Sentences with phrase «causing tumors»

Ear mites, possibly transmitted from feral domestic cats, are currently causing tumors in the ear canals of 30 % of the Catalina island foxes.

A highly malignant cancer which preys on blood vessels, it can spread rapidly, causing tumors almost anywhere in the body.

The body's immune system is not effective in causing these tumors to regress.

Weston cités à source that refers to another study that actually validates The China Study's contention about casein in bovine milk causing tumors, and in so doing, Weston shoots herself in the foot!

«Patients with cancer causing tumors of the esophagus had 100 % success rate in preventing tumor progression into the cancerous state when treated for two years with a humic extract solution.»

«By studying interactions between tumors and the bacteria in their microbiomes, we would better understand the bacteria's role in causing tumors to form and grow — if they even have such a role — and eventually, we may be able to treat cancer by changing aspects of its microbiome,» Dr. Blekhman said.

In addition to causing tumors, the protein can continue to mutate tumor DNA, increasing a cancer's genetic diversity and giving it a wider tool kit with which to resist treatment.

If they can understand what's causing the tumors to develop, the scientists can work on not only treating them — using a genetic target to halt the cancer's growth — but also catching them before they even appear.

«We were amazed when we found this new type of disease — tapeworms growing inside a person, essentially getting cancer, that spreads to the person, causing tumors,» said study researcher Dr. Atis Muehlenbachs, a staff pathologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Infectious Diseases Pathology Branch (IDPB).

Though vestibular schwannomas affecting both sides are the hallmark of neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2), a genetic disorder causing tumors to grow at multiple sites throughout a person's life, vestibular schwannomas may also occur sporadically, and on one side only.

The virus kept turning cultured cells cancerous, and it kept causing tumors in animals.

In 1970 Duesberg, along with a colleague, Peter Vogt, isolated the RSV gene responsible for causing those tumors — the SRC gene.

Research teams from Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala University have jointly discovered that the usually protective enzyme FBW7 is commonly mutated and inactivated in childhood brain cancers causing tumors to spread and become more difficult to treat.

Multiple myeloma causes tumors to grow in the bone marrow, preventing the production of normal blood cells.

God doesn't cause tumors or kill kids or make people suffer to learn lessons — God is not a child abuser.

Toxic Chemicals Caused Tumors, Not Capsaicin Researchers at The Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota, treated the skin of mice with a mixture of DMBA (7,12 - dimetylbenz (a) anthracene), TPA (12 - O - tetradecanoylphorbol -13-acetate) and capsaicin.

According to Organic.org, «Many food colorings contain color additives such as Red No. 3 and Yellow No. 5, which, according to a 1983 study by the FDA, were found to cause tumors (Red No. 3) and hives (Yellow No. 5).»

Because of the use of coal tar, many organizations and circles are speaking out and boycotting products using colors with coal tar because it is a carcinogenic in large quantities, known to cause tumors in lab rats.

The Salk team used a partial cellular reprogramming approach that did not cause tumors or death.

That's crucial, because the memorably named infectious agents, short for porcine endogenous retroviruses, could cause tumors, leukemia, and neuronal degeneration if transplanted into patients.

For example, the innovative protein substance has caused the tumors in mice to regress without endangering the health of the animals.

The drug causes tumor cells with a certain mutation — present in about 60 percent of melanomas — to commit suicide.

«Genes may cause tumor aggressiveness, drug resistance in African - American prostate cancer: Research found many targeted therapies for prostate cancer may not be effective against tumors in African - American men.»

«In the past, we assumed a healthy immune system would fight off the virus infection before it could cause tumor shrinkage.

Don Diamond, a virologist at the City of Hope Cancer Center near Los Angeles, agrees: his extensive research on CMV and cancer has convinced him the virus does not cause tumors.

(Mackenzie notes that it shouldn't be a problem for her strategy, because she plans to use the same kind of cells as bone marrow transplants, which haven't caused tumors.)

The research team, led by senior author Timothy P. Cripe, MD, PhD, chief of the Division of Hematology / Oncology / BMT at Nationwide Children's Hospital, found that virotherapy doesn't always require a strong virus infection of cancer cells to cause tumors to shrink or die.

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.

The findings provide proof of principle that restoring the function of a single tumor suppressor gene can cause tumor regression and suggest future avenues for developing effective cancer treatments.

Multiple myeloma is a cancer of plasma cells in the blood that causes tumor growths in bone marrow.

In addition, D4 causes tumors, reproductive problems, altered organ size and acts like a weak estrogen in studies of lab animals.

If a given drug cocktail kills 90 percent of the cancer cells but doesn't affect the remaining 10 percent, the resistant tumor cells can take over and cause the tumor to grow back.

«This finding has immediate clinical applications, because either mutation - PPM1D or TP53 — cause the tumor cells to be resistant to radiation,» said senior author Hai Yan, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of pathology at Duke University School of Medicine.

Unaltered cells created tumors in all seven mice injected with such cells, but when cells missing ALKBH5 were used, they caused tumors in only 43 percent (six out of 14) of mice.

They can then circulate freely in the blood and spread to the lymphatic system, thus causing a tumor called lymphoma.

The cancer stem cell model differs from the traditional idea that tumor growth is equal opportunity — that is, any and all cancerous cells can divide and cause the tumor to grow and spread.

According to CSPI, «Industry - sponsored animal tests indicated that this dye, the third - most - widely - used, causes tumors of the adrenal gland and kidney.

Inhibiting the mutant BRAF protein causes the tumor to shrink.

Complete removal of all cancerous cells is crucial, as any residual cells can cause tumor recurrence.

«It's also possible that hormones cause tumors to grow at a faster rate.»

Yet as recently as 2005, doctors at Dartmouth and Harvard universities concluded that Coley may have been right that some infections, particularly those caused by Streptococcus, might cause tumor regression.

Dr. Le, who holds the Thomas L. Shields, M.D. Professorship in Dermatology, said he and his researchers serendipitously uncovered this explanation for balding and hair graying while studying a disorder called Neurofibromatosis Type 1, a rare genetic disease that causes tumors to grow on nerves.

Pentachlorophenol — a substance used to treat utility poles, wood pilings and fence posts — caused tumors in the liver and other organs of mice.

These mutants will initially be used for cancer research, determining which genetic mutations cause tumors to form and investigating therapies for people whose genetic backup plan failed them.

DNA mutations cause tumor cells to grow out of control, but they also generate variety that enables organisms to adapt to their environments and evolve.

Although the existence of ChHV5 has been known for more than 20 years, the inability to grow the virus in the laboratory hampered understanding of how it causes tumors and the development of blood tests to detect the virus.

She says they can now identify the mechanisms that cause tumor growth in half of all adenocarcinomas, a family of cancer that affects skin and other tissue, including the lungs.

Loss of this function causes tumor formation through uncontrolled stimulation of AKT, an enzyme that stimulates cell proliferation and survival and is often hyperactive in human tumors.

Scientists have discovered a new «mastermind fusion gene» may be associated with a rare cancer - causing tumor — pheochromocytomas («pheo») and paragangliomas, according to a study published Feb. 13 in Cancer Cell, by researchers at the Uniformed Services University (USU) and the National Cancer Institutes» The Cancer Genome Atlas.

«New study links «mastermind» gene to rare cancer - causing tumor.»