Sentences with phrase «brain tumor cells use»

As part of the research, Castro and her colleagues determined that brain tumor cells use the mTOR pathway to hamper the immune response of patients.

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«Herpes - loaded stem cells used to kill brain tumors.»

Further preclinical work will be needed to use the herpes - loaded stem cells for breast, lung and skin cancer tumors that metastasize to the brain.

«Mechanisms cancer cells use to establish metastatic brain tumors revealed by research.»

Again, using mouse models of glioblastoma — this time created from brain tumor cells that were resistant to the herpes virus — the therapy led to increased animal survival.

«We believe that small subsets of metastatic tumor cells have the ability to adopt the mechanisms used by immune cells to exit the blood vessels into the lungs, the bone marrow, the brain, and other organs.

After spending years fighting claims that cell phone use can cause brain tumors, industry reps may be getting some welcome news.

Interphone compared surveyed cell phone use in 6,420 people with brain tumors to that of 7,658 healthy people in 13 developed countries — Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and the U.K. — to try to determine whether people with brain tumors had used their cell phones more than healthy people, an association that might suggest that cell phones caused the tumors.

On the fly, neurosurgeons can use the pen - sized instrument on the brain to view the tumor cells with unique fluorescent characteristics that outline the tumor cells.

Scientists at Barrow Neurological Institute have recently made discoveries about use of a new technology for imaging brain tumors in the operating room — a finding that could have important implications for identifying and locating invading cells at the edge of a brain tumor.

There is plenty of anecdotal evidence out there claiming a link between cell phone use and cancer: Keith Black, chairman of neurosurgery at Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, says that the brain cancer (malignant glioma) that killed O. J. Simpson's attorney, Johnnie Cochran, was the result of frequent cell phone use, based on the fact that the tumor developed on the side of the head against which he held his phone.

«Long term and frequent use of cell phones which receive and emit radio frequency may be associated with an increased risk of brain tumors,» Herberman told lawmakers.

His research largely focuses on new means to incorporate imaging methods to view cells of brain tumors with a hand held instrument that a neurosurgeon can use to visualize the individual cells during the progress of the operation.

To overcome these problems, Min and his team developed a new modality to visualize glucose uptake activity inside single cells based on stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) imaging, and demonstrated its use in live cancer cells, tumor xenograft tissues, primary neurons and mouse brain tissues.

«A few years ago we recognized that stem cells could be used to continuously deliver these therapeutic toxins to tumors in the brain, but first we needed to genetically engineer stem cells that could resist being killed themselves by the toxins,» he said.

In the AlphaMed Press journal Stem Cells, Shah's team shows how the toxin - secreting stem cells can be used to eradicate cancer cells remaining in mouse brains after their main tumor has been remCells, Shah's team shows how the toxin - secreting stem cells can be used to eradicate cancer cells remaining in mouse brains after their main tumor has been remcells can be used to eradicate cancer cells remaining in mouse brains after their main tumor has been remcells remaining in mouse brains after their main tumor has been removed.

Researchers studying the brain tumor type glioma often use a cell line called U87MG that was established at Uppsala University almost fifty years ago.

Rubin used a cell model of glioblastoma to prove it is easier to make male brain cells become tumors.

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

Past clinical trials of stem cell therapies for chronic stroke patients used cells derived from tumors in humans and brain tissue from fetal pigs.

The safe use of a stem - cell - based therapy against brain metastasis would require preventing the engineered cells from persisting within the brain, where they could affect normal tissue and possibly give rise to new tumors.

In this report, we indeed showed that CSCs isolated from both 231BoM and 231BrM have strong tumor - initiating abilities; however, they preferentially metastasize to bone and brain, respectively, despite the fact that these cells were isolated using the same markers (CD24 − / CD44 + / ESA +).

The Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplant Program is expanding the use of this technique for patients with solid tumors including neuroblastoma and brain tumors; a variety of high - risk hematologic diseases, such as thalassemia major and transfusion - dependent sickle cell disease; and other nonmalignant diseaCell Transplant Program is expanding the use of this technique for patients with solid tumors including neuroblastoma and brain tumors; a variety of high - risk hematologic diseases, such as thalassemia major and transfusion - dependent sickle cell disease; and other nonmalignant diseacell disease; and other nonmalignant diseases.

Biocellion is being used to model a variety of biological system behaviors, such as biofilm formation and wrinkling, microbial growth dynamics in complex soil structure, brain tumor growth and invasion, formation of complex bacterial colonies, and changes in blood vessels and skin cells.

Using the technique as a proof of principle, the researchers were able to detect transplanted tumor cells in animal brains.

Most xenograft models for brain tumors using tumor cell lines require at least 10,000 cells.

In the latest issue of the magazine EBioMedicine researchers at SciLifeLab / Uppsala University present a biobank with cell lines that can be used as models for brain tumors.

A new faculty member at Winship, Tracy - Ann Read, recently published her research on a molecule that could be used to identify «tumor - propagating cells» in medulloblastoma, a form of brain cancer.

Cell phone use was linked to both malignant and benign brain tumors after ten years of cell phone Cell phone use was linked to both malignant and benign brain tumors after ten years of cell phone cell phone use.

A meta - analysis published in the International Journal of Oncology, carried out by Swedish researchers, found significant associations between long - term cell phone use and brain tumors.