In particular it is important for the development of
several kinds of cells of the immune system.
Not exact matches
The cancer
cells» defense strategy can be overcome by immune checkpoint inhibitor agents, including anti-PD-1 / PD - L1 antibodies,
several kinds of which have received fast - track approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
In previous studies, including recent genome sequencing
of cancer patients, human SETD2 has been implicated in
several cancer types, especially in renal
cell carcinoma — the most common
kind of kidney cancer.
They then conducted biochemical analyses to identify neuroligin - 3, confirm that the protein could stimulate tumor growth in cultured samples
of several kinds of human high - grade gliomas and study which signals the protein uses within glioma
cells to promote their growth.
The resulting fragments attract
several types
of immune
cells, which led pulmonologist Steven Shapiro
of Washington University in St. Louis to suspect that the fragments might also attract more
of the same
kind of macrophages that started destroying elastin in the first place.
Even though it is a technical tour de force, the paper leaves
several open questions: «The study doesn't tell us whether there are other
cells that are important for this
kind of memory, or anything about other types
of memory,» he says.
Immunologist Yang Xu
of the University
of California, San Diego, and his colleagues tested what happened to
several kinds of pluripotent
cells when they were transplanted into genetically matched mice.
A mouse brain is a thousand times smaller than a human brain and lacks
several kinds of brain
cells that are abundant in humans.
«
Several kinds of experiments indicated that the human
cells were alive and making lumican, and that the tissue had rebuilt properly,» Dr. Funderburgh noted.
Why It Matters: Materials that are both electrically conductive and optically transparent are needed for more efficient solar
cells, light detectors, and
several kinds of electronic devices that are by nature transparent to visible light.
These include the Ras
cell - growth proteins, mutated versions
of which are among the most common and relentless drivers
of several kinds of cancer.
This has
several positive effects, here's a few: (a) because blood sugar levels are low, there won't be any further damage to
cells from Glycation (high blood sugar
kind of «fries» a
cell, like a grilled cheese sandwich — literally.)
Once Jones, Wigley, and Wright had made
several of these
kinds of corrections, they analyzed their data using a spatial averaging technique that placed measurements within grid
cells on the earth?s surface in order to account for the fact that there were many more measurements taken on land than over the oceans.