Sentences with phrase «whose bone marrow»

In these children, whose bone marrow had been damaged from radiation exposure, spirulina seemed to boost the immune system.

In the late 1940s, University of Chicago researcher Dr. Leon Jacobson discovered that he could save a mouse, whose bone marrow and spleen had been destroyed with radiation, by transplanting healthy spleen tissue from another mouse.

Then they injected the cell into a mouse whose bone marrow had been destroyed by radiation.

Not exact matches

Bone marrow transplant cured compulsive behaviour in mice whose OCD symptom seems to be the result of a mutation in a gene never before linked to behaviour.

The research involves patient volunteers whose cancer has returned or did not respond to standard treatment, which for neuroblastoma includes surgery, chemotherapy, radiation and bone marrow transplants.

The therapy is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for relapsed or treatment - resistant Hodgkin lymphoma, and it is commonly prescribed to patients whose disease has progressed after autologous stem cell transplant, a procedure that replenishes the bone marrow with the patient's own healthy stem cells after therapy.

Administering heart resuscitation drugs to patients whose cardiac arrest is witnessed at the time of the attack can improve survival, but needs to be done through an IV line rather than directly into bone marrow as is more commonly done by paramedics, a new study involving UT Southwestern Medical Center emergency physicians and Dallas - Fort Worth Emergency Medical Services (EMS) agencies reveals.

The concept was first tested inadvertently in Germany in 2006, when a person with leukaemia who was also HIV positive received a bone marrow transplant that happened to come from someone whose blood cells couldn't make CCR5 proteins.

Darbepoetin alfa can help improve red blood cell counts in bone marrow failure patients whose natural erythropoietin levels are low.

But experiments in rodents, done in the early 1950s, showed that bone marrow transplants can rebuild new blood in animals whose own marrow was destroyed, raising hopes that a similar approach might also work in man to treat leukemia or radiation damage.

We welcome referrals from other doctors whose patients need bone marrow transplants.

Pluristem Therapeutics Ltd. (Nasdaq: PSTI; DAX: PJT: PLTR) has announced that a seven year - old girl suffering from an aplastic bone marrow whose...

Patients receive one of two types of stem cell - based transplants: autologous, in which a patient donates and receives back his / her own stem cells; or allogeneic, in which bone marrow - derived stem cells come from a related or unrelated donor whose human leukocyte antigens (HLA) are genetically matched with those of a patient.

The bone marrow also produces red blood cells, whose main function is to transport oxygen to the body's cells, and platelets, which play an important role in blood clotting.

The role that a person has in a traumatic experience is a major factor that increases the likelihood of developing PTSD.31 Specifically, a previous study found that parents whose children underwent bone marrow transplantation might experience PTSD, largely because of their being unable to be as supportive to their children and as actively involved in their care as they were during outpatient treatments, with high stress levels and feelings of helplessness.5 Those investigators hypothesized that loss of parental roles might be a factor contributing to the development of PTSD among parents whose children undergo bone marrow transplantation.