Sentences with phrase «healthy colon tissue»
Editing GalNAc - T6 out of a colon cancer cell line changed its growth form to one more closely resembling healthy colon tissue.
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Kirstine Lavrsen and colleagues at the University of Copenhagen discovered that GalNAc - transferase 6, known as GalNAc - T6, one of 20 polypeptides that initiate GalNAc - type O - glycosylation of proteins, was absent in healthy colon tissue but abundant in colon cancer tissue.
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The protein expression and activity of MMP9 is undetectable in most healthy adult tissues, including the colon and intestine, but it is highly expressed in a variety of inflammatory states.
When the team first examined the microbial composition of intestinal biopsies, they saw the bacterial strains in the tumors and surrounding tissues of colon cancer patients differed from the bacterial strains in the gut of healthy individuals.