Sentences with phrase «up of abnormal cells»

In cases where a brain tumor begins growing autonomously in the brain, mutations, in the DNA of brain cells cause the cells to grow and divide, forming a mass that is made up of abnormal cells.

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«What our findings show is that the problems with iPS cells don't just involve one or two or a few abnormal iPS cells escaping into the body and forming tumors, but that the whole population of cells is screwed up,» Lanza says.

At worst we would end up with a few little pebble tumors, small balls of abnormal cells that had exhausted their ability to grow, no more life - threatening than a mole or a small cyst.

Several of the proteins characteristic of cancer cells seem to show up in these nerve cells, and this is very abnormal.

This turned out to be a normal protein in the cells of organisms throughout the animal kingdom — but in brains infected with scrapie and related diseases it turns up in both a normal, soluble form and an abnormal, insoluble form which accumulates in deposits that eventually kill the cells.

In cells from sick hearts, these channels often don't inactivate properly, allowing for excess sodium entry and a build - up of calcium, which ultimately promotes abnormal heart rate (arrhythmia) and symptoms of heart failure.

Key findings of this research, which was conducted by Shawn L. Chavez, PhD and her colleagues at Stanford University and analyzed at OHSU, showed that by looking at the duration of the first mitotic phase — a short period in the cell cycle — one can identify chromosomally normal versus abnormal embryos up to approximately the 8 - cell stage.

• Keeping abnormal proteins from building up and potentially shutting down major organs (heart, liver and nervous system, to name a few) • Protecting the brain's functions of learning and memory against neurotransmitter toxicity • Activating or increasing the activity of proteins that promote the initial growth, maintenance and survival of brain neurons • Enhancing the movement of proteins, lipids and other cell parts through the cytoplasm of cell bodies.

«By comparing these diseased neurons with the «genetically corrected» healthy neurons, we could see — cell by cell — how the Tau mutation leads to the abnormal build up of Tau and, over time, neuronal degeneration and death.»

In this type of plasma cell neoplasm, less than 10 % of the bone marrow is made up of abnormal plasma cells and there is no cancer.

Multiple myeloma cells are abnormal plasma cells (a type of white blood cell) that build up in the bone marrow and form tumors in many bones of the body.

Deep inside the brains of people with dementia and Lou Gehrig's disease, globs of abnormal protein gum up the inner workings of brain cells — dooming them to an early death.

The reason this process goes un-noticed and is inconsequential the overwhelming majority of the time, is because our immune systems are up to the task of identifying and clearing the abnormal cells before they have a chance to gain an established presence and / or spread in our bodies.