Sentences with phrase «tumor cell populations»

They observed that these metastases were often made of cells from at least two different colors of tumor cell populations.

In this mouse model, mutations in Kras and p53 genes resulted in the formation of individual tumor cell populations that were labeled with different colors.

Their recent study, which appears as the cover article in the May issue of Cancer Research, shows that mathematical models can be used to predict how different tumor cell populations interact with each other and respond to a changing environment.

Researchers have long known that these mutant subclones aggressively compete with one another to become the dominant tumor cell population.

The technology successfully tracked in real - time how the diversity of tumor cell populations were changing in response to particular therapies for all of the patients studied, and was highly predictive of treatment effectiveness and patient outcomes.

Researchers at the Université libre de Bruxelles, ULB define for the first time the tumor transition states occurring during cancer progression and identify the tumor cell populations responsible for metastasis.

It has been postulated that hypoxia contributes directly to the development of more aggressive cancers by exerting selective pressure on the tumor cell population to favor cells that can survive decreased O2 and nutrients [18 — 20].

A unique focus of my work is on the impact of heterogeneity within tumors and tumor cell populations, including subpopulations commonly referred to as «cancer stem cells», on the immune response.