Sentences with phrase «fuels growth of cancer cells»

It activates cancer genes and fuels growth of cancer cells.

While scientists know how estrogen receptors fuel the growth of cancer cells, they know a lot less about what progesterone receptors do in those same cells.

Not exact matches

While the combination therapies block off the principal pathway that cancer cells use to fuel their growth, the cells come to bypass this blockade and, like vehicles on a detour route, make use of additional pathways to continue growing and spreading.

A study analyzing brain tumor genomics on a single - cell level has found evidence that cancer stem cells fuel the growth of oligodendrogliomas, a slow - growing but incurable form of brain cancer.

Women with the KRAS - variant are also more susceptible to triple - negative breast cancer, tumors whose growth is not fueled by the hormones estrogen and progesterone, or by the presence of a particular genetic mutation known as HER2, which promotes cancer cell growth.

But it has been harder to test whether cancer stem cells fuel the growth of tumors in other tissues.

The telomerase deficiency of human somatic cells reduces the risk of cancer development, as telomerase fuels uncontrolled cancer cell growth.

A protein in the TOR signalling pathway, called SREBP, controls the flow of messages to the endoplasmic reticulum telling it to expand — and could allow cancer cells to produce enough proteins and lipids to fuel their non-stop growth.

Cancer stem cells, which fuel the growth of fatal tumours, can be knocked out by a one - two combination of antibiotics and Vitamin C in a new experimental strategy, published by researchers at the University of Salford, UK.

Nagrath, who directs Rice's Laboratory for Systems Biology of Human Diseases, found that some cancer cells are capable of using these information packets as a source of energy to fuel tumor growth.

Max S. Wicha, M.D., has received a $ 6.5 million Outstanding Investigator Award to study cancer stem cells, the small number of cells within a tumor that fuel its growth and spread.

Identifying cancer stem cells, the small number of cells in a tumor believed to fuel its growth and spread

October 30, 2011 Fat cells in abdomen fuel spread of ovarian cancer A large pad of fat cells that extends from the stomach and covers the intestines provides nutrients that promote the spread and growth of ovarian cancer, reports a research team based at the University of Chicago in the journal Nature Medicine, published online October 30th, 2011.

This includes identifying pancreatic cancer stem cells, the small number of cells within a tumor that fuel its growth and spread.

IL - 6 plays a key role in inflammation, and high levels are tied to harmful proteins that fuel the growth and spread of cancer cells, said Vanamala.

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.