The terminology itself has generated controversy. The World Health Organization emphasizes the fact that there are no medical benefits associated with even the least invasive procedure. Therefore, the WHO uses the term ‘mutilation’ to “establish a clear linguistic distinction ...
, 2003). We keep in mind that living-skin equivalent (LSE) was the first tissue-engineered product to make its way into the medical market and should be considered an early product subject to improvement. We also attempt to cover several other models by tissue type and to touch on some ...
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All cancer diagnoses were included, including skin cancer (basal cell carcinoma). We obtained the cancer diagnoses from medical records and included active cancer and previously treated cancer. Cancer diagnoses may have changed over time, but in this study, we wanted to analyze the relationship ...
(e.g. the skin or inside an internal organ or tumor) that forms part of an animal larger than the device. These microfluidic systems promise to deliver functional measurements obtained directly on intact tissue – such as the response of tissue to drugs or the analysis of tissue secretions ...
TOPICAL PRODUCTS FOR USE ON INTACT SKIN OR DAMAGED SKIN FOR COSMETIC USE AND/OR AS A MEDICAL DEVICEThe present invention concerns the cosmetic field, and in particular relates to a cosmetic product and to its uses.;Specifically, the invention relates to a cosmetic product comprising a ...
The participants wished that the mothers should have the opportunity to have the neonate skin-to-skin, which promotes attachment between the mother and neonate. Some mothers expressed to the participants that they appreciated the closeness to the neonate, yet they were not prepared to watch the ...
For us, the blood vessel still wants to reject our device – but it rejects it by pushing it into the wall – and eventually covering it over with skin within a few weeks. That works in our favor, because it sort of pushes it closer to the brain, and anchors it in the wall. So ...
Those fireworks were Tplax's quick contractions, which occur in its flat layer of what are known as epithelial cells—essentially the equivalent of skin. Although these kinds of cells have long been known to contract, in embryos for example, Tplax's contractions were 10 times faster than any...
Fig. 3. Chronic Q fever patients show increased relative activation of the ‘response to interferon-gamma’ pathway (Gene Ontology GO-term GO:0034341). PBMCs of four healthy volunteers and six chronic Q fever patients were either not stimulated, stimulated with E. coli LPS (10 ng/mL), or...