Sentences with phrase «normal adult tissues»

«Preliminary results show that BCAR4 is only active in the cancer cells and not in normal adult tissues.

There was, however, one aspect of the engineered tissue that was inferior to the real tissue: The engineered tissue had a fiber structure that was less complex than the typical fiber structure of normal adult tissue.

Not exact matches

The Zika virus can cross the blood - brain barrier, and could target cancer cells, sparing normal adult brain tissue and opening a potential new way to attack the disease.

But many in the field will be waiting for the next steps: testing whether the resulting mouse pups are genetically normal, trying out the technique in other animals, and using other and less controversial types of cells — such as stem cells that can be extracted and cryopreserved from adult testicular tissue — as the starting point.

Induced pluripotent stem cells that were reprogrammed from normal adult human tissue.

For setting cancer in the context of ageing tissue, study of normal adult homeostasis is important — we are studying mutational processes, clonal dynamics and cellular competition in thousands of non-cancerous cells and samples from a range of tissue types, in health and disease.

CXCR4 expression in embryonic and adult normal tissues (U133A).

In adult organisms, stem cells and progenitor cells act as a repair system for the body, replenishing specialized cells, but also maintain the normal turnover of regenerative organs, such as blood, skin, or intestinal tissues.

This view was recently upended by the unexpected finding that tethering of Wingless to the membrane produces adults with nearly normal external morphology, indicating that the spreading of Wingless is largely dispensable for tissue patterning.

Dr Annette Meeson has expertise in the identification and characterisation of adult stem cells, and is involved in optimising isolation techniques for stem cells from both normal, injured and diseased tissue.

Answering this question will require knowledge of whether normal stem cells are susceptible to cancer - causing mutations; however, this has proved difficult to test because the identity of most adult tissue stem cells is not known.

Regenerative medicine aims to use adult or embryonic stem cells to replace or regenerate human cells, tissue, or organs and restore normal function.

It is not unusual for a normal adult animal to have small populations of adult roundworms and hookworms, as well as resting larvae, in body tissues.

Adult felines, on the other hand, will require just the normal amounts of protein to maintain the tissues.

«holding therapy» (Welch, 1988) and coercive, restraining or aversive procedures such as deep tissue massage, aversive tickling, punishments related to food and water intake, enforced eye contact, requiring children to submit totally to adult control over all their needs, barring children's access to normal social relationships outside the primary parent or caretaker, encouraging children to regress to infant status, reparenting, and attachment parenting [italics added] or techniques designed to provoke cathartic emotional discharge.

I'm handing tissues to the sister who just «wants a normal brother» and wonders if she will have to care for him when she is an adult.