Sentences with phrase «at distant sites»

Maintaining a healthy mouth not only helps prevent dental pain, but recent studies suggest oral care may help prevent problems at distant sites of the body.

Importantly, it's secretion from normal cells can be induced by activating p53 so that Par - 4 enters circulation, thereby potentially targeting tumor cells at distant sites.

Institutions that must staff courses given at distant sites and odd hours are especially tempted to lean heavily on occasional teachers rather than regular faculty, many of whom don't like to move around or to teach after dinner.

Cells that slough into the bloodstream can take hold at distant sites — and a metastasis is born.

«The recent discovery of tumor - promoting milieus, referred to as metastatic niches, that are established at distant sites prior to or upon the arrival of disseminated tumor cells could explain cancer cells that relapse early, but in late relapsing populations, what tumor cells do from the time of dissemination to the time they become clinically detectable has been a big question.»

For their initial evaluation, telemedicine participants were interviewed at their local community clinic through real - time video teleconferencing by a sleep specialist at a distant site.

With PTHLH, the cells that have colonized the liver are armed with a system that facilitate their activity at a distant site and they are able to prepare a niche in which to generate a new lung lesion.

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) of human primary motor cortex (M1) changes cortical excitability at the site of stimulation and at distant sites without affecting simple motor

Fewer than 10 percent of patients had a local recurrence after treatment, but 20 percent of patients had their disease resurface at a distant site.

Occasionally, metastasis can occur at distant sites (lungs, liver) without evidence of spread to the regional lymph nodes (termed «skip metastasis).

When the wind farms are located at distant sites — a typical occurrence because that's where the wind happens to blow strongest — the immense transmission corridors needed to carry the power to urban markets consume more land, despoiling farm and cottage country in the process.

When antibodies are not available: The ability of cancer cells to establish lethal metastatic lesions requires the survival and expansion of single cancer cells at distant sites.

This allows cancer cells to break off from tumors, spread throughout the body (in blood or other fluid) and form new tumors at distant sites — a process called metastasis.

Studies in cancer patients indicate reduced rates of relapse when patients are pretreated with epigenetic drugs due to its far - reaching capabilities; killing progenitor cells at the site of the tumor, in circulation, or at a distant site.

Eventually some tumor cells may break off and establish new growths (metastases) at distant sites.