Sentences with phrase «healthy cell tissue»

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Immunotherapy is praised by researchers because it is targeted, focusing on cancerous cells rather than healthy tissue, as well as potentially durable.

But in the following hours and days, the body's self - defense mechanisms backfire: White blood cells come in to clean up dead tissue, which causes massive inflammation, which in turn triggers healthy cells in the surrounding tissue to self - destruct in a process called apoptosis.

Since PSMA's limited on normal cells, the therapy should hammer away at tumors while letting healthy tissues do their job.

Millet is one of the least allergic grains out there and it's mineral and vitamin content helps boost energy and build healthy cells and tissue.

If the egg is fertilized by a sperm cell, it stays in the uterus and grows into a baby, using that extra blood and tissue to keep it healthy and protected as it's developing.

Instead, IsoLove re-hydrates tissue to normal, healthy levels, and helps maintain the integrity of the vaginal cell structure and ecosystem.

It also makes tissue and cell development a lot more healthy as well.

When you have anemia, your blood doesn't have enough healthy red blood cells to carry oxygen to your tissues and to your baby.

Anemia — a condition in which you don't have enough healthy red blood cells to carry adequate oxygen to your tissues — due to blood loss during delivery

Eating enough protein is essential for healthy development of new cells in the placenta and maternal tissues and encourages healthy blood production.

Cancer cells travel around the body and begin to attack healthy tissue in a process called metastasis.

She demonstrated that early experience leads to lasting changes in the molecular structure of the brain and discovered a gene involved in the spread of brain cancer cells into healthy brain tissue.

While they're essential for helping the body fend off attacks, if something goes awry, B - cells can generate antibodies that attack healthy tissues.

On Thursday, the United Nations» member states will consider two resolutions: One resolution would ban all human cloning methods, including efforts to use cloned embryonic stem cells to try and generate healthy tissues, or to treat degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's.

For unknown reasons our immune system attacks healthy cells, tissues and organs in a process called autoimmunity, which can result in diseases such as multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes, lupus or rheumatoid arthritis.

Gravekamp thinks the radioactive bacteria affected metastatic tumours most because cells there were still rapidly multiplying, leaving their chromosomes more open to damage than those in healthy tissues or in the original tumour.

To avoid the risk of injected cells destroying healthy tissue, Th17 cells that are reactive to tumours but not to normal tissues would have to be identified, Dong cautions.

As might be expected of an autoimmune disease, where the immune system turns on healthy tissue, all the genes play a role in controlling the growth and multiplication of cells in the immune system.

Sutherland says the genes she studies are already silenced in healthy adult tissue, so theoretically researchers should be able to design therapies that re-silence them in cancer cells without side effects.

This early stage research will explore how the virus targets stem cells and provide the starting point to develop new treatments that seek out the tumour and spare the surrounding healthy brain tissue.

In a study published in the journal Science, an international collaboration of investigators from Dana - Farber, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital, and the University of Strasbourg uncovered a mechanism that allows key immune system cells to keep a steady rein on their more belligerent brother cells, thereby protecting normal, healthy tissue from assault.

One reason for this is that the tumour cells invade surrounding, healthy brain tissue, which makes the surgical removal of the tumour virtually impossible.

Whether building organs or maintaining healthy adult tissues, cells use biochemical and mechanical cues from their environment to make important decisions, such as becoming a neuron, a skin cell or a heart cell.

«Our immune system is made up of specialised cells that move through blood and tissue, preventing disease and fighting infection by distinguishing between what is the body's own healthy tissue and what is foreign.

Developed by Amgen, it uses a modified version of the herpes virus that can't infect healthy tissue but attacks cancer cells.

When chlorotoxin is tagged with a fluorescent dye, it will illuminate a tumour — a trick that makes the surgeon's job easier by helping to pinpoint cancerous growth and ensure that all the cancerous cells are removed and healthy tissue spared.

Within that sting lies a peptide called chlorotoxin, which has an unusual property — it sticks strongly to tumour cells while ignoring surrounding healthy tissue, by binding to a cancer - specific protein called matrix metalloproteinase - 2.

The scientists» findings have wide implications in the effort to understand how organs are sculpted into their shapes and how cells respond to their native mechanical environment both in healthy tissues and during disease.

Unlike chemotherapy and radiation — which indiscriminately damage cells and tissues, healthy or otherwise — the CD45 - targeting antibodies leave the thymus and the bone marrow, environments critical to the formation of T cells and innate immune cells, unharmed.

Another key finding of the research was that the impact of vitamin D on inflammatory disease can not be predicted using cells from healthy individuals or even from the blood of patients with inflammation as cells from the disease tissue are very different.

Cancer therapies are often harsh because eradicating malignant cells entails damaging healthy tissue as well.

Change the size from 10 nanometers to 100 nanometers, and the drugs can end up in the wrong cells or organs and thereby damage healthy tissues.

Significant advances have been made in chemotherapy over the past decade, but targeting drugs to cancer cells while avoiding healthy tissues continues to be a major challenge.

Compared to people with periodontitis or gingivitis who were otherwise healthy, one molecule in particular stood out: people with LAD had very high levels of IL - 17 mRNA and IL -17-expressing cells in their gum tissue.

The molecule seemed to function as a checkpoint, turning off the T cell after a period of activity — perhaps to prevent collateral damage to healthy tissue.

Switching Apc on again made the frenzied cells morph back into healthy gut tissue, which contains intestinal cells (below, green) and clusters of stem cells (below

We think this pathway might act to get rid of infected cells, clearing them out so the infection can not spread to healthy tissue.

In healthy breast tissue, the percentage of cells expressing molecular marker Ki67 (green) and p27 (red) was low.

In a bid to progress beyond the shotgun approach to fighting cancer — blasting malignant cells with toxic chemicals or radiation, which kills surrounding healthy cells in the process — researchers at the Harvard - MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) are using nanotechnology to develop seek - and - destroy models to zero in on and dismantle tumors without damaging nearby normal tissue.

In essence, he says, weak T regs can mature into killer T cells that weed out other immune cells mounting attacks on healthy tissues.

Lupus, or systemic lupus erythematosus, is a progressive, degenerative disease in which the immune system turns against itself, attacking a person's healthy tissue, cells and organs.

A more attainable goal may be regenerative tissue transplants, for example, replacing dying liver cells in someone with early - stage liver disease with chunks of healthy stem cells from a personalized liver organoid.

Therefore, these «self - reactive» T cells survive destruction within an organ called the thymus, the central immune organ in which T - cells mature, and attack healthy cells and tissues, including melanocytes.

They treated a variety of healthy tissues and 23 samples of cancer cells taken from leukemia patients with AG1295, a drug known to selectively block the kinase.

«The exosomes appear to contain the signaling information needed to regenerate healthy heart tissue, they are naturally able to permeate cells, and they have a coating that protects their payloads from degradation as they shuttle from cell to cell,» said Marbán, senior author of an article in the May 6, 2014 Stem Cell Repocell to cell,» said Marbán, senior author of an article in the May 6, 2014 Stem Cell Repocell,» said Marbán, senior author of an article in the May 6, 2014 Stem Cell RepoCell Reports.

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.

The researchers are developing a potential new immunotherapy strategy for melanoma based on their insights into Autoimmune Polyendocrinopathy Type 1, a rare, inherited disorder in which T - cells attack healthy cells and tissues.

Now scientists have shown that the stem, or progenitor cells, which should ultimately make healthy breast tissue, can also have GT198 mutations that prompt them to instead make a perfect bed for breast cancer.

Dr. Ella Evron and Dr. Ayelet Avraham of the TAU - affiliated Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, together with Prof. Saraswati Sukumar of Johns Hopkins, have found that «gene regulation,» the process that shuts off certain parts of a cell's DNA code or blueprint in healthy breast tissue cells, may also play a critical role in the development of breast cancer.

Investigators at the Cedars - Sinai Heart Institute — whose previous research showed that cardiac stem cell therapy reduces scarring and regenerates healthy tissue after a heart attack in humans — have identified components of those stem cells responsible for the beneficial effects.