Sentences with phrase «certain cells in the bone marrow»

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Bone marrow transplants are sometimes needed to treat immune diseases that attack these stem cells, or in certain types of anaemia, in which the body can't make enough blood cells or clotting factors.

These findings may help explain why some people with mutations in certain ribosomal protein genes develop conditions such as Diamond - Blackfan anemia — a blood disorder in which the bone marrow doesn't make enough red blood cells — but don't have problems in other body tissues, Ware says.

Although Osteolectin is known to be made by certain bone marrow and bone cells, CRI researchers are the first to show Osteolectin promotes the formation of new bone from skeletal stem cells in the bone marrow.

In certain types of aplastic anemia, lymphocytes are responsible for attacking the bone marrow stem cells.

Another is to monitor the effects of transplanting telomerase - deficient but ex vivo telomere - extended bone marrow into late - generation, TMM - disabled mice, so as to be certain that the niche of such animals (or, by implication, aging humans) will support the homing, engraftment, and initial development and differentiation of such cells; the necessary research is underway now thanks to a SENS Foundation grant to Dr. Zhenyu Ju of the Institute of Laboratory Animal Sciences and Max - Planck - Partner - Group on Stem Cell Aging in the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, and research partner of prominent telomere biologist Dr. K. Lenhard Rudolph.

Certain types of mutated stem cells accumulated in bone marrow are an accurate predictor of death from cardiovascular disease within a decade.

Changes in white blood cell counts can indicate infection or other pathological diseases that affect the bone marrow, such as certain forms of cancer.

When certain cells in your pet's immune system encounter an invader or a vaccine for the first time, some, released from your pet's bone marrow, produce antibody.

Immunoglobulin levels can also remain above normal in all forms of autoimmune disease (ref + see ANA) and when tumors have developed in certain bone marrow cells.