Sentences with phrase «tumour cells kill»

The researchers, working with cell cultures, first observed how individual tumour cells kill specific cells in the vascular wall, called endothelial cells.

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim and Goethe University Frankfurt have now shown that tumour cells kill specific cells in the vascular wall.

This allows for potent tumour cell killing, and an overall decreased metastatic burden.

Not exact matches

Injections of killed stem cells, designed to help the immune system recognise cancers, have been found to protect mice from developing tumours

That now appears to be because they prompt the growth of the very tumour cells they are meant to kill.

TO KILL a tumour, go after its neighbours: it seems to be the tumour - free tissue surrounding colon tumours that fosters the cancer's most pernicious cells.

«Myeloid - derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) produce reactive nitrogen radicals that alter the receptors on the surface of the tumour to hide it from cytotoxic lymphocytes that kill tumour cells.

A «Trojan horse» treatment for an aggressive form of brain cancer, which involves using tiny nanoparticles of gold to kill tumour cells, has been successfully tested by scientists.

«Pancreatic cancer is extremely hard to treat by chemotherapy, so this finding is important because vitamin A targets the non-cancerous tissue and makes the existing chemotherapy more effective, killing the cancer cells and shrinking tumours.

«We could get some shrinkage of the tumours with other types of treatment we tried before, but we never got a complete cell kill,» he says.

Most researchers assumed that this is because a few rogue cancer cells find ways to circumvent the drugs before the whole tumour has been killed off.

Saurabh Saha of BioMed Valley Discoveries in Kansas City, Missouri, and his colleagues wondered whether they could use the bacteria to selectively kill mammalian cells within cancerous tumours, which often have a poor blood supply and therefore low oxygen levels.

The new device will allow for more accurate medical procedures that involve the use of ultrasound to kill tumours, loosen blood clots and deliver drugs into targeted cells.

Moving forward, the team is looking into ways to assess the feasibility of enhancing RUNX tumour suppression or inhibiting RUNX mitotic function to kill rapidly proliferating cancer cells,» said Prof Ito.

After injecting them into the bloodstream, we are able to gather them around the tumour using magnets and ensure that they don't kill the healthy cells,» explains Asst Prof Xu, who has been working on cancer diagnosis and drug delivery systems since 2004.

When they loaded sperm cells with doxorubicin, a common chemo agent, and released them in a dish containing mini cervical cancer tumours, the sperm swam towards the tumours, killing 87 per cent of their cells within three days.

For cancer, he hopes to adopt a similar approach in which the transplanted nodes will contain T cells trained to hunt down the antigens produced by tumour cells and kill them off.

Studies have shown that lymphocytes isolated from a patient's tumour are often specifically programmed to kill that patient's cancer cells.

My research is working towards developing ways to kick - start this metabolic engine in patients» Natural Killer cells in order to restore their capacity to kill tumours.

They can detect and directly kill tumour cells.

The tumour killing functions of Natural Killer cells require energy and to meet this demand NK cells take on more fuel, which they burn within a metabolic engine to drive energy production.

«The cytotoxic chemotherapy can first kill some cancer cells and enhance the sensitivity of the tumour toward ICB therapy, which then stimulates the effectiveness of the ICB therapy,» said co-author Gianpietro Dotti, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology at the UNC School of Medicine and member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.

These drugs can be targeted to interfere with signalling within the tumour microenvironment or activate other processes which will kill the cancer cells.

As seen with pseudo-coloured scanning electron microscopy, two cell - killing T - cells (red) attack a squamous mouth cancer cell (white) after a patient received a vaccine containing antigens identified on the tumour.

We target tumours by exploring how the proteins found on the cancer cell surface can be utilised to inhibit growth or kill tumours.

We develop antibodies that may help us detect cancer cells through highly sensitive medical imaging technologies, as well as antibodies that directly trigger cell - killing mechanisms in the tumour.

T - cells can also recognize and kill tumour cells, but there aren't enough of them normally to carry out the task.

Chemotherapy uses systemic medications that kill all fast - growing cells in the dog's body, including cells in dog tumours.