Sentences with phrase «epithelial cancers called»

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The new research finds that the stiffness of the extracellular matrix and the availability of certain ligands (molecules that bind to cell membranes) can together determine which genes are actually called on — and whether normal epithelial cells begin to exhibit the behaviors characteristic of highly malignant cancer cells.

HER2 - positive breast cancer, which is associated with poor prognosis, has been traced to an excess of signaling through receptors, or docking ports, called HER2 found on the surface of certain mammary epithelial cells.

«We found that women who consume foods high in two sub-groups of powerful substances called flavonoids — flavonols and flavanones — had a significantly lower risk of developing epithelial ovarian cancer.

Weaver also said that the predictions made by jamming models resemble what biologists call extrusion, a process by which dead epithelial cells are squeezed out of crowded tissue — the disfunction of which has recently been implicated in certain types of cancer.

A class of drugs called EZH2 inhibitors are currently in clinical development for both hematological malignancies and solid tumors and may be effectively targeted to epithelial ovarian cancers overexpressing the CARM1 protein.

Cancer cells acquire the ability to invade and migrate, or metastasize, to other tissues, through a process called Epithelial - Mesenchymal Transition (EMT).