Sentences with phrase «promoted lung cancer tumors»

In their previous work, the scientists suspected that C / EBPα may act as a tumor suppressant in normal cells, but the mechanism by which its absence promoted lung cancer tumors remained unclear.

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A team of researchers, led by Ross Cagan, PhD, developed a multi-gene lung cancer model in the fruit fly Drosophila to better understand the mechanisms that promote tumors in NSCLC.

To demonstrate the potential for treating lung disease, the researchers used the nanoparticles to block two genes that have been implicated in lung cancer — VEGF receptor 1 and Dll4, which promote the growth of blood vessels that feed tumors.

«Our findings indicate the existence of long - distance interactions between lung tumors and bones: lung tumors remotely activate osteoblasts, and those bone cells, in turn, shape immunity by supplying tumors with cancer - promoting neutrophils,» says Pittet, who is an associate professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School.

«Researchers inhibit tumor growth in new subtype of lung cancer: Insight into tumor suppressing and tumor promoting mechanisms offers potential for new treatments.»

The researchers expanded the relevance of these findings to lung carcinoma, showing that soluble antibodies are generally important in the tumor microenvironment to induce accumulation of MDSCs and promote cancer progression.

Lung cancer is not the only type of tumor that can induce a state promoting inappropriate clotting, though, so if heart disease is not found, a tumor search should be initiated with abdominal ultrasound.