp.org)
  • Although a high proportion of healthy vaccine recipients in clinical trials respond to hepatitis B (HepB) vaccination, the proportion of responders can be lower among the general population, particularly among persons with chronic medical conditions ( 6 , 7 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Today, clinical trials using stem cell-derived dopaminergic progenitors have commenced. (lu.se)
  • Primary literature searches via MEDLINE can also provide information about human data, clinical trials, and meta-analyses regarding a particular drug. (medscape.com)
  • The team led by Dr. Phedias Diamandis generated profiles of the proteins found at various stages of development in human brain tissue and in mini brains-in-a-dish. (tfri.ca)
  • It is also one of the most difficult to study because access to human brain tissue is limited. (tfri.ca)
  • They found that the profiles of proteins in cerebral organoids were very similar to those found in fetal brain tissue. (tfri.ca)
  • One patient who received transplant of fetal brain tissue (from a total of 3 fetuses) died subsequently, and at autopsy was found to have various non-brain tissues ( e.g, skin-like tissue, hair, cartilage, and other tissue nodules) growing in his brain. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • A second large, controlled study published in 2003 showed similar results (funded by NIH), with over half of the patients developing potentially disabling tremors caused by the fetal brain tissue transplants. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • The potential for such stem cell replacement therapies is under study at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and focuses on individuals whose livers can no longer repair their own tissues. (medicaltourism.video)
  • Biotechnology companies specializing in stem-cell research stand to reap huge financial windfalls from successful therapies developed via this science," said the CPI report. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Background The success of agents that reverse T-cell inhibitory signals, such as anti-PD-1/PD-L1 therapies, has reinvigorated cancer immunotherapy research. (bmj.com)
  • Through collaboration with clinicians at Memorial and across Canada, information gained using the new microscope has the potential to inform new clinical practices and therapies. (mun.ca)
  • Binding of MHC class II antigens on leukocytes with the monoclonal antibody CR3/43 appears to emulate stress and injury in human tissue in vitro, similar to limb amputation in salamander. (eurekaselect.com)
  • Therefore, we investigated the viability and differentiation of human osteoblast-like cells during replacement of fetal bovine serum in vitro. (elsevierpure.com)
  • Relating in vitro to in vivo exposures with physiologically based tissue dosimetry and tissue response models. (cdc.gov)
  • In this thesis, human glia-to-neuron direct conversion and engineered viral vectors are explored using pre-clinical in vitro and ex vivo models. (lu.se)
  • To facilitate discussion, it was agreed to distinguish between human cloning for reproductive purposes, that is to produce a human individual, and human cloning for nonreproductive purposes, that is to produce embryos for basic and applied research. (who.int)
  • Some countries have proposed a total ban on any research involving the cloning of human embryos. (who.int)
  • Several participants reported interest among the scientific and medical communities of their countries and regions in the use of somatic cell nuclear transfer techniques to produce cloned human embryos for time-limited basic research on ageing and genetic diseases. (who.int)
  • 7LPHOLPLWHG EDVLF UHVHDUFK LQYROYLQJ FORQHG KXPDQ HPEU\RV Some countries allow research, within prescribed time limits, on "spare embryos" obtained in assisted reproduction programmes and destined to be destroyed. (who.int)
  • However, many of these countries, and others, prohibit the production of human embryos specifically for research. (who.int)
  • The laboratory, which is supported by the National Institutes of Health, can supply tissue from normal or abnormal embryos and fetuses of desired gestational ages between 40 days and term. (blessedquietness.com)
  • President Bush, saying he wanted to "proceed with great care," announced in a national address on August 9 that he would allow federal funding of an existing 60 stem-cell lines but would not permit tax dollars to pay for the destruction of any additional human embryos. (christianitytoday.com)
  • The rule circumvented a 1995 congressional ban on using federal money for biomedical research on embryos outside the womb by allowing researchers to use stem cells extracted by a third party. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Indeed, some observers believe the demand for stem cells is dangerously close to spawning a huge commercial industry around the sale of and experimentation on human embryos. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Already, news that Advanced Cell Technology-a Massachusetts-based, privately held biotech company-and Virginia Medical School's Jones Institute had created or planned to create human embryos for the sole purpose of extracting their stem cells has troubled those on both sides of the debate. (christianitytoday.com)
  • In 1963, Joseph A. DiPaolo, working in the US, discussed various birth defects found in mice fetuses whose mothers were fed Thalidomide daily, but he found only one kind of anamoly called fetal resorption, or the partial or complete dissolution of fetal tissues after some embryos had died in utero . (asu.edu)
  • Mouse and rat embryos both possess superior antioxidants than those in humans. (asu.edu)
  • Unicellular for those cells that are derived from human organisms are primed to replicate (clone) pre-embryos, which seem to have a high themselves by nature. (who.int)
  • Following the release, last May, of a powerful LifeTalk video featuring "Kelly," a fetal tissue procurer for the Maryland-based Anatomic Gifts Foundation, Life Dynamics has released documentation obtained from fetal tissue wholesalers, that is, companies which place their employees in abortion facilities to harvest tissue, limbs, organs, etc. (blessedquietness.com)
  • It seemed unbelievable that some organisms could re-grow lost limbs, organs, and other body parts. (asu.edu)
  • Pregnant women who take Thalidomide are at greater than normal risk for spontaneous abortion and for giving birth to children with developmental anomalies such as shortened, absent, or extra limbs, as well as a variety of heart, ear, and internal organ defects. (asu.edu)
  • Currently, access to transplant organs is very limited, and the long-term objective of the research is to provide an abundant and reliable source of kidney tissue for patients with kidney failure. (rogosin.org)
  • However, the availability of transplant organs is very limited, and patients must be able to endure the lifelong suppression of their immune system required to avoid rejection of the foreign kidney. (rogosin.org)
  • In the United States, most people are assigned both a biological sex and gender at birth based on their chromosomes and reproductive organs. (asu.edu)
  • This study threw up two linked findings - an unusually high number of microchimeric cells made their home in female reproductive organs, and that these sparse cells might play an important role in cross-generational tolerance. (technologynetworks.com)
  • RESEARCH usually blood or cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). (cdc.gov)
  • We focus on three contexts: (1) prenatal genomic sequencing for possible fetal abnormalities, (2) rapid genomic sequencing for critically ill children, and (3) reanalysis of genomic data obtained from children for diagnostic purposes. (cdc.gov)
  • [12] The results of these two large studies led to a moratorium on fetal tissue transplants for Parkinson's. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • Therefore, this chapter aims to update the preclinical and clinical evidence on the etiology of this disease, briefly describing the epidemiology, clinical manifestations, and therapeutic and preventive modalities in managing BPH. (intechopen.com)
  • The Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction organized a second interregional and interdisciplinary meeting on cloning (Geneva, 24 October 1997), in conjunction with a regular session of its Scientific and Ethical Review Group. (who.int)
  • However, ethical problems were foreseen with the production by cloning of fully formed and functioning organs, as participants could not envisage how such organs could be made without first producing a cloned embryo and allowing it to grow, at least partially, through the fetal stage of development. (who.int)
  • Proteomics is a research field undergoing rapid development, especially in regards to the methods being used. (hindawi.com)
  • In an exciting development, new research indicates that many mental disorders also appear to be epigenetic in nature, and that improved treatments may be in the offing for schizophrenia, clinical depression, autism, ADHD, and criminal behavior. (myvillagegreen.com)
  • However, gene expression rates in brain, kidney, skin, heart and other tissues must be different for survival, and gene programming is established during the first few months of fetal development to accomplish this objective. (myvillagegreen.com)
  • This will be applied to the development of methods to replicate kidney tissue from patients in the laboratory, which can be used to test treatment strategies for the individual patient. (rogosin.org)
  • This has enabled the development of procedures to differentiate stem cells to the building blocks for kidney tissue through a process known as directed differentiation. (rogosin.org)
  • The perfect intersection of clinical and research objectives makes the placement of the Kidney Regenerative Medicine Laboratory within The Rogosin Institute an obvious strategic development. (rogosin.org)
  • The development of the human blood-CSF-brain barrier. (cdc.gov)
  • Our team's advances in personalized stem cell biology and complex tissue engineering capabilities, including large-scale construction, multicellular composition, vascularization (i.e. blood flow), and ability to grow with host tissue, will enable the generation and replacement of functional heart valves, heart tissue and even a whole heart at any scale of development. (stanford.edu)
  • Our partnership with the Basic Science and Engineering Departments at Stanford assures an academic infrastructure to support the career development of our scientists through the dynamic interface with graduate students, training programs, and access to the latest developments in their fields. (stanford.edu)
  • Their insights will provide the new tools and the knowledge to use them in determining when, where, and how to intervene to normalize heart development and function as early as fetal life. (stanford.edu)
  • Introduction to anatomy, general features of epithelial tissue, general organization of connective tissue, development of and hstology of cartilage and bone tissues, embryology and histology of skin, biochemistry of connective tissue, and bone tissue, skin and tissue parasites and fungi, arthropods and arthropods borne viruses. (atilim.edu.tr)
  • Merck's long-term commitment to skin cancers includes a broad clinical development program studying KEYTRUDA as monotherapy and in combination with other novel mechanisms. (merck.com)
  • On Feb. 22, François-Philippe Champagne, minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced close to $45 million in Government of Canada funding through the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) to ensure research teams have the labs and infrastructure they need to carry out world-class research and technology development. (mun.ca)
  • She will also use the ultrasound to determine how exposure to stressors such as environmental toxicants impact fetal and placental development. (mun.ca)
  • The failure of rodent models to inform scientists of Thalidomide's teratogenicity in humans ignited debate about the proper use of cross-species testing during drug development. (asu.edu)
  • The first part of the thesis (Paper I, II, III) shows the development and improvement of a hESC-based system of for virus-mediated direct reprogramming of human glial progenitor cells into both induced dopaminergic neurons (iDANs) and GABAergic interneurons. (lu.se)
  • From target discovery to clinical drug development with human genetics. (cdc.gov)
  • It is essential to understand the effect of medications and to know the point in fetal development when drugs are most toxic and which fetal organs are most susceptible. (medscape.com)
  • Existing treatments significantly reduce clinical symptoms, including lower urinary tract symptoms. (intechopen.com)
  • Dr. Cahill says the ultrasound system will enable research in areas that span metabolomics, developmental biology, nutritional biochemistry, neuroscience, cancer and cardiovascular research. (mun.ca)
  • This Special Issue is a collection of selected papers from the 48th Japanese Society for Organ Preservation and Biology (JSOPB) ( http://jognbio.umin.jp/ ). (mdpi.com)
  • One of the greatest controversies triggered tissue, a stem cell encoding for heart tissue by the rapid pace of evolution in biology, will eventually develop into heart tissue particularly in genomics and biotechnology, and so on. (who.int)
  • Since the widespread legalization of abortion, abortionists, protected and promoted by media publicists, have dramatized the plight of the poor pregnant girl whose life can only be set right by free and easy access to tax-funded abortions. (blessedquietness.com)
  • However, there are several obstacles when working with placental tissue, since it contains large amounts of lipids and glycogen [ 15 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • On the other hand, the placental tissue sheds into the maternal circulation and must be adequately identified and phagocytized by the maternal immune system. (frontiersin.org)
  • However, the success of fetal tissue transplants has been meager at best, and ethically-derived alternatives exist and are coming to dominate the field. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • The first recorded fetal tissue transplants were in 1921 in the UK, in a failed attempt to treat Addison's disease, [1] and in 1928 in Italy, in a failed attempt to treat cancer. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • That attempt also failed, as did subsequent similar fetal tissue transplants in 1959. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • Between 1970 and 1991 approximately 1,500 people received fetal pancreatic tissue transplants in attempts to treat diabetes, mostly in the former Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • [8] Subsequent reports showed that severe problems developed from fetal tissue transplants. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • Transplantations of fetal tissue in the 1980s and 1990s provided proof-of-concept for the potential of cell replacement therapy for PD and some patients benefitted greatly from their transplants. (lu.se)
  • The timing of symptom onset after exposure to tear gas (CS) varies, depending on the duration of exposure and the organ system involved. (medscape.com)
  • 1994). This pattern of localized toxicity emphasizes the impor- inhaled organic acid vapor, acrylic acid, than the olfactory epi- tance of local tissue dose for interspecies extrapolation and risk thelium of the rodent nasal cavity when the exposure conditions assessment. (cdc.gov)
  • CFI) coordinates routine surveillance of human listeriosis just to pregnant women. (cdc.gov)
  • The USZPR includes pregnant women with laboratory evidence of possible Zika virus infection in a maternal, placental, or fetal/infant sample and monitors these women and their infants. (cdc.gov)
  • In humans limb truncation in offspring is a common congenital abnormality arising from Thalidomide use by pregnant women. (asu.edu)
  • Public health jurisdictions are encouraged to evaluate, report, and monitor identified ZIKV infections, particularly in pregnant women, that don't meet the clinical criteria of the confirmed and probable congenital and non-congenital disease case classifications. (cdc.gov)
  • Worldwide, perinatal (i.e., mother-to-infant) transmission accounts for most human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections among children. (cdc.gov)
  • In order to prevent rejection of the fetus, the placenta expresses an intricate pattern of major histocompatibility complex molecules, immunizing the mother against the foreign fetal tissue [ 3 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Note that fetal tissue has been taken in a number of cases from fetuses at developmental ages where fetal surgery is now used to correct problems and save lives, and at stages where science now demonstrates that the unborn fetus can feel pain. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • [ 6 , 7 ] Other methods of human transmission include solid organ transplant and perinatal infection from mother to fetus. (medscape.com)
  • At end of study, immune organs and tumors were collected for immunological assessment. (bmj.com)
  • Moreover, we recently reported that lycopene inhibits the metastasis of human liver adenocarcinoma SK-Hep-1 cells by downregulation of the NADPH oxidase 4 (NOX4) proteins ( 18 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • Between 1960 and 1990, numerous attempts were made to transplant fetal liver and thymus for various conditions. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • Stem Cell Treatment for Liver Diseases The liver is a large, glandular organ of the body that offers a wide range of functions, including protein synthesis, detoxification, digestion and metabolism in the human body. (medicaltourism.video)
  • Fetal stem cells are then administered through IV (intravenous) injection through endoscopic or laparoscopic implantation in patients diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver or chronic hepatitis. (medicaltourism.video)
  • Another common approach to treating liver disease processes is through adult liver stem cells, due to their ability to regenerate injured liver tissues. (medicaltourism.video)
  • Between 1988 and 1994, roughly 140 Parkinson's disease patients received fetal tissue (up to six fetuses per patient), with varying results. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • No ethical problems were envisaged with the use of somatic cell nuclear transfer techniques which would lead directly to cloned differentiated cells or tissues such as skin, for future use by the nuclear donor. (who.int)
  • There are more than a trillion cells in the human body, and each cell contains an identical copy of a person's DNA. (myvillagegreen.com)
  • During the metastasis, cancer cells in situ move to other tissues and organs from the blood circulation or the lymphatic system through proliferation, adhesion, invasion, and migration. (frontiersin.org)
  • The metastasizing cells penetrate the blood vessel wall by invasiveness, and migrate in the circulation, extravasate out of the blood vessels, colonize in the distant tissue, initiate angiogenesis, and finally grow at the new site ( 2 , 3 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • In anti-metastatic studies, lycopene has been found to inhibit the metastasis of human hepatoma SK-Hep-1 cells in athymic nude mice ( 17 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • The goal of Dr. Oxburgh's research is to understand how kidney tissue can be grown from stem cells. (rogosin.org)
  • And what if we could make new kidney tissue from a patient's own stem cells so that we could reduce the need for immunosuppression? (rogosin.org)
  • The past 5 years have seen extremely rapid advances in efforts to generate patient-specific kidney tissue from stem cells. (rogosin.org)
  • The hematopoietic retrodifferentiated stem cells have been shown to engraft an animal host in two proofs of principle clinical studies, demonstrating long-term engraftment and safety in acquired aplastic anaemia, while transient amelioration of beta thalassemia major was also observed. (eurekaselect.com)
  • The ease by which various stem cell types can be generated from human peripheral blood has allowed the design of various kits to guarantee the specificity, sterility and efficacy of stem cells production for various clinical and research applications. (eurekaselect.com)
  • The robustness and efficacy of the retrodifferentiation process in generating unprecedented quantities of stem cells belonging to the three germ layers will enable organ and tissue reconstruction ex vivo, using bio-printing and various scaffold materials. (eurekaselect.com)
  • Epimorphic regeneration and retrodifferentiation both have the capacity to recreate and reconstruct tissue with precise positional integration of cells in such a way that will enable us to heal without scars and to understand how to maintain tissue integrity and architecture in the face of a hostile environment. (eurekaselect.com)
  • We used a cryopreservation technique with Me 2 SO for human osteoblast-like cells of iliac cancellous bone. (elsevierpure.com)
  • In the cell culture of cryopreserved and fresh osteoblast-like cells, we substituted Dulbecco's modification of Eagle's medium (DMEM)/Ham's F12 plus 1% penicillin/streptomycin with autologous serum, human serum albumin and Biseko® for fetal bovine serum. (elsevierpure.com)
  • Cells Tissues Organs , 183 (1), 32-40. (elsevierpure.com)
  • Under the rule, a third party could destroy the embryo by taking it apart and preserving the remaining living stem cells for research. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Researchers value the cells for their ability to replicate quickly and turn into any kind of human tissue. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Finally, as observed in human colorectal patients, anti-PD-1 therapy had a strong response to a microsatellite-high CRC PDX that correlated with a higher number of human CD8+ IFNγ+ T cells in the tumor. (bmj.com)
  • His team's research focuses on these "microchimeric" cells. (technologynetworks.com)
  • Severe falciparum malaria is characterized by a number of very important organ dysfunction brought on primarily by the intensive sequestration of parasitized red blood cells in the microvasculature, together with the myocardial capillaries. (ehd.org)
  • Unfortunately in most cases these compounds also damage normal human cells, and that damage limits the amount of drug that can be tolerated by patients. (sarcomahelp.org)
  • Targeted' therapy starts with the discovery of a protein that is expressed on the surface of tumor cells but not (or in a limited way) in normal human tissues. (sarcomahelp.org)
  • Dr. Esseltine and her research partners will use a sophisticated microscope to understand how human cells, tissues and organs function, and what goes wrong when we get sick. (mun.ca)
  • Thanks to CFI funding, they will be able to examine cells inside living tissues or even animals, giving them new insights into how diseases develop and how they may be treated. (mun.ca)
  • When cells do not work properly, this can cause organs to fail, leading to disease," Dr. Esseltine said. (mun.ca)
  • At 8 weeks of gestation, the trophoblast cells invade from the placenta into the maternal tissue and into the uterine arteries. (frontiersin.org)
  • Trophoblast cells (fetal) and endothelial cells (maternal) express sFlt1. (frontiersin.org)
  • However, post-mortem analysis of transplanted tissue revealed accumulation of pathological Lewy bodies in a small subset of transplanted cells over time, revealing a host-to-graft disease propagation. (lu.se)
  • The isolated cells may be considered stem cells, based on the current criteria for their characterization, such as plastic adherence, expression of certain markers, and the absence of others, as well as multi-differentiation potential, which showed to be promising for the application in tissue regeneration. (bvsalud.org)
  • Over the last years, dentistry has been exploring the potential application of stem cells from different origins in the regeneration of oral tissues that were lost or damaged by disease or trauma 1 . (bvsalud.org)
  • This paper outlines the debates prompted through a reproduction mechanism involv- by progress in cloning research, with special ing male and female germ cells. (who.int)
  • Epimorphic regeneration is a process by which damaged tissues or severed body parts are restored to the original. (eurekaselect.com)
  • Atlas of Human Body: Central Nervous System and Vascularization is a multidisciplinary approach to the technical coverage of anatomical structures and relationships. (bookbaz.ir)
  • Our body organs and tissues work much better when they use ketones as a source of fuel, including the brain, heart and the core of our kidneys. (sott.net)
  • Many organs of the body secrete hormones which affect the expectant mother, although when the placenta is developed it then takes over the production of many of these hormones, including: oestrogen, progesterone, human chorionic gonadotrophin (HCG), human placental lactogen, placental growth hormone, relaxin and kisspeptin. (physio-pedia.com)
  • And yet in the past several years, researchers have begun to tease out how this changing physiology affects a drug's pharmaco-kinetics: how the drug is absorbed into the bloodstream, how the drug distributes throughout the tissues, and how the drug is metabolized and removed from the body. (the-scientist.com)
  • Reproduction is an expendable biologic function to the human body, in fact to all living systems. (westonaprice.org)
  • Every person is actually a mosaic of genomes, varying across the body and often within the same organ or tissue. (cdc.gov)
  • Summary information is provided here on the outcome of the meetings held during the last three months of 1997, in which the ethical, scientific and social implications of cloning were discussed in relation to the potential biomedical applications of this technique in such areas of human health as reproductive health, xenotransplantation and medical genetics. (who.int)
  • NORD gratefully acknowledges T. Andrew Burrow, MD, FAAP, FACMG, Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Division of Human Genetics, for assistance in the preparation of this report. (rarediseases.org)
  • Long-term follow-up of a few of the patients in these large studies showed that even in fetal tissue that grew in patients' brains, the grafted tissue took on signs of the disease and were not effective. (lozierinstitute.org)
  • For the fourth treatment group, we removed fetal bovine serum without replacing it. (elsevierpure.com)
  • DMEM/Ham's F12 plus 1% penicillin/streptomycin with fetal bovine serum served as the control group. (elsevierpure.com)
  • These findings indicate that, for clinical purposes, fetal bovine serum can be removed for cryopreservation of iliac cancellous bone with minor loss of viability. (elsevierpure.com)
  • Know more about the iMM, a Biomedical research institute of excellence, conducting basic and clinical research with the mission of improving human life. (ulisboa.pt)
  • Conclusion Hu-CB-BRGS mice represent an in vivo model to study immune checkpoint blockade to human tumors. (bmj.com)
  • In solid organ transplant recipients with donor-derived infection (DDI), LCMV has been shown to cause severe illness characterized by multisystem organ failure. (medscape.com)
  • This is the first edition of this document for novel coronavirus, an adaption of WHO Clinical management of severe acute respiratory infection when MERS-CoV infection is suspected publication (2019). (who.int)
  • To overcome this limitation, the researchers used small three-dimensional brain-like organs in the lab called cerebral organoids. (tfri.ca)
  • To see whether what they observed in the lab had any clinical implications, the researchers examined clinical datasets and found that some individuals with neurodevelopmental impairments displayed mutations in the RUVBL2 gene. (tfri.ca)
  • Ontario-based researchers led by Terry Fox New Investigator Dr. Phedias Diamandis are researching the possibility of harnessing the power of brain wea. (tfri.ca)
  • Researchers can access related articles from current and back volumes by purchasing access to these collections. (eurekaselect.com)
  • By making research easy to access, and puts the academic needs of the researchers before the business interests of publishers. (intechopen.com)
  • Instead, researchers have to look at individual tissues to track them down. (technologynetworks.com)
  • Our research is driven by curiosity, passion and desire of our researchers to move forward the state-of-the-art, supported by technical and administrative facilities that combine excellent instrumentation and dedicated staff.Check the upcoming events at iMM. (ulisboa.pt)
  • Although the effects of high glucose on the proliferation and differentiation of rat and mouse BM-MSCs have been previously reported, the effects of high glucose on biological properties of human MSCs derived from gestational tissues which, due to their ease of isolation by noninvasive procedure, are considered more suitable sources of MSCs for clinical applications have yet to be determined. (hindawi.com)
  • In humans, sex determination is the process that determines the biological sex of an offspring and, as a result, the sexual characteristics that they will develop. (asu.edu)
  • I want to discuss rigor and transparency in neuroscience research (in general, not specific to a particular project). (nih.gov)
  • Hence, due to its vast number of functions the placenta expresses more than 20 000 DNA sequences and is perhaps the organ expressing the largest number of genes [ 6 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • An increase in adipogenic differentiation levels was accompanied by an upregulation of the expression levels of several adipogenic genes including peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma ( PPAR γ ), adipocyte protein 2 ( AP2 ), adipose tissue-specific secretory factor ( ADSF ), sterol regulatory element-binding protein 1C ( SREBP1C ), lipoprotein lipase ( LPL ), adiponectin ( ADIPOQ ), and glucose transporter type 4 ( GLUT4 ) [ 8 , 9 , 11 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • In order to obtain the correct mix of enzymes and proteins in different organs, some genes are selectively "turned off" and others "turned on. (myvillagegreen.com)
  • ClinGen definitively disease-associated inherited heart disease genes were amplified using RNA extracted from fresh blood, derived cardiomyocytes, and myectomy tissue. (cdc.gov)
  • Ingestion of alcohol could act as a trigger by increasing the stress in heart tissue, leading to arrhythmia and cardiac arrest. (nature.com)
  • Preeclampsia is considered a two stage-disease in which poorly perfused placenta produces factor(s) leading to systemic vascular disease and the clinical manifestations of preeclampsia ( 5 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • Because the clinical manifestations of preeclampsia can be heterogeneous, diagnosing preeclampsia may not be straightforward. (medscape.com)
  • Specimens are obtained within minutes of passage and tissues are aseptically identified, staged, and immediately processed according to the requirements of individual investigators. (blessedquietness.com)
  • Consultative and Diagnostic Pathology, Inc., will be asking to obtain tissue specimens from your patient's medical procedure. (blessedquietness.com)
  • Synthesis of clinical and molecular data concerning 34 individuals harboring five previously reported PPA2 variants and 12 novel variants, 11 of which were functionally characterized. (nature.com)
  • His technical innovations have resulted in new methods for studying tissue and organ mechanics from the molecular scale-up. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • Publishing an invited review on the clinical importance of molecular bone mechanics in Current Osteoporosis Reports ( https://doi.org/10.1007/s11914-021-00678-8 ). (imperial.ac.uk)
  • The podcast received the 2022 Neil Mackenzie Public Engagement Award from the Bone Research Society. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • Richie is a JBMR Plus Editorial Board (2022-2024) and has served on numerous committees and working groups supporting research and translation including the Royal Osteoporosis Society (Cure Advisory Group, Technology Academy), The Diamond Light (K11 DIAD beamline), the British Orthopaedic Society (Secretary). (imperial.ac.uk)
  • In addition to training highly-qualified personnel, the team's research will provide insight on early interventions to support at-risk pregnancies, improving outcomes for infants and the quality of life for those at risk of osteoporosis. (mun.ca)
  • On June 6, 1994, the U.S. Public Health Service convened a workshop in Bethesda, Maryland, to develop recommendations for the use of zidovudine to reduce the risk for perinatal transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). (cdc.gov)
  • These recommendations update the interim guidelines (1) developed by the U.S. Public Health Service for the use of zidovudine (ZDV) to reduce the risk for perinatal transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. (cdc.gov)
  • He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2008 for his team's discovery that a retrovirus, human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, was the cause of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS. (asu.edu)
  • Here, courtesy of the National Institutes of Health, in taxpayer-funded black and white, is the reality of America's culture of death: commercial cannibalism of the young of the human species, a business about to break into the mainstream as a coalition of major medical and health organizations, businesses, and associations press for federal funding of lethal embryo research. (blessedquietness.com)
  • But many believe the destruction of a human embryo is the destruction of human life and should not be allowed for any reason. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Omphalocele is an abdominal wall defect in which part of an infant's intestines and abdominal organs protrude or stick out through the bellybutton. (rarediseases.org)
  • An omphalocele may be small, in which the intestines protrude, or large, in which both intestines and abdominal organs protrude. (rarediseases.org)
  • Next, in order to study the potential of autologous cell replacement therapy we transplanted progenitors derived from a PD patient into a pre-clinical rat model. (lu.se)
  • Some studies have suggested that CS may be converted into cyanide in the peripheral tissues. (medscape.com)
  • He is a PI in the Musculoskeletal laboratory (MSk) where he leads the Bone Health Group supervising a multidisciplinary team of clinical and non-clinical scientists. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • His work included introducing synchrotron imaging methods to bone health research in humans. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • Richie is translating the research by testing the application of bone health measures for clinical decision-making in surgery of the hip and spine. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • We expand the clinical and mutational spectrum associated with PPA2 dysfunction. (nature.com)
  • The initial viremia of LCMV infection (phase 1) extensively seeds extra-CNS tissue. (medscape.com)
  • For articles published under an open access Creative Common CC BY license, any part of the article may be reused without permission provided that the original article is clearly cited. (mdpi.com)
  • A Feature Paper should be a substantial original Article that involves several techniques or approaches, provides an outlook for future research directions and describes possible research applications. (mdpi.com)
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  • Zika virus (ZIKV), a flavivirus transmitted by Aedes species mosquitoes, was first identified in the Zika Forest by the Virus Research Institute in Uganda in a non-human primate in 1947 and from Aedes africanus mosquitoes in 1948. (cdc.gov)
  • TNBC cell lines or tumor tissue from established CRC PDX models were implanted into both flanks of humanized mice and treatments ensued once tumors reached a volume of ~150mm 3 . (bmj.com)
  • That was an excellent suggestion, as at that time I was orienting myself on which sarcoma I wanted to go into in more detail, and I felt that leiomyosarcomas were relatively understudied within the group of soft tissue tumors, while they constituted a considerable percentage of these tumors. (sarcomahelp.org)