Sentences with phrase «near the tumor»

After the tumors became established, neurons near the tumors were activated with light.

Brachytherapy is a type of cancer treatment in which radioactive implants are inserted directly into the tissue near the tumor site.

The nanoparticles quickly traveled to the brain, where they accumulated near the tumor sites.

In an ovarian cancer model, the group saw that placing T cells near tumors caused them to shrink — but again, intravenously delivered T cells did not.

«Using the same amount of CDN, the STINGel approach allows the concentration of CDN near the tumor to remain much higher for long periods of time.»

The result is an immune system less able to fight the virus, and, if the virus causes cancer, a «microenvironment» near the tumor in which the immune system is suppressed.

«In extreme cases, if the dose is too high radiation can modify the cellular structure and generate alteration in the cells of organs found near the tumor, this causes them to lose their functions,» said Massillon, who was honored for her research with the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize 2015 awarded by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.

Furthermore, the nanoparticle concentrates interleukin 2 in the tumor site, which allows its accumulation near the tumor growth.

Angiogenesis - inhibitor researcher Judah Folkman of Harvard Medical School says doctors might not have to operate at all if they could inject the capsules near the tumor.

The shell fragments form a ragged mesh that holds the drug molecules near the tumor.

«Our original hypothesis was that cancer cells were modifying their metabolism based on communications they were receiving from cells in the microenvironment near the tumor,» said Nagrath, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Rice and co-author of a new study describing the research in the open - access journal eLife.

Dissolving polymer wafers soaked with chemotherapy drugs were being implanted near tumors, but Stephan knew that T cells, which are capable of «squeezing throughout the entire tumor bed,» would be more effective than drugs, which can only penetrate a millimeter or so into tissue.

The treatment may cause scarring of the heart muscle or lung tissue near the tumor.

The researchers found that the microglia within the optic tumors from female mice were activated, and the neurons near the tumors were damaged.

The same results suggest the Tregs and killer T cells may in fact compete for dendritic cells near tumors, say the authors.

Some of these treatments may be contraindicated in some situations — for example, massage should never be done on or near a tumor.

Radiation Radiation therapy delivers very strong X-ray beams to a tumor in an effort to kill the tumor cells, but like chemotherapy, it can also harm healthy tissue near the tumor.