Sentences with phrase «type of cells found»

The method involves transforming the most common type of cells found in wounds into fat cells — something that was previously thought to be impossible in humans.

The molecules — called SMAD2 and SMAD3 — can enhance the efficiency of converting mature cells into induced pluripotent stem cells, which have the distinctive ability to become any type of cell found in the body.

The research team was also able to shed more light on the role of Paneth cells — a type of cell found in the epithelial lining of the small intestine.

The therapeutic promise of stem cell research rests on using pluripotent stem cells, which can be grown into many of the types of cells found in the human body.

Endoderm cells are a type of cell found in the early embryo, and which eventually mature into the body's major organs — including the pancreas, the home of β - cells.

Unlike embryonic stem cells, which are developmental blank slates that can generate virtually all types of cells found in adult humans, adult stem cells are thought to possess limited potential to transform into cells found in their tissues of origin.

Endoderm cells are a type of cell found in the early embryo, and which eventually mature into the body's major organs — including the pancreas, the home of ß - cells.

There are three types of cells found in blood and each has specific functions.

The types of cells found will indicate what type of IBD is present and help guide treatment.

Not exact matches

The study found an increased risk of cardiac schwannoma, a tumor type that typically originates from cells found in neurons.

CRAC channels are found on many cell types, including immune cells and pancreatic acinar cells, where aberrant activation of these channels is thought to play a key role in the pathobiology of acute pancreatitis.

Women have a laundry list of things that we do to protect ourselves — we find a security guard to escort us, we carry mace, we cinch our keys between our fingers to make any punch hurt more, we take routes that have more lights, we have our cell phones out with 911 typed in and our finger on the «send» key, etc..

The researchers found that HSF1's boosting of TTR production occurred in neuronal - type cells, rather than in liver cells where most TTR is produced.

The silica in cucumbers and the type of fat and amino acids found in avocados provide the building blocks necessary for cell regeneration and repair.

She says, «Our new findings show that in the absence of embryonic movement the cells that should form articular cartilage receive incorrect molecular signals, where one type of signal is lost while another inappropriate signal is activated in its place.

Epigeneticists have found that our cells carry a type of memory of the experiences of our ancestors — not only that, but 95 % of our genes aren't yet coded at birth, dependent on nurturing and the environment to determine their fate.

«Our new findings show that in the absence of embryonic movement the cells that should form articular cartilage receive incorrect molecular signals, where one type of signal is lost while another inappropriate signal is activated in its place,» Paula Murphy, a professor of zoology at Trinity College Dublin who co-led the study, says.

In the direct reprogramming, the researchers exposed the adult skin cells to a specific mix of signaling molecules the scientists» past research had found would convert healthy skin cells directly into a type of brain cell called medium spiny neurons, without intermediate steps along the way.

But there can be several different types of cell in a uterine carcinosarcoma tumor, including ones that are not usually found in the uterus.

«Now that we've confirmed the human relevance of our findings, our future goal is to better understand the roles of the different cell types in psychiatric and neurological disorders, and to determine if targeting these cells can actually help treat seizures,» concluded Paz.

«We compared F. hygrometrica data with those from land plants and seaweeds,» explains Itouga, «and found that the presence of polygalacturonic acid in the cell wall is one of the characteristics that separated this type of moss from other plants.»

«When someone has a problem — whether they need to find a particular cell line or need to understand the formulation of a particular type of culture medium — they're coming to you and they're in a crisis.

These cells, which can become several different types of blood cells, are similar to the specialized stem cells found in bone marrow that can churn out new blood cells.

Fred Hutch and UW scientists compared the two types of CD8 + T cells and found that only the CD8αα + T cells persist in the skin while CD8αβ + T cells diminished from the tissue after healing of a herpes lesion.

«By studying its genome, we found that Loki represents an intermediate form in - between the simple cells of microbes, and the complex cell types of eukaryotes,» says Thijs Ettema.

The study, published in Nature Communications, builds on previous observations from the same team who found that a specific type of cells regulate antibody production.

Then the researchers doused dengue - spreading mosquitoes with a chemical that shuts down the mosquitoes» ability to detect CO2 by blocking a receptor called neuron — cpA, a type of sensory cell found on a small pair of antennalike structures near the mouth called the maxillary palps.

In the journal Biomaterials, the team reports culturing cells to make extracellular matrix (ECM) of two types and five different alignments with the strength found in natural tissue and without using any artificial chemicals that could make it incompatible to implant.

It is emerging that the chemical structure of RNA molecules is extensively modified by specific enzymes normally present in our cells, which are commonly found to be altered in severe medical syndromes and various types of cancers.

The team demonstrated that cell sex considerably influenced cellular uptake of nanoparticles and found that cells from men and women responded differently to reprogramming techniques used to enhance the ability of the cells to differentiate into a greater variety of cell types.

The team at the University's Medical Research Council Centre for Regenerative Medicine were surprised to find the molecules can also boost direct conversions from one type of mature cell to another — including transforming skin cells into brain cells.

Researchers also found a type of immune cell (multinucleated macrophage giant cells) in the ovaries of reproductively «old» mice only.

They found that about one in 500 cells from the black ring around the iris could divide indefinitely and adopt the full variety of retinal cell types.

A team of researchers reported today that it has found a way to extend the lifetime of several types of cells.

«To treat most forms of hearing loss, we need to find a delivery mechanism that works for all types of hair cells,» said neurobiologist David Corey, co-senior investigator on the study and the Bertarelli Professor of Translational Medical Science at HMS.

They found that depending on the cell of origin, mutations in PIK3CA and p53 induced very different types of tumors.

Different responses of male and female cells to the exact same type and concentration of nanoparticles is the latest overlooked factor we have found.»

The researchers also found that arteries and veins from the macaques» hearts grew into the new heart tissue, the first time it has been shown that blood vessels from a host animal will grow into and nurture a large stem - cell derived graft of this type.

In the Cell study, Dr. Massagué, with Fellow Manuel Valiente, PhD, and other team members, found that in mouse models of breast and lung cancer — two tumor types that often spread to the brain — many cancer cells that enter the brain are killed by astrocytes.

«We have found a unique group of cells that bring together the essential qualities of both types of stem cells for the first time,» says Colin McGuckin of Kingston University in Surrey, UK, who co-led the team with colleague Nico Forraz.

BK channels are potassium ion channels found on the surface of a variety of cell types that are essential for the regulation of several key physiological processes, including smooth muscle tone and neuronal excitability.

«By observing entorhinal - hippocampal neurons based on their birthdate, we realized that these cells were somehow special and very different from the other surrounding cell types, which was instrumental to find out how and to what extent they influenced the assembly of the network.»

We can find it «in any type of device ranging from traditional cell phones to today's smartphones, and even in our washing machine,» explained one of the researchers, Guillermo Suarez de Tangil, from the Computer Science Department at UC3M.

With that knowledge, they screened more than four dozen monoclonal antibodies — unique agents that can stop cells from growing or forming tumors and can be mass produced — before finding two that block tumor creation in both types of cancer.

Also, researchers could carefully select which blood types to culture with each batch of stem cells, creating stockpiles of needed blood products for people with extremely rare blood types whose blood cell makeup makes it challenging to find good blood matches for transfusions because they would reject most other types of blood.

This type of stem cell, called an oligodendrocyte progenitor cell, is found in the brain and spinal cord.

«Overall, the most important finding is that we identified nanchangmycin as a potent inhibitor of Zika virus entry across all cell types tested, including endothelial and placental cells, which are relevant to how Zika may enter the fetus,» Cherry said.

The new findings build on prior research from the Dhodapkar lab demonstrating that patients with Gaucher disease, an inherited lipid storage disorder, have a significant increased risk for developing myeloma; and the discovery of a subset of lipid - reactive immune cells, called type II NKT - TFH, that promote the development of plasma cells.

In this research, Yousaf and his team made a scaffold free beating tissue out of three cell types found in the heart — contractile cardiac muscle cells, connective tissue cells and vascular cells.

The findings — published today in Nature — provide significant insights into cell types fated to relapse and can help accelerate the quest for new, upfront therapies, says Dr. Dick, a Senior Scientist at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, and Professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto.