Sentences with phrase «stimulate ovarian cells»
During an IVF cycle, a woman receives fertility drugs that stimulate ovarian cells in the follicle.
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Chemotherapy drugs designed to kill tumors may actually encourage ovarian cancer by stimulating the growth of cells that give rise to the malignancy, a new study finds.
A, comparison of E-selectin expression in control colon (top left panel) to TNF - α - stimulated expression in colon (center panel) and ovarian (right panel) microvascular endothelial cells.
The approach developed by the MGH team starts with the engineered protein, which in this case fuses an antibody fragment targeting a protein called mesothelin — expressed on the surface of such tumors as mesothelioma, ovarian cancer and pancreatic cancer — to a protein from the tuberculosis bacteria that stimulates the activity of dendritic and other immune cells.
Other Causes of Ovarian Cancer Some researchers believe that the ovulation process causes cellular trauma that stimulates cells in the ovary to divide, leading to malignancy.
Furthermore, high blood levels of insulin can act by increasing androgenous hormonal stimulation of the ovarian theca cells as well as potentiating gonadotropin - stimulated ovarian androgen steroidogenesis — although recent data has suggested that the insulin - induced increase in ovarian hormone secretion is not accompanied by increased steroid metabolism.74 Hyperinsulinaemia may also affect the central actions of androgen by impairing progesterone inhibition of the gonadotropin - releasing hormone pulse generator.75 Insulin has also been shown to increase expression of adrenal steroidogenic enzyme mRNA47 as well as adrenal responsiveness to adrenocorticotropic hormone.76