Sentences with phrase «like other cancer cells»

Like other cancer cells, DLBCL thrive on sugar in the body, drawing on it as as a source of energy it uses to divide in an uncontrolled and almost unlimited manner.

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Phytic acid's chelating effect may serve to prevent, inhibit, or even cure some cancers by depriving those cells of the minerals (especially iron) they need to reproduce.17 The deprivation of essential minerals like iron would, much like other broad treatments for cancer, also have negative effects on non-cancerous cells.

«By studying the ways different proteins like keratin dynamically change within a cell, we can better understand the progression of cancers and other diseases,» they say.

The team found that connective - tissue cells adjacent to colon cancer stem cells secrete growth factors that activate a molecular pathway in other cells that is vital to maintaining stem - cell - like qualities.

Invadopodia release enzymes that degrade the ECM, while other protrusions pull the cancer cell along, much like a locomotive pulls a train.

However, along with this seemingly linear storyline in which retinoids block progesterone's promotion of CK5 + cells, previous work in the lab of CU Cancer Center investigator Peter Kabos, MD, and others shows that breast cancers treated with anti-estrogen drugs like tamoxifen or aromatase inhibitors show an increased population of CK5 + cells — it is as if these therapies remove the roadblock of estrogen - dependent cells, leaving CK5 + cells to proliferate.

«We'd like to extend this further to examine for driver genes in other types of lung cancer, such as squamous cell lung cancer.»

Although some cancers — particularly those that are rife with mutations like lung cancer or melanoma — create more tangible targets on the surface of cells for the immune system to recognize and attack, other malignancies such as prostate and pancreatic cancers have proved more intransigent.

Other evidence shows that miR - 7 can halt cancer cells that operate like stem cells, turning them into new kinds of tissue before they spread.

Tumor cells associated with pancreatic cancer often behave like communities by working with each other to increase tumor spread and growth to different organs.

Importantly, like cancer cells with other mutations in the HR repair pathway, CHD1 - depleted prostate cancer cells proved to be hypersensitive to chemotherapeutic drugs causing DNA breaks, such as Mitomycin C, Irinotecan and PARP inhibitors.

Like other cells, cancer cells boost their production of HSPs in response to stress, but whether they use HSF1 to call the shots wasn't certain.

Like cells in all cancers, the B cells begin to grow out of control, creating tumors in the lymph nodes, spleen or other tissues.

The researchers see devices like this one separating cancer cells from other cells, bacteria from blood, white blood cells from red blood cells and malaria parasites from blood, to name a few uses.

• In March, a University of Wisconsin team reprogrammed skin fibroblasts into embryonic stem cells without incorporating the viral or other foreign DNA that can lead to complications like cancer.

«If you were to compromise the altered physiology of tumors with something like RHT, the cancer cells are going to be less able to tolerate other therapeutic insults, and that probably would give you more effective therapies.

Drugs that inhibit or stabilize epigenetic marks are in clinical use for cancer and are being tested for other indications like sickle cell disease.

Scientists at the Universities of York and Texas have found that a component of cancer cells, which acts like a «cellular post office», could be the key to preventing the spread of lung cancer to other parts of the body.

It remains now to investigate whether this novel secretory route may be exploited by other specialized cells, or targeted in pigmentary disorders or skin cancers like melanoma.

The cancer stem cell theory was born, and the following years saw the discovery of such cells in many other cancers like breast, brain or prostate cancer.

Numerous studies have demonstrated activity of these agents against a wide variety of cancers, especially cancer stem cell - like subpopulations, by a host of different mechanisms which comprise inhibition of signaling pathways, of mitochondrial respiration, as well as of cellular stress responses and others.

Other groups have also reported that exposing cancer cells to environmental factors such as serum deprivation or hypoxia alone can increase the stem - like phenotype or the number of stem - like cancer cells [40, 48, 49].

Local doctors biopsied those tumors and found that the cells acted like cancer cells in their destructiveness but were strange in other respects.

Our results led us to speculate that there might be a metastatic subpopulation within stem - like cancer cells since other studies have shown that CSC phenotype alone may exhibit invasive property in vitro but is inadequate to determine or predict in vivo metastasis.

Cancer tumors, like other living cells, need to consume nutrients and oxygen to sustain themselves.

Like other cancers, breast cancer arises when the cells of the breast lose control over their division and start to invade neighboring tissues.

In leukemic cells, like in other cancers, STAT proteins are frequently constitutively activated in the absence of cytokine stimulation, providing malignant cells with persistent signals and self - sufficiency for survival and proliferation.1

Like other kinds of vaccines, cancer vaccines attack certain cells, and in this case, have an anti-tumor effect.

Antioxidants, like many other natural effective, non-pharmaceutical treatments, not only outsmart cancer cell division and cause cancer cell death, but also help healthy cells maintain optimal cellular viability.

Extensive research into the impact this flood of technology is having upon us is providing solid evidence that chronic exposure to even low - level radiation (like that from mobile / cell phones), can cause a variety of cancers (especially brain cancer), impair immunity, and contribute to Alzheimer's disease, dementia, heart disease, and many other ailments.

However, other studies in mice with breast cancer show that once cancer has already been initiated, stress can lead to increased rates of tumor spread and metastases.26 Similarly, when mice were injected with leukemic cells and stressed physically and physiologically with injections of adrenaline, cancer progression occurred.27 Some scientists even propose that, while necessary in many cases of cancer, undergoing surgery may cause enough stress to lead to tumor promotion and progression.28 Therefore, it seems like acute stress may help fight cancer, chronic stress may help cause it, but once cancer is present, both acute and chronic stress may lead to cancer progression.

And for a vegan bodybuilder who must unfortunatelly play tetris with the food sources that he choses in order to give to his body the right ammounts of aminos, restricting SPI and soy foods so much does not make his goal any easier.There are sometimes that you need a meal thats complete with aminos and soy provides that meal with the additional benefits of lacking the saturated fats trans cholesterol and other endothelium inflammatory factors.I'm not saying that someone should go all the way to 200gr of SPI everyday or consuming a kilo of soy everyday but some servings of soy now and then even every day or the use of SPI which helps in positive nitrogen balance does not put you in the cancer risk team, thats just OVERexaggeration.Exercise, exposure to sunlight, vegan diet or for those who can not something as close to vegan diet, fruits and vegetables which contains lots of antioxidants and phtochemicals, NO STRESS which is the global killer, healthy social relationships, keeping your cortisol and adrenaline levels down (except the necessary times), good sleep and melatonin function, clean air, no radiation, away from procceced foods and additives like msg etc and many more that i can not even remember is the key to longevity.As long as your immune system is functioning well and your natural killer cells TP53 gene and many other cancer inhibitors are good and well, no cancer will ever show his face to you.With that logic we shouldn't eat ANY ammount of protein and we should go straight to be breatharians living only with little water and sunlight exposure cause you like it or not the raise of IGF1 is inevitable i know that raise the IGF1 sky high MAYBE is not the best thing but we are not talking about external hormones and things like this.Stabby raccoon also has a point.And even if you still worry about the consumption of soy... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21711174.

The sugar molecules in reishi mushrooms stimulate the immune system, giving a kick in the pants to immune cells like T - cells and macrophages, whose job it is to attack cancer and other foreign cells.

Red foods like red bell peppers and tomatoes contain a phytochemical called lycopene, which may have an anti-inflammatory affect on the cells lining the heart and blood vessels, and may reduce the risk of developing prostate cancer among other cancers such as breast, lung, bladder, ovarian, and colon.

Phytic acid's chelating effect may serve to prevent, inhibit, or even cure some cancers by depriving those cells of the minerals (especially iron) they need to reproduce.17 The deprivation of essential minerals like iron would, much like other broad treatments for cancer, also have negative effects on non-cancerous cells.

While some studies state soy protein can cut a woman's risk of certain things, like breast cancer and heart disease, other studies insist that it can stimulate the growth of cancer cells.

Unlike most other anticancer agents, the phytates naturally found in whole plant foods may trigger cancer cell differentiation, causing them to revert back to behaving more like normal cells.

They are responsible for destroying healthy cells... and have been linked to all sorts of horrible diseases like cancer, dementia, diabetes and others.

outpatient clinic treats patients with blood cancers and other blood disorders while also offering nontraditional services like stem cell banking for babies and adults, an increasingly popular procedure promising future dividends that are unproven and uncertain.

The antioxidants in blueberries boost the dog's health and reduce the risk of illnesses by destroying the free radicals in the body, which are responsible for cell damage which often leads serious diseases like cancer, heart diseases, and various other chronic and life threatening illnesses.

As far as if surgery will prolong his life - it entirely depends on the cell type of the cancer - just like with people, some act more aggressively than others, so if you can get a cell type with another FNA, your veterinarian can go over the odds with you.

Laboratory testing is also useful to determine whether new red blood cells are being produced, to evaluate the function of the body's other organs, and to search for underlying causes (like infections or cancer).