Sentences with phrase «fight tumors in mice»

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On its own, this immune response had no immediate effect in the fight against the utilized breast tumors, but in combination with the ADC it proved itself effective in attacking cancer cells in mice, resulting in the complete cure of the majority of mice receiving the combination therapy.

The mouse model could also contribute to the further development of immunotherapies — a method in which the body's immune system is stimulated, so that it intensifies its fight against tumor cells.

Next steps include He's collaboration with Piedmont Atlanta Hospital to retrieve T cells, liver cancer cells and healthy tissue normally removed from patients during surgery, put the mouse receptor genes on these T cells and monitor in a dish both how those cells now fight the tumor and react to healthy human tissue.

The CRISPR - Cas9 genome editing system could help fight cancer, and now, researchers have used the tool to target what they call cancer's command center, in a treatment that's been shown in mice to shrink aggressive tumors and increase survival rates, without harming healthy cells.

They showed that T cells in mice that could not make PSGL - 1 delayed tumor growth, suggesting that blocking PSGL - 1's function would help T cells fight tumors.

However, other studies in mice with breast cancer show that once cancer has already been initiated, stress can lead to increased rates of tumor spread and metastases.26 Similarly, when mice were injected with leukemic cells and stressed physically and physiologically with injections of adrenaline, cancer progression occurred.27 Some scientists even propose that, while necessary in many cases of cancer, undergoing surgery may cause enough stress to lead to tumor promotion and progression.28 Therefore, it seems like acute stress may help fight cancer, chronic stress may help cause it, but once cancer is present, both acute and chronic stress may lead to cancer progression.

First tested in mice, the vaccine's purpose is to encourage the animals to make disease - fighting antibodies to attack a tumor.