Sentences with phrase «into disease stage»

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Darzalex, however, has not yet reached its peak potential as the drug moves into earlier stages of the disease and is being tested on solid tumours like lung cancer.

The company is also seeking deeper inroads into rare diseases, with a number of assets in late - stage development, and last year it scored a major regulatory win when Europe approved its «bubble boy syndrome» gene therapy Strimvelis.

In a groundbreaking study that provides scientists with a critical new understanding of stem cell development and its role in disease, UCLA researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research led by Dr. Kathrin Plath, professor of biological chemistry, have established a first - of - its - kind methodology that defines the unique stages by which specialized cells are reprogrammed into stem cells that resemble those found in the embryo.

Hoping to treat the fetus when its immune system was especially primitive and the disease in a nascent stage, doctors infused stem cells into the fetus's abdominal cavity at just 12 weeks» gestation.

The finding may provide insight into why African - Americans are more likely to die of colon cancer than Caucasians with the same stage of disease.

So now, with late - stage clinical failures piling up, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has set off down a path to adapt those standards as researchers are pushed inexorably into earlier and earlier forms of the disease, ahead of the brain damage inflicted by Alzheimer's.

Vtesse is currently running a late - stage clinical trial of the drug, a large sugar molecule known as a cyclodextrin, in which it is injected by lumbar puncture into the spinal fluid of children with the disease (see «Why are people fighting over a promising treatment for a fatal childhood disease»).

Through studies like these, Jirtle says, «we're beginning to understand how a molecule present at the very earliest stages after fertilization can in effect be remembered into your twenties and thirties and maybe give rise to diseases.

«If you look at the «normal» brains that come into the bank, about 15 per cent actually aren't normal — they've got early stages of a neurodegenerative disease.»

In this regard, intense research efforts are being channelled into finding new biological markers that can provide information about the different stages of the disease and allow its early detection, and thus facilitate its management.

Understanding which cytokines are best for monitoring inflammation and immunosuppression, and knowing which are secreted by different immune cell types at each stage of maturation and activation, will provide essential insights into disease treatment options.

The same relationship did not apply to ß - amyloid, suggesting that — although ß - amyloid PET scans can detect early stages of AD — tau is a better predictor of when people transition from the early, nonsymptomatic stages of the disease into mild Alzheimer's disease, Ances says.

The recent ability to peer into the brain of living individuals with a rare type of language dementia, primary progressive aphasia (PPA), provides important new insights into the beginning stages of this disease — which results in language loss — when it is caused by a buildup of a toxic protein found in Alzheimer's disease.

The study divided data into two segments to compare outcomes of patients treated before and after 2002, when the Pediatric End - Stage Liver Disease system (PELD) was instituted.

When an infected mosquito bites, parasites in the mosquito's saliva first make their way to the victim's liver, where they silently grow and multiply into thousands of new parasites before invading red blood cells — the stage of the disease that triggers malaria's characteristic fevers, headaches, chills and sweats.

Further investigation into what triggers immunosuppressive phenotypes in early - stage HER2 - positive breast cancers with residual disease is warranted.»

Because of the success of early treatment, some research suggests that people with liver diseases should routinely be screened for HE through cognitive tests so that HE can be caught and treated before it progresses into the more advanced stages.

«Structural Biology is at a critical stage where close integration with cell biology will open up new and powerful insights into health and disease.»

EVI's main focus remains on the discovery of antigens for diseases of poverty and their introduction into early stages of clinical development.

In the study, which was conducted in collaboration with researchers at UC San Francisco and published today in the Journal of Neuroscience, scientists transplanted inhibitory neuron progenitors — early - stage brain cells that have the capacity to develop into mature inhibitory neurons — into two mouse models of Alzheimer's disease, apoE4 or apoE4 with accumulation of amyloid beta, another major contributor to Alzheimer's.

According to the report, that complexity - including the sum of genetic, environmental, and life - stage factors that play a part in the onset of human disease - should now be addressed by bringing together emerging new tools and methods that give scientists insight into the 100,000 chemicals routinely used in commerce but largely untested for health effects.

Dr. Lee: Most people with bladder cancer (around 70 %) are initially diagnosed with early stage disease, meaning that their tumor is not growing deeply into the wall of the bladder.

Lower stages indicate that the disease is more localized, or contained, whereas higher stages refer to cancers that have spread into other areas of the body.

Currently, I am in the final stages of working to resolve leaky gut and get my autoimmune disease into remission.

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Her mother - in - law Nancy was in the middle stages of Alzheimer's Disease, and Keeper charts her journey into dementia, its impact on her personality and her family, and the author's researches into what dementia is.

Experts also believe that 7 in 10 cats will at some stage come into contact with the leukemia virus and 3 in 10 cats are likely to die from the disease.

If the larval stages are not killed, they will develop into adult heartworms and the cycle of heartworm disease will continue.

Veterinarians divide kidney disease in dogs and cats into four stages.

Radiographic results can be used in conjunction with other diagnostic tools, such as auscultation and echocardiogram (ECHO), to confirm if a dog is developing heart disease and if so, if the dog is at the preclinical stage (eg, B1 or B2) or has progressed into heart failure.

Kidney disease is divided into four stages, with stage IV the most severe, and most cats don't start showing clinical signs until stage III.

Once a calf becomes infected with respiratory disease, the damage is done, and the impact from disease will follow the animal into the next stage of production.

It's life cycle involves an egg which develops into larval stage (6 weeks feeds on rodents and birds), then nymph (8 weeks this is believed to be the cause of Lyme disease in people also feeds on other mammals), then adult tick (current belief is that this is the cause of Lyme in the dog and feeds on other mammals).

HEARTGARD Plus kills tissue larval stages of heartworms and helps prevent them from developing into adults and causing heartworm disease.

Studies into this disease are at a very early stage and calls will be put out for help and information as the study develops.

Veterinarians divide kidney disease in dogs into four stages.

Your Veterinarian will rate the amount of disease affecting a tooth into either stage I through IV.

Periodontal disease is classified into four stages based on the amount of support loss.

The years of chronic bacteria that were released into this cats bloodstream when the periodontal disease progressed from Stage I to Stage IV can seriously affect the internal organs and cause this cat to have premature organ failure.

Dental disease is broken up into two stages: gingivitis and periodontitis.

Based on guidelines from the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM), degenerative valve disease, the most common acquired heart disease in dogs, can be categorized into several stages shown in the table below.

Weintraub, who lost her sister to gastric cancer, also writes about the emerging science behind the remarkable ability of dogs to sniff out early stage cancer and the efforts underway to translate that talent into diagnostic devices for early detection of the disease.

Lymphoma is categorized into five stages, depending on the extent of the disease in the body: single lymph node enlargement (stage I), regional lymph node enlargement (stage II), generalized lymph node enlargement (stage III), liver and / or spleen involvement (stage IV), and bone marrow and blood involvement (stage V).

In the later stages of human kidney disease, when some physicians believe that truly low protein diets are advisable, some physicians and nutritionists attempt to get around the dangers of low protein by supplementing the patient's diet with amino acids that have been enzymatically oxidized into keto (C =O) amino acids.

Once stage 2 - 3 periodontal disease starts a professional cleaning is necessary for deep scaling under the gums into the subgingival pockets created from the periodontal disease.

From vague and nondescript symptoms, he plunged straight into the life - threatening stage of the disease.

Stage 3 — extension of the disease into the chest wall or into the heart through the diaphragm or peritoneum, or outside the pleura to involve the lymph nodes.

We go into more detail about guaranteed issue plans in end stage kidney disease section.

Usually, for the purpose of paying the cancer benefit, the disease is divided into different stages of severity.

While disbursing the cancer benefit, the disease is divided into different stages as per severity.