Sentences with phrase «found on blood cells»

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Studies have shown that chlorophyll found in food or small purified amounts of chlorophyll have a favorable effect on red blood cell formation in the bone marrow.

I searched and found that free blood oxygen destroys malignant cells on contact.

The blood type is found as proteins on red blood cells and in body fluids.

The Rh factor is a protein that is found on the covering of the red blood cells.

The study, recently published in Cell Metabolism, also found that beige fat, unlike the better - known white and brown fat, has interesting anti-diabetic effects on blood sugar metabolism that seem independent of temperature regulation.

A skin biopsy on the girl's larger leg found 5 % of cells in that sample had the same abnormality, even though her blood sample was clean.

They first devised a nanoscale plastic scaffold and then seeded it with common muscle precursor cells called myoblasts, along with endothelial cells of the sort found on the inside of blood vessels.

The first - ever study of radiation exposure on wild primates, conducted in 2012, found that monkeys near Fukushima had significantly lower red and white blood - cell counts compared with monkeys elsewhere in Japan.

A critical discovery in this research was finding that the novel progenitor has a receptor protein on its cell surface called KDR, or vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2, which until now, was thought to be restricted to endothelial cells that form vessels, the progenitors for endothelial cells and the progenitors blood cells.

Analyzing immune cells in umbilical cord blood from 1074 infants, Zhang and colleagues found that babies who showed hyperactive innate immune responses at birth went on to develop a food allergy when tested at age one.

Another key finding of the research was that the impact of vitamin D on inflammatory disease can not be predicted using cells from healthy individuals or even from the blood of patients with inflammation as cells from the disease tissue are very different.

In this study, we found that chloroquine not only has an effect on the growth of the cancer cells, but also makes the tumor environment less aggressive by normalizing the abnormal blood vessels in the tumor,» says Patrizia Agostinis.

In a previous related study published in the Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, the same team of NTU scientists found that fish scale - derived collagen would induce human umbilical vein endothelial cells to express 2.5 times more of a specific type of collagen responsible for blood vessel formation, as compared to endothelial cells cultured on bovine collagen.

Schiffman and his team conducted another series of experiments in the laboratory on blood samples from adult African elephants to find how these genes respond to DNA damage in the elephant cells.

Using a powerful imaging technique that allowed the scientists to track the presence and movement of parasites in living tissues, the researchers found that Toxoplasma infects the brain's endothelial cells, which line blood vessels, reproduces inside of them, and then moves on to invade the central nervous system.

When the team tested the drug on cells grown in the lab, they found that it killed blood vessel cells and prevented growth of new blood vessels.

The toxicity of chokeberry extract on normal blood vessel lining cells was tested and found to have no effects up to the highest levels used (50 ug / ml), suggesting that the cell death effect is happening in a way other than through preventing new blood vessel formation (anti-angiogenesis), a process that is important in cancer cell growth.

In this case, both teams designed their antibodies to clasp an HIV protein and CD3, a receptor found on the surface of white blood cells.

Asparagine, however, is not well transported to the brain via the blood - brain barrier,» said senior co-author of the study Dr. Jacques Michaud, who found that brain cells depend on the local synthesis of asparagine to function properly.

Called the Dantu antigen, it's found on red blood cells of only a small percentage of people outside of Africa and is part of a rare blood group called MNS.

When they realised that E-selectin sticks selectively to white blood cells by recognising something on their surface, they set out to find SLex.

In an effort to overcome these limitations, a team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering led by its Founding Director, Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., had previously engineered a microfluidic «Organ - on - a-Chip» (Organ Chip) culture device in which cells from a human intestinal cell line originally isolated from a tumor were cultured in one of two parallel running channels, separated by a porous matrix - coated membrane from human blood vessel - derived endothelial cells in the adjacent channel.

T cells are collected from the patient's blood and genetically engineered to express cell - surface proteins called CARs, which recognize specific molecules found on the surface of cancer cells.

The other compound is modelled on heparin — a sulphated polysaccharide similar to starch — which is found in some blood cells.

The findings, published Feb. 10 in the journal Cancer Cell, raise hopes that treatment strategies that focus on both enzymes simultaneously could help bring molecularly targeted treatments to AML, a common blood cancer.

Normally, when the cat protein finds its way into the blood of an allergic person, antibodies called IgE grab it and bind to receptors on immune cells.

They suspected that a group of proteins found on the surface of white blood cells, known as HLA molecules, might be involved.

«Our findings support PfSEA - 1 as a potential vaccine candidate, and we are confident that by partnering with our colleagues at the National Institutes of Health and other researchers focused on vaccines to prevent the parasites from entering red blood cells, we can approach the parasite from all angles, which could help us develop a truly effective vaccine to prevent this infectious disease that kills millions of children every year.»

They found that the interaction of the C3dg fragments on affected erythrocytes and the binding domain for CR3 on immune cells can lead to phagocytosis and the rupturing of red blood cells in PNH patients.

The scientists got another surprise when they followed up on this finding with mouse experiments that exposed specialized kidney cells called «podocytes», a key component of the blood filtering, to high levels of glucose.

The findings may even have implications for studying glioblastoma, a common brain cancer whose ability to grow, migrate and hack into the brain's blood supply appears to rely on a pattern of gene activity similar to that now identified in these neural stem cells.

Until now, blood cell production was ascribed solely to bone marrow, but studies on mice have found that the majority of the body's platelets are produced in the lungs, as is a backup reservoir of blood stem cells that can step in when those in the bone marrow run dry.

Based on this finding, the researchers believe there must be a signal from the lymphoid tissue cells that influences the blood T cells when they are cultured together, causing the blood cells to behave like lymphoid tissue cells.

One centers on the role of myeloperoxidase, a protein found in white blood cells that plays an important role in fighting infections, but which we have discovered also participates in development of heart diseases.

By examining the results of genome - wide association studies (GWAS) in conjunction with experiments on mouse and human red blood cells (RBCs), researchers in the lab of Whitehead Institute Founding Member Harvey Lodish have identified the protein cyclin D3 as regulating the number of cell divisions RBC progenitors undergo, which ultimately affects the resulting size and quantity of RBCs.

We really wanted to find a compound, a chemical, that would profoundly stop the growth of blood vessel cells, which of course are the cells that go on to form the abnormal angiogenesis in wet AMD.

We also found that the EphB4 receptor expressed on the surface of breast cancer cells can promote tumor xenograft growth by enhancing blood vessel formation through interactions with its preferred ligand, ephrin - B2, present in tumor endothelial cells.

We found that it is very selective and potent at stopping the growth of blood vessel cells without having negative effects on the growth of other cell types from the eye and elsewhere in the body.

This is basically tweaking the molecules: making small chemical changes to the compound in hopes of finding something that could block the growth of blood vessel cells initially in the culture dish without having toxic effects on other cell types.

Three recent experimental studies focused on low consumption / exposure.949596 In one study, 29 smokers each consumed a single cigarette, immediately after which they had a significant decrease in blood vessel output power and significant increase in blood vessel ageing level and remaining blood volume 25 minutes later, as markers of atherosclerosis.94 In another study, human coronary artery endothelial cells were exposed to the smoke equivalent to one cigarette, which led to activation of oxidant stress sensing transcription factor NFR2 and up - regulation of cytochrome p450, considered to have a role in the development of heart disease.95 These effects were not seen when heart cells were exposed to the vapour from one e - cigarette.95 A study exposed adult mice to low intensity tobacco smoke (two cigarettes) for one to two months and found adverse histopathological effects on brain cells.96

For example, Penn's blood cancer trials employ a CAR targeting the protein CD19, which is found on the surface of B cells, including the cancerous B cells that characterize several types of leukemia and lymphoma.

The impact of the fatty meal on red blood cells and MPO were new findings, and the authors indicated that «meals enriched in fat may promote destabilization of vulnerable plaques leading to acute myocardial infarction,» the medical term for a heart attack.

It also appeared to lower levels of a marker of inflammation found in the blood of people with Alzheimer's (called high - sensitivity c - reactive protein)-- although it had no effect on other biomarkers of cell damage or inflammation.

A similar study was just reported at the American Society of Hypertension meeting in May, which found that the ring of a cell phone caused blood pressure to rise on average by 8 mmHg.

Pomegranate juice has been shown to have a powerful antioxidant activity which prevents the destruction of nitric oxide and increases its impact on muscle cells found in blood vessels.

Then there's the many studies on animals; one dermal study conducted on rabbits found that chlorpropham «produced skin irritation and blood cell changes.»

Consuming 0.5 ml peppermint oil in a drink for 10 consecutive days was found to improve body performance since it increases respiratory system efficiency through increasing capacity of lungs, oxygen supply to muscle cells, and its inhibitory effect on blood pressure.

But I am all in on eventually getting a pill, injection, whatever... of a molecule or protein like TIMP2, found in abundance in human umbilical cord blood and found to enhance nerve cell activity.

Found in the blood, lymph, and on the surfaces of B Cells as antigen receptors (antibody protein that is not secreted but is anchored to the B - cell membrane that help fight infection.)

Chemicals in these particular types of leafy green vegetables trigger a powerful immune boosting activity in cell surface proteins (AhR proteins) found on the surface of white blood cells, otherwise known as lymphocytes.