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- n. A type VI intermediate filament (IF) protein, expressed mostly in nerve cells where it is implicated in the radial growth of the axon.
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David Berman, an assistant professor of pathology, urology and oncology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and his colleagues identified the unsuspected potential problem with treatments that suppress testosterone after discovering that the gene that codes for the protein, called nestin, was active in lab-grown human prostate cancer cells.
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The cells also carried the protein nestin, which is a marker for nerve stem cells and is also present in neuroblastoma cells.
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The new virus demonstrated significantly higher antitumor activity in cells with high levels of nestin compared with older viruses, but there was no difference in low-nestin cells.
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The virus was engineered to replicate in cells with high levels of nestin, a protein present in glioblastomas and certain other cancers, including prostate, pancreatic and breast.
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June 4, 2010 at 9:15 am nestin fail… stupy wp. shud b at 9:09 italiana.
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Monogamous homebodies, eagles mate for life and build one nestin their home area.
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Curious about whether prostate cancer cells in people also produce nestin, the researchers looked for it in cells taken from men who had surgery to remove locally confined cancers of their prostates and found none.
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Prostate cancer cells with hampered nestin expression were also less likely than normal prostate cancer cells to migrate to other parts of the body when transplanted into mice.
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When they removed androgens from the chemical mixture that the cells live in, their production of nestin increased.
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