Sentences with phrase «target abnormal cells»

However, normal cells were not affected this way, showing yet again that cannabinoids can selectively target abnormal cells while leaving healthy tissue alone.

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The MIT team also found no markers indicating that the electric fields caused abnormal inflammation, DNA damage, or cell death in the targeted tissue.

CiRA scientists use iPS cells to show that a molecule associated with inflammation could be a therapeutic target for the abnormal bone growth.

Implanted devices send targeted electrical stimulation to the nervous system to interfere with abnormal brain activity, and it is commonly assumed that neurons are the only important brain cells that need to be stimulated by these devices.

A unique approach to targeting the abnormal T - cells that cause T - cell lymphomas could offer hope to patients with the aggressive and difficult - to - treat family of cancers, finds a study involving researchers from Cardiff University.

Glivec (or Gleevec), for example, targets abnormal proteins that help cancerous cells to grow.

«Analysis of metastatic prostate cancers suggests treatment options: Study maps out abnormal signaling pathways in prostate cancer cells and provides computational approaches to identify individualized targets for therapy.»

Luckily, different cell types tend to have different things on their surfaces, which play particular parts in their specialized roles in the tissue, so it is a matter of identifying and targeting cell - surface markers that are specific to these abnormal cell types.

She and her team now want to determine whether the medial septum - to - hippocampus circuit can be targeted with therapies to protect DG stem cells and restore normal DG neurogenesis in cases where neurogenesis is abnormal.

But physicians and scientists have learned to develop antibodies that can target agents that cause disease: tumors, abnormal immune cells, and now CGRP,» Berliner explained.

Clinical pathologists have divided the various abnormal shapes that RBC assume into nine major groups - and probably got carried away in doing so -(those are: sherocytes, leptocytes, target cells, stomatocytes, folded cells, speculated RBCs, schistocytes, acanthcytes and echinocytes).