Sentences with phrase «pancreatic tumor development»

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Teixeira and his team also found that a malfunctioning tumor - suppressing gene that's associated with certain cancers, such as colon and pancreatic, and is known as Stk11, additionally influenced the development of BPH.

Along with finding that the tumor suppressor protein SIRT6 is inactive in around 30 percent of cases of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), the team identified the precise pathway by which SIRT6 suppresses PDAC development, a mechanism different from the way it suppresses colorectal cancer.

Recently, teaming up with co-investigator Associate Professor Dr. Rolf A. Brekken, they looked into its possible involvement in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDA), the most common form of pancreatic cancer, in a mouse model with an early onset aggressive form of tumor dePancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDA), the most common form of pancreatic cancer, in a mouse model with an early onset aggressive form of tumor depancreatic cancer, in a mouse model with an early onset aggressive form of tumor development.

With the help of various mouse models for pancreatic cancer, they have succeeded in elucidating the molecular pathways of tumor development in detail and have gained a better understanding of how various characteristics of the disease arise.

Teixeira and his team also found that a malfunctioning tumor - suppressing gene that's associated with certain cancers, such as colon and pancreatic, known as Stk11, additionally influenced the development of BPH.

More importantly, Zhang and his team for the first time found that treating the pancreatic tumor cells with MIR506 induced autophagy, a process that occurs as a normal and controlled part of an organism's growth or development and that could promote cancer cell death.

Tags: Amanda Paulovich, Clinical Research, infectious disease, Michael Boeckh, Ovarian Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer, proteomics, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA), Sunil Hingorani, Tumor specific translational research, Vaccine and Infectious Disease, Vaccine Development