Sentences with phrase «cells from»
Six months later, blood cells from both the donor and host were still circulating around the body.
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«When we analyzed tissue samples in the lab, we found that exposing white fat to macrophage cells from the immune system inhibited the transformation.»
The Princeton - led researchers, however, found that exercise also strengthens the mechanisms that prevent these brain cells from firing.
The protein that defends cells from viruses was discovered 20 years ago.
Although British researchers had discovered embryonic stem cells in laboratory animals in 1981, it wasn't until 1998 that a Wisconsin team announced it had isolated stem cells from human embryos for the first time.
They found that a certain protein, known as S100B, is markedly increased in astroglial cells from patients with Down syndrome compared with those from healthy controls.
The researchers discovered that two members of a class of ion channels that can sense a change in temperature were present in neural crest cells from chickens and mice.
«Scientists develop therapeutic protein, protect nerve cells from Huntington's disease.»
Transcranial magnetic stimulation can stimulate brain cells from outside the head, but is not highly targeted and so affects large areas of the brain at once.
They focused on the stomach both because Mills is co-director of Washington University's NIH - supported Digestive Disease Center and because the anatomy in the stomach makes it easier to distinguish stem cells from mature cells that perform specific tasks.
Only stem cells from healthy donors or genetically engineered cells should be used in treating cardiac conditions.»
After having conducted a large - scale study performed on cells from the umbilical cords of 204 newborns, the researchers from UNIGE demonstrate that DNA methylation may play both a passive and active role in gene regulation.
Lu's team will extract immune cells called T cells from the blood of the enrolled patients, and then use CRISPR — Cas9 technology — which pairs a molecular guide able to identify specific genetic sequences on a chromosome with an enzyme that can snip the chromosome at that spot — to knock out a gene in the cells.
«Cardiac stem cells from heart disease patients may be harmful: Researchers discover molecular pathway involved in toxic interaction between host cells and immune system.»
The results of the empirical study show a clear distinction between the damage to the white blood cells from patients with cancer, with pre-cancerous conditions and from healthy patients.
In their latest study, they tested compounds against cells from nine different types of human cancer, including common types affecting blood, colon, breast, prostate, ovaries, kidneys, and lungs.
The current study was designed to clarify the cellular hierarchy underlying glioblastoma, to identify epigenetic factors that distinguish glioblastoma stem cells from more differentiated tumor cells and to suggest potential therapies targeting those factors.
The team used cells lining brain capillaries called endothelium, and cells from placenta, which represent Zika's route across the blood - brain barrier and the transmission path from mother to child, respectively.
«Knowing these cells are leading to increased cancer risk may allow us to find drugs to keep mature cells from starting to divide and multiply,» Mills said.
The company isolates, cultures and processes adult stem cells from a patient's bone marrow or synovial fluid.
He suggests, instead, that the team take T cells from the site of the tumour, because they would already be specialized for attacking cancer.
The cells from the ovaries, on the other hand, showed no change in their production of the hormones progesterone and oestradiol.
Most cancer therapies are aimed at halting cancer growth by stopping cells from rapidly dividing.
With that knowledge, they screened more than four dozen monoclonal antibodies — unique agents that can stop cells from growing or forming tumors and can be mass produced — before finding two that block tumor creation in both types of cancer.
Researchers analyzed peripheral blood mononuclear cells from a total of 18 children and adolescents in three matched groups: bipolar patients, unaffected offspring of bipolar parents and children of parents with no history of psychiatric disorders.
The compounds also stopped inflammatory cells from multiplying, thereby reducing inflammation.
Research involving the derivation and use of stem cells from cadaveric foetal tissues is permissible, subject to the informed consent of the tissue donor.
After receiving an injection of neural stem cells from young mice, however, they performed as well as healthy mice did.
Stem cells from breast milk can grow into many other kinds of human tissue, raising hopes of an ethical source of embryonic - like stem cells
Schwarz and her colleagues used three different drugs, alone and in combination, to deprive cervical tumors of glucose and block downstream metabolic pathways that help protect cancer cells from building up toxic free radicals.
In short, the work — albeit on one person, tapping cells from his own body — proved that it could be done.
Research involving the derivation and use of stem cells from adult tissues is permissible, subject to the informed consent of the tissue donor.
The Boston patients, in contrast, are free of the virus thanks to a combination of a bone marrow transplant plus continuing antiretroviral drugs to stop newly donated immune cells from being infected.
Although red cells from donors have a typical shelf life of 42 days, they are a mix of older and newer cells, which means a number of them may not last long in the body.
Within the outer structure, calcium phosphate minerals help stem cells from the host grow into cells that help build bone.
The researchers added human bone marrow stem cells from a non-diabetic donor to a bone fracture in laboratory pre-clinical studies.
Now researchers at the University of Plymouth, working in partnership with pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, have for the first time successfully cultured and maintained cells from the guts of rainbow trout, a recommended fish species for toxicological studies.
Adding stem cells from human bone marrow to a broken diabetic bone enhances the repair process, increasing the strength of the newly formed bone, according to a laboratory - based study presented at the European Congress of Endocrinology in Dublin.
Through the ureter, they fed kidney cells from newborn rats, re-coating the labyrinthine tubules and ducts that make up the kidney's urine filtration system.
Somewhere, they mused, a mosquito that fed on a dinosaur might be trapped in amber, and white blood cells from the dinosaur might be preserved in the mosquito's stomach.
Among those are proteins that contribute to the production of seeds, as well as proteins involved in defending cells from heavy metal and radiation damage.
«We've figured out for the first time how to produce these cells from human embryonic stem cells literally by the billions and billions,» Lanza says.
Normally, this protein prevents immune cells from attacking an patient's own body.
The drug in question tries to keep cells from making the mutant protein in the first place.
Setton says the multistep process her lab used to derive NP - type cells from the hiPSCs provides the necessary quality control as scientists seek additional uses for stem cell therapies.
The protein puts the immune system's brakes on, keeping its T cells from recognizing and attacking cancer cells, said Dr. Antoni Ribas, the study's principal investigator and a professor of medicine in the division of hematology - oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
This drug (vedolizumab) blocks a specific adhesion molecule on the surface of the T - cell and thereby inhibits immune cells from binding themselves to receptors present in the intestine, preventing the T - cells from penetrating the blood vessels in the intestinal tissue.
The Porteus team started with human stem cells from the blood of patients with sickle cell disease, corrected the gene mutation using CRISPR and then concentrated the human stem cells so that 90 percent carried the corrected sickle cell gene.
It is remarkable that it is so common for cells from one individual to integrate into the tissues of another distinct person.
To find out, the researchers injected a cloned telomerase gene into cultured cells from retina, skin, and blood vessels, all of which are associated with degenerative, aging - related diseases.