Sentences with phrase «affect tumor cell growth»

A few years ago, Manalis and colleagues set out to adapt this technique to predict how cancer drugs affect tumor cell growth.

Not exact matches

«To my great surprise, even injecting 10 million activated T cells specific to the P1A antigen did not affect tumor growth in this induced tumor model,» says Van den Eynde.

The Campàs lab is studying several of these questions, including how limbs are built and how mechanical changes in tumors affect the behavior of malignant cells and the growth of the tumor.

Increasing levels of PUMA only affected stem - like cells that were starting to spread and not the growth of primary tumors.

«You can see they are very active and affect the DNA in the tumor tremendously, causing lots of mutations that may further the cells» uncontrolled growth, says Alon Keinan, a computational biologist at Cornell University.

These analyses showed that Angiopoietin - 2 is not just affecting angiogenesis, but controls at the same time the production of tumor promoting growth factors in endothelial cells.

Ectopic expression of KLF4 alone in 231BrM did not affect the primary tumor growth in vivo and this is due to the fact that the endogenous level of KLF4 in 231BrM cells is already quite high.

It affects the division of cancer cells and can slow tumor growth.

Mast cell tumors are growths that most commonly affect the skin, but may also infiltrate the spleen and liver.

And lab experiments have shown that estrogen may inhibit tumor development in the colon by affecting cell growth, or by lowering levels of a cancer - linked hormone called IGF - 1.