Sentences with phrase «brain tumor cell death»

The drug caused a 50-fold increase in brain tumor cell death.

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Glioblastoma is the most lethal form of primary brain tumor and leads to death in patients by invading the brain tissue in a process that allows single cells to move through normal brain tissue, which makes complete surgical removal of the tumor impossible.

The team's experiments in cell cultures, conducted with funding from an American Brain Tumor Association Discovery Grant, showed that coibamide A cuts off the cancer cells» ability to communicate with blood vessels and other cells, eventually starving the cell and triggering its death.

The researchers injected a compound normally used to label tumor cell division into patients who had agreed to have their brains examined after death.

If he can determine how to speed up engulfment of dead tumor cells from brain tissue, it is his hope to reduce the harmful inflammation that causes death of surrounding neurons.

In a laboratory study published in 2012 in Oncology Reports, chokeberries caused the death of malignant brain tumor cells.