If living in the United States is "so bad," why not go to another place to live? substitute teacher Ana Alvarez asked the student, according to a handwritten statement from her. "They brought me here," the boy replied.
Expanding beyond the realm to consider functionalized tissues as replacements, the larger question is how larger functional ensembles of tissues can be portrayed as living organ substitutes for damaged or diseased organs.
This chapter reviews the advances that have been made in cell, encapsulation and transplantation technologies, and discusses the challenges that need to be overcome before a clinically relevant, living pancreatic substitute exhibiting long-term function with minimal, if any, host immunosuppression is developed.
As previously mentioned, it has been noted by several authors that wounds treated with the living skin substitute demonstrate faster and better healing with less fibrosis.
This might represent a still obscure but important evolutionary strategy of living to substitute in parts the natural selection of phenotypes by molecular selection of genetic elements.
Tissue engineering constructs incorporate osteoprogenitor cells and growth factors in a biodegradable scaffold to form a living bone substitute which is both osteoconductive and osteoinductive.
Two CDs collect the hits (with a supercharged live substitute for Phil Spector's production of "River Deep, Mountain High").
That day was my first day as a real, live substitute teacher.
This result suggested that, unlike in CD4+CD25high T cells, CD127low/- was not a perfect candidate surface marker for intracellular Foxp3 in CD4+CD25- T cells and that CD4+CD25-CD127low/- T cells could not be used as a live substitute for CD4+CD25-Foxp3+ CD4+CD25-Foxp3+orm funcTional assay.
My life is a shopping list and every item has been substituted, which makes me feel I am living a weird, substitute life.
