Sentences with phrase «reaching brain tumors»

The blood - brain barrier protects the brain from poisons but also prevents drugs from reaching brain tumors.

That barrier protects the brain from toxins in the blood but also keeps drugs in the bloodstream from reaching brain tumors.

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Published in the February 27 issue of Cell, the study found that tumor cells that reach the brain — and successfully grow into new tumors — hug capillaries and express specific proteins that overcome the brain's natural defense against metastatic invasion.

An advantage of small - molecule PPF — which has been previously used in clinical trials in an attempt to treat Alzheimer's disease and dementia — is that it can penetrate the blood - brain barrier and reach the tumor.

Now he and his team are putting cells from human brain tumors into the organoids, which have reached the level of development and complexity of a 20 - week - old human fetus's, to see whether they reprise what happens in patients.

Children progressively lose muscle control as the tumor rapidly attacks the pons, a region deep inside the brain that connects the brain to the spinal cord, and is difficult to reach and surgically remove.

We've also found that when these drugs are used in combinations, they don't reach high enough concentrations within the brain tumor to be effective.

«They can cross different fiber tracts in the brain to reach tumor cells that have migrated away from the main tumor mass.

Proton therapy is an advanced form of radiation treatment that is especially effective for reaching tumors or remaining cancer cells close to key organs such as the brain stem or spinal cord.

Central nervous system (CNS) tumors pose a particular challenge for antibody therapeutics, because the blood - brain barrier (BBB) prevents intravenously - injected antibodies from reaching CNS metastases.

Brain tumors can be removed surgically if they are located in a site that can be reached safely.

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