Sentences with phrase «killed good cells»

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When these «energy factories» are topped off, neurons in the brain may be better able to ward off stress from age - related brain diseases that ordinarily exhaust or kill the cells.

As a physics teacher, I teach the therapeutic effects of gamma radiation in radiotherapy, along with the associated dangers (radiation can cause cells to become cancerous as well as kill cells that are already cancerous), but a common misconception among students is that cancer cells are rather like viruses or bacteria, a sort of alien cell that has entered the body, growing out of control with little relation to the surrounding cells.

They are chemicals that overstimulate your brain cells to the point that they explode, and when they explode they kill the brain cells around them as well.

Most Chemotherapy Drugs for Cancer: Since they kill cells in the mother's body, they may harm the baby as well.

An unknown component of breast milk appears to kill HIV particles and virus - infected cells, as well as blocking HIV transmission in mice with a human immune system.

These modifications contribute to a tumor's ability to grow indefinitely, as well as making tumor cells drug resistant and capable of surviving treatments intended to kill them.

This approach has immense promise, for instance, it is being used to alter immune cells to make them better at killing cancers.

Dr. Cripe and his colleagues at The Ohio State University, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center tested how well the oncolytic viral therapy — a cancer - killing form of the herpes simplex virus, called oHSV — infected and killed tumor cells in mice with and without a healthy immune system.

Olaparib is good at killing cancer cells that have errors in genes that have a role in repairing damaged DNA such as BRCA1 or BRCA2.

The researchers showed that cabazitaxel worked better than docetaxel in human prostate cancer cells lines that were resistant hormone treatment, both in terms of slowing cancer - cell growth and in its ability to kill cancer cells.

«We have immune cells called T - cells that are really good at killing off cancer cells, but there is an inhibition system in place to prevent autoimmunity,» said the study's senior author Maureen Su, MD, UNC Lineberger member and associate professor in the UNC School of Medicine Division of Pediatric Endocrinology.

When they found a good candidate that could deliver genes to rat brain cancer cells, they filled the nanoparticles with DNA encoding an enzyme, herpes simplex virus type 1 thymidine kinase (HSVtk), which turns a compound with little effect into a potent therapy that kills brain cancer cells.

The antibodies did in fact activate the CD4 cells but eventually killed them as well, depleting the body's best weapon against HIV.

In the 30 years since scientists identified HIV as the cause of AIDS, the virus has proved unbeatable — hiding in the very immune cells that would kill it; reflexively and rapidly mutating; mysteriously persisting in the gut, kidneys, liver, and brain; subverting every vaccine (the best one so far has given only 30 percent protection); and roaring back to life almost the moment drugs are stopped.

The CD4 cycle alone would be enough to kill a person, but HIV also enters other cells, integrating into their genomes as well.

Researchers now think that irradiation sometimes kills tumor cells in a manner that exposes new antigens to T cells, priming them to target other tumor cells that carry them as well, says Wenbin Lin, a chemist at the University of Chicago in Illinois, and one of the authors of the current study.

Oregon State University scientists have developed a nanomedicine platform for cancer that can help doctors know which tissue to cut out as well as kill any malignant cells that can't be surgically removed.

«We thought we could adapt this technology that's really good at killing all B cells in the body to target specifically the B cells that make antibodies that cause autoimmune disease,» said Milone.

In that case, the gel would be loaded with a chemical that lures cancer cells toward the gel, as well as a chemotherapy drug that would kill them.

«Some of the best examples of this are what are called checkpoint inhibitors, where essentially cancers put up stop signs [that prevent] T - cells from killing them.

TWO girls given gene - edited cells to kill their cancers are both doing well more than a year later.

Female lung host defense cells were also better at killing this and other bacteria (Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus) when tested in vitro.

Two children treated with gene - edited cells to kill their cancers are both doing well more than a year later.

However, in a bid to figure out what happens when the somatic cyst stem cells are killed off, Matunis suggested that graduate student Phylis Hétié figure out how to best do away with them, thinking the task would be straightforward.

They identified signals that white blood cells use to control their behaviour, then one by one disabled those signals — discovering that one particular molecule called ERK5 could be manipulated to encourage white blood cells either to throw out pathogens better or to keep them inside and try to kill them for longer.

Technology such as this, scientists said, may have a promising future in the identification and surgical removal of malignant tumors, as well as using near - infrared light therapies that can kill remaining cancer cells, both by mild heating of them and generating reactive oxygen species that can also kill them.

«In a perverted twist of fate, cancer cells take advantage of this incredibly ancient survival strategy — the heat shock response — to help them survive despite the best efforts of our own natural defenses, and sophisticated therapeutics, to kill them,» says Whitehead Member Susan Lindquist.

In future studies, the researchers will continue to explore the mechanisms by which SRCs kill cancer cells and will screen for even better SRC activators.

Next steps include continuing to optimize this compound so that it can be further tested to see how well the compound kills cancer cells with the G12C mutation.

The scientists have used the compounds to show that the inactivation of two proteins — called MCL - 1 and BFL - 1 — kills melanoma cells relatively well.

These so - called «living drugs» — injected T cells genetically modified to better recognize and kill tumor cells through a perpetual process of cell renewal and expansion — are revolutionizing cancer treatment, with the first two FDA approvals of such gene - altering therapies occurring in just the last two months.

In the work with urea, the team's results mean that immobilized enzymes in FMS can work well under harsh conditions that would kill cells or non-immobilized enzymes.

«My whole work is about immune cell responses to melanoma — how we can teach particular immune cells called killer T cells to recognise melanoma better, target melanoma better and kill melanoma better,» Katherine says.

We develop antibodies that may help us detect cancer cells through highly sensitive medical imaging technologies, as well as antibodies that directly trigger cell - killing mechanisms in the tumour.

One key weapon against cancer is to supercharge T - cells — the foot - soldiers of the immune system — to better detect and kill tumors, and a new trial at the Children's Research Institute has delivered promising results, keeping cases of Hodgkin's lymphoma at bay for years at a time.

Their technique has shed light on how cells repair DNA strand breaks, which could help scientists learn how to protect astronauts from cosmic rays as well as refine radiotherapy protocols designed to kill tumors.

One key technique is to supercharge T - cells — the foot - soldiers of the immune system — to better detect and kill tumors, and a new trial at the Children's Research Institute has delivered promising results, keeping cases of Hodgkin's lymphoma at bay for years at a time.

Antiretroviral drugs kill HIV and result in the death of actively infected CD4 immune cells, as well, virtually eliminating the virus from the blood and saving millions of lives.

That was actually a concern: The drug performed so well in cell cultures that the researchers assumed it would blindly kill mammalian cells along with bacteria.

As a result, these cells can be a thousand times better at seeing and killing cancer than the cells prepared using the current methodology.»

Myelosuppression is a well - established side effect of current AML therapies, with prolonged events leading to an increased risk of infections and death.44 Consequently, therapies that preferentially kill leukemic cells over normal bone marrow cells are urgently required, and the overexpression of CD123 on AML leukemic stem cells and blasts compared with normal hematopoietic cells contributes to its attractiveness as a therapeutic target in this disease.6, 45 However, severe myelosuppression and myeloablation have emerged for some investigational CD123 - targeted treatment modalities.

Research reveals that both in cell lines as well as mouse models, grape seed extract kills neck and head squamous cell carcinoma cells, though keeping healthy cells unharmed.

Mom knows as well as I do that when the amygdala gets triggered and the body is in stress response, the body's natural self - repair mechanisms, the ones responsible for fixing broken proteins, killing cancer cells, fighting infection, and retarding aging, get flipped off.

These other nutrients may not kill cancer cells as well as carrot juice and some of the other vegetable juices.

While it is true that citrus fruits do contain some cancer - killing nutrients, based on the cure rates we have seen, the citrus fruits are not as good at killing cancer cells as are some of the other fruits, such as purple grapes, strawberries, red raspberries, etc..

If we can starve and deplete cancer cells of energy, then in effect we can arrest their growth, spread, and even give the immune system and other therapies a better chance to kill them.

The thing is that it kills also your healt6y cells too but there is no better alternatives now.

We believe the ionic form of silver is the best for killing pathogens, stem cell regeneration and also the form that causes cancer cells to dedifferentiate.

My periods are usually 3 to 4 days i would say but recently i have been detoxing with lemon and parsley in warm water every morning (good for kidneys etc) and i also had a fat freezing treatment (a non invasive way of freezing and killing fat cells and then they are slowly flushed away by body)-- and this month i had a very intense period lasting for 2 days but it was so heavy, it felt like everything came out in those two days.

This is a good way to detox the body, relax, plus by raising the body's temperature, it may selectively kill off cancer cells according to some theories.