Sentences with phrase «slow tumor cell growth»

Contained in the juice of a pineapple are two digestive enzymes which help thin the blood in a fashion similar to the drugs aspirin and Coumadin, helps reduce pain and inflammation, and may help slow tumor cell growth.

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Cauliflower contains sulforaphane, a sulfur compound that is shown to kill cancer stem cells and slow tumor growth.

Cauliflower is high in sulforaphane, a sulphur compound that has been shown to kill cancer stem cells, thereby slowing tumor growth and support liver detoxification pathways.

Sulforaphane (a sulphur compound) is a key compound in broccoli which has the ability to kill cancer stem cells, which slows tumor growth.

Lo's team set out to find ways to further weaken the tumors, since the drug addiction response (which can range from a mere slow down of the cancer's growth rate to cancer cell death), can be used to improve clinical outcomes.

The team led by Andreas Plückthun, Director of the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Zurich, involving postdoc Rastik Tamaskovic and PhD student Martin Schwill, has now found out why these antibodies merely slow tumor growth rather than killing off the cancer cells.

In addition to diminishing the tumor's energy supply, the diet slows the growth of glioblastoma cells by altering a cellular - signaling pathway that commonly occurs in cancers, according to the researchers.

A study analyzing brain tumor genomics on a single - cell level has found evidence that cancer stem cells fuel the growth of oligodendrogliomas, a slow - growing but incurable form of brain cancer.

The tumors» recruitment of these inflammatory cells thus enabled them to resist what would otherwise have been a deadly dose of radiation, so that their growth slowed only modestly compared to control mice that had received no radiation.

When the researchers reduced the amount of IL13RA2 expression in the cancer cells, they found that the tumor growth was significantly slower in models.

By blocking these in lung endothelial cells, the researchers were able to slow lung tumor growth in mice and also reduce the spread of metastatic tumors.

Morris says vaccination with modified tumor cells producing IL - 15 and IL - 15Rα slowed tumor growth and led to increased survival for animal models.

Although telomerase could somehow slow aging, it is also found in most tumor cells, where it aids the uncontrolled growth that characterizes cancer.

Drugs like fluorouracil, oxaliplatin and irinotecan work by mimicking and damaging DNA molecules, or inhibiting enzymes involved in cell and DNA replication, slowing the uncontrolled growth of tumor cells.

When antibodies and other methods were used to dramatically deplete the supply of Tregs in mice, the researchers saw a dramatic jump in the numbers of activated dendritic cells and CD8 + T cells in pancreatic tumor tissue, as well as a slowing of tumor growth.

Starting in the 1970s, scientists found that disulfiram killed cancer cells and slowed tumor growth in animals.

«Inhibition of the EZH2 pathway slows growth of tumors in mouse brain derived from glioma stem cells from the enhancing margin of human tumors.

Injecting the TRAIL - expressing stem cells into the carotid artery, a likely strategy for clinical application, led to significantly slower tumor growth and increased survival, compared with animals receiving unaltered stem cells or control injections.

Another lab ran into a similar problem when it tried to replicate work by Stanford stem cell biologist Irving Weissman and his colleagues, who reported in 2012 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that an antibody to a tumor cell surface receptor called CD47 can slow tumor growth in mice.

Bradner and Mitsiades had reported in Cell in 2011 that the inhibitor blocks the Myc cancer gene and thereby slows the growth of multiple myeloma tumors in mice.

Knowing that insulin can stimulate the growth of blood vessels, «our expectation was that knocking out insulin signaling in these cells might slow the growth of blood vessels and reduce tumor formation in these mice,» Rask - Madsen says.

In another experiment, treating human brain cancer cells containing FGFR3 - TACC3 with mitochondrial inhibitors interrupted the production of energy inside cancer cells and significantly slowed tumor growth.

It affects the division of cancer cells and can slow tumor growth.

The working hypothesis of the Herlyn lab is that tumor - maintenance cells (tumor stem cells) are central to dormancy due to their non-proliferation or very slow turnover and their non-responsiveness to growth signals.

SPOKANE — WSU researchers have discovered a way to help cancer cells age and die, creating a promising avenue for slowing and even stopping the growth of tumors.

In mouse models of both tumors, treatment with the fusion protein significantly slowed tumor growth and extended survival, probably through the activity of cytotoxic CD8 T cells.

And we confirmed that the growth of the tumors formed by the human BCSCs transfected with the anti-miR-142-expressing lentivirus was significantly slower than those of the control tumors formed by the control lentivirus transfected BCSCs (Major points raised by the editors and the reviewers # 3) These data suggest that the regulation of APC and the Wnt signaling is at least one of the important pathways targeted by miR - 142 in human breast cancer cells and BCSCs.

● Protect cells, slow tumor growth and reduce side effects of chemotherapy treatment in cancer patients.

It also helps to deprive cancer cells of nutrients, thereby «starving» them and slowing the growth and spread of tumors.

If you already have cancer, or if researchers have injected you with highly metastatic melanoma cells, you can buy yourself slightly slower tumor growth by starving yourself of protein.

The proliferation rates of the cancer in the flax - eaters were only half that of the controls, confirming the test - tube studies done on prostate cancer cells suggesting that flax can indeed slow prostate tumor growth.

This disease - fighting nutrient can slow the growth and development of new blood vessels that nourish tumors, increase a type of programmed cancer cell death known as apoptosis and reduce the proliferation of new cancer cells.

Used topically it can have powerful medicinal properties including the potential to slow the growth of cancerous cells and tumors.

Cauliflower contains sulforaphane, a sulfur compound that has also been shown to kill cancer stem cells, thereby slowing tumor growth.

Sulforaphane also has anti-diabetic and antimicrobial properties, and kills cancer stem cells, which slows tumor growth.

We previously showed that calorie restriction and alternate daily fasting works synergistically with doses of radiation therapy to enhance cancer cell kill and slow tumor growth, by decreasing several metabolic pathways heavily related to dietary carbohydrates and insulin.

But because metformin may stem cancer through several different channels — by lowering insulin, directly slowing tumor growth, or promoting suicide by cancer cells — it could potentially prove useful in many types of cancer.

The same Chinese herb formula that slows mast - cell tumor growth in humans does [Read More...]

This is done by keeping the cancer from spreading; slowing the cancer's growth; and killing cancer cells that may have spread to other parts of the body from the original tumor.

Specifically, curcumin can help to slow the growth of tumors and can even help to kill certain cancer cells.

The same Chinese herb formula that slows mast - cell tumor growth in humans does the same for your beagle's mast - cell tumor.

So far this year, American Veterinarian ® has reported on immunotherapies that may slow growth or even shrink gliomas in dogs and humans, a liquid biopsy assessment tool to detect tumor cell mutation, and a shared study between the American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation and the V Foundation for Cancer Research on the treatment of bladder cancer.