Sentence examples for reaching the liver from inspiring English sources

Tony Snow, the press secretary to President Bush, has suffered a recurrence of the colon cancer he battled two years ago, and the disease has spread, reaching the liver, White House officials said Tuesday.

In the small intestine the larvae are liberated and migrate through the intestinal wall, reaching the liver and then the lungs, where they may produce a host sensitization that results in lung inflammation and fluid retention.

One possible mechanism is the reduction of substrates reaching the liver, such as fatty acids.

Infusion of NE through the femoral vein may reduce active NE levels reaching the liver compared to direct intraportal injection.

Tumour cells reaching the liver were easily discernable from the hepatic tissue.

The variability observed with intravenously inoculated sporozoites could reflect differences in fitness of the sporozoites reaching the liver.

It still reaches the liver, but not in high doses.

Besides the sterilization problem, he said, there was the risk that underirradiated parasites would cause malaria or that weakened parasites would not reach the liver.

The liver plays a major role in the metabolism and detoxification of compounds that reach the liver and hence the prime target organ for drugs and toxic substances [23].

Floxuridine is often used to treat metastatic liver disease and is given as an infusion directly into the hepatic artery to increase the amount of intact drug that reaches the liver.

Studies in a murine hepatic fibrosis model showed that BMSCs injected into the tail vein can reach the liver and reduce the degree of hepatic fibrosis (Sakaida et al., 2004).