News tagged with microenvironment
Study identifies blood-forming stem cells' growth
Scientists with the new Children's Research Institute at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified the environment in which blood-forming stem cells survive and thrive within the body, an important step toward increasing ...
Jan 25, 2012 |
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KS-herpesvirus induces reprogramming of lymphatic endothelial cells to invasive mesenchymal cells
Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV) is an etiological agent for Kaposi's sarcoma and two other rare lymphoproliferative malignancies, and it is the most common cancer in HIV-infected untreated individuals. Researchers at ...
Dec 14, 2011 |
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Researchers unravel biochemical factor important in tumor metastasis
A protein called "fascin" appears to play a critical transformation role in TGF beta mediated tumor metastasis, say researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., who published a study in a recent issue of the Journal of ...
Nov 09, 2011 |
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Cells' 'neighborhood' can help prevent breast cancer
Exercise has given Lu-Ann Doria more energy, confidence and strength. It may also help her stay cancer-free, doctors say.
Nov 08, 2011 |
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3-D long-term bone marrow culture to analyze stromal cell biological function
Stromal cells, as distinct from hematopoietic cells, are an essential component of the bone marrow microenvironment and are necessary for the long-term maintenance of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) in vitro. Previous studies ...
Nov 02, 2011 |
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Scientists look to immune system to handle follicular lymphoma
University of Rochester Medical Center researchers found more evidence that T cells going awry in the microenvironment or the tissue immediately surrounding the tumor may play a role in the biology ...
Oct 12, 2011 |
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Results of new drug for pancreatic cancer patients published
Patients at Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center Clinical Trials at Scottsdale Healthcare were the first in the nation to participate in a clinical trial to determine the safety, tolerability and effectiveness for usage of a new ...
Oct 04, 2011 |
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Signaling pathways point to vulnerability in breast cancer stem cells
Whitehead Institute researchers have identified signals from breast epithelial cells that can induce those cells to transition to and maintain a mesenchymal and stem cell-like cell state that imbues both normal and cancer ...
Jun 09, 2011 |
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Genetics of melanoma chemoresistance
Malignant melanoma is a highly aggressive and notoriously chemoresistant form of cancer. In a new paper, Ohanna et al. reveal that anti-melanoma drugs may, paradoxically, induce a senescence-associated secretory profile ("secretome") ...
Jun 06, 2011 |
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Stem cells battle for space
The body is a battle zone. Cells constantly compete with one another for space and dominance. Though the manner in which some cells win this competition is well known to be the survival of the fittest, how stem cells duke ...
Dec 04, 2009 |
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Reactive oxygen's role in metastasis
Researchers at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research have discovered that reactive oxygen species, such as superoxide and hydrogen peroxide, play a key role in forming invadopodia, cellular protrusions implicated in ...
Sep 16, 2009 |
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Researchers identify a critical growth factor that stimulates sperm stem cells to thrive
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine and Pennsylvania State University have identified for the first time a specific "niche factor" in the mouse testes called colony stimulating factor ...
Mar 06, 2009 |
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Microfluidic Device Mimics Tumor Microenvironment, Helps Drug Discovery Efforts
One of the challenges that cancer researchers face in designing new antitumor agents is that of predicting how drug molecules will behave in the complex microenvironment that surrounds a tumor. In particular, tumors create ...
Feb 23, 2009 |
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Microenvironment
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