Sentences with phrase «not dormant cells»

«These are not dormant cells — they divide once every six or seven weeks as opposed to every other day like the rest of the melanoma cells,» Herlyn explained.

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«Contrary to what was previously thought, children with LCA and defects in RPE65 or LRAT are not born with dead retinal cells; the cells can simply go dormant, and they can remain dormant for years before they eventually die.

Specifically, they found that chemotherapy alone leads to two types of dormant cancer cells that are not killed outright and become resistant to additional chemotherapy, but when combined with immunotherapy, a majority of dormant cells also is destroyed.

Then, they treated the dormant cells with a product of the immune system, they found that dormant cells were susceptible to immunotherapy, and that quiescent, but not indolent cancer cells, could not escape from immunotherapy.

They lie dormant and can not be eliminated by anti-retroviral therapy, nor by the weakened immune system, so that if treatment is stopped at any time, the virus starts to replicate and infect more cells again, while the immune system can not suppress this rebound of HIV infection.

Professor Spano explained: «Dormant CD4 T cells infected with HIV are not actively producing HIV: they are latently infected.

They all sounded three sour notes: that they had cured only about half of their mice; that they did not know whether the mice had grown new islets or merely revived dormant ones; and that they had found no evidence that spleen cells had converted to beta cells.

It was thought, but until now not demonstrated, that inhibitors of immune check - points could, in a similar way, wake up dormant HIV - infected cells and also the immune defences against the virus.»

Dormant or latent viruses hide in cells, not in body fluids such as saliva or nasal secretions, Wylie explained.

Moreover, these compounds kill so - called MRSA «persister» cells that are drug - resistant dormant cells that are not susceptible to current antibiotic therapies.

One hypothesis is that beta cells in some islets may remain dormant until needed, and thus not age as quickly, Bonner - Weir says.