Sentences with phrase «skin microenvironment»

Often, hot spots may occur after a dog has been swimming in a lake or river, likely because this changes the temperature and humidity of the skin microenvironment.

These studies reveal a crosstalk between the two conserved developmental pathways in human skin, and highlight the role of the skin microenvironment in driving the generation of stem cells, and possibly tumor - initiating cells.

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Metastatic melanoma is the deadliest of the skin cancers and the mechanisms that govern early metastatic growth and interactions of metastatic cells with the brain microenvironment remain shrouded in mystery.

Weeraratna's team used an artificial skin reconstruct model to recreate the interactions of melanoma cells with either a young or aged tumor microenvironment.

The research team of Dr Bassam Janji in the Laboratory of Experimental Cancer Research at LIH's Department of Oncology is specialized in the study of the tumor microenvironment in different types of solid tumors, including skin cancer.

But mounting evidence implicates the immune system in the overproduction of cell - signalling molecules called cytokines, which stimulate skin cells called keratinocytes to express genes that maintain an inflammatory microenvironment.

The idea is to introduce a biodegradable scaffold under the skin that temporarily creates an «infection - mimicking microenvironment,» capable of attracting, housing, and reprogramming millions of dendritic cells over a period of several weeks.

His efforts have pioneered the use of the three - dimensional «artificial skin» cultures to study the behavior of both tumor and normal cells that sustain tumor growth, a system known as the tumor microenvironment.

A global analysis of the microenvironment of human skin fibroblasts was carried out to reveal disease ‐ related alterations in the extracellular proteome.