Sentences with phrase «from normal cell growth»

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«A general message from these studies is that cancer cells benefit from modulating epigenetic factors like SIRT6 by acquiring the ability to override normal cellular growth control patterns,» says Mostoslavsky, an associate professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an associate member at the Broad Institute.

Inhibition of transcription (blockade of water) on tumor suppressor genes, such as p21, leads to cell transformation (growth of the cactus - like eremophytes instead of normal plants from the drought).

Experiments on mice and on heart cells obtained from infants born with congenital heart disease suggest that neuregulin 1, a human growth factor, can put infant heart cells on a path that mimics normal growth rather than stalling out.

By matching normal and cancer cells from a patient, we can now study the differences — what molecules are key to tumor development and growth, and, ultimately, match treatments that might disable this cancer,» says the study's senior investigator, associate professor of pathology, Xuefeng Liu, MD, a member of the Center for Cell Reprogramming (CCR) at Georgetown University Medical Center.

Other growth factors help normal cells recover from side effects of chemotherapy.

We've identified that ketone bodies, i.e. fuels in the bloodstream that result from a very low carbohydrate diet, metabolically inhibit growth of 7 cancer cell lines in cell culture, but not 3 normal cell types.

In cell culture studies we published that ketone bodies (KB) inhibited growth of 7 different cancers from 20 - 50 %, leaving normal cells unaffected.