Sentences with phrase «suppress tumor formation»

Enforced expression of miR - 200c can strongly suppress the tumor formation driven by human BCSCs and the mammary ducts formation by normal mammary stem cells in vivo, suggesting that miR - 200c is a regulator of normal mammary and BCSCs.

As a result, they can more efficiently interact with the cell membrane, regulate cell growth and suppress tumor formation.

If the silencing occurred in a gene responsible for suppressing tumor formation, the result would appear the same as genetic mutations that predispose people to cancer.

For example, genes involved in suppressing tumor formation are turned off via epigenetic mechanisms, and genes involved in rapid growth and replication are turned on too high.

Paul Ehrlich proposes that the immune system usually suppresses tumor formation, a concept that becomes known as the «immune surveillance» hypothesis.

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These TAMs suppress the immune system and stimulate blood vessel formation thereby stimulating the growth of the tumor.

A protein that appears to play a key role in the formation of lymphoma and other tumors by inhibiting a tumor - suppressing gene has been identified by a team of veterinary and human medicine researchers at the University of California, Davis.