Sentences with phrase «major tumor types»

In the case of several major tumor types, the collagen matrix plays a critical role, Eliceiri says.

The Wnt pathway is known to be inappropriately activated in many major tumor types, including colon, breast, liver, lung and pancreatic cancers, and is critical for the function of CSCs.

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Cancer stem cells, a type of self - renewing cell found in tumors, are of particular interest because they are the main cell type responsible for tumor progression and for resistance to chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and therefore a major cause of tumor recurrence after treatment.

A major challenge in creating any type of organoid is determining the unique mixture of nutrients, growth factors, and tissue culture techniques that will transform patient tumor cells into miniature tumor organoids in a petri dish.

A major new insight is the realization that different tumors of the same type may rely on entirely different tumor stem cell populations.

«But we know that tumors generally develop from a single cell or a small number of cells of a specific cell type, which is one of the major determinants of the characteristics of tumor cells,» explains postdoctoral researcher and co-author Dinorah Friedmann - Morvinski.

Around 700 individual tumors representing 17 major cancer types were characterized in the studies above.

This single - celled algae also increases the activity of Natural Killer (NK) cells, a type of white blood cell that plays a major role in host rejection of tumors.