Sentences with phrase «get cell transplants»

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I often wondered if she could have gotten an autologous transplant (her own stem cells), if that would have saved her life.

I'm all for making sure the correct breast milk gets to the correct baby, but I don't «transplant» carrot cells into my body when I eat a carrot, or cow tissue when I eat a cow.

In certain cases, transplanting these cells might be able to reboot a person's body and get rid of a disease - related defect.

With this drug, we got him into remission, and then he could get a stem cell transplant.

Another is that the transplanted bits of tumor act nothing like cancers in actual human brains, Fine and colleagues reported in 2006: Real - life glioblastomas grow and spread and resist treatment because they contain what are called tumor stem cells, but tumor stem cells don't grow well in the lab, so they don't get transplanted into those mouse brains.

«This is such a prevalent virus... about 25 percent of stem cell transplant patients get infected [with rhinovirus] during the first year,» said Boeckh, who heads Fred Hutch's Infectious Disease Sciences Program.

For the first time, stem cell researchers have succeeded in getting transplanted nerve cells to establish connections with other neurons to improve movement in paralyzed rats.

Because previous work in rats and monkeys has found that proteins that block the costimulatory signal can hold T cells at bay, Kim Olthoff, a transplant surgeon at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in Philadelphia, thought her team could achieve a targeted immune suppression by getting the transplanted organ itself — rather than proteins injected into the bloodstream — to block the costimulatory signal.

The good bacteria seem to help the drugs by priming T cells, which Wargo's group reported were more abundant in the gut and tumors of the mice who got fecal transplants from responder patients.

The authors point out that some workers after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster received donated bone marrow transplants, and two Japanese nuclear workers got donated stem cell transplants after a 1999 accident.

Faustman got her idea by chance while transplanting islets, the pancreatic bodies that contain beta cells, from normal mice into others that had lost theirs to type 1, or juvenile, diabetes.

If large numbers of white blood cells get into the lungs or kidneys, or into transplanted organs, they can cause damage to healthy tissue.

Because donated immune cells recognise the foreign tissue from the transplanted kidney, the thymus gets rid of the recipient's own T - cells that could otherwise attack the kidney.

In previous studies on liver - cell reprogramming, scientists had difficulty getting stem cell - derived liver cells to survive once being transplanted into existing liver tissue.

Transplants of neural stem cells might be used to treat brain injuries, but how to get them to the right location?

By applying an electric field within the rat's brain, they found that they could get the transplanted stem cells to swim «upstream» against the fluid flow and natural cues and head for other locations within the brain.

Previous attempts to get round this problem have included coating insulin - producing cells in a seaweed derivative prior to transplant to keep them from being attacked by the recipient's immune system.

Parkinson's patients in the 1980s were guinea pigs, getting fetal tissue transplants — a precursor of stem - cell therapy — in their brains.

When patients receive a bone marrow transplant, they are getting a new population of hematopoietic stem cells.

Replacing brain cells using stem cells from embryos was tried before but didn't work well, probably because we didn't understand how to look after the cells, nurture them to become neurons and get them to make the right connections when transplanted into HD brain.

The future of sickle cell is getting a transplant before the disease becomes debilitating,» says Dr. Rondelli.