Sentences with phrase «block formation of tumor»

Using a mathematical modeling approach, scientists have found that certain parameters of tumor growth in mice can predict the effectiveness of drugs that block formation of tumor - nourishing blood vessels.

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The discovery of a treatment capable of blocking the mechanism responsible for the formation of metastasis and the existence of a family of promising compounds, is encouragement for their future assessment in a clinical study that aims to validate a preventive treatment against tumor metastasis.

Liang Xu, Ph.D. member of the KU Cancer Center's Drug Discovery, Delivery and Experimental Therapeutics program and associate professor of molecular biosciences at KU, has discovered that targeting a cell - surface receptor called «CD44s» can block pancreatic tumor formation and recurrence after radiotherapy.

But most importantly, the researchers say, in three laboratory tests of tumor growth, the drug strongly blocked tumor formation in distant metastases and their precursors.

Knocking down the expression of either the fruit fly version of the FOXD1 gene or the fruit fly version of ALDH1A3 blocks the formation of brain tumors in a brain cancer model of the fruit fly species Drosophila melanogaster, the researchers found.

Meds are more targeted Avastin, for instance, is a so - called angiogenesis inhibitor, which blocks the formation of blood vessels that feed tumors.

Not only can phytates block the formation of new blood vessels that may be feeding tumors, they can disrupt pre-formed capillary tubes, indicating that phytates may not only help blockade tumors, but actively cut off existing supply lines.

And many phytonutrients may help block the formation of new blood vessels that feed tumors, and others appear to defend against toxic invaders.

Some studies have shown that feeding your rat certain vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, and others) may actively block formation of cancerous tumors.