Autoimmune disorders, which may manifest with granulomas on both the skin and other surfaces, are treated corticosteroids to reduce any inflammation and with chemotherapy,
using cytotoxic drugs to suppress the immune system.
Not exact matches
The compound (right panel) has a scorpion - like shape with two arms grabbing EphA2 - expressing cancer cells, and a tail (brown) constituted by a
cytotoxic chemotherapeutic agent (paclitaxel
used in this work).
The researchers demonstrate that the
use of specific
cytotoxic substances can also have a beneficial effect on the body's immune system.
This is the first trial reporting successful transplant in dyskeratosis congenita (DC) patients without the
use of any radiation or conventional
cytotoxic chemotherapy beforehand.
B cells,
cytotoxic T cells, and helper T cells boost their
use of glucose and increase their reliance on the glycolysis pathway to digest the sugar.
The CNIC research team generated
cytotoxic memory T cells specifically targeting cancer by
using different methods for vaccination with tumor antigens.
The laboratory of Vincenzo Cerundolo is the first group to report the
use of tetrameric soluble class I / peptide complexes (tetramers) for the identification of tumor - specific
cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs), and subsequently shows that these novel reagents allow rapid and accurate analysis of human CTL responses.
This has resulted in accelerated research focused on understanding the mechanisms that tumors
use to inactivate
cytotoxic T cells and developing ways to overcome this inhibition (2, 3).
Chemotherapy for MDS patients involves the
use of medicines that kill cells cancer cells called
cytotoxic agents.
Positive clones were then differentiated
using defined serum - free conditions outlined in Ng, et al [7], which overall gave rise to a CD45 + CD56 + CD117 − CD94 + population of
cytotoxic NK cells [8] expressing the CD4 construct and other surface markers in a similar manner to peripheral blood NK cells.
Two
cytotoxic conjugates STxB - doxorubicin (STxB - Doxo) and STxB - monomethyl auristatin F (STxB - MMAF) were synthesised
using copper - free «click» chemistry.
This study illustrates the potential benefits of
using GHRH antagonists for the treatment of cancers that are highly resistant to
cytotoxic agents such as doxorubicin.
In fact at the doses
used, the chemotherapy is not having direct
cytotoxic activity, i.e. not directly killing the cancer cells.
The control of these conditions often involves the long - term
use of corticosteroids and other drugs such as immunosuppressive or
cytotoxic agents.
The study, published in the journal Aquatic Toxicology, is titled «Chemical dispersants
used in the Gulf of Mexico oil crisis are
cytotoxic and genotoxic to sperm whale cells.»