Sentences with phrase «normal liver cells with»

To determine whether or not the damaging effects on cancer cells would affect normal cells — which are already programmed normally for apoptosis — they doused both cancerous liver cells and normal liver cells with CVE to examine the process of inducing apoptosis, which involves creating DNA damage as a precursor.

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Again, the liver cells with suppressed ATPIF1 function dealt better with mitochondrial dysfunction than liver cells with normal ATPIF1 activity.

Ledley will transplant normal liver cells into a sick child with the aim of keeping the child alive until it is possible to find a donor for a conventional liver transplant, or to give the child's own liver function time to recover.

Liver cells lacking TRF1 gene (right) show, under chronic stress, larger nuclei and other markers characteristic of patients with cirrhosis or hepatitis (an increase in p21, PCNA and cyclin D1), when compared to normal cells under the same stimulus (left).

Compared with normal chow diet - fed mice, the high - fat diet mice showed worsened blood sugar, increased triglycerides, a type of fat (lipid) in the blood, and a substantial increase in the numbers of CD8 + T cells in the liver.

«Under normal circumstances, myofibroblasts stimulate wound healing, but when there's an ongoing injury to an organ (e.g., the liver of a hepatitis C patient, the heart of a patient with high blood pressure, or the kidney of a patient with diabetes) these proteins clog up normal functioning,» said Humphreys, a Harvard Medical School associate professor at Brigham and Women's Hospital, who leads the Harvard Stem Cell Institute Kidney Program.

7/16/2008 Improved Culture System for Hepatitis C Virus Infection A University of California, San Diego School of Medicine researcher has developed the first tissue culture of normal, human liver cells that can model infection with the Hepatitis C virus (HCV) and provide a realistic environment to evaluate possible... More...

The researchers then demonstrated that normal liver cells could not be infected with an adenovirus, which led them to investigate where the receptor was located.

VLEDs are hypothesised to disrupt this flow of lipid between the liver and pancreas; within days of VLED commencement there is a rapid fall in IHCL and within weeks, reductions in pancreatic - fat can be detected with a corresponding return in normal Î ² - cell function.

In CAH, continuous liver inflammation and cell death eventually lead to the replacement of the normal liver tissue with scar tissue.