For many illnesses, researchers would like to
study the diseased cells from a patient in the lab; their ultimate hope is that they can also fix those cells by modifying them genetically and then inject them back into the patient.
Studying the diseased cells in a controlled environment allows scientists to test environmental factors and drugs on the cells, while also gaining insight into how the neurons develop defects or dysfunction.
Not exact matches
A stronger immune system: Another
study found that taking daily cold showers increases the number of
disease - fighting white blood
cells.
The biotech specialist said that its updated phase 2 data in a
study of its poziotinib candidate treatment for non-small
cell lung cancer resulted in a preliminary confirmed objective response rate and potential progression - free survival benefit in patients with the EGFR Exon 20 Mutant form of the
disease.
Studies have shown that their wide array of antioxidants actually inhibit the growth of cancer
cells, as well as protecting the body from cardiovascular
disease — orange vegetables have been shown to provide the most protection against this
disease.
It offers cardio protection, it helps lower bad cholesterol, it may help prevent the progression of multiple sclerosis, it has the ability to regenerate brain
cells after a stroke, it has the ability to cross the blood - brain barrier to potentially ward off Alzheimer's
disease, apparently it's good at wiping amyloid plaque from the brain (which
studies haves linked to Alzheimer's), it may help to prevent certain types of cancer, and
studies have shown that it inhibits cancer
cell growth and metastases (meaning it keeps cancer from spreading).
One
study, published in the «Journal of Alzheimer's
Disease» in October 2013, found that the oil in coconut helps shield nerve cells from the toxic effects of protein plaques, which would otherwise drive Alzheimer's disease progr
Disease» in October 2013, found that the oil in coconut helps shield nerve
cells from the toxic effects of protein plaques, which would otherwise drive Alzheimer's
disease progr
disease progression.
This article is questionable as it has no links or actual references to the
studies it talks about, like someone above has mentioned also there is no information on how the diagnosis were made, and lastly it does not take into account that celiac
disease is NOT an allergy, it is an auto immune
disease where the body attacks its own
cells confusing them with gluten proteins, it is not about tolerance, I would not be trusting this information, do lots of research on your own from legitimate scientific sources before making a decision.
«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.
Cadwell cautions that such a strategy must await further evidence to confirm his theory that this trend in Paneth
cell death occurs in people deficient in ATG16L1 who are, like his
study mice, prone to higher risk of inflammatory
disease and transplant rejection.
«Our
study results are the first to argue that we may be able to treat inflammatory bowel
disease and protect against transplant rejection not only by blocking TNF alpha as is done currently, but also by stimulating ATG16L1 to prevent early death of
cells lining the gut,» says
study senior investigator Ken Cadwell, PhD, an associate professor at NYU School of Medicine and NYU Langone Health's Skirball Institute for Biomolecular Medicine.
McCallion's strategy to make sense of all this data looks at the active genes in
cells affected by a
disease, groups of genes that interact with one another, their vulnerability to mutation and information from past scientific
studies to filter more than a thousand gene candidates for
disease risk down to just a handful within any one implicated region.
A related paper, involving Svendsen, his colleague Gad Vatine, PhD, and a team from University of California, Irvine, published the same day in the journal
Cell Reports, used a similar approach to
study Huntington's
disease.
In a
study, his team found that female incest survivors had abnormalities in the ratios of immune
cells, compared with untraumatised women, exposing them to autoimmune
diseases.
In the present
study, the researchers have discovered a reason for reduced fertility in people with autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 1 (APS1), which increases the risk of developing autoimmune
disease (caused by the immune system attacking and damaging healthy
cells) and which is often used as a model for autoimmune
disease in general.
The diagnosis of cancer and
study of
disease progression is often accomplished by examining a tumor sample containing many billions or even trillions of
cells.
Workers in Chinese factories exposed to high levels of formaldehyde had lower counts of white blood
cells that fight germs and
diseases, according to a 2010
study led by Zhang.
«Chronic inflammation of the intestine is thought to be caused by abnormal interactions between gut microbes, intestinal epithelial
cells and the immune system, but so far it has been impossible to determine how each of these factors contribute to the development of intestinal bowel
disease,» said Hyun Jung Kim, Ph.D., former Wyss Technology Development Fellow and first author on the
study, speaking about the limitations of conventional in vitro and animal models of bacterial overgrowth and inflammation of the intestines.
Scientists use
cell reprogramming techniques to produce
cells in the lab so that they can
study diseases.
In a groundbreaking
study that provides scientists with a critical new understanding of stem
cell development and its role in disease, UCLA researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research led by Dr. Kathrin Plath, professor of biological chemistry, have established a first - of - its - kind methodology that defines the unique stages by which specialized cells are reprogrammed into stem cells that resemble those found in the emb
cell development and its role in
disease, UCLA researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem
Cell Research led by Dr. Kathrin Plath, professor of biological chemistry, have established a first - of - its - kind methodology that defines the unique stages by which specialized cells are reprogrammed into stem cells that resemble those found in the emb
Cell Research led by Dr. Kathrin Plath, professor of biological chemistry, have established a first - of - its - kind methodology that defines the unique stages by which specialized
cells are reprogrammed into stem
cells that resemble those found in the embryo.
Scientists have made a key discovery that could speed up the production of
cells in the lab for
studying diseases such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's
disease.
What impact they may have had is now only a guess, but this
study revealed that these
cells were less common in the brains of women who had Alzheimer's
disease, suggesting they may be related to the health of the brain.
«Cultural revolution in the
study of the gut microbiome: Human gut - on - a-chip technology used to co-culture gut microbiome, human intestinal
cells could lead to new therapies for inflammatory bowel
diseases.»
Today in
Cell and associated journals, 24 research
studies from the landmark BLUEPRINT project and IHEC consortia reveal how variation in blood
cells» characteristics and numbers can affect a person's risk of developing complex
diseases such as heart
disease, and autoimmune
diseases including rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, celiac
disease and type 1 diabetes.
In preclinical
studies using
cell models that mimicked liver
cells of patients with the rare
disease Friedreich's ataxia (FA), a widely used cholesterol - lowering drug increased a precursor of HDL (high - density lipoprotein), the «good cholesterol,» according to new research published in PLOS ONE from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
The idea to specifically
study this group of patients was based on groundbreaking research Garon published in the New England Journal of Medicine last year, which found that among patients who received pembrolizumab, those with PD - L1 expression on at least 50 percent of their cancer
cells showed the longest survival and
disease control.
«Mechanistic finding may help develop treatment for Ice Bucket Challenge
disease:
Study blames a fault in the
cell's machine that cuts and pastes genetic instructions for a deadly motor neuron
disease.»
«We found that a particular vaginal bacterium, Gardnerella vaginalis, did not cause infection during exposure to the urinary tract, but it damaged the
cells on the surface of the bladder and caused E. coli from a previous UTI to start multiplying, leading to another bout of
disease,» said the
study's senior author, Amanda Lewis, PhD, an assistant professor of molecular microbiology and of obstetrics and gynecology at Washington University.
Yang said the
study not only indicated which genes are affected by traumatic brain injury and linked to serious
disease, but also might point to the genes that govern metabolism,
cell communication and inflammation — which might make them the best targets for new treatments for brain disorders.
Guo and his collaborators continue their
studies by establishing additional mouse models of leukemia that have been transplanted with patient
cells of relapsed and refractory
disease.
Dr. McCabe said nanoparticles are a leading - edge technology also being
studied for delivery of drugs for other conditions, such as cancer, heart
disease, and bacterial infections, in order to target specific
cells to reduce toxicity and side effects of those medications and to make them more effective.
Researchers at Nagoya University have been
studying the therapeutic effect of T
cells, vital
disease - fighting components in our body's immune system, for fighting cancer.
We believe that they will also lead to the development of a whole new range of therapies for neurodegenerative
diseases of the central nervous system,» explains corresponding author of the
study Jihwan Song, professor and director of Neural Regeneration and Therapy Group at the CHA Stem
Cell Institute of CHA University.
This proof - of - principle
study shows «for the first time... that human iPS
cells can be used to model a diverse range of inherited
diseases in adult
cells,» the authors wrote in their paper, published online in The Journal of Clinical Investigation August 25.
A new
study has found that stem
cell therapy can reduce lung inflammation in an animal model of chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease (COPD) and cystic fibrosis.
«Our
studies show that mutations in our white blood
cell cells, that we acquire as we age, may cause cardiovascular
disease.
Tissue engineering provides a more practical means for researchers to
study cell behavior, such as cancer
cell resistance to therapy, and test new drugs or combinations of drugs to treat many
diseases.
Specifically, the Mount Sinai
study was designed to test whether pharmacological compounds designed to block the function of XPO1 / CRM1 could stop
disease progression in mouse models that exhibit some of the characteristics of MS. Researchers found that two chemical agents (called KPT - 276 and KPT - 350) prevented XPO1 / CRM1 from shuttling cargo out of the nucleus of nerve
cells, which protected them from free radicals and structural damage.
In addition, the substance used to stick
cells together (ViaGlue), will provide researchers with tools to create and test 3D in vitro cardiac tissue in their own labs to
study heart
disease and issues with transplantation.
Now, a UCLA
study has traced the Pavlovian response to a small cluster of brain
cells — the same neurons that go awry during Huntington's
disease, Parkinson's
disease and Tourette's syndrome.
Together, the two
studies advance the idea that gut microbes play a role in turning the immune system against nerve
cells, causing MS.. It will take a lot more work to develop cures or preventive strategies based on that, but the research raises the intriguing possibility of treating an often - devastating
disease with something as low - tech as fecal transplants or probiotics.
The
study involved laboratory
cell lines of human leukemia and mouse models of the
disease.
Comparing his
study to Surmeier's, Redmond noted: «One is an approach to try to minimize
disease progression or maybe even get some recovery, the other is more aimed at the other end, after (dopamine - producing]
cells are already dead.»
Mice transplanted with
cells grown from a patient suffering from Huntington's
disease (HD) develop the clinical features and brain pathology of that patient, suggests a
study published in the latest issue of Acta Neuropathologica by CHA University in Korea, in collaboration with researchers at Université Laval in Québec City, Canada.
Studying such
diseases is a good first step because they are cancers of immune
cells themselves, and it's possible to analyze them with a mere blood sample.
In research that has implications for diabetes and other metabolic
diseases, an international
study based at UT Southwestern Medical Center found that the protein connexin 43 (Cx43) forms
cell - to -
cell communication channels on the surface of emerging beige fat
cells that amplify the signals from those few nerve fibers.
The
study successfully countered harmful effects of mutant huntingtin and protected nerve
cells in several models of Huntington's
disease.
«The compounds identified in this
study, when administered orally, both reduced the inflammation that is a hallmark of multiple sclerosis and protected against the nerve
cell damage seen in mouse models of the
disease,» said Jeffery Haines, PhD, a post-doctoral fellow at Mount Sinai and the
study's lead author.
But a new
study suggests that mature
cells also play a key role in initiating cancer — a finding that could upend the way scientists think about the origins of the
disease.
A
study has traced the Pavlovian response to a small cluster of brain
cells — the same neurons that go awry during Huntington's
disease, Parkinson's
disease and Tourette's syndrome.