Sentence examples for homing of cells from inspiring English sources

MSCs normally lack a key cell surface adhesion molecule called HCELL, which mediates the homing of cells in the bloodstream to sites of tissue inflammation.

This study developed a bioactive knitted silk-collagen sponge scaffold by incorporation of exogenous SDF-1 alpha, to enable selective migration and homing of cells for in situ tendon regeneration.

Non-genetic engineering of cells has been applied in delivering therapeutics to tissues, homing of cells to the bone marrow or inflammatory tissues, cancer imaging, immunotherapy, and remotely controlling cellular functions.

We next determined whether lack of ADAM8 altered thymic homing of cells using a short-term homing assay.

A possible explanation for this could be deficient homing of cells with necessary specificity to the tumor site [32].

CXCL12γ would represent the paradigm of haptotactic proteins that critically promote the directional migration and tissue homing of cells and regulate important homeostatic and physiopathological functions.

The cell-cell adhesion molecule cadherin-11 is important in embryogenesis and bone morphogenesis, invasion of cancer cells, lymphangiogenesis, homing of cancer cells to bone, and rheumatoid arthritis.

Cyster, J. G. Chemokines and the homing of dendritic cells to the T cell areas of lymphoid organs.

The CXCR4 protein has multiple essential functions, including homing of stem cells and metastasis of cancer cells (Miki et al, 2007).

SDF-1α (CXCL12) is described as a very potent constitutive chemokine for the localization of lymphocytes, homing of stem cells to bone marrow and tumor cells [ 54].

Overexpression of CXCR4 has been linked to cancer proliferation, cell migration, and tissue-specific homing of cancer cells as well as resistance to conventional and targeted therapies [3 5].