Sentences with phrase «gland cells»

Wilmut and his colleagues transplanted a nucleus from a mammary gland cell of a Finn Dorsett sheep into the enucleated egg of a Scottish blackface ewe.

«Until now, retention of salivary gland cell properties has not been possible using other tissue culture techniques.

Adenocarcinomas behave malignantly but how aggressively malignant they are depends not on whether they are tubular or papillary, but on other cellular characteristics described by the pathologist (such as how quickly the cells appear to be dividing and how closely they resemble normal gland cells).

Being obese or having a higher body mass index (BMI) while carrying a BRCA (BReast CAncer gene) mutation is positively linked with higher levels of damage to the DNA in normal breast gland cells, new research suggests.

In response to hormones circulating during pregnancy, DNA in mammary gland cells loses certain marks called methyl groups, the team found.

The four Finn Dorsets were derived from the mammary gland cell line that led to the birth of Dolly.

In earlier research, Knox discovered that the salivary gland has its own pool of stem cells to replenish gland cells that die off.

Gland cells produce the secretions that constitute many common types of bodily fluid, including semen, mucus, and saliva.

VDR activation in the intestine, bone, kidney, and parathyroid gland cells leads to the maintenance of calcium and phosphorus levels in the blood (with the assistance of parathyroid hormone and calcitonin) and to the maintenance of bone content.

This tumor is a disordered and purposeless overgrowth of sweat gland cells.

The cells had many of the same characteristics as salivary gland cells that grow in the mouth,» he said.

A research team led by Chih - Ko Yeh, B.D.S., Ph.D., from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, is the first to use silk fibers as a framework to grow stem cells into salivary gland cells.

When this happens, at the molecular level, a protein called FoxO acts as an insulin sensor, leaves the nucleus of the gland cells and activates a cascade of events that culminate in the growth of the organism.

Now, researchers from Christen Mirth's laboratory discovered how these two processes talk to each other, all due to the location of a protein inside the gland cells, where ecdysone is synthetized during a larval stage.

But we had no other cell line to go with, so we all agreed that we'd use these mammary - gland cells and just see what happened, gain some experience.

At the end of an axon there are axon terminals that may form specialized junctions called synapses — places where a nerve impulse is transmitted to another cell (e.g. neurons, muscle, gland cells).

Danielle Benoit (right), associate professor of biomedical engineering, and Lisa A. DeLouise, associate professor of dermatology, use «microbubbles» to regenerate salivary gland cells.

Adenocarcinoma: Adenocarcinomas can be tubular or papillary, depending on the gland cells the tumor arises from.