Sentences with phrase «lung cell samples»

For the study, conducted as part of the doctoral thesis of Mahesh Raundhal, a graduate student in the laboratory of Prabir Ray, Ph.D., Pitt professor of medicine and co-senior author, the research team examined lung cell samples obtained from patients also participating in the Severe Asthma Research Program (SARP), a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health - sponsored program to improve the understanding of severe asthma.

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Nana - Sinkam and his colleagues examined lung - tumor samples from 81 patients with stage - 1 nonsmall - cell lung cancer and tumor - cell lines.

The structure and composition of the erionite from both regions is practically identical, and samples from each place cause mesothelioma - associated changes and inflammation in cell culture and mouse lungs.

In search of early markers of lung cancer, pulmonary and critical care physicians Avrum Spira and Jerome Brody of the Boston Medical Center sampled bronchial tube epithelial cells from 85 people.

We screened the coding sequences of 518 protein kinases (approximately 1.3 Mb of DNA per sample) for somatic mutations in 26 primary lung neoplasms and seven lung cancer cell lines.

Cheng and his colleagues cultured lung spheroid cells from these tiny tissue samples until they were numerous enough — in the tens of millions — to be delivered therapeutically.

Depending on which lung lobe is selected, the doctor will then «wash» the lungs with sterile saline and then suction the wash fluid back to obtain cells for cytology and a sample for culture.

Another helpful test is to perform a lung wash (bronchoalveolar lavage or BAL), which samples the cells lining the airways deep in the lungs.

Other times we perform a tracheal wash or a bronchoalveolar lavage to get samples of the cells inside the lungs and also to see if there is a concurrent bacterial infection.