Sentences with phrase «cells in the bone marrow stop»
In some diseases, the blood - forming stem cells in the bone marrow stop working effectively and fail to generate enough new blood cells, or the right types of cells.
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A drug used to stop immune cells from gobbling up transplanted organs and bone marrow has been caught boosting the immune response to a virus in mice and monkeys.
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.
«Chemotherapy is applied in one cycle then stopped to allow your bone marrow and normal stem cells to recover from the damage, and then another cycle starts again,» he said.
In other cases, people who have had had high doses of radiation or chemotherapy to destroy life - threatening cancer cells, the treatment can stop their bone marrow's ability to make blood cells.
High estrogen levels in an intact female that stays in heat or in a ferret with adrenal gland disease can cause the bone marrow to stop producing red blood cells and cause a moderate to severe anemia.