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In the News (Thu 16 Feb 12)

  
  artery
Blood is pumped from the ventricles into large elastic arteries that branch repeatedly into smaller and smaller arteries until the branching results in microscopic arteries called arterioles.
The innermost layer, the tunica intima (also called tunica interna), is simple squamous epithelium surrounded by a connective tissue basement membrane with elastic fibers.
The outermost layer, which attaches the vessel to the surrounding tissue, is the tunica externa or tunica adventitia.
www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/A/artery.html   (321 words)

  
 Free skin care tips.
A good diet, (nutritional plan) with sufficient vitamins, as well as proteins are also needed to maintain the elasticity of the skin and the body must function properly to get rid of waste products effectively, in order to keep the body, and also the skin in particular, looking its best.
The dermis gives the skin its elasticity and strength, but it also needs to be protected from the sun and other environmental elements.
The loss of elasticity of the dermis is a feature of aging, characterized by sagging and wrinkling of the skin and here facial exercise can be greatly beneficial to help tone the muscles.
www.ageless.co.za /skincare.htm   (2127 words)

  
 Dr. Koop - Actinic Keratosis information and animation
When the human skin is exposed to the sun, the UV-B rays from the sun damage the dermis and epidermis.
The epidermis is thinned and damaged cells calls fibroblasts cause synthesis of abnormal dermal elastic fibers within the superficial dermis that give the characteristic appearance of actinic keratosis.
Actinic keratoses are small, noticeable, red-brown patches that don’t fade away and have a characteristic rough texture accompanied by itching and burning.
www.drkoop.com /animation/93/50.html   (284 words)

  
 Emphysema Medical Guide
The fibers allow the lungs to expand and contract.
It is known from scientific research that the normal lung has a remarkable balance between two classes of chemicals with opposing action.
When the chemical balance is altered, the lungs lose the ability to protect themselves against the destruction of these elastic fibers.
www.medicalguidesonline.com /article.asp?id=19   (833 words)

  
 Wallach Wisdom Encyclopedia -A
75% of our brain weight is pure cholesterol, it’s called myelin, it’s this fatty stuff that insulates each nerve fiber of the brain and spinal cord, and we can only make about 10% of our daily need of cholesterol.
, a weakened artery because of the fragmenting or the brittle condition of the elastic fibers in the arteries.
You get skin wrinkles, because the elastic fibers in your skin are going...
www.kingmaker.net /eknowtrient-a.htm   (5001 words)

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