Sentences with phrase «fat cells from the patient»

«Imagine if we could isolate fat cells from a patient with some type of congenital cardiac disease,» said Wu.

Dr. Olby wants to restore the myelin sheath to these surviving axons by taking fat cells from the patient and turning them into stem cells that can be combined with nerve cells and injected into the site of the damage, regrowing the sheath.

Not exact matches

The researchers obtained stem cells from the discarded fat of liposuction patients who underwent elective surgery.

Finally, he would suck out stem - cell - rich fat from the patient's belly and inject it into a layer under the dermis to replenish the fat that keeps skin elastic and soft.

«We found that fat cells from obese or morbidly obese patients secreted a high amount of inflammatory proteins, which contributed to tumor progression,» DeCicco - Skinner said.

Fat cells cultured from the body mass index of a morbidly obese patient cause multiple myeloma cells to anchor to a much greater extent than normal cells and produce a significantly larger number of blood vessels to sustain the cancer cells.

Whether investigating fat cells, immunotherapy or use of the CRISPR - Cas 9 gene - editing tool, which a federal panel recently approved for a select number of patients suffering from three types of cancers, including multiple myeloma, approaches beyond attacking cancer cells are needed in the fight against many cancers.

Isolated and grown from the patients» fat, these specialized cells have the potential to develop into several different types of tissue.

By collecting samples from three different groups of patients, the researchers were able to compare the health of the precursor fat cells of the three groups.

The team learned that the cells from the group of obese patients suffering from type 2 diabetes had been reprogrammed and therefore did not function like normal, healthy fat cells.

Five to seven years down the road, he predicts, patients recovering from spinal fusion or joint - replacement operations will have some of their own fat cells removed, processed, and implanted at the same time as other surgical procedures.

Using standard liposuction, a small volume of the patient's fat tissue (< 450 ml) was extracted and then the cells were separated from the tissue and concentrated (Celution ® System, Cytori Therapeutics, San Diego) on - site.

At Okyanos, adult stem cells are derived from a patient's own body fat and delivered directly to the heart via an infusion into the coronary sinus.

Stem cell therapy at Okyanos utilizes adult stem and regenerative cells obtained from the patient's own fat tissue.

Celltex charges $ 6,500 to remove mesenchymal stem cells — adult cells that can morph into muscle, bone, cartilage and fat cells — from a small piece of fat it removes from patients» stomachs.

After a sample was taken from the patient on the left (or top for those on their mobile devices) and sent out to a laboratory for analysis, the mass was indeed diagnosed as a lipoma (benign fat cell tumor).

The study involves injecting feline patients with stem cells cultivated from the fat of young, healthy cats, and has shown promise for treating a health problem that affects approximately 50 percent of cats older than 10, CSU said.