Areas such as the immune system and how the body responds to damage and stress were affected.
Free radicals are highly reactive molecules that circulate in the body and can damage cells over time.
Patients need to take powerful immuno-suppressants which have side-effects and can themselves damage the body.
Rose said the footage could also contribute to injury prevention, with coaches being able to check whether a player's stance could damage their body.
By disturbing the body's equilibrium, anabolic steroids can potentially cause damage to many of the body's major organs, particularly the liver, which has to deal with breaking down the compound.
There is also the ever-present threat of surgery, ostomies and permanent damage to my body.
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These compounds would do less damage to the body than current medicines and would sail through clinical trials.
The body has time to repair damage because a smaller percentage of the cells need repair at any given time.
The worm causes liver damage that the body's natural mechanisms must repair.
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"If they stood on one leg consistently, they would risk greater loss of body heat and potential tissue damage in the cold, " says Anderson.
Lord Boyd said Dobson had chosen to arm herself, and to stab her victim on the part of the body that would inflict maximum damage.
Dr Martin Mueller, one of the researchers behind this work, says that the greater damage to the body caused by the tattoo needle may explain the better immune response.
"I think that's the thing people don't understand -- the heightened intensity does damage to your body, immune system, energy levels, on the fitness of your muscles, ligaments, tendons, " Gimelstob said.
One possible explanation is that melatonin - a hormone produced at night - is suppressed in those working night shifts, having knock-on effects on oestrogen regulation in the body and protection against DNA damage.
Arsenic can damage most of the body's major organs and the immune system.
Current ultraviolet light laser treatments can kill micro-organisms - but cannot be used in humans as they would also damage cells in the body.
In 2002 two controlled human studies stunned intensive care specialists by finding that cooling the body temperature 7 degrees helped prevent brain damage in patients whose hearts had stopped and been restarted after cardiac arrest.
It also provides for imprisonment of at least 10 years for causing permanent damage to a woman's body by throwing acid.
He said it would also be interesting to check whether the drug could limit damage to other muscle in the body in patients with DMD.
The tackle was the "commonest phase of play causing injury" with the head and face the most injured body part, along with sprains or ligament damage.
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Damage to more vulnerable parts of the body like the head and spine is thankfully less common.
"This emphasises the dramatic widespread nature of the damage that cigarettes can wreak on the body, " he said.
We've known for some time that lead is a potent neuro-toxin that can cause significant damage to a number of organs in the body, including the central nervous system, and can lead to behavioural problems in children.
Professor Petot said it was possible that when fat was broken down by the body it released substances known as free radicals that can cause tissue damage, and might precipitate the development of Alzheimer's symptoms.
Damage that occurs at the cellular or molecular level can disrupt the body's natural control processes and allow an uncontrolled growth of cells, or cancer.
"If a car's body cannot absorb the energy of a crash, it will logically result in more damage, more injuries to passengers, " said Alves, the doctor who specializes in traffic accident victims.
In spite of the fire damage, there are a number of ways DNA can be located on a body, Bernstein and Spitz said.
While burn damage is normally patched with pieces of excess skin from a person's own body, this does not work if the whole face needs to be covered -- the skin of the entire back is less than half of what would be needed to cover the full face and scalp, Siemionow said.
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