For starters, the term «stem cell» describes several
different types of cells with different capabilities.
The transplanted stem cells differentiated to
different types of cells with variable level of maturation, specific for the nervous system.
When a stem cell divides, it has the potential to either remain as a stem cell (process known as «self - renewal») or to become
a different type of cell with a more specialized function («differentiation»).
Not exact matches
From that bag
of chemicals, an entire life form
with scores
of different types of cells forms, all by chemistry.
No, you say that microscopic human life is worthless in sperm and sacred when combined
with a
different type of cell a couple inches away.
The mind, while not being an ontologically
different type of individual than the
cells, is numerically distinct from them, and can thus be thought to interact
with them.
«What this research shows is that they're using the same
cell types with the same kinds
of connections we see in the neocortex, but
with a very
different kind
of organization.»
In the journal Biomaterials, the team reports culturing
cells to make extracellular matrix (ECM)
of two
types and five
different alignments
with the strength found in natural tissue and without using any artificial chemicals that could make it incompatible to implant.
«Each area
of the brain is
different with distinct
cell types and connectivity, so if we can confirm that one area
of circuitry is more involved in a particular symptom than another, we may eventually be able to treat a depression patient more efficiently than treating everyone the same way.»
Molecular characterization
of the
cells that undergo
cell fate transition upon oncogenic Pik3ca expression demonstrated a profound oncogene - induced reprogramming
of these newly formed
cells and identified gene expression signatures, characteristic
of the
different cell fate switches, which was predictive
of the cancer
cell of origin, tumour
type and clinical outcomes in women
with breast cancers.
Smider and colleagues took serum — blood
with the
cells removed, leaving antibodies behind — from four immunized cows and tested it against
different types of HIV virus in a test tube.
«Just as normal
cells with the same genome differentiate into many
different cell types, a single tumor characterized by specific genetic mutations can contain many
different types of cells — stem - like and more differentiated
cells —
with the difference being rooted in their epigenetic information.
«
Different types of cancer cells with different strengths and weaknesses are both present in the tumor at the same time and can work together to spread faster and more eff
Different types of cancer
cells with different strengths and weaknesses are both present in the tumor at the same time and can work together to spread faster and more eff
different strengths and weaknesses are both present in the tumor at the same time and can work together to spread faster and more efficiently.
«Growing stem
cells on synthetic surfaces
with different levels
of compliance showed that stem
cells would become a
different cell type depending solely on the mechanical environment they perceive.
The downside is that people
with these eye diseases are losing sight in large part because they're losing a
different type of eye
cell: the photoreceptors that sense light in the retina.
Antibodies derived from a
type of immune
cell found in unusually high numbers in HIV - infected individuals
with chronically uncontrolled virus levels are less effective at neutralizing HIV than antibodies derived from a
different type of immune
cell more common in people without HIV, scientists report.
Now, a team
of scientists at the Icahn School
of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed the Just EGFP Death - Inducing T -
cell, or JEDI T -
cells, which enable the visualization
of T -
cell antigens, allowing researchers to study T -
cell interactions
with different cell types, model disease states, and finally determine the functions
of otherwise poorly characterized
cell populations.
Cellular toxicity was unrelated to the
type of «carrier» solution used in the
cell cultures, the use
of HES made from
different origins (potato versus corn starch), or the time
cells spent in culture
with HES.
Professor Dan Davis and his team at the Manchester Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research, working in collaboration
with global healthcare company GSK, investigated how
different types of immune
cells communicate
with each other — and how they kill cancerous or infected
cells.
By programming
cells to produce
different types of curli fibers under certain conditions, the researchers were able to control the biofilms» properties and create gold nanowires, conducting biofilms, and films studded
with quantum dots, or tiny crystals that exhibit quantum mechanical properties.
The study goal was to determine if these
different trajectories were associated
with blood concentrations
of eosinophils and neutrophils, two
types of immune
cells that play a role in many respiratory diseases and are routinely measured during medical evaluations.
Xu and colleagues grew S. gallolyticus in lab dishes
with several
different types of human
cells.
The researchers found five
different sub-
types of HL among the patients studied: 247 cases
of the nodular sclerosis (NS)
type, in which the tumour nodules are large; 105
of mixed cellularity, where a mixture
of different types of inflammatory
cells are involved; 58 lymphocyte rich, the sub-
type with the best outcome; 68 «others»; and 143 «not otherwise specified» (NOS).
Previous studies showed that
cells which express the same
type of cadherin interact
with each other, but
cells with different types of cadherins remain separate.
Each
of these onion - shaped sensory structures contains several
different types and subtypes
of taste receptor
cells, each
with a specialized function.
(Right)
Cells with different types of cadherins and nectins make a mosaic pattern through partial mingling.
Because many
different types of cells are active in the liver, the researchers now want to populate the reactor
with various combinations
of cells.
Understanding how a particular DNA sequence gives rise to a particular protein provides us
with some insight into that protein, but a deeper investigation
of how the protein is made, where it is located, and how much
of it is present in
different cell types is required to enable a true understanding
of its function.
Almost every woman is a mixture
of two genetically
different types of cell, and sometimes these
cells can come into conflict
with dramatic effect.
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.
Accurately labelling neurons
with markers such as fluorescence, he says, will probably be the key challenge in the eventual goal
of creating a «census»
of different cell types in the brain.
Depositing the
cells with the micro-fabricated, funnel - like insert allows the insert to be used
with any
type of chip platform or
cell type, because it doesn't require patterning the chip's surface
with different chemicals to adhere the
cells to it.
And that differentiation could provide a structural basis to help explain how
cells with the same overall genome nonetheless can differentiate into hundreds
of different cell types.
«We're interested in learning more about what other proteins LRP6 interacts
with, as well as how it acts in
different types of brain
cells at
different developmental stages
of circuit development and refinement.»
They used genetic knockout mice to look for the
cells, silencing
different types of TRCs, then flushing the rodents» mouths
with water to see which
cells responded.
With this in mind, three Kent State University researchers, Andrew Lepp, Ph.D., Jacob Barkley, Ph.D. and Jian Li, Ph.D., and a Kent State graduate student, Saba Salehi - Esfahani, surveyed a random sample
of 454 college students to examine how
different types of cell phone users experience daily leisure.
Bone marrow produces around 10
different types of blood
cell, each
with different functions.
This finding suggests their approach could be tailored to generate specific
cell types for patients
with different types of hypopituitarism.
«The organization
of cell colonies and phenotypic switching between
different types of colonies becomes a lot more flexible and rapid
with reversible aneuploidy than if it depended on random mutations in the genes,» Skupin says.
They tried hundreds
of different recipes; eventually they discovered that if they mixed liver precursor
cells (derived from iPS
cells)
with two other
types of standard human
cell lines known to be important for embryonic liver development, then the
cells would spontaneously form a 4 to 5 - millimeter 3D structure called a liver bud.
Exosomes are surrounded by bits
of cell membrane and filled
with proteins and
different types of the genetic material RNA.
By seeding elements
with an assortment
of antibodies, the device could be set up to capture several
different cancer
cells types using a single blood sample.
In the present study, the researchers carried out a large - scale analysis
of sympathetic nerve
cells, from which they were able to demonstrate that there are many
different types of sympathetic neurons and that the
different types are associated
with a particular functions.
Once the intruder has been bound by the BCR, the B
cell is activated and, together
with other immune
cells, can fight off a range
of different types of pathogens.
And work in fruit flies indicates that they can subtly alter their immune
cells to deal
with different types of microbes (ScienceNOW, 18 August 2005).
So to be able to make the most efficient use
of the sunlight, one
of the possibilities is to build tandem -
type structures, in other words, to fit the
cells manufactured
with different polymers one on top
of the other,» explained Etxebarria.
This causes the body's white blood
cells to release
type 1 interferon - alpha, a small cytokine protein that acts as a systemic alarm, triggering a cascade
of additional immune activity as it binds
with receptors in
different tissues.
To determine whether ZFN - mediated disruption
of cxcr4 indeed protects CD4 + T
cells from an in vitro HIV challenge, human CD4 + T
cells from three
different ccr5 wild
type donors were stimulated and transduced
with AdX4 - ZFNs or an AdR5 - ZFNs control.
What's more,
with different locks, the nanorobots could be designed to target any
type of cell.
I think what we are seeing
with this study is just the tip
of the iceberg, where the process
of protein production is probably quite
different in distinct
cell types.»