Sentences with phrase «studying cancer cell metabolism»

Dr. Christiane Opitz — Studying cancer cell metabolism, treating terminally ill patients, pursuing an academic career and enjoying motherhood.

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Middle - aged people who eat protein - heavy diets are four times as likely to die of cancer as those who eat only a little protein, according to the study, which was published in the journal Cell Metabolism.

Contrary to current research this new study found that LKB1, a molecule that regulates the metabolism of many adult cells, is an important molecule in the cancer's promotion and survival.

This suggests that «the python intestine may represent a valuable model for studying the interactions of metabolism with the regulation of cell division / death and WNT signaling relevant to cancer,» the researchers said.

Frigo and his team demonstrated in this study that androgens take control of the AMPK signaling cascade, a master regulator of metabolism, to increase prostate cancer cell growth.

In a study presented in the featured clinical investigation article of the November issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, they used 18F - fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET / CT imaging to show that the amount of cell - free tumor DNA circulating in the bloodstream correlates with tumor metabolism (linked to cancer aggressiveness), not tumor burden (amount of cancer in the body).

After completing her graduate studies in 2006, she joined the laboratory of Dr. Craig B. Thompson at the University of Pennsylvania for postdoctoral work focusing on cancer cell metabolism.

Lee believes that the study findings provide additional insight about the «crosstalk» between cancer metabolism and cell cycle.

To address these questions, Dang, Altman, and Hsieh collaborated with Penn colleague, Aalim Weljie, PhD, research assistant professor of Pharmacology, using an osteosarcoma cancer cell line to study the interaction of MYC and metabolism in cancer cells.

«This work ties together the study of cell metabolism and cancer chronotherapy — If cells don't have to «rest,» they may replicate all the time, with no breaks at all.»

«Our original hypothesis was that cancer cells were modifying their metabolism based on communications they were receiving from cells in the microenvironment near the tumor,» said Nagrath, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Rice and co-author of a new study describing the research in the open - access journal eLife.

«Some studies suggested that exosomes harbored the potential to regulate cancer cell metabolism, but most research had focused on the exosomes that were produced and emitted by cancer cells themselves.

If you read some of the published studies from Dr. Seyfried and Dr. D'Agostino, you'll see that they are working on the idea of combining this kind of therapeutic ketosis with other supplements that challenge cancer cell metabolism.

A 2015 study in mice, published in the journal Cell Metabolism, found that following a calorie - restricted diet that mimics fasting for five days a month for three months may promote a longer life and also reduce the risk factors for a number of conditions, including certain cancers, diabetes, and heart disease.

In 1931 Otto Heinrich Warburg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology for his study on the metabolism of tumors and the respiration of cells, particularly cancer cells.

This is a link to another recent Cell Metabolism study publication that looked at actual people as opposed to mice - Low Protein Intake Is Associated with a Major Reduction in IGF 1, Cancer, and Overall Mortality in the 65 and Younger but Not Older Population Cell Metabolism, Volume 19, Issue 3, 407 - 417, 4 March 2014

Because cancer cell metabolism relies upon glucose, minimizing a tumor's access to sugar as a means to manage or even limit cancerous cell growth has been the subject of several recent cancer therapy studies.