Sentences with phrase «other cells in a tissue»

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In a rare appearance Dr. Chandan Sen, Director, OSU Center for Regenerative Medicine & Cell - Based Therapies will explain how this breakthrough came about and how the technology is leading to other medical discoveries and how the principle can be used to generate any tissue out of skin or fat which is abundant in human bodIn a rare appearance Dr. Chandan Sen, Director, OSU Center for Regenerative Medicine & Cell - Based Therapies will explain how this breakthrough came about and how the technology is leading to other medical discoveries and how the principle can be used to generate any tissue out of skin or fat which is abundant in human bodin human body.

The building block electronic and protonic actual occasions are, in the case of human beings, swept into vastly more complex, Chinese box - like sets of containing societies within which there are social levels that can be identified with cells, others which answer to Aristotle's levels of tissues and organs, and which finally are presided over by what Whitehead refers to as the regnant nexus, a social thread of complex temporal inheritance which, Whitehead suggests, wanders from part to part of the brain, is the seat of conscious direction of the organism as a whole, and answers to what in Plato and Aristotle is called the soul.

Other kinds of congenital anomalies that are sometimes found with this condition are, as previously mentioned, Down Syndrome, shorter intestines than normal, lower birth weight, and an imbalance of electrolytes, which are the elements in the blood, tissue and cell fluid needed to help the person balance their energy.

Each factor involved in the tumor response — whether it is the speed with which chemotherapeutic drugs reach the tissue or the degree to which cells signal each other to grow — is characterized by a mathematical equation that captures its essence.

While doing her Ph.D., Wang came across a defense mechanism in plants involving apoptosis, where «the plant cell is induced to die around the infection site so the pathogen can not be spread to other tissues,» Wang says.

The research team found that when it increased levels of E-NTPDase2 in tadpole embryos that consisted of only eight cells, they could cause parts of the eye to form not only on the heads of the amphibians, but also in tissues in other parts of their bodies, including their tails.

ECM is the fibrous material between cells in tissues like skin, cartilage, or tendon that gives them their strength, stretchiness, squishiness, and other mechanical properties.

What's more, when ordinary colon cancer cells were implanted near connective tissue in other mice, they transformed into cancer stem cells (Nature Cell Biology, DOI: 10.1038 / ncb2048).

The team found that connective - tissue cells adjacent to colon cancer stem cells secrete growth factors that activate a molecular pathway in other cells that is vital to maintaining stem - cell - like qualities.

The individual live cells are not communicating, and «cells in a tissue have to communicate with each other».

Still, how melanoma cells join into tumors — whether by individual cells coming together or small or large clusters of cells doing so — follows the same pattern as breast tissue cancer cells: Cables are extended to reel in other cells or clusters.

Information encoded within these structures helps cells recognize each other and relay messages in virtually every tissue

That three - or - so - pound lump of soft tissue, housed within the cranium, has about 100 billion nerve cells or neurons (roughly equal to the number of stars in our galaxy), which form trillions of connections with each other, giving rise to millions of operations going on simultaneously.

The «target» cells on the other side of the BeWo barrier to the nanoparticles were human fibroblast cells, found in skin and connective tissue.

The scientists have shown that, in all cancers, a sort of «identity crisis» is observed in cancerous cells: in the organs or tissues in which a tumor develops, genes specific to other tissues or to other stages of the development of the organism express themselves in an aberrant manner.

Doudna and others have learned much more in just the past two to three years about how CRISPR editing works at the molecular level, and how it can be delivered to specific cells and tissues.

Autoimmune diseases arise from an overactive immune response of the body against substances and tissues normally present in the body; in other words, the body attacks its own cells.

Drugs that enhance a process called oxidative stress were found to kill rhabdomyosarcoma tumor cells growing in the laboratory and possibly bolstered the effectiveness of chemotherapy against this aggressive tumor of muscle and other soft tissue.

In his thirties, he learned about a new way to stain tissue developed by the Italian Camillo Golgi: a new silver - based stain that turned some nerve cells completely black while leaving most others entirely untouched, rendering the delicate branches of the nerve processes clearly visible (as seen in the image on the leftIn his thirties, he learned about a new way to stain tissue developed by the Italian Camillo Golgi: a new silver - based stain that turned some nerve cells completely black while leaving most others entirely untouched, rendering the delicate branches of the nerve processes clearly visible (as seen in the image on the leftin the image on the left).

Now, with new kinds of technologies that are coming up, new types of tissue engineering and, you know, some of the hopes that people have for stem cells and [the] like, it may be interesting to see if there are other ways, alternatives to dealing with really badly damaged hearts that would involve growing a new heart or replacing or repairing the damage d to a badly damaged heart that might make artificial hearts less important in the somewhat more distant future.

Esrp1 and Esrp2 are active specifically in epithelial cells, which form the skin, the inner layers of the gut and lung, and other tissues in the body.

Other groups are experimenting with taking such tissue from the nose, growing it in the lab to isolate the desired cells and transplanting them.

Neural stem cells (bottom left) harbor a double - stranded RNA molecule (white spots, bottom right) not present in other tissues (top) that helps them develop into neurons.

If we introduced stem cells with nice, long telomeres in the first place, we could let them wind down and eventually be lost to apoptosis, senescence, or other sources of damage — and just top our tissues up with more stem cells before enough of those cells were lost to begin to impair tissue function.

They also applied it to human brain tissue collected by the Genotype - Tissue Expression (GTEx) Project, finding that they could a) identify expression signatures unique to neurons, glial cells, and other cell types in the brain (including rare types), and b) differentiate between closely related cell subtissue collected by the Genotype - Tissue Expression (GTEx) Project, finding that they could a) identify expression signatures unique to neurons, glial cells, and other cell types in the brain (including rare types), and b) differentiate between closely related cell subTissue Expression (GTEx) Project, finding that they could a) identify expression signatures unique to neurons, glial cells, and other cell types in the brain (including rare types), and b) differentiate between closely related cell subtypes.

«The fundamental «killing units» of CD4 T cells in lymphoid tissues are other infected cells, not the free virus,» says co-first author Gilad Doitsh, PhD, a staff research investigator at the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology.

However, if exercise restores or prevents deterioration of mitochondria and ribosomes in muscle cells, there's a good chance it does so in other tissues, too.

FIH is found in all the body's cells and tissues, but is 50 to 100 times more abundant in the muscles than in any other part of the body.

But then he observed the same halt in cell division in other cultures with different fetal tissues.

Without the involvement of macrophages and other innate cells, the premalignant tissue would remain in check.

In essence, he says, weak T regs can mature into killer T cells that weed out other immune cells mounting attacks on healthy tissues.

All cells in tissues adhere to each other using molecules called cadherins which interact and connect cells of the same type together.

In recent years, several groups of scientists have grown lung cells from human iPSCs, but the recipes aren't perfect — the resulting lung cells grow amidst a jumble of liver cells, intestinal cells, and other tissues.

«In contrast, in other bodily tissues, the gene was silenced in normal cells and over-expressed in tumorIn contrast, in other bodily tissues, the gene was silenced in normal cells and over-expressed in tumorin other bodily tissues, the gene was silenced in normal cells and over-expressed in tumorin normal cells and over-expressed in tumorin tumors.

Because calcium imaging is widely used to identify cells in tissues throughout the body, researchers studying other systems will be able to benefit from the published methodology.

As fat cells bulge, the body tries to store glucose in other tissues, including the liver, kidney, heart, muscles, and blood vessels, where the rotting process takes hold.

But it has been harder to test whether cancer stem cells fuel the growth of tumors in other tissues.

Through the new imaging technology, researchers use fluorescent imaging to locate proteins and other molecules in cells and tissues.

On the other hand, the problem is, you know, with embryonic stem cells, they haven't been able to get stem cell lines from livestock animals that can proliferate in that way, without just sort of veering up in their own direction and turning into, instead of muscle, turning into brain tissue or bone tissue or something else.

Sheldrake contends that the shapes cells assume and the forms of tissues, organs, and the whole animal — in other words, morphogenesis itself — are not explained by protein synthesis alone.

All of these findings were supplemented with several other experiments that were designed to learn how CHI3L1 interacts with other cells involved in the tissue repair response in both human and mouse lungs.

Various reports in recent years have claimed that stem cells from one tissue — for example, blood — can mature into other tissues such as muscle or brain.

The research suggests that reducing production of the protein, called myoferlin, affects cancer cells in two primary ways: by changing the activation of many genes involved in metastasis in favor of normal cell behavior, and by altering mechanical properties of cancer cells — including their shape and ability to invade — so they are more likely to remain nested together rather than breaking away to travel to other tissues.

They've even injected white blood cells into the vessels and watched as they squeezed through gaps in the vessel wall to reach the tissue on the other side, just as they do in the human body.

Split Pool Ligation - based Transcriptome sequencing (SPLiT - seq) is a scalable technique for characterizing RNA in individual cells that can be used to identify the various cell types found in the brain and other tissues.

In some, the cells were always active; in others, such as the liver, they multiplied only when tissues sensed injurIn some, the cells were always active; in others, such as the liver, they multiplied only when tissues sensed injurin others, such as the liver, they multiplied only when tissues sensed injury.

Previous research conducted by Dr. Badylak's team suggested that ECM also could be used to regenerate lost muscle by placing the material in the injury site where it signals the body to recruit stem and other progenitor cells to rebuild healthy tissue.

«We don't yet know if this type of coordination and control works in stem cell niches of other tissue types,» says DiNardo.

L1CAM protein (brown in top panel) resides in cells poised to break from the cancer's bulk (cells with b - catenin are brown in bottom panel) and invade other tissues.

But if homologous recombination could be worked out in human (embryonic) stem cells, then cardiomyocytes with mutations in ion channels could be derived, as well as a large number of other very useful disease models of other tissues.