Sentences with phrase «aggressive ovarian cancer cells»

In a May 2014 study, Nagrath and colleagues found that highly aggressive ovarian cancer cells were glutamine - dependent and that depriving the cells of external sources of glutamine — as some experimental drugs do — was an effective way to kill late - stage ovarian cancer cells in the lab.

«For example, we found that highly aggressive ovarian cancer cells are glutamine - dependent, and in our laboratory studies, we showed that depriving such cells of external sources of glutamine — as some experimental drugs do — was an effective way to kill late - stage cells.

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The study evaluated 56 patients with ovarian clear cell adenocarcinoma (CCA), an aggressive form of ovarian cancer that is more likely to be resistant to chemotherapy and to have a poorer prognosis than other forms of this disease.

They systematically deleted genes for secreted effector proteins — molecules that the parasite injects into a host cell to modulate the immune system during infection — and injected the altered parasites into mice with aggressive ovarian cancer.

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