Sentences with phrase «cell treatment restores»
5/31/2007 Human Stem Cell Treatment Restores Motor Function in Paralyzed Rats Rats paralyzed due to loss of blood flow to the spine returned to near normal ambulatory function six weeks after receiving grafts of human spinal stem cells (hSSCs), researchers from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine... More...
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Such treatment could, in theory, repopulate the eye with cells that have been destroyed, helping restore lost sight.
The treatment not only led the spinal cord cells to produce and secrete ChABC in large quantities over areas spanning the injury epicenter, it helped to maintain the overall health of the damaged spinal cord and restored hind limb function in the animals within 12 weeks.
By manipulating the function of certain immune cells, called T cells, researchers could help restore the system's balance and create new treatments to target these diseases.
Blocking PD - 1 with checkpoint - inhibiting drugs — and thereby restoring the cancer - killing zeal of T cells — has become one of the most successful new approaches to cancer treatment in nearly a decade.
The study of these creatures has the potential to be rather robust in implications for regenerative medicine, an area of treatment for repairing or replacing human cells, tissues or organs on Earth to restore normal function.
A new gene therapy treatment has restored some sight in a handful of blind patients suffering from Leber's congenital amaurosis, a syndrome in which, because of a broken or missing gene called RPE65, retinal photoreceptor cells malfunction and eventually die.
«Our work not only holds potential for developing cells for treatment of other areas of the eye, but could set the stage for future human clinical trials of anterior eye transplantation to restore visual function.»
One fundamental goal of diabetes treatment is to preserve and restore functional beta cells, thereby replenishing levels of a hormone called insulin, which moves blood glucose into cells to fuel their energy needs.
In cultured cells, drugs that inhibit Cdk1 prevented HIF - 1alpha levels from falling and restored its ability to halt cell division, suggesting they may be effective treatments for certain cancers.
Thanks to the use of a chemical or a thermic treatment, we succeeded in «repairing» these cells» clock and restoring it to its normal functioning.
However, the new findings suggest the possibility of treatments that would prevent neuronal damage by restoring the healthy balance of phase separation in the cells of people with ALS / FTD mutations.
The ability to create sensory interneurons with a patient's own reprogrammed cells holds significant potential for the creation of a cell - based treatment that restores the sense of touch without immune suppression.
Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine were testing whether GM - CSF (granulocyte - macrophage colony stimulating factor), already used to restore white blood cell numbers during cancer treatment, could help heal blood vessels damaged by atherosclerosis.
But the new study firmly establishes that some of these cells endure for many decades in some Medalists — offering clues to potential treatments for preserving and even restoring the crucial cell population, says George L. King, M.D., senior author on the paper, Joslin's chief scientific officer and head of the Dianne Nunnally Hoppes Laboratory for Diabetes Complications.
Treatment also restored a more normal size to anterior horn cells, and increased both total muscle area and myofiber diameter.
The scientists recently received a five - year, $ 1.6 million grant from the National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research, a part of the National Institutes of Health, to study stem cells that may restore salivary gland tissue damaged by cancer treatment.
Developing strategies to inhibit this signaling within tumor cells could help restore T cell access and enhance the potential of immune - mediated cancer treatment.»
Kelly and her team found that a chemical treatment removed the deformation, but they're still working to understand if the restored protein can operate normally in cells.
For the first time, an experimental treatment made from human embryonic stem cells has shown evidence of helping someone, partially restoring sight to two people suffering from slowly progressing forms of blindness
The treatment worked by restoring the function of the heart cells as well as preventing them from failing.
When years of MS treatment (chemotherapy, pharmaceuticals, etc.) left her confined to a wheelchair for four years, Dr. Wahl's set out to restore the function of her brain (and her mitochondria cells) through nutrition.
«Skin cells grow faster when you're asleep, so a nighttime treatment can add nutrients that help to repair and restore even better, says NYC dermatologist and The Beauty of Dirty Skin author, Dr. Whitney Bowe.
By getting rid of the microbes in the organs, plus doing the normal cancer treatments, the balance (i.e. a strong immune system and a low number of cancer cells) is restored enough to keep cancer from coming back.
Not everyone will need the same plan, but the treatment - correction - prevention plan aims to restore cell youth, including improving mitochondrial health to recharge vitality.
Germline stem cells from infant mice can restore fertility in sterilised adult mice Finding ways to restore fertility could help many individuals which have become sterile as a result of cancer treatments, in addition to those suffering from an earlier menopause.
Whichever the treatment administered, the ultimate goal is to prevent further spreading of the cancer cells, remove all cancerous tissue when possible and restore the dog's quality of life.