Sentences with phrase «more immature cells»

But cardiomyocytes that had been mixed with high levels of glucose matured late or failed to mature altogether, and instead generated more immature cells.

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A newborn has more red blood cells than his body needs, and often, when a baby's immature liver can't process them quickly enough, a yellow pigment called bilirubin (a by - product of the red blood cells) builds up in the blood.

What's more, the live cells in breast milk that protect babies from infection can be even more important for premature babies: Preemies face a higher risk of infection because their immune systems are particularly immature.

Then came a new step: They carefully extracted the fragile, immature eggs and some surrounding cells from the follicles, and allowed them to further mature on a special membrane in the presence of more growth - supporting proteins.

If a woman has an abortion, she's left with a large number of these immature cells lining her breast ducts, and she is therefore more vulnerable to cancer down the road — 30 percent more vulnerable, Brind says, than a woman who has never had an abortion.

A new type of pluripotent cell that genuinely corresponds to the more immature, pre-implantation stage has been identified and can now be cultivated in the laboratory.

Mature embryonic stem cells cultivated in the laboratory can, under the right conditions, be backed up in their development to the more immature stem cell type.

When Sukumar and the others depleted the HOXA5 protein in other breast cell lines in the lab, the cells became more immature, or «stem like,» as well as more mobile.

Glioblastoma cells from patients that could be linked by the gene signature analysis with an immature origin generally showed a higher sensitivity to cancer drugs than glioblastoma cells that were associated with a more differentiated cell of origin.

«These immature myeloid cells appear as a main source of circulating suPAR,» says Jochen Reiser, MD, PhD, principal investigator and senior author of the study presented in Nature Medicine, who has been working on solving the mysteries of suPAR for more than a decade.

Now, researchers at The Wistar Institute have discovered how STAT3 behaves in immature myeloid cells known as myeloid - derived suppressor cells (MDSCs), and they believe they have found the basis for a much more effective method of using STAT3 inhibitors to stop cancer progression in its tracks.

A major scientific puzzle, said Singh, has been how and why immature hematopoietic stem cells initially express genes that are characteristic of more than one cell lineage.

Specifically, we're focused on stem cell maturation — taking a cell from an immature to a more mature state so that it acts as a better substrate for adult tissue functions.

The intestinal lining of people with Crohn's disease and IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) appear to be more sensitive to the effects of food lectins because the lining is constantly being replaced by new tissue that is made up of immature cells that are more glycosylated and thus more susceptible to lectin attachment.

The bone marrow should respond to anemia by producing more red blood cells; therefore, an increase in the number of immature cells called reticulocytes should be seen on lab results.