Sentences with phrase «studied lung samples»

The researchers studied lung samples from a female Australian lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri, under an electron microscope.

Not exact matches

To identify the relevant mutations the scientists analyzed the blood samples of 1,858 men from three independent cohorts in Europe and North America: the Swiss arm of the European Randomized Study for Prostate Cancer Screening, the large American Screening trial, Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian (PLCO), Princess Margaret Cancer Centre (University Health Network) and Mount Sinai Hospital (Sinai Health System) in Toronto.

The study, «Prevalence of hypertension, awareness, treatment and control in the Hispanic Community,» led by Dr. Paul D. Sorlie of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), sampled 16,400 individuals, making it one of the largest and most rigorous health studies of the Hispanic community.

A study led by Dr Ben Nicholas, of the University of Southampton, and published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, assessed lung samples from asthmatics and healthy volunteers.

The study used samples from lung cancer patients with brain metastases.

A recent study in Manchester has found that a procedure to take tissue samples from lung cancer patients can be used safely in the elderly — allowing doctors to make a more accurate diagnosis and to choose appropriate treatment.

Professor Brightling said: «A unique feature of this study was how it included measurements of symptoms, lung function using breathing tests, sampling of the airway wall and CT scans of the chest to give a complete picture of how the new drug works.

Perera began working with Weinstein on a small study comparing two groups of hospital patients: One group was suffering from lung cancer; the other was a group of orthopedic patients as a control sample.

For the study, conducted as part of the doctoral thesis of Mahesh Raundhal, a graduate student in the laboratory of Prabir Ray, Ph.D., Pitt professor of medicine and co-senior author, the research team examined lung cell samples obtained from patients also participating in the Severe Asthma Research Program (SARP), a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health - sponsored program to improve the understanding of severe astlung cell samples obtained from patients also participating in the Severe Asthma Research Program (SARP), a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health - sponsored program to improve the understanding of severe astLung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health - sponsored program to improve the understanding of severe asthma.

In this collaborative study, Wilkinson and Yanjun Lu, PhD, at the Tongji University in China, and their research teams compared human lung IMT samples and normal lung tissue samples from the same patients.

Using a retrospective study design, we selected 49 bronchoalveolar lavage fluid samples from 16 lung transplant recipients associated with pneumonia (n = 8), tracheobronchitis (n = 12) or colonization without respiratory infection (n = 29).

Professor Zhou added: «Owing to the limited number of blood samples, the results of this study are evaluated only on three cancer types (breast, liver and lung).

In this study, the new computer program and two other methods (called Random Forest and Support Vector Machine) were tested with blood samples from 29 liver cancer patients, 12 lung cancer patients and 5 breast cancer patients.

In this new study, published online July 9, 2014, in the journal Nature, researchers from the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Research Network, under the direction of Broad senior associate member Matthew Meyerson, examined the genomes, RNA, and some protein from 230 lung adenocarcinoma samples.

In a research study conducted by the Pine Street Foundation, breath samples of 31 breast cancer patients, 55 lung cancer patients and 83 healthy people were presented to five trained scent dogs (three Labrador retrievers and two Portuguese water dogs).

In 2004 two studies on canine cancer detection found that dogs had a 99 % success rate in detecting lung cancer (though these used relatively small samples).