Sentences with phrase «dormant cells»
"Dormant cells" are cells that are currently inactive or resting. They are not actively dividing or carrying out their normal functions. Full definition
They believe that zolpidem (marketed as Ambien) activates dormant cells in the brain.
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Specifically, they found that chemotherapy alone leads to two types of dormant cancer cells that are not killed outright and become resistant to additional chemotherapy, but when combined with immunotherapy, a majority of dormant cells also is destroyed.
«These are not dormant cells — they divide once every six or seven weeks as opposed to every other day like the rest of the melanoma cells,» Herlyn explained.
Such colonies are hard for drugs to penetrate, and they harbor dormant cells called persisters that can quietly weather an antibiotic assault only to come roaring back later.
After treatment, such dormant cells will start to divide and tumours will grow.
In a study published in Nature Communications, researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala University in Sweden present a new drug candidate, which selectively kills dormant cells within a cancer tumour through starvation.
Antibiotics can not target dormant cells.
The finding made intuitive sense; researchers studying other tissue types had shown that activating mTOR can drive dormant cells out of quiescence, a necessary step for regeneration.
The research team transferred genes into MGs to activate the stem cell properties of these normally dormant cells, causing them to reproduce and make other types of retinal cells.
Over time, trauma to the vertebrae induces dormant cells to activate, and the tail will regenerate with an underlying tube of cartilage rather than separate vertebral bones.
Moreover, these compounds kill so - called MRSA «persister» cells that are drug - resistant dormant cells that are not susceptible to current antibiotic therapies.
Sure enough, Priscu found dead or dormant cells in the dirty Vostok ice — up to 600,000 per cubic inch.
Such long term treatment is needed for tuberculosis because a subpopulation of Mtb cells can form Mtb persister cells, dormant cells that are virtually impervious to antimicrobials.
Then, they treated the dormant cells with a product of the immune system, they found that dormant cells were susceptible to immunotherapy, and that quiescent, but not indolent cancer cells, could not escape from immunotherapy.
Once treatment is stopped, these dormant cells can become active again and recolonize the body.
Wellington and her colleagues detected the dormant cells with fluorescent - labelled antibodies which cling specifically to S. typhimurium.
Usually, enough normal and dormant cells are left to make all the thyroid hormone your cat will need in the future.