Sentences with phrase «cultured human cancer cells»

A 2006 University of Florida study showed that extracts from açai berries destroyed cultured human cancer cells!

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In November 2010 Japanese researchers announced online in Analytical Chemistry that they had built a chip that simultaneously tests how liver, intestine and breast cancer cells respond to cancer drugs, and in February 2010 scientists publishing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA developed a microscale replica of the human liver that allowed them to observe the entire life cycle of hepatitis C, a virus that is difficult to observe in cultured cells.

When Gupta's team added salinomycin to cultured human breast - cancer cells, it was about 100 times as effective at killing the cancer stem cells as popular anti-cancer drug, paclitaxel.

This was observed in human ovarian cancer cells grown in culture, and then in mouse models of the disease.

Human chondrosarcoma HCS - 2 / 8 cells, which are a type of benign bone cancer cells, can be used to investigate how optimization of culture conditions could improve the synthesis of cartilage - specific molecules.»

Through these effects, the PERY peptide reduced the proliferation of several (but not all) cancer cell lines in culture and inhibited the growth of a human breast cancer xenograft in mice.

To date, the researchers have tested the function of their activation - ready sensor in cell culture of human kidney and cancer cells.

One postdoc presents data on her efforts to develop an organoid model for small - cell lung cancer; another reports progress on culturing hormone - secreting organoids from human gut tissue.

When the team blocked the activity of L1CAM in cultured human colon cancer cells, the cells» growth slowed dramatically.

According to McCague, «the rarity of human prostate cancer cell cultures makes studying tamandron's potential difficult in the test tube.»

But while researchers have previously been able to infect cultures of human hepatocytes with HBV, the cells» limited lifespan has made it difficult to study the virus, says Bhatia, who is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and a member of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science.

Sood and his team first studied the effects of stress hormones on human ovarian cancer cell anoikis in culture.

Singletary added sulforaphane, a chemical in broccoli, kale, brussels sprouts, and other cruciferous vegetables, to cultures of human breast cancer cells.

When the Cornell team cultured human breast cancer cells on matrix deposited by fat - derived cells from obese mice, the cancer cells grew faster than they did on the matrix of cells from slimmer mice.

For more than 25 years, scientists examining cultures of human cancer cells have occasionally spotted cells tucked within other cells.

For the time course study, cells were treated with 20 μM of EGCG for 12, 24, 48, 72, or 144 h. Human colon cancer cell line HT - 29 and prostate cancer cell line PC3 were obtained from American Type Culture Collection (Manassas, VA), and were grown in McCoy's 5A and RPMI 1640 containing 10 % fetal bovine serum, respectively.

«First, we must bear in mind that the study was done on human cancer cells cultured in the laboratory, since it would be unethical to do it in humans.

NCI's efforts to develop new laboratory models of human cancer includes vastly increasing the number of human cancer cell lines (grown as two - dimensional and three - dimensional cultures) and patient - derived tumor xenografts.

Studying the drug - responsiveness of breast cancer cells cultured within human osteoblast - derived matrices.

We use 3D stem cell («organoid») cultures from mice and humans to examine occurrence, level and molecular causes of CIN in cancer (Video 2).

The study used three cell types: human motor neurons derived from induced pluripotent stem cells, rat cortical cultures, and human breast cancer cells.

Stem cell methodologies like culture conditions, sorting, and how to grow and transfect cells are all tools we can apply now to human brain cancers.

The human breast cancer cell line SKBR3 was purchased from the Duke University Cell Culture Facility and was maintained in McCoy's 5A medium (Life Technologies) supplemented with 10 % FBS (Life Technologies) and antibiotcell line SKBR3 was purchased from the Duke University Cell Culture Facility and was maintained in McCoy's 5A medium (Life Technologies) supplemented with 10 % FBS (Life Technologies) and antibiotCell Culture Facility and was maintained in McCoy's 5A medium (Life Technologies) supplemented with 10 % FBS (Life Technologies) and antibiotics.

Cultures of the human triple negative breast cancer cell line, HCC1806, were maintained in RPMI 1640 medium supplemented with 10 % FBS.

Interestingly, long - term — cultured human epithelial cancer cells in clonal cultures also form holoclones, meroclones, and paraclones, and tumor cell holoclones have been hypothesized to harbor stem - like cells or cancer stem cells.

Last year, Mandriota and collaborators demonstrated that in a cancer mouse model, concentrations of aluminum in the amount of those measured in the human breast are able to transform cultured mammary epithelial cells, allowing them to form tumors and to metastasize.

Studies in animals, and human cells in laboratory culture, indicate that CLA may protect against certain types of cancer (6, 7, 8).

A tissue culture study of human breast - cancer cells found that epigallocatechin gallate, or EGCG, an active compound in green tea, protects against some forms of breast cancer by regulating estrogen receptors on breast cells and inhibiting growth and reproduction of estrogen - dependant breast - cancer cells.

A flavorful component of cinnamon oil, called cinnamaldehyde, may help prevent colon cancer, according to a tissue culture study of human colon cancer cells published in the May 2010 issue of the journal «Molecules.»