Sentences with phrase «healthy cells in the bone marrow»

And, even though the 24p3 inhibitor increased the proportion of healthy cells in the bone marrow, it did not decrease the leukemia cells overall, according to Kharas.

People in an acute stage of the disease often develop severe anemia, because the leukemia cells, which live almost ten times as long as their normal counterparts, replace healthy cells in the bone marrow.

The cancer cells crowd out healthy cells in the bone marrow.

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The cancerous cells win out over the healthy blood cells in the bone marrow, which in turn leads to kidney problems when the cancer cells make abnormal proteins instead of antibodies.

Yeast extract gives us lots of health benefits to our healthy lifestyle such as: rich source of B vitamins, B vitamins are all involved in the metabolism of carbohydrates, fats and proteins into usable energy, but some are also important for digestion, immunity and red blood cell production within bone marrow.

But in multiple myeloma, plasma cells grow out of control in the bone marrow, crowding out healthy cells.

One was a bone marrow transplant, in which imported donor cells could manufacture healthy T cells to fight invading germs.

In acute myeloid leukemia, undifferentiated bone marrow cells grow uncontrollably in the blood and bone marrow, crowding out and destroying healthy cellIn acute myeloid leukemia, undifferentiated bone marrow cells grow uncontrollably in the blood and bone marrow, crowding out and destroying healthy cellin the blood and bone marrow, crowding out and destroying healthy cells.

MDS are a group of bone marrow disorders in which the bone marrow doesn't produce enough healthy blood cells.

HSCs can be harvested from a suitable donor and then transplanted into a patient, where, after establishing themselves in the bone marrow, they can generate healthy blood cells.

Now, in a study recently published in the journal PLOS ONE, a team of scientists from VCU Massey Cancer Center have shown a genetic relationship between the reactivation of hCMV and the onset of graft - versus - host disease (GVHD), a potentially deadly condition in which the immune system attacks healthy tissue following a bone marrow or stem cell transplant.

To treat hereditary blood diseases, doctors could take a sample of bone marrow cells from a patient, correct the faulty gene, and then grow healthy cells in the bioreactor and transplant them back into the patient.

Cincinnati Children's researchers report in Nature Immunology a new mechanism that controls blood cell function and several possible molecular targets for treating myelodysplasia syndromes (MDS)-- a group of pre-malignant disorders in which bone marrow does not produce enough healthy blood cells.

In a healthy person bone marrow acts as a sort of factory of stem cells, the vital cells that mature and divide to form other essential blood cells throughout the body.

Allogeneic stem cell transplantation to leukaemic patients, in which the patient's own diseased bone marrow is replaced by healthy donor material, is one of the best - established and most effective immunological therapies.

In that condition, stem cells collected from the blood or bone marrow could be removed from a patient, edited in the lab to correct the DNA typo — a process called «ex vivo» gene editing — and then reinjected to proliferate and make a patient healthIn that condition, stem cells collected from the blood or bone marrow could be removed from a patient, edited in the lab to correct the DNA typo — a process called «ex vivo» gene editing — and then reinjected to proliferate and make a patient healthin the lab to correct the DNA typo — a process called «ex vivo» gene editing — and then reinjected to proliferate and make a patient healthy.

In patients with leukemia, immature cells called «blasts» overtake their healthy bone marrow.

In her project, Sipkins will investigate molecular characteristics of tissue microenvironments, or «niches,» within the bone marrow and how normal, healthy hematopoietic stem cells, which give rise to the many kinds of blood cells, compete with malignant cells to occupy these coveted niches.

They found that Lymphotoxin β receptor, a cell surface molecule, controls the entry of T - cell progenitors to the thymus, both in a healthy state and during immune recovery following bone - marrow transplantation.

Holy basil also reduces radiation damage to healthy bone marrow and digestive tract cells, notes Deepak Chopra, in his book «The Chopra Center Herbal Handbook: Forty Natural Prescriptions for Perfect Health.»

Stem cells from a healthy bone marrow donor are transplanted into the patient; in essence, the good cells replace the bad.

In addition to not producing RBCs, the unhealthy bone marrow is not producing healthy white blood cells (WBCs) either.

When white blood cells multiply in an abnormal and uncontrolled way, these immature cells take over, literally crowding the bone marrow thereby preventing it from producing healthy blood cells and causing a shortage of red blood cells.

This virus type inserts itself into healthy cells in both the bone marrow and the tissues.

Bone marrow transplants for dogs is a relatively new procedure that involves the use of Leukophoresis machines — the same equipment used in human medicine — that are designed to harvest healthy stem cells from the peripheral blood.