Sentences with phrase «own healthy tissue»

Immunotherapy is praised by researchers because it is targeted, focusing on cancerous cells rather than healthy tissue, as well as potentially durable.

Since PSMA's limited on normal cells, the therapy should hammer away at tumors while letting healthy tissues do their job.

Too many free radicals cause oxidative damage to healthy tissues and induces aging.

«Wounds with manuka honey leads to healthier tissue regrowth.»

This is where the immune system — the body's defence against infection — mistakenly attacks healthy tissue.

Removing healthy tissue from a normal penis is genital mutilation by definition.

When the cord does detach, it can sometimes get a little stinky, Swanson says, and you may notice a yellowish discharge or a little blood streaking — all of this is a normal part of the healthy tissue dying off and scabbing.

Cow's milk also contains Vitamin A which is good for vision and builds healthy tissues and a strong immune system.

Cancer cells travel around the body and begin to attack healthy tissue in a process called metastasis.

They also think their results suggest that an unknown antibody — probably an antibody against self, targeting the body's own healthy tissue — is triggering chronic fatigue syndrome.

While they're essential for helping the body fend off attacks, if something goes awry, B - cells can generate antibodies that attack healthy tissues.

On Thursday, the United Nations» member states will consider two resolutions: One resolution would ban all human cloning methods, including efforts to use cloned embryonic stem cells to try and generate healthy tissues, or to treat degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's.

In previous work in mice, Claudia Gravekamp of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York had shown that weakened listeria bacteria colonise tumour tissue but not healthy tissue.

Gravekamp thinks the radioactive bacteria affected metastatic tumours most because cells there were still rapidly multiplying, leaving their chromosomes more open to damage than those in healthy tissues or in the original tumour.

Existing treatments are limited by their ability to cross the blood - brain barrier **, and doses must be kept low to avoid damage to healthy tissue.

To avoid the risk of injected cells destroying healthy tissue, Th17 cells that are reactive to tumours but not to normal tissues would have to be identified, Dong cautions.

Inflicting less collateral damage to surrounding organs and healthy tissues, it can minimize side effects and increase cure rates for some cancers — just what patients with small bodies like Jonathan need.

«Healthy tissue grafted to brains of Huntington's patients also develops the disease.»

As might be expected of an autoimmune disease, where the immune system turns on healthy tissue, all the genes play a role in controlling the growth and multiplication of cells in the immune system.

Autoimmune disease has devastating consequences for healthy tissue.

This poses a problem for doctors; if they mistake a close object for a far away one, they could accidentally graze healthy tissue with the scope or surgical instruments.

Scientists for decades have been seeking ways to repair cartilage without resorting to traditional surgery, which typically involves removing damaged cartilage through an incision in the joint while trying to preserve as much of the healthy tissue as possible.

In a study published in the journal Science, an international collaboration of investigators from Dana - Farber, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital, and the University of Strasbourg uncovered a mechanism that allows key immune system cells to keep a steady rein on their more belligerent brother cells, thereby protecting normal, healthy tissue from assault.

The overall effect is to limit excessive inflammation, restricting damage to healthy tissues without compromising the body's ability to clear the infection.

«Our immune system is made up of specialised cells that move through blood and tissue, preventing disease and fighting infection by distinguishing between what is the body's own healthy tissue and what is foreign.

Right now, Marth's team is simulating the transport of chemotherapy directly to cancerous tumors in the pancreas and liver without harming healthy tissue.

Developed by Amgen, it uses a modified version of the herpes virus that can't infect healthy tissue but attacks cancer cells.

When chlorotoxin is tagged with a fluorescent dye, it will illuminate a tumour — a trick that makes the surgeon's job easier by helping to pinpoint cancerous growth and ensure that all the cancerous cells are removed and healthy tissue spared.

Scientists have discovered how compounds produced by the body's immune system help to dampen inflammation and prevent damage to healthy tissues.

«Importantly, this knowledge will help us better understand healthy tissue homeostasis and the wide range of diseases that involve abnormal tissue mechanics, especially cancer.»

Within that sting lies a peptide called chlorotoxin, which has an unusual property — it sticks strongly to tumour cells while ignoring surrounding healthy tissue, by binding to a cancer - specific protein called matrix metalloproteinase - 2.

The scientists» findings have wide implications in the effort to understand how organs are sculpted into their shapes and how cells respond to their native mechanical environment both in healthy tissues and during disease.

The hydrogel, which can be delivered through a syringe, is designed to degrade over six weeks and leave behind healthy tissue.

«This helps us distinguish malignant from healthy tissue and tells us how the tumor is responding to chemotherapy earlier than other imaging techniques can.»

In 2002 scientists showed that cytomegalovirus, or CMV, was active in the brain tumors but not the surrounding healthy tissue of all 27 patients they tested who had glioblastoma multiforme.

Now the mechanism has been revealed, opening the way to using similar molecules in cancer treatments, to protect healthy tissue while tumours are destroyed by freezing.

Cancer therapies are often harsh because eradicating malignant cells entails damaging healthy tissue as well.

«That's required to limit damage to healthy tissue,» Laricchia told New Scientist.

Change the size from 10 nanometers to 100 nanometers, and the drugs can end up in the wrong cells or organs and thereby damage healthy tissues.

Because healthy tissue is not altered by the magnetic field, it does not heat up and is not damaged.

Significant advances have been made in chemotherapy over the past decade, but targeting drugs to cancer cells while avoiding healthy tissues continues to be a major challenge.

«If I can insert healthy tissue, equal to 10 or 20 percent of the size of the organ, I can keep that patient functioning and alive at a high quality of life.»

Radiation therapy and chemotherapy that can destroy tumors also can damage surrounding healthy tissue.

The molecule seemed to function as a checkpoint, turning off the T cell after a period of activity — perhaps to prevent collateral damage to healthy tissue.

Horvath was able to obtain over 50 datasets — from researchers in Spain, Germany, Italy, the U.S., U.K. and Australia — that contained the genetic profiles of thousands of subjects in studies looking at methylations in healthy tissue.

The RTK profile of any tumour can be compared with that of healthy tissue from the same organ and treatment could be tailored accordingly.

We think this pathway might act to get rid of infected cells, clearing them out so the infection can not spread to healthy tissue.

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

The Caltech nonlinear acoustic lens could aid in the treatment of tumors by increasing the temperature of cancerous tissue to lethal levels without affecting healthy tissue.

Lupus, or systemic lupus erythematosus, is a progressive, degenerative disease in which the immune system turns against itself, attacking a person's healthy tissue, cells and organs.