Such skin absorption occurs in other mammals, and the leathery look of elephant skin is deceptive it actually has a rich blood supply.
It is a molecule normally found in the walls of blood vessels that attracts clotting and immune cells in other words, it causes inflammation.
This let surgeons attend patients spouting blood without removing their coats an important distinction that set them apart from shirt-sleeved tradesmen of the lower orders.
As an example, a serving of white rice has nearly the same effect as eating pure table sugar a rapid, high spike in blood sugar.
The dense network of blood vessels in reindeer noses is also essential for regulating the animal's internal body temperature like many mammals, reindeer don't sweat.
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Topping up the supply of healing fluid might be done by mimicking another biological system the network of blood capillaries that supplies living tissues with the stuff they need to thrive.
Since porphyrins are taken up by blood vessels, some researchers reckon that they might be useful in treating atherosclerosis an inflammatory process that thickens and damages the vessel wall.
After blood passes into the mosquito gut, the parasites quickly turn into male and female forms the gametes and emerge from their hiding place inside the red blood cells to mate.
Two patients with especially advanced ALL experienced what Dr. Brentjens termed a "shake and bake response" significant fever and a drop in blood pressure that resulted in their admission to intensive care.
Yet another organ model under the Physiome Project's umbrella is the micro-vasculature the vast network of tiny blood vessels that penetrate deep into almost all the nooks and crannies of the body.
Part of this light is reflected back, and the pattern of reflection indicates activity in the tissue it has been reflected from in particular, changes in the flow of blood to that tissue.
This approach has the advantage that the tissue has a functioning system of blood vessels to deliver nutrients, so it should be possible to grow tissue cultures more than a millimetre thick the current limit.
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Existing models are based on indirect measures of how infectious an animal is a cow with high levels of the virus in its blood, for instance, is assumed to be able to infect other animals.
This, too, can be hyperpolarised but, unlike 3He, it can also be absorbed by blood, and can thus get into the rest of the body, an effect that may be useful for other types of diagnosis.
They came up with a promising candidate, tweaked it so it would be absorbed in the blood as a pill and then performed the key experiment testing it in mice to see if it would shrink tumors.
The signature caftans, which reached cult status after being adopted by Oprah, convey a kind of blue- blood ease that feels genuine rather than hackneyed and, more importantly, they happen to flatter a wide range of sizes and ages.
They justify it by saying that feedback doesn't apply to them they aren't as likely to die before 60 as other people, for instance, because they have grandparents who lived into their 90s, or because they are avid gym goers with low blood pressure.
Employing it in adult mice not only led to blood vessels that have lasted so far for over a year, but the blood vessels themselves are now surrounded with muscle tissue meaning that the body is able to use those vessels to properly regulate blood flow.
Saturday's Cotto-Margarito rematch at the remodeled Garden offers the backdrop of bad blood (Cotto lost in 11 rounds in 2008) and a lingering controversy the revocation of Margarito's boxing license in California after a sticky substance was found on the hand wraps he used in a 2009 fight with Shane Mosley.
The sight of him standing there with his sleeves pushed up and his cloth over his shoulder and his look of readiness all this made me smile, and the smile that came back to me seemed to stream out of the glass and into my arms, my chest, my face, my blood.
In the case of the Mississippi baby, we know she was exposed to HIV, had HIV in her blood, and that at least some cells in her blood were found with sleeping virus though we will likely never know if those cells were from the child or maternal cells that had been transmitted during pregnancy or birth.
By the 17th century, the walls of the court were painted with a noisome cocktail of ox-blood, ox-gall, lamp black and a bucket of urine: soon afterwards, tennis became unfashionable and all but disappeared to be revived as a modified, open-air sport, in the wake of the invention of the lawn-mower, by Major Wingfield in the 1870s.
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