Sentences with phrase «human brain tumors»
«We are very excited about this tumor model as it mimics the developmental environment of a pediatric or adolescent human brain tumor,» he says.
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La Jolla, CA — Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have developed a versatile mouse model of glioblastoma — the most common and deadly brain cancer in humans — that closely resembles the development and progression of human brain tumors that arise naturally.
In their paper receiving advance online publication in Nature, a team led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard identifies for the first time cancer stem cells and their differentiated progeny in human brain tumor samples.
HBI member V. Wee Yong, PhD and research associate Susobhan Sarkar, PhD, and their team including researchers from the Department of Clinical Neurosciences and the university's Southern Alberta Cancer Research Institute, looked at human brain tumor samples and discovered that specialized immune cells in brain tumor patients are compromised.
Now he and his team are putting cells from human brain tumors into the organoids, which have reached the level of development and complexity of a 20 - week - old human fetus's, to see whether they reprise what happens in patients.
«Simple sugar used to detect human brain tumors.»
Recently, BGEM was used to complement a gene expression microarray approach to the etiology of human brain tumors.
In a report on one of the two findings, published online Sept. 20 in Acta Neuropathologica, the investigators identified alterations in a protein known as ATRX in human brain tumors that arise as part of a genetically inherited condition known as neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1).
When the researchers injected mice with a mix of stem and endothelial cells from human brain tumors, the animals sprouted larger tumors than did mice receiving stem cells alone, the team reports today in Cancer Cell.
Researchers demonstrated that the drugs pemetrexed and gemcitabine killed cells from mouse and human brain tumors, called group 3 medulloblastoma, growing in the laboratory.
Sure enough, after examining over 70 human brain tumors, the researchers found that cancer stem cells were frequently located close to tiny vessels called capillaries.
It is not unreasonable to assume that the dog will be a highly useful model of human brain tumors.»
Researchers have found that there are a number of similarities between canine and human brain tumors.