Sentences with phrase «with small numbers of cells»

The Vijayanand lab has developed a number of genomics (transcriptomic, single - cell and epigenomic) and immunological assays to enable research with small numbers of cells and small - volume clinical samples.

Not exact matches

Breastfeeding is contraindicated in infants with classic galactosemia (galactose 1 - phosphate uridyltransferase deficiency) 103; mothers who have active untreated tuberculosis disease or are human T - cell lymphotropic virus type I — or II — positive104, 105; mothers who are receiving diagnostic or therapeutic radioactive isotopes or have had exposure to radioactive materials (for as long as there is radioactivity in the milk) 106 — 108; mothers who are receiving antimetabolites or chemotherapeutic agents or a small number of other medications until they clear the milk109, 110; mothers who are using drugs of abuse («street drugs»); and mothers who have herpes simplex lesions on a breast (infant may feed from other breast if clear of lesions).

In 2014, Christiano and other CUMC researchers identified the immune cells responsible for destroying hair follicles in people with alopecia areata and tested an FDA - approved drug that led to complete hair regrowth in a small number of patients.

He wants to raid a fund for workers compensation, with the promise of reforming the entire system, and raise a small number of fees, including higher fines for texting or using a cell phone while driving.

(Previously, scientists had used CRISPR / Cas9 to repair mutations that affect smaller numbers of people with Duchenne, and in cell types that weren't necessarily clinically relevant.)

«We can work with any embryonic stem cell line from any source and are not restricted to working with the very small number of federally approved lines as is the case for researchers in the United States,» says Minger.

In the study, the researchers detected a very small number of SIV infected cells in the gut within initial 2.5 days of viral infection; however, the inflammatory response to the virus was playing havoc with the gut lining.

When comparing the numbers of cardiac stem cells in previously infected adult mice with uninfected ones, the researchers found significantly smaller numbers in the infected mice.

When a mother says that she is «always with» her children, it is literally true: Scientists recently found that a small number of maternal cells can persist in a woman's offspring for decades or longer.

Koyuncu discovered this when she infected isolated axons with a small number of virus particles, which would normally travel to the cell bodies and be silenced, while simultaneously exposing the cell bodies to a large number of inactivated virus particles that have been dosed with ultraviolet radiation (UV).

In it, the team transferred a small number of iNKT cells lacking Tet2 / 3 from mutant mice into adult mice with a robust immune system.

In the coming months a small number of patients will be transplanted with fetal cells in Lund, Sweden and Cambridge, UK.

As outlined below, we used a microfluidic quantitative PCR (qPCR) system to elucidate the gene expression profiles of individual human oocytes and small numbers of cumulus cells using a combination of a large number of samples and targets [12], and then extended our studies via the use of parthenogenesis, in conjunction with gene expression profiling, as a functional assay of cytoplasmic maturation of oocytes.

Characteristic neuropathological findings were focal depletion of diffuse and neuritic plaques, but not of amyloid angiopathy, and the presence of small numbers of extremely dense (collapsed) plaques surrounded by active microglia, and multinucleated giant cells filled with dense Abeta42 and Abeta40, in addition to severe small cerebral blood vessel disease and multiple cortical hemorrhages.

This BaF3 phe116 almost completely fails to proliferate and activate STATs in response to IL - 9.15 However, upon prolonged culture with IL - 9, a small number of cells manage to survive and even proliferate, allowing an IL -9-dependent cell line (BaF3 phe116 / 9) to be selected.14 In contrast to parental BaF3 phe116 cells, those IL -9-selected cells could progress to autonomous cells (BaF3 Aut) after a second selection step in the absence of cytokine.

In a series of electrophysiological studies, Zoghbi's team further found that neurons from animals with depleted MECP2 levels have reduced electrical activity due to a smaller number of excitatory synapses, whereas cells from animals carrying an extra copy of the gene have increased electrical activity because of an increase in synapse number.

Piperine also interferes with inflammatory signaling mechanisms and inhibits pro-inflammatory cytokines, which are small proteins secreted by some cells and linked with a number of degenerative diseases.