In general, chemotherapy medications work by attacking cells or by preventing them from growing and dividing. Cancer cells tend to grow and divide rapidly and uncontrollably, and many chemotherapy ...

Stem cells are cells that have the capacity to self-renew by dividing and to develop into more mature, specialised cells. Stem cells can be unipotent, multipotent, pluripotent or totipotent ...

Newly discovered brain cells count each bite before sending the order to cease eating a meal. Columbia scientists have found specialized neurons in the brains of mice that order the animals to ...

temple.edu Rationale Goblet cell hyperplasia (GCH) is one of the cardinal features of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and contributes to airways obstruction. Rhinovirus (RV), which causes ...

Natural killer (NK) cells are the predominant innate lymphocyte subsets that mediate anti-tumor and anti-viral responses, and therefore possess promising clinical utilization. NK cells do not express ...

Objective Despite recent advances in surgical and interventional techniques, knowledge on the management of carcinoid heart disease (CHD) remains limited. In a cohort of patients with liver metastases ...

1 Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, The Second Hospital, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China 2 Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China Goblet cell hypersecretion is a ...

Neurons are cells in the body that are responsible for transmitting electrical signals through the nervous system. Different types of neurons affect the ability to move, which begins as an impulse, or ...

Neuroendocrine carcinomas (NECs) are all fast growing cancers. Their cells look very different to normal neuroendocrine cells. You might hear some doctors or nurses use the term Carcinoid, instead of ...

Neuroendocrine cancers are a group of cancers that develop in cells of the neuroendocrine system ... Treatment depends on the type of neuroendocrine cancer you have, where it is, its size and whether ...

Immunohistochemistry studies also showed increased levels of CTGF and TGF-β1 in the cytoplasm of small-intestinal carcinoid cells, and activated myofibroblasts in the fibrotic areas were positive ...