News tagged with hepatocyte growth factor
Improvement of liver stem cell engraftment by protein delivery
Researchers at INSERM (France) have engineered a chimeric protein that increases cell survival, migration and proliferation to improve stem cell engraftment. The results, which appear in the September 2009 issue of Experimental Bi ...
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Aug 24, 2009 |
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Study finds close linkage between a rare, deadly lung condition and blood cell abnormalities
Results from a study published in Blood, the Journal of the American Society of Hematology reveal a close relationship between pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH)—exceedingly high blood pressure in the arteries carryi ...
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Feb 28, 2011 |
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Cell Transplantation reports a success in treating end-stage liver disease
Transplanting their own (autologous) bone marrow-derived stem cells into 48 patients with end-stage liver disease resulted in therapeutic benefit to a high number of the patients, report researchers publishing in the current ...
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Jan 11, 2011 |
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Specialized blood vessels jumpstart and sustain liver regeneration
The liver's unique ability among organs to regenerate itself has been little understood. Now Weill Cornell Medical College scientists have shed light on how the liver restores itself by demonstrating that endothelial cells ...
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Nov 12, 2010 |
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Personalized treatment may help some liver cancer patients
A more personalized treatment for people with a type of metastatic liver cancer --hepatocellular carcinoma -- may be possible by targeting the protein c-Met, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers. Hepatocellular ...
Oct 22, 2010 |
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c-Met may be a biomarker for metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma
Targeting c-Met may be a promising personalized treatment method for approximately 45 percent of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) who have c-Met-positive tumors, according to study results presented at the Fourth ...
Sep 28, 2010 |
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A new target in polycystic kidney disease
In work suggesting a new approach to treating polycystic kidney disease (PKD), a leading cause of kidney failure, researchers at Children's Hospital Boston were able to block the formation of fluid-filled cysts, the hallmark ...
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Sep 13, 2010 |
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Merlin protein found to control liver stem cells, prevent tumor development
A protein known to be involved in a rare hereditary cancer syndrome may have a role in the regulation of liver stem cells and the development of liver cancer. In the August 15 issue of Genes & Development, a Massachusetts Genera ...
Aug 12, 2010 |
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Effective inducing systems of hepatic differentiation from bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are multipotent non-hematopoietic cells capable of differentiating into hepatocytes. Valproic acid (VPA), a histone deacetylase inhibitor, has recently exhibited profound therapeutic activity ...
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Jul 30, 2010 |
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Engineered stem cells may limit heart attack damage, improve function
Implanting tiny plastic scaffolds seeded with genetically engineered stem cells reduced organ damage and led to better cardiac function after a heart attack, according to an animal study presented at the American Heart Association's ...
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Jul 20, 2010 |
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Cross Talk Between Oncogenes Suggests Treatment Combination in Esophageal Cancer
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a three-dimensional tissue culture system that mimics esophageal tissue growth of the particularly aggressive type of tumors known as ESCC (esophageal squamous cell cancer), Penn researchers have discovered ...
Apr 20, 2010 |
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