Sentences with phrase «becoming myeloid»

Using mice deficient in Del - 1, they found that the protein promotes proliferation and differentiation of hematopoetic stem cells, sending more of these progenitor cells down a path toward becoming myeloid cells, such as macrophages and neutrophils, rather than lymphocytes, such as T cells and B cells.

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In 2011, after spending 8 years as an industry researcher, Arefolov took the seemingly backward step of becoming a postdoc in the lab of Harvard University chemistry professor Matthew Shair to work on developing a promising — and potentially lucrative — new approach to treating acute myeloid leukemia.

Myeloid cells are cells that would have become other blood cells (white blood cells other than lymphocytes, red blood cells or platelets) under normal development.

Resveratrol also decreases phase III protein synthesis and a study showed that in a cell culture this prevented acute myeloid leukemia cells from becoming resistant to the chemotherapy drug doxorubicin (24).

Mice and human volunteers who underwent cycles of the Fasting Mimicking Diet had decreased numbers of myeloid cells, the inflammatory immune cells that become more numerous as we age, and increased numbers of cytotoxic T cells, which protect the body against viruses and cancer.