Sentences with phrase «allows tumour cells»

In the case of cancer, ineffective cell adhesion allows tumour cells to detach and invade other tissues, thereby spreading cancer throughout the body.

This implies that cancer genes, and the mechanisms that allow tumour cells to evade apoptosis, «have deep evolutionary roots».

Tumours spread with the help of enzymes called matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), which destroy the connective tissue between cells and organs, allowing tumour cells to break out of the original site and enter new ones.

Not exact matches

Tumours grow through a process of Darwinian evolution, where cancer cells develop an advantageous mutation that allows them to survive and multiply, producing a population of cells which can mutate further.

«With this breakthrough it is possible to generate cell models with the same alterations as observed in tumour cells from patients, which will allow us to study their role in tumour development,» says CNIO researcher Sandra Rodríguez - Perales.

The new device will allow for more accurate medical procedures that involve the use of ultrasound to kill tumours, loosen blood clots and deliver drugs into targeted cells.

This leads to the production of fatty acids — the building blocks of new cells — thereby allowing the tumours to proliferate wildly.

This bank of living tumour cells allowed the team to study not only the genetics of the cells, but also how genetic mutations in the mitochondria — which drive energy production in the cell — caused changes in the cell's metabolism.

To identify procedures and safety systems that will allow complete elimination of proliferative and / or tumour - forming cells from the graft cell preparations;

Functional imaging using in vivo confocal microscopy which allows the analysis of vaso - activity phenomena during hypoxia, of ischaemia reperfusion events, or of homing cells in pathologic processes, such as tumours or inflammatory diseases.

This allows for potent tumour cell killing, and an overall decreased metastatic burden.