Sentence examples for tissue killing from inspiring English sources

In that disease, the lungs slowly fill with scar tissue, killing a person within two or three years.

The prions clump in neural tissue, killing it and forming Swiss cheese-like holes in the brain (which is exactly what happens in the best-known human prion disorder, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease).

Pathophysiologically, a successful eradication of infection by the host requires the influx of effector cells into the infected tissue, killing of the pathogen, resolution of inflammation and, finally, remodeling of the extracellular matrix.

This was explained by possible xenogenic tissue killing through the local accumulation of inflammatory cells, mediated by liberation of antigens from the Theracyte immunoisolation device and presentation by an indirect pathway.

As a payload protein, SAH will enable effective bacterial therapy because of its ability to diffuse in tissue, kill cells, and expand tumor necrosis.

A spokesman for CryoLife Inc., the Atlanta company that provided the donor tissue, said that clostridia are extremely common and that no proof exists that their tissue killed the Minnesota man.

Moreover, inoculation of vCJD-infected human spleen tissue killed tg650 mice within 570±63 days (5/5), which indicates an infectivity level approaching that in tg650 mouse spleen.

Reagents: Total protein extraction kit Reaction buffer: 50 mM Tris HCl, pH 7.4, 1 mM DTT, 10 mM KCl and 12.5 mM MgCl2 Centricons: 30,000 MWCO PEP: Mono-potassium phosphoenolpyruvate (35 mM) Pyruvate kinase: (50 U μL) UDP Peptide: YSDSPSTST Pyruvate assay kit Total protein extraction form mice brain tissue: Kill the mice by decapitation and take out the brain tissue quickly.

Second, some degree of toxicity to uninfected cells might be necessary so that once HIV has been eradicated, cells and tissues killed unintentionally (bystander killing) can be repopulated, including lymphoid cells such as uninfected CD4 T cells.

"This is a good opportunity to learn more," said Dr. John Ezzell, a senior anthrax scientist at the Army's biodefense institute at Fort Detrick, Md. Anthrax bacteria release deadly toxins that can travel throughout the body to attack tissues, kill cells and cause fluids to accumulate.

Notably, specific cell types are particularly susceptible to EndoG-triggered death: while overexpression of cytosolic Drosophila EndoG (lacking its mitochondrial targeting sequence) in neuronal tissues killed animals with 100% penetrance, its overexpression in epidermal tissues did not affect the vitality or morphology of flies (our unpublished observations).