Creditors have sued Gabayzadeh and his business partner, Nourollah Elghanayan , for fraud, alleging they inflated American Tissue's assets to secure financing for paper producers they held separately from American Tissue, leaving American Tissue's lenders with little.
Middle American's parent, Super American Tissue, owned by Gabayzadeh and Elghanayan, ended up retiring the DLJ bonds, giving DLJ a 42% return in less than two years, partly with American Tissue's funds, the suit says.
As a result, the affiliated companies were not liable for American Tissue's debt--even though, creditors claim, the affiliates benefited by receiving financing from American Tissue.
"We simply don't know where the money went, " says Andrew Rosenberg, lawyer for American Tissue's bondholders.
"I was never active into business, " Elghanayan said in a deposition during American Tissue's bankruptcy last July.
The loan also included warrants for American Tissue and reserved a seat for DLJ on American Tissue's board.
Inevitably American Tissue's balance sheet became stretched, making interest payments difficult.
The suit accuses DLJ of using its board seat and warrants as leverage to make sure it got paid back at the expense of American Tissue's creditors.
Gabayzadeh isn't helping: He pleaded the Fifth 540 times in American Tissue's bankruptcy proceedings last April, making it even harder for creditors to track down their money.
American Tissue's lenders lost their patience with Gabayzadeh at an October 2001 meeting where he refused to work with them on selling assets to pay back an unspecified portion of the debt.
By 2000 American Tissue's empire stretched from Oregon to New York and included eight mills capable of producing 919, 000 tons of pulp and paper annually, 8 product-producing plants and 12 distribution centers.
Despite the efforts of legislators to resolve the thornier issues--such as making sure that a woman's decision to have an abortion is not influenced by the idea that her fetus's tissue may help a victim of Parkinson's disease--the current calm in public attitudes may well be fleeting.
Breasts reconstructed with the patient's tissue are softer and will age like a normal breast.
But a new outpatient procedure that lets doctors zap Barrett's tissue with radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is showing promise.
"Advances in medicine are being made every day in different areas, whether it's tissue transplantation or tissue regeneration, " he said.
In the 1890s, Kokichi Mikimoto perfected the process of creating whole cultured pearls by introducing an irritant into an oyster's tissue, thereby making high-quality pearl jewelry more available and affordable.
He paints a nightmare picture of scientists owning people's genes (based on a California Supreme Court decision that declared a patient's tissue ceased to be his once it left his body and that doctors could profitably conduct research on that tissue).
There are two main types to choose from: implants or reconstruction using the patient's own tissue.
"It's typically easier, less painful and less invasive" than the second option utilizing the patient's own tissue, he says.
The body produces less healthy estrogen, and more estrone -- a type of estrogen that comes from your body's fat tissue.
Blame the power of marketing like Heinz with ketchup and Kleenex with tissue, Thomas's has always seemed less a brand name than a synonym.
Worse, once absorbed, the chemical is locked into the body's fat tissue (it is only excreted through the placenta and in breast milk).
The technique can provide excellent, detailed images of the body's soft tissue and is an alternative to using X-ray techniques such as computed tomography (CT).
But while demand for other paper products was dropping, U.S. tissue consumption was on the way up, increasing an estimated 7.2% between 2001 and 2011, according to Vertical.
Adiponectin, meanwhile, encourages the body's adipose tissue to absorb lipids.
They had used a small piece of each patient's own tissue from the bladder, then grew the cells in a lab onto a mesh scaffold shaped like a urethra.
The first step for engineering a new urethra is to take a very small piece of the patient's own tissue (around half the size of a postage stamp) from the bladder area.
No remaining cyanide was found in samples of Urooj Khan's body tissue, likely because cyanide breaks down over time, and there was nothing notable from tests on his stomach contents, Stephen Cina told reporters.
The aim of the trial was to see if it made the women's breasts easier to examine in mammograms because young women's breast tissue is dense, making it hard for X-rays to pick up tumours.
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