Sentences with phrase «with human colon cancers»

In one set of experiments, they injected it into 20 mice with human colon cancers.

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For the animal study, the researchers separated 52 mice with colon cancer tumors into three groups, including a control group and groups that were fed either the grape compounds or sulindac, an anti-inflammatory drug, which was chosen because a previous study showed it significantly reduced the number of tumors in humans.

For the time course study, cells were treated with 20 μM of EGCG for 12, 24, 48, 72, or 144 h. Human colon cancer cell line HT - 29 and prostate cancer cell line PC3 were obtained from American Type Culture Collection (Manassas, VA), and were grown in McCoy's 5A and RPMI 1640 containing 10 % fetal bovine serum, respectively.

The membrane is coated with proteins that support 3 - D cell growth and it's seeded with human intestinal epithelial cells (from a cell line originally isolated from a colon cancer).

A recently published paper showed that mice with colon cancer can be «vaccinated» with human embryonic stem cells and have a significant immune response against the cancer (Li et al., 2009).

Antioxidants and other active components of prickly pear induced early cell death in human breast and colon cancer cells, with a more pronounced effect occurring in colon cancer cells.

A 2013 study published in Food and Function found that human colon cells treated with limonoid inhibited the development of colon cancer cells.

Interestingly, humans lack the digestive apparatus to break it down to sugars, but bowel flora (such as Lactobacillus species) are able to metabolize inulin to fatty acids (a so - called «prebiotic» effect), such as butyrate, that has been associated with improved intestinal health, reduced potential for colon cancer, and improved blood sugar, lower blood pressure, and lower triglycerides.

While NSAIDs have not yet been carefully evaluated in dogs as a cancer prevention treatment, studies in humans have shown a decrease incidence in certain cancers (colon, prostate) in patients treated chronically with NSAIDs.

Fortunately, if you have a problem with milk from cows shot up with rBGH, which has been linked to higher incidence of breast and colon cancers in humans, you can always move; it is banned in Canada, the European Union, Japan, and Australia.

The researchers vaccinated mice with human embryonic stem cells and found that the mice developed a consistent immune response against colon cancer cells.