Seven patients underwent a blood
cell selection process (apheresis) to harvest a certain population of their white blood cells.
However, because IFN - γ is widely known to influence several endothelial properties, such as junctional integrity (21) and adhesion molecule expression (22), we elected to remove this cytokine from cultures immediately after the second session of
cell selection.
Identify immune cell populations with our flow cytometry antibodies and kits and isolate them with
our cell selection kits.
Cells grown with this culture system are maintained in an undifferentiated state with virtually no detectable background differentiation, eliminating the need for
cell selection.
Immunotherapeutic strategies are rapidly evolving, and recent advancements in
cell selection and gene editing have reshaped the reality of immunotherapy.
Not exact matches
Samples are weighted to correct for unequal
selection probability, nonresponse, and double coverage of landline and
cell users in the two sampling frames.
Perhaps you could explain how genetic
selection works on the Sickle
cell?
Rather, before we make hasty, uninformed guesses about things as enormously complicated as whole organs and animals, we must first look at life's foundation» molecules and
cells» to see what natural
selection can explain there.
They include going after the damage to
cells done by free radicals, making use of hormone therapy, or caloric restrictions, or vitamin supplements, or, most dramatically, healthy gene
selection through pre-implantation genetic diagnosis and even repairing the entire human genome.
It is no longer simply a matter of
cells organized by the hazards of natural
selection, but of completed zoological units inventively building themselves into organisms on a planetary scale.
If, on the other hand, we define evolution in the Darwinian sense — as a process of random mutation and natural
selection by which all living beings have arisen by chance from single -
celled organisms over 100's of millions of years — we may not be on equally firm ground from a scientific perspective.
As natural
selection kicked in, these bacteria graudally evolved into eukaryotic
cells, then small colonies, then multicellular organsims, then pre-Cambrian biota, then crusaceans, jellyfish and, later, fish.
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We've talked about SMS messages in politics for years on Epolitics.com (remember when Obama offered to whisper the name of his VP
selection into your
cell phone in 2008?)
Samples are weighted to correct for unequal
selection probability, nonresponse, and double coverage of landline and
cell users in the two sampling frames.
The campaign also amassed a central list of roughly one million
cell numbers and used SMS text messages to promote voter turnout as well as to make campaign announcements such as Joe Biden's
selection as Vice President.
For now, drugs such as rituximab that deplete B -
cells not only offer potential relief for those with autoimmune illnesses, but a new way of understanding these conditions — as an unintended consequence of the natural
selection process B -
cells undergo each time they encounter a new pathogen.
This natural
selection process results in a B -
cell that binds almost perfectly.
Cancer
cells are no exception, and are subject to the two overarching mechanisms described by Charles Darwin: chance mutation and natural
selection.
Combing the genetic data from a transmission study in ferrets, a team led by Thomas Friedrich, a professor of pathobiological sciences at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, found that during transmission, when one animal is infected by another through sneezing or coughing, the process of natural
selection acts strongly on hemagglutinin, the structure the virus uses to attach to and infect host
cells.
This affords safe passage to a theoretically unlimited
selection of carriers targeting distinct
cell surface receptors.»
All cancers are products of natural
selection played out on the level of
cells rather than species.
To become a full - blown cancer (as opposed to a
cell with a single, potentially threatening mutation — a genetic risk factor for becoming a cancer) requires the accumulation of five to ten mutations, and statistically that requires multiple rounds of
cell division and
selection.
In addition to providing insights regarding
selection of treatment, this blood test may also prove helpful in assessing the presence of residual disease, recurrence, or relapse and detection of therapy - resistant cancer
cells more quickly than conventional tissue - based methods.
«FDG PET shows tumor DNA levels in blood are linked to NSCLC aggressiveness: Insights derived from FDG PET could improve treatment
selection for patients with advanced non-small
cell lung cancer.»
It also includes an imaging station and CellSelect software, which images each nanowell and provides automatic
selection of single
cells for downstream processing.
The lab, at times, feels like a seething primordial soup of Darwinian
selection, where only the strongest survive (i.e., publish papers in Science,
Cell, or Nature), and the weak fade into oblivion (i.e., become anorexic, turn into technical sales reps, or go to law school).
If the antigen receptor binds a body molecule too tightly, the developing T
cell might eventually cause an autoimmune disease; in this case negative
selection is triggered, and the
cell dies.
Despite strong
selection against the sickle -
cell gene, 10 to 20 percent of Africans are carriers.
A renowned neuroscientist sees ideas of
selection as describing the honing of connections among brain
cells.
He is also concerned about China, which prohibits gene - editing of embryos but does not strictly enforce similar rules, as shown by failed attempts to curb the use of ultrasound for sex
selection and to stamp out unauthorized stem -
cell clinics.
The generation of the germinal centers requires B
cells to undergo a complex transcriptional program to allow them to divide rapidly, modify their antibody genes, and pass through a
selection procedure that induces either their survival or their death.
The study, called «Molecular Determinants of Drug - Specific Sensitivity for Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) Exon 19 and 20 Mutants in Non-Small
Cell Lung Cancer,» and published online in the journal Oncotarget, demonstrates how computer modeling of EGFR mutations found in lung cancer can elucidate their molecular mechanism of action and consequently optimize the
selection of therapeutic agents to treat patients.
Utilizing a kind of natural
selection, the immune system chooses the
cell line that is highly equipped to deal with an environmental challenge.
Conservation work to defeat the disease has including removing infected individuals from the population and new research in Evolutionary Applications explains how this gives us a unique opportunity to understand how human
selection alters the evolution of cancerous
cells.
Xie and his colleagues took the
cells through three of these
selection rounds — each requiring about ten days of working and waiting — but saw dismayingly few signs of progress.
For the new study, the team set out to do a proof - of - principle
selection of antibodies that can bring about a different effect: protecting
cells against an otherwise certain death.
Once donor blood
cells mix with recipient immune
cells, they blunt the immune attack by a process called negative
selection, says Strober, who has spent 30 years developing the regimen.
The team plans to test the approach in a clinical trial in which chemotherapy drug
selection for each person will be guided by testing balls of their tumour
cells in the lab.
In negative
selection, the thymus presents proteins from foreign tissue to immune
cells, in effect asking them, «Do you recognise this material?»
And on page 1693, another team reports further evidence of the action of natural
selection in people: A gene expressed in microglia, immune
cells of the nervous system, produces a protein found only in humans.
The classic theory to explain the evolution of different size sex
cells and therefore different sexes is the Disruptive
Selection Theory and was proposed in the 1970s.
«Importantly, fighting a pathogen by hitting an enzyme from the host
cell is likely to slow the emergence of drug resistance, because the pathogen can not easily escape through the
selection of target mutations,» Professor Doerig said.
The percentage of
cells expressing both E-selectin and VCAM - 1 (or DiI - Ac - LDL for bone - derived cultures) after 5 h of TNF - α stimulation in the second series of
selection increased significantly to reach values of 30 — 40 % for most cultures.
To learn more about this research, please view the full research report entitled «Regulated
selection of germinal center
cells into the memory B
cell compartment» at this page of the Nature Immunology website.
But this
selection method has one drawback: it determines an antibody's ability to activate a desired biological pathway in a
cell by measuring the resulting proliferation of that
cell — a slow and only narrowly applicable indicator.
The
selection strategy targeted
cell populations expressing the inducible endothelial
cell adhesion molecules, E-selectin and VCAM - 1, and proved successful in generating microvascular endothelial
cell lines from a number of different organs.
One of the primary objectives of this study was to establish a protocol to facilitate the identification and
selection of microvascular endothelial
cells from primary organ cultures with a high degree of precision.
Phase - contrast images of organ - derived endothelial
cells (37 °C culture conditions) that had undergone two successive
selection processes by flow cytometry.