Sentences with phrase «on brain tumor cells»

Ringer's lactate solution (Lactec) was irradiated with plasma for 3 - 5 minutes, after which it demonstrated anti-tumor effects on brain tumor cells.

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«We refer to this as the battle for the brain, in which early on in the disease, the microglia are trying to destroy the brain tumor initiating cells,» says Yong.

A study analyzing brain tumor genomics on a single - cell level has found evidence that cancer stem cells fuel the growth of oligodendrogliomas, a slow - growing but incurable form of brain cancer.

On the fly, neurosurgeons can use the pen - sized instrument on the brain to view the tumor cells with unique fluorescent characteristics that outline the tumor cellOn the fly, neurosurgeons can use the pen - sized instrument on the brain to view the tumor cells with unique fluorescent characteristics that outline the tumor cellon the brain to view the tumor cells with unique fluorescent characteristics that outline the tumor cells.

Images of the tumor cells are immediately created on an LCD screen observed as the surgeon scans the instrument across the tumor or brain surface.

There is plenty of anecdotal evidence out there claiming a link between cell phone use and cancer: Keith Black, chairman of neurosurgery at Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, says that the brain cancer (malignant glioma) that killed O. J. Simpson's attorney, Johnnie Cochran, was the result of frequent cell phone use, based on the fact that the tumor developed on the side of the head against which he held his phone.

His research largely focuses on new means to incorporate imaging methods to view cells of brain tumors with a hand held instrument that a neurosurgeon can use to visualize the individual cells during the progress of the operation.

ICELL8 can isolate up to 1,800 single cells, ranging from 5 μm — 100 μm in size on a single chip, including cells from solid tumors, brain cells, pulmonary airway cells, and multiple cell lines.

To overcome these problems, Min and his team developed a new modality to visualize glucose uptake activity inside single cells based on stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) imaging, and demonstrated its use in live cancer cells, tumor xenograft tissues, primary neurons and mouse brain tissues.

Subsequent surgery on vaccinated patients has shown that the T cells are finding and killing tumor cells in the brain, but not enough of them.

Physical pushes and pulls on a cell, not just genes, determine whether it will become part of a bone, a brain — or a deadly tumor

Given that breast cancer cells traveling through the bloodstream on their way to secondary sites where breast tumors metastasize most often — lung, bone marrow, brain and liver — must first pass through the basement membrane microvasculature, Ghajar and Bissell suspected that the basement membrane could be a major component of the dormant niche in distant organs.

Research on lab animals has shown some of the chemicals cause cancerous tumors and damage developing brain cells, and some can alter hormones essential to reproductive and neurological development.

On the safety side, the panelists delved into the possible risks of injecting genetically modified cells into patients, including the potential for deadly viral infections, brain toxicity, and, paradoxically, the growth of new tumors brought about by CAR - T cells years after treatment.

Monje first became interested in neurons» role supporting tumors while working on childhood glioma, a cancer that strikes in the precursors to glial cells in the developing brain.

The screening revealed coibamide A to be capable of killing many types of cancer cells, but Ishmael decided to focus subsequent studies on two types in particular — brain tumors, or glioblastomas, and a breast cancer subtype known as triple negative breast cancer.

Known as a PARP inhibitor, the drug acts on a defect in the DNA repair mechanism in the brain tumor cells, they said.

If you're hoping the loudmouth on the cell phone next to you will get a brain tumor, you're likely to be disappointed.

Further research uncovered a broad spectrum of cell surface stem cell markers (e.g., CD133, CD44, and CD24) that allow the identification of CSCs in human solid tumors, including brain, breast, prostate, pancreas, liver, ovary, skin, colon cancers, and melanoma (3 - 6)(Figure 1 based on 7).

Currently, her research interest is focused on the functional characterization of cell - autonomous molecular determinants, known to control cardinal stem cell properties in normal NSCs, in the attempt of understanding their putative role in regulating the same properties in brain tumor - derived cancer stem cells.

In laboratory experiments the researchers mimicked the way SOX9 is stabilized in brain tumor cells and showed how SOX9 turned on 40 to 50 genes in the tumor to make it more resistant to chemotherapy and more prone to spread.

A new faculty member at Winship, Tracy - Ann Read, recently published her research on a molecule that could be used to identify «tumor - propagating cells» in medulloblastoma, a form of brain cancer.

The challenge takes on even more urgency with recent developments, including a federal administration now more open to exploring the potential of stem cells, the recent FDA approval of a human trial involving embryonic stem cells, as well as the reported case of a young boy who developed a brain tumor four years after receiving a stem - cell treatment for a rare genetic disorder.