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Water makes up around 60% of the human body. More than half of this water sloshes around inside the cells that make up organs and tissues. Much of the remaining water flows in the nooks and ...
Human tissues of liver, lung, spleen and kidney were obtained from a brain and body bank along with metadata on the medical, occupational and recreational history of the organ donors.
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Smooth muscle cells (green) wrap and tighten around the vessels, just as they do in the human body (Image: Y. Zheng, U. of Washington) View 3 Images 1 / 3 ...
In a paper published online May 29 in PNAS, the team reports that they can predict when the tissue will begin to rapidly flow just by looking at cell shapes in the tissue.
Regulatory T cells usually reside in lymphoid organs in the human body; ... The researchers examined Treg populations across 48 murine tissues and used flow cytometry to assess Treg phenotypes.
Newly identified networks of interconnected, fluid-filled chambers that line tissues throughout the human body may qualify as a completely new organ, researchers report in a study published ...