Sentences with phrase «pancreatic cell treatments»

Outside of manual monitoring and insulin injections, pancreatic cell treatments are an option, albeit an expensive and time consuming one.

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During lab testing, the compound «markedly inhibited» the growth of three human pancreatic cancer cell lines five days after treatment and induced the death of pancreatic cancer cells.

The team believes that whichever way BMP - 7 is used, it will be less risky than other treatments for type 1 diabetes that are currently being investigated, such as those that create pancreatic cells from stem cells, or by introducing new genes into the body.

In particular, although radiation treatment regimens for some other cancers have been found to unleash an anti-tumor response by the patient's own T - cells, the team found no such effect in their pancreatic cancer model.

A protein that helps bones mend also transforms pancreatic cells into insulin powerhouses — providing hope for a treatment for type 1 diabetes

Treatment is difficult because pancreatic tumours are protected by an armour of connective tissue, blood vessels and immune cells, known collectively as the stroma.

UCLA scientists have unlocked an important mechanism that allows chemotherapy - carrying nanoparticles — extremely small objects between 1 and 100 nanometers (a billionth of a meter)-- to directly access pancreatic cancer tumors, thereby improving the ability to kill cancer cells and hence leading to more effective treatment outcome of the disease.

Meng and Nel also collaborated with Dr. Timothy Donahue, chief of gastrointestinal and pancreatic surgery and a Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center member, to demonstrate that treatment with the iRGD peptide can enhance tumor cell killing for patient - derived pancreatic cancers, growing subcutaneously in a mouse model.

The analysis indicated that 48 hours of chokeberry extract treatment of pancreatic cancer cells induced cell death at 1 ug / ml.

One is a relatively unknown company, CyThera, set up less than 2 years ago in San Diego, that claims to have nine embryonic stem cell lines and is currently trying to develop pancreatic islet cells for treatment of diabetes.

All six mice with pancreatic cancer were still alive at the end of the experiment, 113 days after treatment with 5E5 CAR T cells.

In the original agreement, WARF gave Geron exclusive rights to develop diagnostic and treatment products in six types of stem cell - derived cell lines: pancreatic, heart muscle, nerve, blood, bone, and liver.

Dr. Kulkarni's research focuses on investigating signaling pathways impacting growth and function of pancreatic islet cells with the long - term goal of improving therapeutic approaches for the treatment of type 1 and type 2 diabetes and obesity - associated conditions.

Now, patients with pancreatic cancer desperate for new treatment options will potentially benefit from a powerful new technology that uses genetic engineering to turn their own immune cells into «specially trained assassins» capable of finding, attacking, and eliminating pancreatic cancer tumors.

Jan. 17, 2013 — Vanderbilt and University of California investigators have discovered the «cell of origin» for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, a finding that could lead to early detection methods and new treatments.

This suggests that treatment with IL - 15 can successfully relieve tumor - resident killer T cells from functional suppression and reactivate them to kill pancreatic cancer cells.

This Research Team is studying CAR T cell immunotherapy in metastatic pancreatic cancer patients, looking for changes in DNA «on and off switches» (epigenetic changes) following treatment with CAR T.

1) The discovery that pancreatic beta cells, which produce insulin, have the ability to be regenerated from stem cells or ductal cells in the pancreas, indicating that one potential treatment for type 1 diabetes is to stimulate beta cells to regrow even after many years of living with diabetes

The researchers are reporting preclinical findings for a potential two - treatment strategy to block multiple mechanisms of cancer cell metabolism in pancreatic cancer at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual...

We are recruiting people who have developed Type 1 Diabetes in the last 6 months to receive treatments which aim to reset the immune system and mobilize stem cells - hoping that will reverse or prevent further immune attack of pancreatic beta cells.

This research will have a significant impact on understanding neoantigen - T cell immunobiology and could improve the treatment prospects of pancreatic cancer patients.

Specific targeting of the NLRP3 inflammasome to prevent pancreatic β cell death could allow for selective T2D treatment without compromising all IL - 1β - associated immune responses.

Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes With Adipose Tissue — Derived Stem Cells Expressing Pancreatic Duodenal Homeobox 1 (December 2009) in Stem Cells and Development.

This experimental treatment for type 1 diabetes combines the Encaptra ™ drug delivery system, which is a semi-permeable pouch, and PEC - 01 ™ cells, pancreatic precursor cells derived from human embryonic stem cells.

Another recent grant, awarded to Sandra Gollnick, PhD, Director of the Photodynamic Therapy Center, Member of the Department of Cell Stress Biology and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Immunology, will enable the creation of an international registry compiling information about patients» responses to photodynamic therapy (PDT), an approach developed at Roswell Park that is now used in the treatment of many lung, esophageal, head and neck, pancreatic, and mesothelioma tumors.

The increased metabolism of pancreatic islets dispersed cells, after IF treatment, indorses the higher insulin secretion.

Surgery not only helps in eliminating the cancerous cells, but is also one of most important tools used to diagnose many cancers prior to treatment, like laporatomy in case of dog pancreatic cancer.

The pancreatic cells are rested and then start functioning fully again, and this is also the reason some cats stop being diabetic or at least stop needing insulin or any specific diabetes treatment.

Caplan ER, Peterson ME, Mullen HS, Quesenberry KE, Rosenthal KL, Hoeffer HL, Moroff SD: Diagnosis and treatment of insulin - secreting pancreatic islet cell tumors in ferrets: 57 cases (1986 - 1994).

Current research focus is the treatment of diabetes with an implantable, retrievable biocompatible device containing pancreatic islet cells.