Sentences with phrase «number of abnormal cells»

In another study, curcumin combined with green tea extract worked better than either alone in reducing number of abnormal cells in the colons of animals exposed to a cancer - inducing agent.

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The abnormal bleeding and bruising occur in part because of the decreased number of platelets in the blood and also because the cancerous cells release substances that cause excessive bleeding.

Abnormal centrosome numbers are commonly observed in human cancers and are thought to be at least in part responsible for the improper distribution of the genetic material that is a hallmark of many cancer cells.

The discovery might also apply to cancer, because cancer cells often have abnormal numbers and arrangements of chromosomes.

As with most cancers, triple - negative breast cancer (TNBC) cells have abnormal amounts of chromosomes or DNA copy number aberrations (CNAs) in their genomes.

Li points out that, unlike yeast cells, human and mammalian cells have a protein called p53 that kills cells with abnormal numbers of chromosomes.

Aneuploidy is a condition in which cells contain an abnormal number of chromosomes, and is known to be the cause of many types of cancer and genetic disorders, including Down Syndrome.

For more than 100 years, researchers have been unable to explain why cancer cells contain abnormal numbers of chromosomes, a phenomenon known as aneuploidy.

Importantly, this results in an abnormal increase in centrosome number, a 10-fold reduction in the numbers of satellite stem cells undergoing asymmetric divisions, and a marked decrease in the generation of myogenin - expressing progenitors.

A genetic test examines a DNA sample of a person's cells for abnormal genes, or analyzes the number, arrangement and characteristics of the chromosomes.

The relatively small number of such cells in a youthful tissue is so small as to be harmless, but after decades of accumulation, the number becomes large enough that their abnormal metabolic state begins to pose a threat to surrounding, healthy tissues.

He is best known for his discovery that copy - number variation — a state in which cells have an abnormal number of DNA sections, sometimes associated with susceptibility or resistance to disease — is widespread and significant in the human genome.

Pap smears are not 100 percent accurate and a small number of cancers may be overlooked in any one test, but it takes several years for cervical cancer to develop from abnormal cells.

A number of the mechanisms which help prevent abnormal cell growth are avoided in cancer cells.

Leukemia is the name given to a number of cancers that affect the infection - fighting white blood cells and where there is an abnormal over production of white blood cells.

The CBC provides details about the number, size and shape of the various cells types, and identifies the presence of abnormal cells in circulation.

Upon examination of the blood, it may reveal neutropenia (an abnormal decrease in the number of neutophils / white blood cells), which confirms the presence of the canine parvovirus infection.

Canine Thyroid Disease Example of Hyperplastic thyroid (abnormal increase in the number of normal cells) from an iodine - deficient dog Source: Washington State University

With AIHA, both the number and percent of red blood cells will be low and the size and shape of the cells will be abnormal.

As pathologists began to examine these lesions they noticed that they all contained abnormal numbers of inflammatory cells called eosinophils, accompanied by neutrophils and scar tissue.

Anemia is an abnormal reduction in the number of circulating red blood cells.