Sentences with phrase «increasing number of cell»

As CNN and others are reporting, an increasing number of cell phone gabbers are complaining of an ailment called «cell phone elbow.»

Dr. Llovet and colleagues demonstrated that the expression of mutant IDH in the adult liver of genetically engineered mice impairs liver cell development and liver regeneration — a process in which the liver responds to injury — and increases the number of cells to form a tumor.

Plant growth occurs by increasing the number of cells by cell division followed by enlargement of the cells.

Several far - flung tendrils of a single neuron can each act independently — boosting computing power without increasing the number of cells.

They speculate that because the process of reprogramming increases the number of cell divisions that take place (as compared to what happens in adult skin cells), there are more opportunities for the cell cycle checkpoints to correct for the chromosomal breakage.

Hypertrophy is the process of increasing the number of cells within an organ or tissue (such as muscle tissue), thereby increasing its overall size.

It's long been thought that the hearts of mammals stop producing cells at a very young age, but a new study by Australian researchers showed that exercise can actually increase the number of cells in the hearts of young lab rats.

The testosterone does not only help in activating the muscle fiber precursor cells but it also plays an important role in increasing the number of these cells.

Higgins describes studies showing that rats fed resistant starch show decreased numbers and sizes of lesions due to colorectal cancer, and an increased number of cells that express the protein IL - 10, which acts to regulate the body's inflammatory response.

It's suspected that the hormones promote cellular growth, which then increases the number of cells that may be susceptible to malignant transformation.

Rather, it is believed that hormones, through their promotion of cellular growth, increase the number of cells that may be susceptible to malignant transformation.

Culturing also allows you to increase the number of cells so that therapy can be more effective.

They are adding proteins, which are key to maintaining the skin; increasing the number of cells to analyze exposure to sunlight; and adding vasculature (blood vessels), which can be used for regenerative medicine and for creating skin grafts.

Not exact matches

A stronger immune system: Another study found that taking daily cold showers increases the number of disease - fighting white blood cells.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

There are a number of competing solar cell technologies (c - Si, perovskite, CIGS, etc), but currently with 80 tonnes of silver necessary to generate one GW of solar power, should solar really become ubiquitous, a steady and increasing demand driver for silver is in place.

We increase the number of homeless shelters and food pantries, restore the welfare entitlement, build more prison cells, and write off a substantial part of the population as permanently incapable of citizenship.

Far from being stultified by overcrowding, the cells of individual freedom, in a concerted action growing more powerful as they increase in numbers, will rectify and redress themselves when they begin to move in the direction towards which they are inwardly polarized.

It seems that the fertilizer increased the number of ribosomes (tiny organelles in the non-nuclear part of the cell).

Brain O Brain capsules tackle stress and produce high level of energy, the herbs used in the preparation of these capsules contain iron in high amount which enhances the capacity oxygen carrying of the blood by increasing the number of red blood cells.

A number of lab and animal studies have found that healthy organic food may increase antioxidant content, helping to protect cells from damage.

In fact, according to researchers Laura Glynn and Curt Sandman, the volume of gray matter (or number of neural cell bodies) increases in the above regions in new mothers and is associated with their positive feelings toward their infants.

It was found that after a person eats cooked food, his / her blood responds immediately by increasing the number of white blood cells.

An increase in sleep actually increases the number of your white blood cells.

It is thought to have significantly increased the number of people on «basic» regime, where they are kept alone in a cell for most of the day and denied any personal property.

Little said the Senate's plan also contains tax relief for North Country families and businesses, and rejects a number of «tax - and - fee increases» proposed by the governor, including new Department of Motor Vehicles fees, a surcharge on pre-paid cell phones and a proposal calling for online marketplaces to collect sales tax on behalf of their vendors, a loophole that governor says is costing state and local authorities $ 275 million in uncollected tax every year.

There has been a 13-fold increase in the number of prisoners being held in police cells, it emerged last night.

«If we want to treat the greatest number of diseases, we need to figure out how to get these molecules inside the cells of patients — not just increasing the number of target cells but also hitting tissues other than the liver,» says Anderson, who co-founded a company called CRISPR Therapeutics to pursue those goals.

After five weeks of cultivation, cell numbers increased up to 75-fold, and the researchers saw functional bone tissue form.

In contrast, PD - L1 blockade increased the capacity of Treg cells to multiply (and hence their overall numbers), but only in cells from patients with viremia, i.e. those that had detectable virus in their blood.

«The genetic correction doesn't increase the number of genetic anomalies that you can find in iPS cells,» says Ludovic Vallier, a stem - cell biologist at the University of Cambridge, UK, and one of the study's co-authors.

The new study indicates that such infections in the mice cause the number of tuft cells to increase by five - to tenfold, leading the norovirus to replicate more efficiently.

By creating fibrous hydrogels with different levels of crosslinks, the team was able to show that cells surrounded by matrices with fewer crosslinks were better able to draw in fibers and increase the number of focal adhesions around them.

The temporal association — the number of bacteria increased in the blood before the SIV appeared in the blood — led him to believe that the virus first attacks CD4 + T cells that help protect the gut wall from microbial translocation.

If this environment is harmed by chemicals, such as through damage to gut cells, it could impact the health of the organisms and would lead to a number of fish diseases but this technique will enable us to increase the tests we can carry out and improve our understanding of how to preserve gut health.»

This work also shows that retinoids block the ability of progesterone to increase CK5 + cell numbers.

Giving the mice antibiotics helped gemcitabine kill tumor cells, increasing the number of tumor cells going through a type of cell death called apoptosis from about 15 percent to 60 percent or more.

«The increased number of exosomes reaching the pancreas may gain further advantage to enter KRAS - associated cancer cells as a result of enhanced macropinocytosis, which concurs with previous findings,» said Kamerkar.

In humans, basal progenitors can undergo multiple rounds of cell division, thereby substantially increasing neuron number and ultimately the size of the neocortex.

Suzuki and his group hope that by further manipulating the chemical environment of the spheres of stem cells, they may increase that number, further easing the path toward human treatment.

Half of the patients that could be evaluated showed big increases in the numbers of T - cells specifically reactive to tumor material, indicating a good response to vaccination.

In addition, the researchers looked at brain samples of deceased patients with MS and found increased numbers of GM - CSF - producing cells in comparison to normal brain samples.

Among patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) fueled by ALK gene alterations who were being treated with crizotinib (Xalkori), a decrease in the number of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) harboring increased copies of the ALK gene over the first two months of treatment was associated with increased progression - free survival.

The most striking abnormalities were a markedly elevated white blood cell count of 28,500 per cubic milliliter (the normal level is about 5,000 to 10,000) and what is called a shift to the left, which refers to a large increase in the number of mature and immature granulocytes, cells that increase in number when an acute infection must be fought off.

Looking further into the intestinal crypts of both the transgenic and wild - type mice, the research team made what they consider a surprising finding: Not only was HMGA1 causing the stem cells themselves to self - renew or proliferate more rapidly in the transgenic animals, but it was also increasing the number of Paneth cells, a type of niche cell known to support intestinal stem cells.

In addition, rapamycin was known to increase the number of memory CD8 + T cells.

Mice without Del - 1 that had been induced to get EAE also had significantly higher numbers of inflammatory cells in their spinal cords at the disease's peak, a fact that further experiments revealed was due to increased levels of the signaling molecule IL - 17.

Loss of either GSTO1 or RYR1, the researchers report, decreased the number of cancer stem cells in the primary tumor, blocked metastasis of cancer cells from the primary tumor to the lungs, decreased the duration of chemotherapy required to induce remission and increased the duration of time after chemotherapy was stopped that the mice remained tumor - free.

Participants with high - risk bacterial communities, which are commonly found in the population of women studied, also had increased numbers of genital CD4 + T cells — white blood cells that are HIV's primary target.

When the researchers manipulated the cell's genetics to increase levels of ALKBH5 without exposing them to low oxygen, they found this also decreased methylation of NANOG mRNA and increased the numbers of breast cancer stem cells.