Sentences with phrase «on cell regeneration»
The planarian Schmidtea mediterranea are flatworms with bilateral symmetry used as models in the research on cell regeneration and stem cells.
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On the logistics end, it is easier to manufacture certain stem - cell therapies, which will be key for human trials like the heart - muscle - regeneration program.
Low - power laser light shined on damaged rat teeth activates growth factors that cue stem cells to generate the tooth constituent dentin, leading to regeneration.
Her PhD is focused on developing a novel label - free imaging approach for assessing human stem cells and skeletal regeneration non-destructively and non-invasively.
Today is the 70th birthday of Elizabeth Hay, an embryologist at Harvard Medical School who, through pioneering studies on regeneration of amphibian limbs, has shed light on the cellular mechanisms that transform normal cells into tumors.
Get a cut on your finger and your skin can make new cells to heal the wound; lose your tail — if you are a particular kind of lizard — and tissue regeneration may produce a new one.
Building on the evidence that microglia were in play during injury, the researchers conducted tests in zebrafish with the specialized enzyme incorporated into both rod cells and microglial cells, removing both cell types to ask what role microglia play during regeneration.
Mark Poznansky, MD, PhD, director of the MGH - VIC and senior author of the Wound Repair and Regeneration report adds, «Having a novel therapeutic that is based on the immediate isolation of a patient's own cells, with minimal manipulation, will represent an attractive option for the wound care field; and a successful option that accelerates healing would greatly benefit patients, as diabetic ulcers typically need up to a year or more heal.
Weissman says that most clinical studies of stem cells fail to meet what he sees as key criteria: They should be based on clear, peer - reviewed demonstrations of tissue regeneration, replicated by a large number of independent groups that provide rapid, long - lasting benefits.
Previous research has described at least some of the fundamental processes involved in healthy, on - going peripheral nerve growth regeneration, including the critical role of mitochondria — cellular organelles that produce adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the energy - carrying molecule found in all cells that is vital to driving nerve recovery after injury.
«Our results suggest that megakaryocytes might be used clinically to facilitate adult stem cell regeneration and to expand cultured cells for adult stem cell transplants,» says Meng Zhao, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow at Stowers and lead author on the study.
«The cell puts up a stop sign on the regeneration pathway that serves as a «wait, I'm not ready yet» sign,» Lin said, speculating that if the stop sign is removed, «that will speed up traffic, in this case speeding up regeneration.»
Aurora kinase has many subtypes, but is generally known for its role in cell division — an additional link between regeneration and division that helped to confirm Lin was on to something.
which is focused on mouse models of adult stem cell differentiation and tissue regeneration.
Normal maintenance and cell turnover throughout the planarian body continue unaffected when fst is inhibited, even though these activities rely on the same neoblast cell population that creates new tissue during regeneration.
The authors were led into the realm of muscle and sex when they realized that they were relying heavily on cell lines derived from female mice to study muscle regeneration.
On the other hand, genetic mutations that further promote the growth of intestinal stem cells are associated with uncontrolled organ regeneration and the development of colon cancer.
Discussion themes included: - stem cell heterogeneity - stem cell fate decisions - stem cells in regeneration & development - stem cells in disease & treatment - stem cell related bioengineering & biomaterial - theoretical stem cell biology - mathematical modelling with a focus (but no restriction) on neural stem cells, hematopoietic stem cells and diabetes.
Most of the scientific focus to date has been on trained on the blastema, a remarkable cluster of cells that forms at the base of an amputated limb or damaged tissue and is the modus operandi for regeneration.
The influence of cellular source on periodontal regeneration using calcium phosphate coated polycaprolactone scaffold supported cell sheets.
Towards our goals we study retinal cells throughout their life, from embryonic stem cells to retinal progenitors to differentiating and mature neurons and glia — with one eye on neuronal regeneration (meaning de-novo neurogenesis) in the mammalian retina — and with another eye on retinal disease pathomechanisms.
To this end, we are focusing on two aspects of β - cell regeneration: enhancing β - cell proliferation in vivo and stimulating the differentiation of new β - cells from endogenous progenitors in the pancreas.
EMBO Conference - Advances in Stem Cell Research: Development, Regeneration and Disease The 3rd event in this EMBO Conference Series on Stem Cells.
His research is focused on retinal regeneration by reprogramming human fibroblasts either into induced pluripotent stem cells or directly into photoreceptors.
In the October 28th issue of Cell, Bi-Sen Ding, PhD, a NYSCF — Druckenmiller Fellow in Dr. Shahin Rafii's laboratory at Weill Cornell Medical College, presented the discovery of signals that «turn on» regeneration of oxygen - exchanging sacs in the lungs.
The ability to switch on and mobilise resident stem cells in regeneration will be important in a wide range of new therapies, particularity for organs affected by injury or disease.
During this time, her research focused on nutritional modulation of olfactory function, neuronal development and regeneration, and chemosensory cell biology.
Topics such as the mechanisms of cell injury in normal and dystrophic muscle, compensatory muscle regeneration and hypertrophy, and the effects of various therapies or voluntary exercise on muscle repair, satellite cell activation, muscle growth, bone density and age - related atrophy are examined using a large variety of cellular, molecular and whole - animal in vivo assays of function.
Studies of satellite cell activation via nitric oxide have opened an exciting area of research on muscle regeneration, growth and the muscle - fiber cytoskeleton that integrates mechanical and biochemical signal transduction with cell and molecular biology of muscle tissue in growth, development, disease, aging and evolution.
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Review of «The Effects of Platelet - Derived Growth Factor - BB on Human Dental Pulp Stem Cells Mediated Dentin - Pulp Complex Regeneration» from STEM CELLS Translational Medicine by Stuart P. AtkCells Mediated Dentin - Pulp Complex Regeneration» from STEM CELLS Translational Medicine by Stuart P. AtkCELLS Translational Medicine by Stuart P. Atkinson
The safety and efficacy of using embryonic and other stem cells for tissue regeneration will depend on harnessing and precisely controlling their proliferative capacity.
He has also made fundamental contributions to understanding the role of apoE in the nervous system, specifically in nerve injury and regeneration and in the remodeling of neurites on neuronal cells.
Suzuki, possibly inspired by his new job as a research scientist at the Research Unit for Organ Regeneration in Kobe, Japan, explains it this way: «Just as humans can start over in life, differentiated cells can also take on other fates following the generation of undifferentiated stem cells.»
Two studies find adult pancreatic cells maintain islet population, contradicting a hypothesis that regeneration relies on stem cells
Ettema Lab is pleased to announce the new paper in Current Biology by Henning Onsbring Gustafson on cellular regeneration in the ciliate Stentor at single cell resolution.
Stewart discovered that the histone modifications that poise embryonic stem cell - specific genes for activation are also found on the histones near genes involved in regeneration, putting them into a ready - to - go state.
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Cell energy (of which in their study on bone regeneration creatine played a major role) is important for bone development and maintenance, and therefore directly related to osteoporosis.
It causes them to grow to an enormous size, act out aggressively and take on the genetic qualities of other animals, like rapid cell regeneration, or exploding porcupine quills, or, you know, flying.
By using stem cells in an area of the body that requires healing, they will go to work on that area, greatly enhancing the process of regeneration.
Programs with research emphasis on signal transduction in development and oncogenesis, cell adhesion molecules in development and oncogenesis, muscologskeletal atrophy and countermeasures, ovarian follicle development, neural regeneration, implantable therapeutic or diagnostic devices and application of computers in veterinary education.
On Houston's Clear Thinkers, Tom Kirkendall ponders the view of cancer as tenaciously persistent and able to regenerate after apparently disappearing — driven by a specific cell type lurking within the cancer that is capable of dormancy, growth and infinite regeneration — a cancer «stem cell» in The Cancer Sleeper cell type lurking within the cancer that is capable of dormancy, growth and infinite regeneration — a cancer «stem cell» in The Cancer Sleeper cell» in The Cancer Sleeper CellCell