Sentences with phrase «depending on a cancer cell»

The ManCou multicolored fluorescent probe glows different colors and different intensities depending on a cancer cell's type and malignancy.

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Prostate cancer cells usually depend on testosterone to grow.

Now Vermeulen's team has found that all colon cancer cells may have the potential to revert to stem cells and that whether they do depends on their environment.

Vaccines depend on them, and scientists are even employing the cells to stir up immunity against cancer

Certain kinds of cancer cells depend heavily on PARP to repair DNA damage.

Development of new therapies for the prevention and treatment of prostate cancer bone metastasis depends on understanding the dynamic reciprocal interactions between prostate cancer cells and the bone microenvironment.

PARP inhibitors target and block proteins which cancer cells depend on to repair DNA for their survival.

Classified as either Hodgkin lymphoma or non-Hodgkin lymphoma, depending on which cells are affected, lymphoma accounted for approximately five percent of all new cancers diagnosed in the United States in 2014, according to the National Cancer Institute.

In fact, depending on the tumor cell, they grow at dramatically different speeds, according to a study led by Nicholas Navin, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Genetics at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

Surprisingly, they found that although the patterns of gene expression — as shown by the RNA sequencing — differed between the hepatocellular carcinomas and the liver cancers with biliary phenotype and depended on the histological type, the overall pattern of mutations in the cells was actually similar between the tumors — of either type — that had emerged in patients who had had infections with either hepatitis C or B, and were different in patients without such infections.

«I think what's needed for collective invasion will depend on the environmental stresses the cancer cells face, and it may shift with treatment,» Marcus says.

«We found that colorectal cancer cells survived under the condition of glucose depletion, and their resistance to such conditions depended on genomic alterations rather than on KRAS mutation alone.

Depending on the dose and the target, radiation can cause incredible damage to healthy cells or it can be used to treat cancer and other diseases.

However, the usefulness of these studies greatly depends on how accurately these cancer cells grown in a dish represent human tumors.

Tumor cells metastasized to bone modify the activity of these cells and, depending on the type of cancer, cause osteoblastic or osteolytic changes.

Project Drive is a massive screening effort to expose the genes that cancer cells depend on to survive.

Depending on characteristics such as how many tumor cells, blood vessel cells, and immune cells are touching each other, the tumor microenvironment can nearly triple the chance that a common type of breast cancer (estrogen - receptor positive / HER2 negative) that has reached the lymph nodes will also metastasize, Condeelis and colleagues showed in a 2014 study of 3,760 patients.

Depending on the type of cancer, chemotherapy can destroy cancer cells so they are no longer detected in the body.

Depending on the type of cancer, a medical oncologist may administer chemotherapy drugs or immunotherapy to shrink tumors and kill cancer cells in the body.

However, the exact cytoskeletal strategy that the cell uses to cross the physical BM barrier depends on the physiological context and the physical environment, as observed by examining actin structures in invading cancer and immune cells, and in cells that invade during developmental processes such as angiogenesis and anchor cell invasion in Caenorhabditis elegans.

All cancers depend absolutely on the ability to continually lengthen telomeres, and so avoid the Hayflick limit on cell replication.

Depending on their location in the genome and the proportion of cells they are present in, these mosaic mutations can cause a wide range of genetic disease syndromes and predispose carriers to cancer.

Not only that consuming sugar won't speed the growth of cancer cells, but eliminating carbohydrates from your diet will make your whole body starve and suffer — all cells in your organism depend on these nutrients for energy.

The treatment of cervical cancer depends more on the severity of the disease (the stage) than the cell type.

«As it was explained to me by Craig Thompson, who has done much of this research and is now president of Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center in New York, the cells of many human cancers come to depend on insulin to provide the fuel (blood sugar) and materials they need to grow and multiply.

At diagnosis, inflammatory breast cancer is either stage III or IV disease, depending on whether cancer cells have spread only to nearby lymph nodes or to other tissues as well.

The multiplication of cancer cells depends on an adequate supply of oxygen, and in order to obtain this supply of oxygen, cancer cell growth is often accompanied by the formation of new blood vessels (through a process called angiogenesis).

As far as if surgery will prolong his life - it entirely depends on the cell type of the cancer - just like with people, some act more aggressively than others, so if you can get a cell type with another FNA, your veterinarian can go over the odds with you.