Sentences with phrase «cell culture represented»

«We need to know precisely which cell a culture represents.»

Not exact matches

CCG is also developing cell lines that are cultured to represent tumor behavior in vivo, and computational methods that will help researchers understand tumor behavior and apply the resulting data to diagnoses, treatments, and cures.

Cultures representing two other hereditary liver diseases, alpha 1 — antitrypsin deficiency (a protein - folding disorder that leads to cell death and liver failure) and glycogen storage disease, type 1a (in which a liver enzyme deficiency impairs the body's glucose metabolism), also displayed disorder - specific abnormalities.

A tissue slice, a tumor biopsy, or a sample of a bacterial culture yields a sequence representing the average of all of the cells within it, even though researchers know there can be tremendous variation between those cells.

I believe the culture of embryonic stem cells represents the single most important contribution to biology over the last 25 years.

Cell culture systems used today also do not faithfully represent the features of human neurons.»

That's an advantage for drug tests over flat - dish cell cultures currently used because it more accurately represents living tissue and more of the test cells can be kept alive by vessel - supplied nutrients.

In keeping with this, recent studies showed that flavanols, a subclass of flavonoids that is richly represented in natural cocoa beans, increase NO production by cultured human vascular endothelial cells (16) and improve endothelium - dependent vasorelaxation (NO - dependent) in finger (2) and brachial (3) arteries of healthy humans.

Microcarriers represent a viable solution by enabling anchorage - dependent stem cells to be cultured in suspension, allowing significant scale - up in bioreactors.

Morphological and immunocytochemical characteristics indicate the yield of early progenitors and represent a quality control for human mesenchymal stem cell culturing.

«Our experimental model represents a promising technique to culture human liver cells and prepare them for transplantation on a biodegradable polymer scaffold into the peritoneal cavity,» concluded Dr. Pollok.

Thus while the majority of the V + population existing in ES cell cultures are indistinguishable from undifferentiated ES cells, we also observe differentiated cells expressing high levels of the Venus transgene (arrows in Figure 2B) that resemble the high - level Venus expressors generated in response to differentiation and that probably represent spontaneous PrEn differentiation.

Inverted microscopes represent the perfect solution for cell culture in which a variety of cells are grown under controlled conditions.

The iPS cells are cultured on the opposite side of the membrane in the other channel that represents the glomerulus» urinary compartment, where they are induced to form a layer of mature podocytes that extend long cellular processes through the pores in the membrane and contact the underlying endothelial cells.

Our goal is to create a microfluidic 3D cell culture system representing a «placenta - on - a-chip» in order to mimic the nutrient / waste transfer between maternal blood and fetal blood that occurs in the cotyledon section of the placenta, and to test and observe the effects of ethanol within the maternal bloodstream and compare it to a similar in vivo situation.

This study used a model cell culture system that represents what happens in an animal or human.