Sentence examples for plaque against from inspiring English sources

The artery-opening methods, like bypass surgery and stents, the widely used wire cages that hold plaque against an artery wall, can alleviate crushing chest pain.

Stents, which are threaded through a catheter from the groin to the carotid arteries in the neck, are used to keep an artery open after a balloon presses the plaque against the artery's walls.

Once reaching the sites of coronary artery narrowing or blockage, a balloon deployed at the leading tip of the catheter is inflated to compress the plaque against the artery wall.

The balloon is then inflated to compress artery-clogging plaques against the arterial walls, which widens the opening and increases blood flow.

Immunohistochemical staining with anti-PrP antibodies showed positive staining of all plaques, against a background of diffuse synaptic staining in all cortical areas, basal ganglia, thalamus and the molecular layer of the cerebellum.

Biofilms play an important role in the pathology of periodontal disease by mechanisms that include protection of plaque bacteria against phagocytosis and against antibiotics [25].

And in about 60percentto70percentcent of cases, a stent is now used to keep the plaque pressed against vessel walls.

THE doughboy gazes stoically through the mesh steel cage, unfazed by the clownish dent in his helmet or the bronze plaque leaning against his chest.

When they are found, doctors pass a tube with a balloon into the narrowed area and inflate the balloon to compress plaque deposits against the side of the artery.

There is also a silver plaque, leaning against a mostly empty bookshelf, engraved with the France family secret: ''Money isn't everything, but it does tend to keep the children in touch.'' By Atul Gawande By Lidija Haas By Alan Burdick By Larissa MacFarquhar By Jelani Cobb By Atul Gawande By Lidija Haas By Alan Burdick By Larissa MacFarquhar.

There is also a silver plaque, leaning against a mostly empty bookshelf, engraved with the France family secret: ''Money isn't everything, but it does tend to keep the children in touch.'' By Miranda Carter By Amos Barshad By Jia Tolentino By Doreen St. Félix By Emily Nussbaum By Miranda Carter By Amos Barshad By Jia Tolentino By Doreen St. Félix.