Sentences with phrase «from tumor proteins»

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Immunotherapy differs from more traditional cancer treatments, such as surgery (cutting malignant cells out of the body), chemotherapy and radiation (poisoning the deadly mutants), and even the newer, more precise molecular drugs that attempt to jam the protein signals that tell tumor cells to keep dividing and conquering.

Chicago, GenomeWeb — A new study by researchers from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has demonstrated the predictive power of an AR - V7 protein expression test using Epic Sciences» non-EPCAM-based circulating tumor cell detection platform, which could help guide treatment decisions for men with metastatic castration - resistant prostate cancer.

We examined COX - 2 protein abundance in tumors extracted from mouse skin.

Both TRPV1 / WT and KO mice treated with capsaicin and TPA together exhibited higher COX - 2 protein levels than groups treated with TPA alone (Fig. 2A), and tumors from TRPV1 / KO mice expressed the highest level of COX - 2 as a result of treatment with capsaicin and TPA together (Fig. 2A).

Researchers at NYU School of Medicine found that the value of the drug infliximab, marketed as Remicade, in both applications proceeds from its ability to block the contribution of the protein tumor - necrosis factor alpha, or TNF alpha, to problem - causing inflammation.

«We're interrogating the tumor microenvironment,» she says, «by looking at suppressive cues as well as cells and secreted proteins that protect tumors from the immune response.»

«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.

That gene's protein usually holds immune cells back from attacking tumors.

Along with finding that the tumor suppressor protein SIRT6 is inactive in around 30 percent of cases of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), the team identified the precise pathway by which SIRT6 suppresses PDAC development, a mechanism different from the way it suppresses colorectal cancer.

Researchers from the «Angiogenesis signaling pathways» research group of the Institute of Biomedical Investigation of Bellvitge (IDIBELL), led by Dr. Mariona Graupera, have unveiled the potential therapeutic benefit of a selective inhibitior of the PI3 - kinase (PI3K) protein in pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PanNETs).

PTEN prevents tumor cells from growing uncontrollably, and mutations in the gene encoding this protein are commonly found in many different types of cancer.

The team integrated three, complementary gene sequencing approaches to look for mutations in tumor cells from SS patients: whole - genome sequencing in six subjects, sequencing of all protein - coding regions (exomes) in 66 subjects, and comparing variation in the number of copies of all genes across the genome in 80 subjects.

RNA sequencing of both single and clustered CTCs from breast cancer patients identified several genes expressed at elevated levels in CTC clusters, one of which — a protein called plakoglobin — also was overexpressed in the primary tumors of patients with reduced survival.

Damage occurs when metastatic tumor cells recruit pre-osteoclast cells to the bone and then induce their differentiation into mature bone - degrading cells, which results in the release of proteins from the bone matrix that promote tumor cell growth.

To make the vaccine, cancer cells are harvested from a tumor after surgery and stripped of their proteins; then those proteins are cultured with dendritic cells, a subclass of white blood cells, drawn from the patient's blood.

One protein that keeps healthy cells from behaving this way is a tumor suppressor named p53.

The protein sits on the surface of T cells and helps dampen the activity of the cells after an immune response, but tumors have found ways to hide from T cell attack by flipping on the PD - 1 switch themselves.

The team of medical and engineering researchers at The Ohio State University previously determined that modifying a single gene to reduce this protein's level in breast cancer cells lowered the cells» ability to migrate away from the tumor site.

For the CRISPR trial, a UPenn - led team wants to remove T cells from patients and use a harmless virus to give the cells a receptor for NY - ESO - 1, a protein that is often present on certain tumors but not on most healthy cells.

When the protein is present, these cells that start out round and stuck together in a pattern resembling cobblestones become irregularly shaped and tend to detach from the tumor site in an uncoordinated way — hallmarks of metastasis.

The researchers next will turn to analyzing the presence of myoferlin in samples from numerous human tumor types available in an Ohio State tissue bank, which will allow them to compare protein levels in tumors to clinical outcomes for the patients who provided the samples.

But the cells also changed shape and other properties in the absence of the protein in ways that reduced the likelihood that they would travel away from the tumor — a sign that myoferlin not only changes genes in cancer cells, but also alters the cells» mechanical properties.

Using a fluorescent protein to detect Rgs16 expression, the investigators found that this gene is induced by pancreatic tumor formation starting from its earliest manifestation as ductal neoplasm all the way to advanced solid tumor in a spatially and temporally coincidental manner.

CAR T cells are T cells that are removed from a patient, genetically engineered to grow a protein «sensor» that targets them to tumor cells, and then re-injected into the patient.

Further research could test these cancer stem cell gene expression at the RNA and protein level in circulating tumor cells and biopsies from patients on trial.

«From brain tumors to memory: A very multifunctional protein.»

Scientists from the Crick Institute, London and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, discover a protein that plays a key role in turning cancer tumor cells into cancer stem cells that are able to renew outbreaks of the disease

However, many tumor proteins do not provoke T cells to attack, so T cells must be removed from the patient and programmed to attack a specific tumor molecule.

Results showed that tumor cells containing the protein carried anywhere from 10 to 17 times fewer breast stem cells, and tumors grown from the injected cells were about three times smaller than those in mice who had received tumor cells with depleted levels of HOXA5.

Research from other scientists at Johns Hopkins, he says, had suggested that some tumors, particularly those that affect the nervous system, have mutations in the ATRX gene, which produces proteins that appear to maintain the length of telomeres, repetitive segments of DNA on the ends of chromosomes that typically shorten each time a cell divides.

Many of the peptides being tested have been isolated from proteins that are secreted by tumors.

Over the past two years, investigators from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have reported results from a human trial in GBM using chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy, through which patients» own T cells were engineered to track down and kill cancer cells that express a tumor - specific protein known as EGFRvIII.

A better approach, Monje said, would be to develop drugs that specifically block the tumor - stimulating activities of neuroligin - 3, such as a drug that stops the protein from being secreted into the area around the cancer cells.

Findings by scientists from the Max F. Perutz Laboratories (MFPL) of the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna reveal a surprising role for histone deacetylase 1 (HDAC1)-- a member of a family of chromatin modifying proteins — in the development of skin tumors.

To confirm that the missing mutations were important for generating an immune response, the researchers cultured a subset of the neoantigen protein fragments containing the tumor mutations with immune cells taken from three patients» blood samples.

Working in mouse models of breast cancer and breast tumor samples from patients, Longmore and his colleagues showed that a protein that sits on the surface of tumor cells, called DDR2, binds to collagen and activates a multistep pathway that encourages tumor cells to spread.

A widespread cancer - causing protein called MYC promotes the growth of tumor cells in part by ensuring that RNA transcripts are properly spliced, according to latest work from A * STAR researchers.

«Eliminating endothelial CD146 by conditional knockout in two different mouse models of colitis significantly reduced the severity of inflammation and decreased tumor incidence and tumor progression in a mouse model of CAC,» reports lead investigator Xiyun Yan, PhD, from the Key Laboratory of Protein and Peptide Pharmaceuticals, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing.

Studying mice with breast tumors transplanted from patients, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Baylor College of Medicine have analyzed the proteins present in these tumors.

Another reason to prioritize the systematic study of proteins in tumors — cancer proteomics — is that the vast majority of cancer therapies developed from genetic studies actually target proteins.

She also collected visceral fat tissue from women undergoing hysterectomies and found that when the fat secretions had more of the FGF2 protein, more of the cells formed cancerous tumors when transferred into mice.

When researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, examined tumor tissue from the original man with colon cancer who responded to a PD - 1 inhibitor, they found a clue: His tumor had mutations in «mismatch repair» genes, so - called because their encoded proteins fix errors in DNA bases when cells replicate their DNA.

VIC - 008 is a fusion protein combining an immune - activating protein from the tuberculosis bacteria with a small antibody fragment targeting mesothelin, a protein expressed in several types of tumor — including mesothelioma, pancreatic and ovarian cancer.

Berkeley researchers isolated circulating tumor cells from the blood of breast cancer patients, then used microscale physics to design a precision test for protein biomarkers, which are indicators of cancer.

Once settled in the microwell, the circulating tumor cells were burst open and the proteins released from inside each cell were separated according to differences in size or mass.

Pembrolizumab blocks the action of the tumor - surface protein PD - 1, which many cancers use to hide themselves from immune system T cells.

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.

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Vincent Brichard, Thomas Wölfel, and Thierry Boon identify the first CTL - defined tumor antigen derived from a melanoma differentiation protein, tyrosinase.

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