To do this, they switched from using dead
tumour cell samples to patient - derived tumour cell lines, in which fresh samples of a person's tumour are grafted onto mice and grown to the required volumes.
Not exact matches
The team found that exposing
samples of human glioblastoma
tumours grown in a dish to the Zika virus destroyed the cancer stem
cells.
In research funded by Sparks charity, Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity and Cancer Research UK, researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a test for blood and cerebrospinal fluid
samples that looks for a specific panel of four pieces of short genetic code known as microRNAs, which are found in greater quantities in malignant germ
cell tumours.
The research team with international collaborators analysed more than 100 patient
samples from ovarian and other cancer types to discover a distinct population of
cells found in some
tumours.
Samples of
tumours from bowel cancer patients given different doses of resveratrol showed that even lower doses can get into cancer
cells and potentially affect processes involved in
tumour growth.
In lab experiments, the research team used
cell lines derived from 40 patient
tumour samples to identify that CD151 contributes to the survival of
cells of high - grade serous ovarian cancer origin.
In collaboration with Dr Gabriele Bonatz from the Augusta clinics in Bochum (Brustzentrum), Hatt's team confirmed the existence of TRPV1 in
tumour cells in nine different
samples from patients suffering from breast cancer.
Carried out in
cells in the laboratory, in mice and in
samples from patients»
tumours, the researchers showed this «safe haven» lets melanoma
cells turn on a parallel set of
cell signals that helps them survive.
Experimental models include yeast, mammalian and human
cell lines, mutant mouse models and
tumour samples.
The technique is insensitive to the level of mutated cancer
cells in the
sample, and the information about mutations can be linked directly to the way the
tumour cells are growing in the tissue
sample.
As part of this global aim we have demonstrated that one of the most abundant stromal populations, the cancer associated fibroblasts (CAFs), can
sample and present
tumour antigen to T
cells in an antigen specific - antigen dependent manner resulting in T
cell deletion.
Scientists looked at
tumour samples and found that the drug penetrates the core of the
tumour as well as the surrounding areas which contain smaller numbers of cancerous
cells.
Kelley, lead investigator on the study published today in Nature Chemistry, explained how her team has advanced a completely new approach using magnetic nanoparticles with DNA capture probes on their surface that can target circulating
tumour cells (CTCs) in blood
samples to see if the
cells contains biomarkers associated with drug resistance.
From the dogs»
samples, researchers were able to prove that some
cells in the vicinity of
tumours act the same way as the
cells would, in similar circumstances, behave in humans.