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If we were to zoom in on a salmon, which is a fatty fish, past the organs, past the tissues, into the cells, we would see that the stuff we call fat is actually made up of molecules called triglycerides, and they are not all alike.
Adult stem cells or tissue-specific stem cells are found in small numbers in most of your body's tissues.
The vegetative tissues, the roots and leaves of annuals, do not have much by way of inherent resistance, avoidance or tolerance characteristics.
They only switch them on in seed tissues.
Nestled in the tissues of your neck is a small unassuming organ that wields enormous power over your body.
The very act of sitting squashes, pressurizes and compresses, and these more delicate tissues really feel the brunt.
It's used in three ways: about 10% enables digestion, about 20% fuels physical activity, and the biggest chunk, around 70%, supports the basic functions of our organs and tissues.
As it slowly dies, it could leave its mother vulnerable to infection, and all the time, it may be emitting hormonal signals that disrupt her tissues.
When sugar moves from the digestive tract to the blood stream, your body kicks into action to transfer it into your tissues where it can be processed and used for energy.
Other changes are known to occur in the expression patterns of genes, also known as epigenetic alterations, that affect the body's tissues and cells.
Aging also involves stem cells that reside in many tissues and have the property of dividing without limits to replenish other cells.
In humans, lead is directly absorbed into the body and distributed to the blood, soft tissues, and mineralized tissues.
This system is a vast network of cells, tissues, and organs that coordinate your body’s defenses against any threats to your health.
As they move around, leukocytes work like security personnel, constantly screening the blood, tissues, and organs for suspicious signs.
And when body cells are damaged, they release chemicals that make fluid leak into the surrounding tissues, causing swelling.
But if it gets exposed to the enzymes that reside in our bloodstream or our tissues, it degrades within seconds.
For a tumor to break out of the tissue that it's born in, it has to make chemicals called enzymes to chew through the scaffolding of tissues.
As weird as this is, it's actually really reminiscent of how our own tissues are organized.
But sometimes they are too strong, and therefore their mechanical properties do not really fit their surrounding tissues.
No wonder: they are made from old, used tissues, just like this wall made of bricks that is falling apart.
The reason blood is so incredibly efficient is that our red blood cells are not dedicated to specific organs or tissues; otherwise, we would probably have traffic jams in our veins.
We're a group of computer scientists, mathematicians, engineers and a cancer researcher, who understood that in order to cure the sickness of a system as big as government, we needed to examine the whole body, and then we needed to drill down all the way from the organs, into the tissues, all the way to single cells, so that we could properly make a diagnosis.
Many cell types and tissues in the body use chemical sensors, or chemosensors, to keep track of the concentration of hormones, metabolites and other molecules, and some of these chemosensors are olfactory receptors.
Similarly, taste receptors once thought to be found only in the tongue, are now known to be expressed in cells and tissues throughout the body.
We've identified a number of different olfactory and taste receptors in the kidney, one of which, olfactory receptor 78, is known to be expressed in cells and tissues that are important in the regulation of blood pressure.
We've got all the soft tissues, and that actually gives you all the incredible dynamics of sound that you'll hear tonight.
That lets us capture real-time, slow-motion activity of vibrating tissues.
It's just his unique use of all the muscles and soft tissues which lets him do all these amazing sounds that you're going to hear.
Now, some tissues in our bodies are chock-full of stem cells.
Other tissues like the heart are quite stable, and as far as we can tell, the heart lacks stem cells entirely.
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