In some diseases, the blood - forming stem cells in the bone
marrow stop working effectively and fail to generate enough new blood cells, or the right types of cells.
Her marrow stops making red blood cells.
Not exact matches
They have known too in their very
marrow that there is no final victory in this world, and they have known that their political masters would never really
stop playing a bloody game of ambition and small - mindedness.
A drug used to
stop immune cells from gobbling up transplanted organs and bone
marrow has been caught boosting the immune response to a virus in mice and monkeys.
The Boston patients, in contrast, are free of the virus thanks to a combination of a bone
marrow transplant plus continuing antiretroviral drugs to
stop newly donated immune cells from being infected.
Two men known only as the «Boston patients» have both
stopped taking their anti-HIV medications following transplants of bone -
marrow stem cells that appear to have banished the virus from their bodies.
Now Aubourg and his team have showed in a preliminary trial that gene therapy
stopped ALD in two boys for whom they could not find matching bone
marrow donors.
By receiving transplants of bone
marrow cells along with the new kidney, four of five transplant patients with end - stage renal disease were able to
stop taking immunosuppressive drugs within about one year after surgery.
«Chemotherapy is applied in one cycle then
stopped to allow your bone
marrow and normal stem cells to recover from the damage, and then another cycle starts again,» he said.
The animals»
marrow regenerated quickly at first, but eventually slowed to a
stop.
Initially, the bone
marrow no longer makes platelets; over time, the bone
marrow may
stop making red and white blood cells, as well.
Researchers used a lentivirus to infuse a normal copy of the ABCD1 gene into the bone
marrow of boys with cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), and the corrected protein
stopped disease progression.
In other cases, people who have had had high doses of radiation or chemotherapy to destroy life - threatening cancer cells, the treatment can
stop their bone
marrow's ability to make blood cells.
From bone
marrow juice to lotions and fresh produce I couldn't
stop myself!
High estrogen levels in an intact female that stays in heat or in a ferret with adrenal gland disease can cause the bone
marrow to
stop producing red blood cells and cause a moderate to severe anemia.
However, the
marrow remains the main site for production of circulating blood elements including platelets (which are vital to
stop bleeding and make the blood clot), red cells (which carry oxygen) and most white cells (which fight infections and clear up debris).
They asserted that increasingly, capitated health plans and providers contract with their reinsurers and
stop loss carriers to medically manage their high cost outlier cases such as organ and bone
marrow transplants, and therefore should be specifically cited as subject to the regulations.
But it wasn't quite enough, so I did what I've said I needed to
stop doing quite so much: mining the
marrow of love from my friends» bones.