The echo is also useful in looking at the function of the valves of the heart.
It's incredibly exciting, the idea that we might actually take these cells, for example, to develop some heart tissue, inject some of those cells into a heart that has been damaged and restore some of the function of that heart.
The heart function can be assessed with an ultrasound of the heart called an echocardiogram or with a nuclear medicine test.
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They hooked him up, right at his bedside, to a machine that took over the function of his heart and lungs.
This is only an early result from a very small study, but coming on the heels of reports just a few months ago, in which adult stem cells restored heart function to patients with advanced heart failure, the promise of stem cells again got just a bit brighter.
There are difficult legal and constitutional issues here, which go to the heart of how the government is supposed to function.
This is the sense of function inherited from Viollet-le-Duc and taken to heart by the modernists.
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Of course, the Fed didn't decide to provide the brokerage firms with funding out of the goodness of its heart, but instead to insure the bond markets would continue to function.
The energy drinks market is booming and even a recent study by Italian Matteo Cameli from the University of Siena confirmed that energy drinks boost heart function in healthy people.
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But he said the detrimental effect on cognition could be due to be attributable to poor heart and lung function affecting the brain, or directly harmful effects of smoking on brain - as well as lung - tissue.
The concept of keeping donor organs at body temperature and preserving their function is also being tested in heart and lung transplants.
Very recently the Institute of Medicine of the prestigious U.S. National Academy of Science published a review of the scientific literature and noted that vitamin D may be linked to heart disease, immune function, cancer prevention and diabetes.
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