Sentences with phrase «by special cells»

Formed by special cells that contain «attack» enzymes that can break down proteins of invading parasites into the body, mast cells are a component of the immune system and their unique make up makes them a distinctively behaving cancer.

These complexes are normally removed by special cells called macrophages.

Light intensity is detected by special cells in the retina and this information is relayed to the internal body clock, located deep in a part of the brain called the suprachiasmatic nucleus.

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Using their cell phones, consumers will type in a keyword (which customers select) followed by a common short code, which is a special phone number.

But Canadian officials expressed skepticism, noting that the war had been grinding on and that «there may be little reliable evidence to gather» and that «organizers of whatever (improvised explosive device) cell (which) supported and directed the dead bomber have been killed» by special forces.

The public hearing portion concerned the approval of a special permit for the cell phone tower at Stony Ridge Plaza operated by T - Mobile Northeast LLC.

and Robison, special focus will be given this year to the everyday heroes who save lives by donating blood, bone marrow and stem cells, as well as those who volunteer as first responders in their communities.

For decades, critics of the sprawling state prison system have assailed New York's policy of punishing convicts by consigning them to «Special Housing Units,» parking - space - sized cells where prisoners can remain isolated up to 23 hours a day.

The Force spokesman added:» The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, deployed Police Special Intervention Force, comprising five units of the Police Mobile Force, five Cells of Counter Terrorism Unit, Conventional Policemen, Special Anti - Robbery Squad, Intelligence Response Team, Technical Intelligence Unit, SIB, detachment of EOD and Police K9 (Sniffer Dogs Section), with their Headquarters in Ile - Ife, led by the Commissioner of Police in charge of PMF, Force Headquarters, Abuja.

A decade ago, he replicated the entire human leukemia disease process by introducing oncogenes into normal human blood cells, transplanting them into xenografts (special immune - deficient mice that accept human grafts) and watching leukemia develop — a motherlode discovery that has guided leukemia research ever since.

«By observing entorhinal - hippocampal neurons based on their birthdate, we realized that these cells were somehow special and very different from the other surrounding cell types, which was instrumental to find out how and to what extent they influenced the assembly of the network.»

Encased in bone and protected by a special layer of cells, it is shielded from infections and injuries — but also from many pharmaceuticals and even from the body's own immune defenses.

The cells were put into a special culture and then suspended in a gel and stimulated by nutrients, all geared to turn them into neurons like those found in the cortex.

Chemist Bjorn Winther - Jensen of Monash University in Australia and his colleagues addressed that problem by developing new electrodes for fuel cells made from a special conducting polymer, that costs around $ 57 per counce.

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

The new «tumor in a dish» method begins by taking the cancerous tissue removed during surgery or biopsy, cutting it up into small pieces and putting them in a special collagen gel that maintains them as «organoids» that retain the three - dimensional structure of the original tumor and include supporting cells from the tumor's environment.

In this case, it was not by using a special formula of transcription factors, but by inducing damage to tell the body to repair itself and that it needs new cells of a certain type to do that.

The study was funded by grants from Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany; National Institutes of Health (EY018213, EY001919, EY020846, DK042394, DK088227, and HL052173); Foundation Fighting Blindness; National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre at Moorfields Eye Hospital; NHS Foundation Trust; UCL Institute of Ophthalmology; Fight For Sight; Moorfields Eye Hospital Special Trustees; and Barbara & Donald Jonas Laboratory of Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, Bernard & Shirlee Brown Glaucoma Laboratory, the Joan and Michael Schneeweiss Stem Cell Fund and Research to Prevent Blindness.

Vaterite has special properties that make it a potentially superior carrier for medications due to its high loading capacity, high uptake by cells and its solubility properties that enable it to deliver a sustained and targeted release of therapeutic medicines to patients.

Using the Drosophila melanogaster fruit fly as a model organism, the team led by Prof. Dr. Ingrid Lohmann at Heidelberg University's Centre for Organismal Studies was able to show how a special developmental gene from the Hox family influences germline stem cells.

A new study points to one way by which these newly - formed cells, which all contain the same DNA, take on their special identities.

In a published study, the team of researchers implanted human pluripotent stem cells in a special line of pigs developed by Randall Prather, an MU Curators Professor of reproductive physiology.

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have discovered an important process by which special immune cells in the skin help heal wounds.

Look up «lysogenic virus» and you read: «a special type of virus bacterial cell interaction maintained by a complex cellular regulatory mechanism».

Lee and Cate's research hints that this secret lever, which triggers translation of only a special subset of mRNAs — perhaps only 500 out of some 10,000 mRNAs produced by a cell — will be found to play a critical role in other diseases besides cancer, as well as in plants and animals.

«That way, information transmitted by this special dendrite influences the behavior of the nerve cell more than input from any other dendrite,» Kelly says.

«They didn't need a special delivery of this material into the cell; it went by itself.

The key to these makeovers are special pigment - containing cells called chromatophores, which, when activated by light, can spread their pigments out or bunch them up to change the skin's overall color or pattern.

The article, which lays out a broad research agenda for neuroscience, is featured this month in a special edition of Neuron, a journal published by Cell Press.

These are special types of proteins that control the process by which blood - forming stem cells differentiate into different types of blood cells.

IRB Barcelona has named Joan Font - Burgada (Caldes de Montbui, Barcelona, 1977) winner of the 2018 IRB Barcelona Alumni of Excellence Award «for his important contributions to understand the development of cancer, in particular, why cancers evolve with mutations that are poorly immunogenic, and also for the identification of special hepatic reparative cells with low propensity to produce cancer,» states the report by the jury — a body formed by senior IRB Barcelona researchers with expertise across several fields of research.

Their image, showing six different computational visualizations of a cell membrane for a single brain cell, was featured as the cover story in a special issue of Biophysical Journal, that focuses on brain biophysics and is published by the Biophysical Society.

Format: Website Years Covered: currently active UK trials as of June 2017 Search Strategy: Not disclosed Project Focus: advanced cell therapy, active that year, in the UK only Special Notes: on - line sort by 4 parameters, archives for previous years back to 2012.

Format: Publication Years Covered: Feb 2000 - June 2010 Search Strategy: Manually search registry by keywords Project Focus: Decadal review ClinicalTrials.gov Special Notes: Found 2724 cell therapy trials total, eliminate 37 % (1008) that are «conventional grafts»

By this, researchers demonstrated that a peripheral nerve injury in rats would send a message from the damaged nerve cell to special spinal cord immune cells called «glial cells».

Format: Publication Years Covered: 1992 - 2012 Search Strategy: Manually search registries by keywords Project Focus: Two Decades review of the world Special Notes: Found 4749 cell therapy trials total, but only 1058 are «novel» therapy

Format: Publication Years Covered: Cumulative to 2015/06/29 Search Strategy: Software search registry by MeSH code Project Focus: all trials from ClinicalTrials.gov Special Notes: companion website available for MeSH search, time trends combine multiple years, among 939 trials 51.1 % (480) were cell type MSC

immunity The ability of an organism to resist a particular infection or poison by producing and releasing special protective cells.

For those species, the human cells could be added at a later stage of embryonic development and would require an extra layer of scrutiny by a special NIH committee.

Those signals are a call to act, and normally the body responds by sending out special cells.

Prof Mummery says the UK has already recognised the potential for stem - cell based drug testing by established a special public - private research programme called «Stem Cells for Safer Medicine» or SC4SM.

Lymph nodes are small glands located throughout the body that filter bacteria, viruses — even cancer cells — that are then destroyed by special white blood cells.

Reishi mushroom contains special polysaccharides called beta - glucans said to fight cancer cells by suppressing endothelial growth factor, support the immune system, and enhance cytotoxic receptors (NKG2D / NCR) killer cells.

In young healthy individuals, the role played by oxygen radicals and H2O2 in enhancing insulin signaling is helpful, and so important that almost all cells and tissues contain special enzymes that produce H2O2, and O2 - at a well - regulated rate.

Anti Mullerian Hormone (AMH), is a special protein released by cells that are involved with the growth of an egg follicle each month.

By exfoliating the skin with our special blend of ingredients it can slow down the pace of aging skin by preventing the new skin cells from oxidation and improving skin rejuvenatioBy exfoliating the skin with our special blend of ingredients it can slow down the pace of aging skin by preventing the new skin cells from oxidation and improving skin rejuvenatioby preventing the new skin cells from oxidation and improving skin rejuvenation.

They permeate cell membranes easily, and do not require special enzymes to be utilized effectively by your body.

It also acts as anti-inflammatory and antioxidant, and because it is both fat - soluble and water - soluble, has a special affinity for nerve and brain cells, which are surrounded by fatty sheaths.

The patient is cured because their immune system has been fixed and the number of cancer cells (by using special protocols) has been reduced.

The immune system, by sending in special cells called macrophages and neutrophils, plays a big role in cleaning up this damage (17).