Sentences with phrase «normal brain cells»

If the drug kills the cancer cells, you might try the drug on normal brain cells in another test tube.

Specifically, the dying cells produced seven times as much of the protein as normal brain cells did.

During metabolic stress, ketones serve as an alternative energy source to maintain normal brain cell metabolism.

Moreover, when analyzed with gene expression patterns of normal brain cells, the four GBM subtypes associate with different cell lineages.

The tumor grows by turning normal brain cells into stem cells, which continuously replicate and regrow.

DIPGs are known as one of the most challenging tumors to treat because cancer cells are intimately intermingled with normal brain cells in a part of the brain that can not be surgically resected.

TGen researchers have linked TROY to the cellular mechanisms that enable glioblastomas to invade normal brain cells, and resist anti-cancer drugs.

For example, the drug might kill cancer cells, but also accidentally block normal brain cells from signaling other cells.

The researchers found much higher levels of heparanase in childhood brain tumours than in the normal brain, and furthermore, a molecule that can block this enzyme induces cell death in medulloblastoma cells in culture, while normal brain cells were not affected.

• Optimise omega 3s: Low levels of omega - 3 fatty acids are involved in normal brain cell function, insulin control and inflammation.

Their study, reported in the journal PLoS Computational Biology, suggests that breast feeding not only taps the normal brain cells involved in secreting oxytocin.

In the years since Shatz's discovery of MHCI in normal brain cells, other scientists have been studying the action of immune molecules in the brain, as well.

They noticed that before the development of a normal brain the cells lining the neural tube, a structure that eventually becomes the brain and spinal cord, have extreme differences in ionic charge within and outside the membrane that houses the cells.

Because tumor cells in the brain frequently divide, normal brain cells would remain unaffected by the electric fields, the team reports online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.