Sentences with phrase «cell body location»

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Breast cancer tumors can fuse with blood vessel cells, allowing clumps of cancer cells to break away from the main tumor and ride the bloodstream to other locations in the body, suggests preliminary research.

«Fat cells can adopt a range of metabolic phenotypes, depending on physiological conditions and location in the body,» said James G. Granneman, Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the Center for Integrative Metabolic and Endocrine Research at the Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, MI.

Weaver used diabetic mice to compare locations in the body where the transplanted cells could be placed.

When the scientists inserted human colorectal cancer cells into zebrafish embryos and allowed them to grow for 4 days, the resulting tumors showed three hallmarks of human solid tumors: rapid cell division, formation of blood vessels to supply nutrients, and the ability to spread to other locations in the body.

He discovered differences in grey matter volume, which contains the cell bodies of nerve cells, in two specific locations.

«The imaging system, developed by Dr. Young while at the University of Pittsburgh, pinpoints the spatial and temporal location of HIV -1-infected cells in the body, allowing us to observe HIV - 1 replication in real - time and to essentially see HIV - 1 reservoirs in latently infected cells and tissues,» Dr. Khalili explained.

The cells originate outside the central nervous system in the ectoderm of the body wall and appear to migrate to their final locations within the central nervous system by crawling along strands of connective tissue.

These are some of the fastest migrating cells in the human body, and they are the first responders at damaged locations or areas of infection and begin the process of healing.

The researchers compared the development of murine T cells obtained from lymph nodes from various locations in the body, like the liver, intestine, and skin.

The next step was to send them to key locations inside the body by finding the right molecular «addresses» to particular cells, and gluing them onto the capsule.

They found a gene — dubbed Dscam (Down syndrome cell adhesion molecule)-- that appears to give every nerve cell a unique identity during prebirth development, making sure that each cell ends up in the right location in the brain and body.

Sialyl - Lewisx branches occur on some immune cells, helping direct them to certain locations in the body.

Blobel discovered that newly made proteins in living cells are provided with an «address tag» in order to be directed to the right location in the body.

A new cellular messenger discovered by Weill Cornell Medicine scientists may help reveal how cancer cells co-opt the body's intercellular delivery service to spread to new locations in the body.

Clinical, histopathological, and molecular variables included patient age, gender, extraocular extension, tumor location (ciliary body or not), optic nerve invasion, angiotropism, neurotropism, melanoma cell type, BAP1 mutation, and monosomy 3.

Motor neurons that control foot muscles are about three feet long, so neurotransmitters must be moved a yard from their origin in the cell body to the location where they can signal the muscles, Zhang says.

Resident stem cells are specialised cells found at various locations within the body.

Paligenosis, Mills explains, appears similar to apoptosis — the programmed death of cells as a normal part of an organism's growth and development — in that it seems to happen the same way in every cell, regardless of its location in the body.

Already, researchers are talking about how such structures could be used to deliver drugs precisely to particular cells or locations in the body.

Drop - Seq, and other methods for single cell analysis, usually begins with a dissociated tissue, but inside the body a cell's location matters a great deal.

The most likely organ to be affected is the gut, which is directly exposed to food; endothelial cells, which line blood vessel walls, and immune cells which circulate in blood, as blood is the next location after the gut exposed to food molecules entering the body; and lastly organs which interact closely with the blood, such as the thyroid.