Sentences with phrase «prevent tumor growth»

They also found that drugs that target this newly identified cancer pathway can prevent tumor growth, both in human cancer cells and mice with a form of brain cancer.

«This model, when combined with a rare genetic disease, revealed for the first time how a protein known to prevent tumor growth in most cases, p53, may instead drive bone cancer when genetic changes cause too much of it to be made in the wrong place.»

A UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center discovery of just how a certain tumor suppressor molecule works to prevent tumor growth could lead to a personalized treatment approach for colon cancer.

The researchers confirmed these findings in a mammary carcinoma mouse model — treatment with dasatinib just a few days after administering two high doses of chemotherapy prevented tumor growth and increased survival rates.

Compared to a bolus injection containing the same drugs and antigens (but no scaffold), the 3D vaccine was more effective at preventing tumor growth, with 90 % of mice receiving the 3D vaccine still alive at 30 days compared with only 60 % of mice given the bolus injection.

If the cell can't fix the DNA break, it will induce cell death — a self - destruct mechanism that helps to prevent mutated cells from replicating (and thus prevents tumor growth).

What they found: Denosumab delayed and prevented tumor growth in the tissue samples and the mice.

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According to Irving Weissman of the Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, California: «We showed that even after the tumor has taken hold, the antibody can either cure the tumor or slow its growth and prevent metastasis.»

Pumpkin is filled with health - promoting carotenoids, including some of our favorite antioxidants — alpha and beta carotene — that can reverse sun damage and slow aging while preventing cataracts and tumor growth.

Mogroside V has been found in research to have the ability to inhibit tumor growth in pancreatic cancer by interfering with the rapid dividing of cancer cells, preventing angiogenesis (blood flow to the tumor), and even promoting cancer cell death (10).

In 2010, researchers from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center published a study in the journal Clinical Cancer Research showing that sulforaphane had the ability to kill breast cancer stem cells in mice and in lab cultures, and it also prevented the growth of new tumor cells.

A new study by Dana - Farber Cancer Institute scientists suggests it may be possible to prevent tumors from recurring and to eradicate metastatic growths by implanting a gel containing immunotherapy during surgical removal of a tumor.

Thus, if a therapy could be developed that inhibits ME3, it might prevent ME2 - deleted tumor growth.

For example, if scientists can find a way to turn down overexpression of these genes in cancer, we could disrupt cancer growth and prevent tumor progression.

However, tumor cells can circumvent this immune defense by establishing a surrounding microenvironment that prevents the infiltration of NK cells and thus promotes tumor survival and growth.

In studies of laboratory - grown human tumor cell lines, the drug disrupted tumor cell division and prevented growth of advanced cancer cells.

«An important possible advantage to this approach is that these therapeutic T cells have the potential to replicate in the body, and therefore they might suppress tumor growth and prevent relapse for a prolonged period,» Yu says.

Therapies that prevent tumor blood vessel growth are often used in clinics to fight cancer — but they are only effective in a particular subset of patients.

«If we could prevent development of the new blood vessels in the cancer tissue driven by these signals, tumor growth and metastasis can be slowed down or prevented.»

Zhang's laboratory now seeks to understand the mechanisms of the tissue - environment influence, opening the possibility that the environment could be altered in a way that fights cancer by preventing tumor cell growth.

«Navire's compounds potently bind SHP2 and prevent activation of the protein, blocking its ability to promote tumor growth,» said Virani.

More than 90 percent of patients with either high nm23, a protein that prevents the cancer from spreading, or low angiogenesis, minimal growth of new blood vessels to supply the budding tumor, were alive an average of 14 years after treatment, compared to only 70 percent of those with low nm23 or high vessel density.

BET inhibitors prevent the expression of certain growth - promoting genes and therefore slow tumor growth.

5/7/2007 Targeting Sugar on Blood Vessels May Inhibit Cancer Growth In a study that could point to novel therapies to prevent cancer spread, or metastasis, researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have targeted a sugar that supports blood vessel growth in the Growth In a study that could point to novel therapies to prevent cancer spread, or metastasis, researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have targeted a sugar that supports blood vessel growth in the growth in the tumor.

Van Meirâ $ ™ s laboratory has been studying a tumor suppressor protein called BAI1 (brain angiogenesis inhibitor 1), which prevents tumor and blood vessel growth.

The unexpected findings could lead to new medications and treatments that could prevent the growth of secondary tumors.

Due to their high content of sulfur compounds, onions help prevent prostate cancer, inhibit tumor growth, and protect against oxidative stress.

After discussing similar effects in other animal models of cancer and a few studies showing the ability of antioxidants to prevent cancer growth, Campbell concluded that «a pattern was beginning to emerge: nutrients from animal foods increased tumor development while nutrients from plant - based foods decreased tumor development.»

The research showed that it suppresses tumor growth and prevent cancer and the carcinogenic substances.

These include slowing tumor growth, lowering cholesterol, reducing inflammation, preventing kidney stones, relieving muscle and joint pain, improving digestion, relieving constipation, stabilizing blood sugar levels, and hydrating with electrolytes.

: The aforementioned catechins, known as a potent antioxidants, contained in the matcha leaf may play a major role in preventing and reducing the risk of cancer as they activate detoxification enzymes in the body and help improve immune system function, which can repair damaged cells and prohibit growth of tumors.

They also act aggressively against cancer by preventing cancer cell proliferation, inducing apoptosis — or cancer cell «suicide» — and inhibiting the formation of new blood vessels that nourish tumor growth.

All three of these nutritional supplements have been shown to prevent cancer cell growth and reduce the size of tumors or cysts.

It also prevents inflammation and inhibits tumor growth.

They compete with candida in the intestine, they suppress the growth of potentially harmful bacteria, they produce substances that can lower cholesterol, they enhance the protective barrier of the digestive tract, they help produce vitamin K, they improve immune function, they lower blood cholesterol in some people, they lower blood pressure in some people, they aid in the digestion of lactose, they prevent cavities, they decrease the passage of bacteria or antigens from the intestines to the blood stream, they fight pre-carcinogenic or mutagenic compounds, they lower the pH of intestinal contents, they utilize oxalate (oxalate contributes to kidney stones), they detoxify ingested carcinogens, they produce compounds that inhibit the growth of tumor cells, and more!

And, although this effect may help to prevent heart attacks and other forms of heart disease, it may have the potential to promote cancer as well by increasing the growth of blood vessels in cancerous tumors.

Walnuts contain antioxidants that are so powerful at free - radical scavenging that researchers called them «remarkable, «1 and research has shown that walnut polyphenols may help prevent chemically - induced liver damage.2 Research even shows that two handfuls a day of walnuts may help prevent both prostate and breast cancer and may curb tumor growth.

A low carbohydrate, high protein diet slows tumor growth and prevents cancer initiation.

Additionally, the enzyme may prevent the growth of tumors and slow blood clotting, so you can see how it is an important quality of the tropical fruit.

On the other hand, since the development and growth of mammary tumors is promoted by the presence female hormones, spaying at any age is still beneficial in preventing mammary tumors.

These powerful properties can help to slow the growth of cancer or may help to prevent tumors.

In Canada and Europe THC has been proven to destroy tumors, prevent Alzheimers, and promote the growth of brain cells.

Some surgeries are done to remove some foreign body or malignancy, such as a tumor to prevent its growth or spread.