Sentences with phrase «types of tumors produce»

Consider Cushing's disease, in which any of several types of tumors produce astronomically high glucocorticoid levels.

Not exact matches

«It's very difficult to produce a mouse model of a solid tumor of the type we see in most women who are diagnosed with cervical cancer.

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.

In earlier studies involving animal models and human cancer cell lines, researchers found that breast cancer spreads when three specific cells are in direct contact: an endothelial cell (a type of cell that lines the blood vessels), a perivascular macrophage (a type of immune cell found near blood vessels), and a tumor cell that produces high levels of Mena, a protein that enhances a cancer cell's ability to spread.

IL - 6 is a cytokine, a signal molecule that is produced and secreted both by immune cells and by tumor cells and binds specifically to a receptor (IL - 6R) that is found on the surfaces of many cell types.

So, for example, if one type of immunotherapy is used to knock out an inhibitory signal produced by a cancer, and the tumor responds by upregulating a second signal, an additional therapy could then be used to target this one as well, Lu says.

When they compared the two types of tumor — the localized ones lacking only the PTEN gene versus the metastatic tumors lacking both genes — the researchers found that the metastatic tumors produced huge amounts of lipids, or fats.

Over 95 % of colorectal cancers are adenocarcinomas, a type of tumor that originates in the mucus - producing glands of the colon or rectum.

As we have previously suggested, since tumor angiogenesis is very complex and involves a number of different cell types, a multi-target approach for the anti-angiogenic treatment of cancer could be expected to produce better results [18].

Morgridge computational biologist John Steill, another co-author of the KinderMining study, is using the KinderMiner tool to improve gene marker lists, which have numerous uses such as classifying cells or samples by cell type and identifying samples that may produce tumors.

Pituitary tumors are a type of brain tumor that can often mimic the function of this gland, producing extra hormones that your body doesn't need (and throwing your other hormones into disarray).