Sentences with phrase «growing tumor tissue»

The spice targets only cancerous cells causing them to self - destruct by destroying the mitochondria that power the rapidly growing tumor tissue.

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Each factor involved in the tumor response — whether it is the speed with which chemotherapeutic drugs reach the tissue or the degree to which cells signal each other to grow — is characterized by a mathematical equation that captures its essence.

Unlike conventional chemotherapies and radiation that indiscriminately eradicate fast - growing tissues and ravage people's bodies with side effects, new therapies specifically target tumors using tailored cells from individual patients.

Cancer cells can break away from a primary tumor, penetrate into lymphatic and blood vessels, circulate through the bloodstream, and grow in a distant focus (metastasize) in normal tissues elsewhere in the body.

Also limiting the use of therapeutic stem cells to date, self - renewal, a quality so vital to a fast - growing fetus, can also be a source of cancer risk when haphazard, unlimited cell multiplication results in the abnormal tissue growth seen in tumors.

Small populations of adult stem cells with somewhat limited developmental potential are responsible for the body's ability to heal injuries and replace worn out cells and tissues, and evidence is growing that rare cancer stem cells are responsible for the uncontrolled growth of some malignant tumors, including glioblastoma.

Drugs that enhance a process called oxidative stress were found to kill rhabdomyosarcoma tumor cells growing in the laboratory and possibly bolstered the effectiveness of chemotherapy against this aggressive tumor of muscle and other soft tissue.

Researchers said the importance of collecting tissue samples from recurrent tumors will grow as more targeted therapies become available.

From tissue and cell samples from five glioblastoma patients, the scientists obtained 33 individual cancer cells capable of reproduction, which grew into very different tumors in the lab.

These are indications that areas of diseased tissue could be dying, while other parts of a tumor could be rapidly growing or becoming more aggressive.

The tissues were grown on a 3D gelatin sponge, and two portions of the same tumor were treated with either cabazitaxel or docetaxel.

But working with human smooth muscle cells isolated and grown from the healthy parts of airway tissue surrounding excised tumors, Benjamin Kalbe and his colleagues applied a large number of odor molecules and watched two of them activate the muscle cells.

Like cells in all cancers, the B cells begin to grow out of control, creating tumors in the lymph nodes, spleen or other tissues.

This may allow surgeons to look at the perimeter of a growing tumor and use the shape to guide their assessment of which regions could be more problematic — where they need to take out more tissue around the tumor and where they may not need to take as much.»

For instance, cancer tumors are fast growing, so they gobble up certain compounds more rapidly that healthy tissue.

In stage T4a larynx cancer the tumor grows through the thyroid cartilage and / or into tissues beyond the larynx, such as the thyroid gland, trachea, esophagus, tongue muscles, or neck muscles.

This method measures the activity of protein - cutting enzymes called endoproteases, which are made by tumors to help recruit blood vessels and invade surrounding tissues so the cancer can grow and spread.

Researchers believe it is the largest epigenetic study yet for any single cancer type and, importantly, the first to use a large cohort of primary patient tumor tissues instead of cell lines grown in the laboratory.

«We are talking about fast - growing tumors that invade normal brain tissue and are very difficult to treat,» said Orin Bloch, MD, a neurosurgeon at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and lead author of the study.

That suggested critical importance of the tissue environment, what Zhang calls the «seed and soil» model: Tumors that grow in one kind of tissue won't grow in another easily.

The sensors are particularly helpful because they respond to a specific enzyme that a tumor needs to grow blood vessels and to remodel neighboring tissue, steps that enable the tumor to spread.

He and the Vereide Group grow precursors of human arterial cells, build colonies of dendritic cells (cells which can alert the rest of the immune system to the presence of a tumor), and use chick embryos to study the formation of early tissue layers for a possible future in which complex tissues, or even organs, can be grown to replace diseased, wounded, or malfunctioning ones.

In order to detect the tumors with a microscope, a standard method, one would have to wait for the tumors to grow large enough to be seen through exhaustive searches of tissue sections, a time - consuming processes.

However, those who do (nearly 30,000 each year) develop aggressive tumors that grow and spread rapidly, sometimes even after radical surgery to remove all cancerous tissue.

Fibroids are benign (non-cancerous) tumors made of muscle and fibrous tissue that grow in a woman's uterus.

Though I suppose that at the beginning tumor is slightly more alkaline than surrounding tissue, then it grows and develops acidic shell with «proton pump» mechanism, keeping its core even more «live» (alkaline).

Growing a tumor of this size requires building a large amount of tissue — blood vessels, extracellular matrix, and more.

Neurofibromatosis is a genetic disorder where the nerve tissue grows tumors, called neurofibromas.

Shark cartilage can be used twice daily to decrease the blood supply to any fast growing soft tissue tumor which is referred to as an anti-angiogenesis factor.

I lean away from removing benign tumors but if it is somewhere where if it starts to grow, I won't have enough tissue to close the wound around it, or if it is near his rear end and might start trapping feces or something odd like that I might recommend removing it.

Hemangiosarcoma is a malignant tumor that arises out of the cells of the blood vessels, and therefore can technically grow out of any tissues rich in blood vessels.

Malignant tumors usually grow more aggressively, they invade the tissues surrounding them and can metastasize (spread throughout the body).

Benign tumors typically have an outer fibrous sheath of connective tissue and grow more slowly than malignant tumors.

Almost all lipomas, which are tumors of adipose tissue (fat) are slow - growing and benign.

They can grow in any part of the organ that arise from mesenchyme tissues) and other mesenchymal tumors (lesions that arise from soft tissues) that occur less frequently.

Almost all tumors of adipose tissue (fat) are slow - growing and benign.

The tumor is usually rapidly growing, almost always malignant (spreading), and extends deep into surrounding tissues.

The brain and its bath of cerebrospinal fluid takes up almost all the room and when a tumor begins to grow, the brain tissue is compressed.

Cells from the biopsy tissue are then examined under the microscope and the tumor is assessed as high grade (aggressive), intermediate, or low - grade (slow - growing).

Benign tumors, although they may grow and penetrate below the surface layer of tissue, do not spread by metastasis to other parts of the body.

Tumors can grow on any living organ or tissue within the human body.