Sentences with phrase «growth of blood vessels»

According to science, red wine inhibits the excess growth of blood vessels in our eyes, which can lead to blindness.

Next steps include protocol optimization and the successful growth of blood vessels within the bone.

In addition, they detoxify and neutralize carcinogens in the body, while inhibiting angiogenesis — the cancer - promoting growth of blood vessels that nourish tumors.

ROP involves an abnormal growth of blood vessels in the retina that may lead to scarring, retinal detachment and, in severe cases, blindness.

It also induces the secretion of vascular endothelium growth factor (VEGF), which leads to the increased growth of blood vessels and vascular permeability in inflammation (3).

«Study suggests method to boost growth of blood vessels and muscle: Activating proteins linked to longevity may help to increase endurance and combat frailty in the elderly.»

Studies suggest that resveratrol could not only fight obesity's health effects and slow the aging process (albeit only in animals like mice and fish so far), the chemical may also hinder the abnormal growth of blood vessels behind the retina — the prime cause of macular degeneration.

This suggests that tumors send out signals that encourage lymph duct growth â $ «a parallel to the well - known ability of tumors to drive growth of blood vessels nearby.

Researchers report that curcumin reduces all pro-inflammatory molecules in cartilage cells and in membranes that line the joints, among them tumor necrosis factor — which destroys joint cartilage — and vascular endothelial growth factor, which promotes excessive growth of blood vessels in inflamed joints.

«Study suggests method to boost growth of blood vessels and muscle: Activating proteins linked to longevity may help to increase endurance and combat frailty in the elderly.»

Von Hippel - Lindau disease (VHL) is a rare genetic disorder characterized by abnormal growth of blood vessels and benign or cancerous tumor development in various organs, including the following:

And they incorporated into the gel a protein known as vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which encourages the growth of blood vessels into the transplanted cells.

In a separate laboratory experiment, they found the same JK - 31 molecule also blocked a specific growth factor (VEGF - A) produced by the cancer to attract the growth of blood vessels.

The study found that the compound, which re-activates longevity - linked proteins called sirtuins, promotes the growth of blood vessels and muscle, boosting the endurance of elderly mice by up to 80 percent.

To demonstrate the potential for treating lung disease, the researchers used the nanoparticles to block two genes that have been implicated in lung cancer — VEGF receptor 1 and Dll4, which promote the growth of blood vessels that feed tumors.

In fish larvae without the EGFL7 gene, however, other genes compensate for the loss, so that the inhibitor hardly affects the growth of blood vessels (below).

VEGF is important for the growth of blood vessels and is the target of anti-cancer drugs such as bevacizumab, known commercially as Avastin.

One drug attacks cancer cells; the other inhibits cancer cell formation and the growth of blood vessels at tumor sites.

Pericytes, a type of cells that are attached to the outside of blood capillaries and stabilize them, play a central role in this process; they also influence the growth of blood vessels.

Hellmut Augustin's team at the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) and the University Medical Faculty Mannheim of Heidelberg University has now discovered a new mechanism that promotes the growth of blood vessels in tumors.

Currently, patients receive these drugs, which cut off the growth of blood vessels that interfere with sight, as an injection into the eye once a month.

Once in place, the sugar slowly breaks down, yielding angiogenetic byproducts — substances that encourage the growth of blood vessels.

When that happens, mTOR can trigger the production of proteins, including several that promote cell proliferation and the growth of blood vessels.

These proteins, such as endostatin, inhibit the growth of blood vessels that the tumors need to grow and spread (ScienceNOW, 23 January 1997).

Reporting in the International Journal of Cancer, the researchers show that dopamine prevented the growth of blood vessels in two animal models without causing many of the serious side effects of the far - more expensive anti-angiogenic drugs currently used in cancer therapy.

A new study led by scientists at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC — James) suggests that dopamine — an inexpensive drug currently used to treat heart, vascular and kidney disorders — can be safely used in cancer treatment to curb the growth of blood vessels in tumors.

In low doses it stimulates the growth of blood vessels.

Knowing that insulin can stimulate the growth of blood vessels, «our expectation was that knocking out insulin signaling in these cells might slow the growth of blood vessels and reduce tumor formation in these mice,» Rask - Madsen says.

DR. LEWIN: The best - known one is Avastin ®, which is a drug that was developed for cancer treatment to prevent the growth of blood vessels into tumors.

(Revlimid) An immunomodulatory and anti-angiogenic agent, this drug slows the growth of blood vessels feeding abnormal cells and kills abnormal cells in the bone marrow.

We really wanted to find a compound, a chemical, that would profoundly stop the growth of blood vessel cells, which of course are the cells that go on to form the abnormal angiogenesis in wet AMD.

Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) expressed by neural progenitor cells (NPCs)(cyan) stimulates the growth of blood vessels (red) in the mouse embryonic hindbrain, and provides regulatory factors to promote the self - renewal of neural progenitors.

We came across a compound that had been isolated from a plant species and shown to have effects on blocking the growth of blood vessel cells, both in the culture dish and also in animal models.

The researchers found that, when stimulated by insulin, diabetic fibroblasts produced less of the VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor) signaling protein, a key player in boosting the growth of blood vessel cells, than normal fibroblasts did.

We found that it is very selective and potent at stopping the growth of blood vessel cells without having negative effects on the growth of other cell types from the eye and elsewhere in the body.

This is basically tweaking the molecules: making small chemical changes to the compound in hopes of finding something that could block the growth of blood vessel cells initially in the culture dish without having toxic effects on other cell types.

By using viral vectors, Fong foresees therapies such as sending a specialized protein to shut down the growth of blood vessels within a tumor, which starves it to death.

August 5, 2002 Gene therapy boosts cancer chemotherapy University of Chicago researchers have found a way to use cancer chemotherapy to turn on gene therapy designed to disrupt the growth of blood vessels to a tumor.

Apr. 14, 2016 — An international research team that included scientists from Vanderbilt University Medical Center has found a novel way to counteract obesity in mice — by stimulating the growth of blood vessels in fat tissue.

More directly, a 2009 study in the Journal of Nutrition, found that turmeric prevents fat cell differentiation, causes fat cell apoptosis (cell destruction), and further reduces the formation of fat cells by preventing angiogenesis (the growth of blood vessels needed to support new fatty tissues in your body).

They also discourage the growth of the blood vessels that feed the tumors.

It's a term that refers to the growth of blood vessels to a tumor as a result of chemicals that are released from the tumor.

In animals, researchers found that intermittent fasting improved heart muscle performance, reduced free radical damage, and increased the growth of blood vessels within the heart.

Though most commonly referenced in relation to you mood, endorphins also play a role in pain relief, growth of cells and angiogenesis (the growth of blood vessels that feed a tumor).

And, although this effect may help to prevent heart attacks and other forms of heart disease, it may have the potential to promote cancer as well by increasing the growth of blood vessels in cancerous tumors.

The cardiovascular health effects of exercise extend to increasing the growth of blood vessels that improve oxygen flow to the brain.