Sentences with phrase «inhibiting new tumors»

In the laboratory animal study, ursolic acid, the active compound in holy basil, combined with radiation was more effective at inducing skin cancer cell death and inhibiting new tumors from forming than radiation alone.

Not exact matches

Maria Zajac - Kaye, Ph.D., an associate professor in the College of Medicine's department of anatomy and cell biology, and Rony François, an M.D. / Ph.D. student who works with her, found a new drug combination that inhibits one form of pancreatic cancer tumor and kills its cells.

One form of pancreatic cancer has a new enemy: a two - drug combination discovered by UF Health researchers that inhibits tumors and kills cancer cells in mouse models.

Trebananib (formally known as AMG 386; Amgen) is a first - in - class peptide - Fc fusion protein (or peptibody) that targets angiogenesis (the growth of new blood vessels into cancerous tumors) by inhibiting the binding of both angiopoietin 1 and 2 to the Tie2 receptor.

As these compounds are already approved for clinical trails in pediatric brain tumors, these findings suggest that drugs inhibiting MEK activity could offer a new therapy option for children with these devastating tumors.

The researchers say these new findings predict that a large proportion of Pten tumors will be hypersensitive to Eg5 - inhibiting drugs, providing new opportunities for targeted cancer therapy.

The research could help determine which individuals are at greatest risk of developing lung tumors that may be amenable to a new therapy to inhibit their progression.

This treatment inhibits the formation of new blood vessels that can help a tumor grow.

For the new study, they added a component to the model that simulates the tumor's response to drugs that target VEGF and inhibit its activity.

Earlier studies by Basu and others have shown that dopamine blocks the growth of new blood vessels in tumors by inhibiting the action of vascular endothelial growth factor - A (VEGF - A).

«Researchers inhibit tumor growth in new subtype of lung cancer: Insight into tumor suppressing and tumor promoting mechanisms offers potential for new treatments.»

All of these foods contain the inositol phosphate IP5 — a compound that even at low dose limits the supply of blood to tumor cells and inhibits tumor growth in mice, according to new findings.

An open - source content management system then would search through upwards of a billion drug combinations to find those with the greatest potential to inhibit a given tumor, or a billion hypothetical compounds to identify candidates for new drug development.

«Visualizing how cancer cells interact with a tumor microenvironment that accurately reflects the complex biology of ovarian cancer should help us understand the mechanisms underlying metastatic progression as well as identify new therapeutics that can inhibit this process,» said clinical gynecologic oncologist Ernst Lengyel, MD, PhD, senior author of the study and a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Chicago.

Swanton's new lab set out to identify specific genes that, when inhibited, result in the death of tumor cells that displayed aneuploidy, meaning they had more or less than the normal set of 46 chromosomes.

Fourth, vitamin C can inhibit tumor angiogenesis, the process of new blood - cell formation crucial to tumor survival.

They also act aggressively against cancer by preventing cancer cell proliferation, inducing apoptosis — or cancer cell «suicide» — and inhibiting the formation of new blood vessels that nourish tumor growth.

An understanding of mechanisms of metastasis has led to the development of new treatments designed to delay or inhibit tumor spread.