Sentences with phrase «cell treatment instead»

A Sartell doctor offers a stem cell treatment instead of surgery, but critics say it's too soon.

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Instead of a CD4 cell count of 200, the threshold which the WHO recommended in its 2006 guidelines for HIV treatment, a CD4 cell count at or below 350 should be the cutoff, the agency now advises.

But the viral method involves inserting the DNA for the protein into cells instead, which means the cutting protein keeps being made for weeks after treatment.

«Although some non-small cell lung cancer patients have increased benefit of targeted therapy or immunotherapy instead of chemotherapy, for some groups of patients with NSNSCLC, chemotherapy has been the standard treatment for more than 30 years,» Gandhi notes.

We have found that exosomes and the cargo they contain are crucial mediators of stem cell - based heart regeneration, and we believe this might lead to an even more refined therapy using the «active ingredient» instead of the entire stem cell,» said Eduardo Marbán, MD, PhD, director of the Cedars - Sinai Heart Institute and a pioneer in developing investigational cardiac stem cell treatments.

Next steps include pursuing therapies, including antibodies and herb - derived treatments, that target the misguided progenitor cells, instead of only targeting the cancerous breast tissue they produce, Ko said.

The research, the team said, should not discourage the pursuit of experimental treatments but instead be heeded as a call to screen rigorously all cell lines for mutations at various stages of development as well as immediately before transplantation.

This work highlights the fact that most psoriasis treatments do not kill these disease causing T cells but instead temporarily suppress their activation.

But Clark and her colleagues have taken a new approach: instead of looking during the height of activity, they examined lesion sites after treatment, and identified T cell receptors of cells at these sites that were shared across psoriatic patients but not found in healthy individuals or those with other skin conditions.

«Our results suggest that heart failure would be better addressed by treatments that shut down immune cells that are both sources and targets of cytokines in the spleen and heart, instead of targeting any one cytokine,» said Sumanth Prabhu, M.D., director of the Division of Cardiovascular Disease within the UAB School of Medicine and study leader.

Instead, dogs should receive supportive care and treatment that helps prevent additional infections from developing while the white blood cells are suppressed (lymphopenia).

Having said that, she also said that it's perhaps unfair to consider stem cell therapy a magic bullet, but instead for the therapy to be part of a larger plan which may include surgery, rehabilitation at a specialty facility (as some rehab treatments have not been studied following stem cell therapy, and may prove to be detrimental) as well as rehab at home, and appropriate pain relief medication.

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