Sentences with phrase «of lung stem cells»

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Panoskaltsis - Mortari's team has been working on rebuilding lungs and other parts of the respiratory system using human stem cells.

MIMICKING the environment experienced by cells in the windpipe is enough to transform stem cells into a range of different lung cells.

Many scientists believe that targeting a type of cell called a cancer stem cell may be necessary to completely cure lung cancer.

Using a mathematical model known as the Ising model, invented to describe phase transitions in statistical physics, such as how a substance changes from liquid to gas, the Johns Hopkins researchers calculated the probability distribution of methylation along the genome in several different human cell types, including normal and cancerous colon, lung and liver cells, as well as brain, skin, blood and embryonic stem cells.

A new study has found that stem cell therapy can reduce lung inflammation in an animal model of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and cystic fibrosis.

«Potential of stem cell therapy to repair lung damage.»

Loss of either GSTO1 or RYR1, the researchers report, decreased the number of cancer stem cells in the primary tumor, blocked metastasis of cancer cells from the primary tumor to the lungs, decreased the duration of chemotherapy required to induce remission and increased the duration of time after chemotherapy was stopped that the mice remained tumor - free.

Previously, stem cells have been made to differentiate into lung cells using a cocktail of different growth factors, but Haute says using physical forces might be simpler.

Now, scientists at Boston University's Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM) have announced two major findings that further our understanding of this process: the ability to grow and purify the earliest lung progenitors that emerge from human stem cells, and the ability to differentiate these cells into tiny «bronchospheres» that model cystic fibrosis.

But with humans, she is using iPS cells and has been working to develop the correct protocols to induce her stem cells to differentiate into different kinds of lung tissue.

Human lungs, like all organs, begin their existence as clumps of undifferentiated stem cells.

Researchers hope that the results, published separately in the Journal of Clinical Investigation and Cell Stem Cell, will lead to new, «personalized medicine» approaches to treating lung disease.

«If you look at a set of lung cancer patients, like we did in the paper, who develop brain metastases, they all have those two genes in their primary lung cancer,» said Sheila Singh, the study's supervisor, associate professor at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, scientist with the Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute at McMaster University and neurosurgeon at McMaster Children's Hospital.

• A Yale research team led by Diane Krause turned a single stem cell from the bone marrow of an adult mouse into lung, liver, intestinal, and skin cells for other mice.

«We found that many more mice developed tumors when given the cells that we had engineered to have these stem cell characteristics, and they had a much higher incidence of metastasis in the lungs,» Kilian said.

What's really impressive about Babar's accomplishment is that he did the work for both papers — one on the role of a population of stem cells in lung cancer development (published in Cell) the other on gene expression in group A Streptococcus (published in PNAS)-- as a participant in summer undergraduate research programs.

«The introduction of mitochondria into damaged cells has beneficial effects on the health of cells and, in the long term, we believe that mesenchymal stem cells could even be engineered to create more effective therapies for lung disease in humans.»

A research team has identified a protein that increases the transfer of mitochondria from mesenchymal stem cells to lung cells.

The trial, published in Circulation Research, was designed to test the feasibility and side effects of a genetically - enhanced stem cell therapy to repair and regenerate lung blood vessels in PAH.

The treatment is promising enough that research teams around the world are developing similar stem cell therapies that can target and eradicate cancers of the prostate, lung, breast, skin and other tissues.

«Study finds cause of pulmonary fibrosis in failure of stem cells that repair lungs.»

The stem cells that proliferate the most in response to damage caused by cigarette smoke repair their DNA using a process prone to errors, setting the stage for lung cancer, according to a study publishing January 26, 2017 in the open - access journal PLOS Biology by Marie - Liesse Asselin - Labat and her team of the Walter and Eliza hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia.

These proteins are crucial for tissue healing by instructing various processes, including the activation of specific stem cell populations, ensuring that lung tissue can be restored to its original condition.

«The information we have gained about the dynamic changes in ECM composition and its interactions with various secreted growth factor proteins enables us to develop new hypotheses for the activation of stem cells in the lung,» explains Dr. Herbert Schiller, first author of the study.

Harvard Stem Cell Institute scientists at Brigham and Women's Hospital have found the cellular origin of the tissue scarring caused by organ damage associated with diabetes, lung disease, high blood pressure, kidney disease, and other conditions.

Induced pluripotent stem cells are a type of pluripotent stem cell that can be generated directly from adult cells; they have the ability to be differentiated into a variety of tissue types and, in this case, MSCs that can regenerate damaged lung tissue.

In the case of gene editing, Verma is creating induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from patients by taking, for example, skin cells of patients, coaxing them back into an early stem cell state, and then providing conditions to make those cells develop into more complex brain, lung, prostate and breast tissues.

She studies the process of cancer initiation and progression along with cancer stem cells, the evolution of drug resistance and the dynamics of metastasis formation focusing on lung, brain, breast and pancreatic cancers.

If the marriage of stem cells and CRISPR follows a similar path, it might not be long before pigs have enough Homo sapiens in them not only to grow human hearts, lungs, livers, and kidneys for transplant but also to model human diseases more closely than current lab animals do and to test experimental drugs.

Impact of bone marrow - derived mesenchymal stem cells on remodeling the lung injury induced by lipopolysaccharides in mice Mouchira M Mohi El - Din, Laila A Rashed, Mohi A Mahmoud Haridy, Atef Mohamed Khalil, Mohamed A Mohamed Albadry.

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Wnt blockers inhibit the proliferation of lung cancer stem cells.

Pre-clinical evidence concerning the utility of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) to aid the treatment of acute lung injury (ALI) has been mounting over recent years, with some clinical trials beginning to run.

Therapeutic potential of adipose stem cell - derived conditioned medium against pulmonary hypertension and lung fibrosis.

The most common form of lung cancer may begin in a group of newly isolated lung stem cells, according to researchers from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Until now, blood cell production was ascribed solely to bone marrow, but studies on mice have found that the majority of the body's platelets are produced in the lungs, as is a backup reservoir of blood stem cells that can step in when those in the bone marrow run dry.

Scientists need to prompt stem cells to become kidney, liver or lung cells, which must then recreate the complex anatomy of a real organ in order to function in a human recipient.

Cedars - Sinai scientists can harvest cells from the blood or skin of an individual and reprogram them into induced pluripotent stem cells, which can be made into any organ cell (such as those from the lung, liver or intestine), each bearing the unique genetic fingerprint and characteristics of the person.

Examples include a series of studies to document persistent microchimerism of donor cells in transfusion recipients, with particular focus on mechanisms and clinical relevance of donor stem cell microchimerism in transfused trauma patients, and the immunological mechanisms and prevention of transfusion - related acute lung injury (TRALI) and alloimmunization.

March 6, 2018 — Researchers identified a type of stem cell that produces new air sac cells in lung tissue.

In 2014, the National Institutes of Health helped to fund the first of its kind lung stem cell repository, which provides researchers open (free) access to the different types of induced pluripotent lung cells to use in their laboratories.

A team of scientists from the UNC School of Medicine and North Carolina State University (NCSU) has developed promising research towards a possible stem cell treatment for several lung conditions, such as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and cystic fibrosis — often - fatal conditions that affect tens of millions of Americans.

In the long run, the scientists hope their lung stem cell therapy will also help patients with other lung fibrosis conditions of which there are dozens, including COPD, cystic fibrosis, and fibro - cavernous pulmonary tuberculosis.

Scientists have been studying the alternative possibility of using stem cells to treat IPF and other lung fibrosis diseases.

The Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM) at Boston University and Boston Medical Center has engineered two new categories of lung epithelial cells in vitro using pluripotent stem cells.

Bone Marrow — Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Repair of the Injured Lung (October, 2004) in American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology.

In a second study, published in the journal Stem Cells Translational Medicine, the team showed that in rodents they could use the same type of lung cell to successfully treat a model of IPF — a chronic, irreversible, and ultimately fatal disease characterized by a progressive decline in lung function.

«This is the first time anyone has generated potentially therapeutic lung stem cells from minimally invasive biopsy specimens,» said co-senior author of both papers Jason Lobo, MD, an assistant professor of medicine at UNC and medical director of lung transplant and interstitial lung disease.Co - senior author Ke Cheng, PhD, an associate professor in NCSU's Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences and the UNC / NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, said, «We think the properties of these cells make them potentially therapeutic for a wide range of lung fibrosis diseases.»

Although your lungs possess their own population of healing adult stem cells, there are simply not enough cells present to keep up with the degree of ongoing lung tissue damage which occurs in COPD.

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