Sentences with phrase «cells reduce in size»

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This rapid - freezing system uses both alternating and direct current, high «electric potential,» at the same time to rapidly cool the product without oxidization, reducing the size of ice crystals that form in food cells.

Shih, Wang and their colleagues tested fostamatinib's power to reduce tumor size in mice implanted with human ovarian cancer cells that were resistant to paclitaxel.

It tricks the cells into ending their lives in a controlled way, thereby reducing the size of the tumor.

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B cell treatment also quickly reduced the size and improved the healing of chronic skin ulcers in the diabetic mice, increasing the number of both nerve endings and blood vessels in regenerated tissue.

By performing DNA sequencing of more than 4,000 families affected by neurological problems, the two research teams independently discovered that a disease marked by reduced brain size and sensory and motor defects is caused by a mutation in a gene called CLP1, which is known to regulate tRNA metabolism in cells.

Although muscle cells did not reduce in size or number in mice lacking a protective antioxidant protein, they were weaker than normal muscle cells, researchers from the Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio found.

The importance of stromal POSTN was also demonstrated in another study in which orthotopic inoculation of gastric cancer cells into Rag2 − / −; Postn − / − mice reduced tumor size, decreased invasiveness, and decreased growth compared to Rag2 − / −; Postn + / + mice (Kikuchi et al., 2014).

A paper published today in the journal Nature has reported that male mice infected with a mouse - adapted strain of Zika virus can experience tissue injury associated with decreased testis size and reduced levels of two sex hormones and of sperm cells in the seminal fluid.

Finally, the size of the Ly49 + CD8 + T cell subset is selectively reduced in the absence of STAT1.

Adult stem cells also aid in reducing the size of any scar tissue, such as that which forms after a heart attack, wounds, or injury to a joint.

Radiation therapy may be used to reduce the size of a cancer before surgery, to destroy any remaining cancer cells after surgery, or, in some cases, may be the main treatment.

Inducible expression of a mutated mitochondrial UNG1 DNA repair enzyme in forebrain neurons caused generation of apyrimidinic mDNA and neuronal impairment including reduced size of synaptic contacts (Mol Cell Mol 2010).

DHEA instructs fat cells to stop taking in the energy that cortisol has told them to store, which causes these cells to reduce in size, reversing the weight gain effect of cortisol that I just mentioned.

Acai berries are high in vitamin C and ellagic acid, and this powerful combination can suppress the growth of cancer cells, and reduce the size of cancer cells by 50 to 80 %.

It can help reduce the size of a solid tumor (lymphosarcoma) and decrease the number of circulating cancerous cells in a cat with leukemia.

To make the smartphone marginally slimmer (6.9 mm thick versus 7.3 mm in the Z3), Sony has reduced the size of the battery by 200 mAh, resulting in a 2,900 mAh internal cell that also makes the phone lighter.