Sentences with phrase «from brain tumor cells»

Again, using mouse models of glioblastoma — this time created from brain tumor cells that were resistant to the herpes virus — the therapy led to increased animal survival.

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So far, researchers with the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle have described the intricate shapes and electrical properties of about 100 nerve cells, or neurons, taken from the brains of 36 patients as they underwent surgery for conditions such as brain tumors or epilBrain Science in Seattle have described the intricate shapes and electrical properties of about 100 nerve cells, or neurons, taken from the brains of 36 patients as they underwent surgery for conditions such as brain tumors or epilbrain tumors or epilepsy.

HBI member V. Wee Yong, PhD and research associate Susobhan Sarkar, PhD, and their team including researchers from the Department of Clinical Neurosciences and the university's Southern Alberta Cancer Research Institute, looked at human brain tumor samples and discovered that specialized immune cells in brain tumor patients are compromised.

To seed in the brain, a cancer cell must dislodge from its tumor of origin, enter the bloodstream, and cross densely packed blood vessels called the blood - brain barrier.

Engineered human immune cells can vanquish a deadly pediatric brain tumor in a mouse model, a study from the Stanford University School of Medicine has demonstrated.

They observed that the tumor cells that spread to the brain were able to utilize an extracellular molecule, which shields them from their hostile surroundings.

If we can boost the immune system and allow microglia to do their job and control brain tumor stem cells, it would be like removing the seed from the soil — stopping the tumor growth before it starts to get out of control.»

ICELL8 can isolate up to 1,800 single cells, ranging from 5 μm — 100 μm in size on a single chip, including cells from solid tumors, brain cells, pulmonary airway cells, and multiple cell lines.

Now he and his team are putting cells from human brain tumors into the organoids, which have reached the level of development and complexity of a 20 - week - old human fetus's, to see whether they reprise what happens in patients.

The most common primary, malignant brain tumors in adults, called glioma, are formed from cells in the brain that are not nerve cells.

Because the stem cells generate the brain cancer cells, killing off the stem cells might prevent tumors from recurring.

«We showed that the presence of the maternal gut microbiota during late pregnancy blocked the passage of labeled antibodies from the circulation into the brain parenchyma of the growing fetus,» says first author Dr. Viorica Braniste at the Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology at Karolinska Institutet.

In a new study, Yale Cancer Center researchers identified a novel genetic defect that prevents brain tumor cells from repairing damaged DNA.

The team's experiments in cell cultures, conducted with funding from an American Brain Tumor Association Discovery Grant, showed that coibamide A cuts off the cancer cells» ability to communicate with blood vessels and other cells, eventually starving the cell and triggering its death.

In experiments in animals, researchers from the University of Michigan Medical School showed that adding rapamycin to an immunotherapy approach strengthened the immune response against brain tumor cells.

«They can cross different fiber tracts in the brain to reach tumor cells that have migrated away from the main tumor mass.

Researchers demonstrated that the drugs pemetrexed and gemcitabine killed cells from mouse and human brain tumors, called group 3 medulloblastoma, growing in the laboratory.

«Inhibition of the EZH2 pathway slows growth of tumors in mouse brain derived from glioma stem cells from the enhancing margin of human tumors.

Past clinical trials of stem cell therapies for chronic stroke patients used cells derived from tumors in humans and brain tissue from fetal pigs.

CSCs were prepared from 231BrM and CN34BrM cells that were infected with lentivirus carrying with or without miR -7-2, and they were transplanted into nude mice through intracardiac injection followed by monitoring metastatic tumor growth in the brain.

The safe use of a stem - cell - based therapy against brain metastasis would require preventing the engineered cells from persisting within the brain, where they could affect normal tissue and possibly give rise to new tumors.

Investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute have a potential solution for how to kill tumor cells that have metastasized to the brain.

Working with Seattle, Washington — area neurosurgeons, the Allen Institute acquired healthy cells from the cortex — the outermost layer of the brain that coordinates perception, memory, thoughts, and consciousness — from patients undergoing surgery for epilepsy or brain tumors.

In this report, we indeed showed that CSCs isolated from both 231BoM and 231BrM have strong tumor - initiating abilities; however, they preferentially metastasize to bone and brain, respectively, despite the fact that these cells were isolated using the same markers (CD24 − / CD44 + / ESA +).

Zhang, who earned an M.D. from the Peking University Health Science Center in China and a Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore, was recruited in 2007 to the Texas team that expected to see an increase of brain metastasis when PTEN, a known tumor - inhibiting protein, was artificially deleted in a tumor cell.

Molecular testing: Some primary brain tumors, including some of the most common types of gliomas, are defined by their key molecular features resulting from tumor cell mutations.

The enzyme that degrades these chains is called heparanase, and the researchers found that medulloblastoma cells, as well as cells from other childhood brain tumours, need this enzyme, which may suggest new ways to treat the tumor.

If he can determine how to speed up engulfment of dead tumor cells from brain tissue, it is his hope to reduce the harmful inflammation that causes death of surrounding neurons.

He will study how glial cells recognize and digest dead cells from a brain tumor.

The Program specializes in the treatment of primary head and neck cancers, brain and spine tumors such as squamous cell carcinoma, basal cell cancer, glomus tumor, paragangliomas, acoustic neuromas, salivary gland and mucosal tumors, astrocytomas, oligodendrogliomas, glioblastomas, and hemangioblastomas, and metastatic tumors that may have arisen from elsewhere in the body such as the breast, lung, or prostate.

Gliomas are brain tumors that arise from glial cells, which help nerve cells to stay connected and send signals throughout the body.

Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumors (PNET) and pineoblastoma are a group of tumors defined by their appearance and are thought to develop from primitive (undeveloped) nerve cells in the Tumors (PNET) and pineoblastoma are a group of tumors defined by their appearance and are thought to develop from primitive (undeveloped) nerve cells in the tumors defined by their appearance and are thought to develop from primitive (undeveloped) nerve cells in the brain.

One cohort study in Denmark looked at billing information from 358,000 cell phone users and then compared it to brain - tumor data from a national cancer registry.

In cells from certain brain tumors, in stomach cancer, and in colorectal cancer lines, vitamin K halts the reproductive cell cycle and induces apoptosis.

Tumors originating in the brain or primary brain tumors arise from cells that are normally found within the brain and menTumors originating in the brain or primary brain tumors arise from cells that are normally found within the brain and mentumors arise from cells that are normally found within the brain and meninges.

A primary brain tumor originates from cells normally found within the brain and its surrounding membranes.

Glioma - These tumors arise from the supporting cells of the brain and include astrocytomas, oligodendrogliomas, glioblastoma multiforme and ependymomas.

Authored and submitted a paper for publication, «The Behavior of Brain Tumor Cells Extracted From the Pineal Gland Under Spectrum Shifts of UV Light»