Early surgical removal of the spleen combined with antiangiogenic cancer therapy may halt the progression of leukemia, according to scientists at Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre.

Repurposing the spleens of mice helps them to survive liver damage. If the approach works in people, it could offer an alternative to liver transplants. At the moment, people who need new livers often ...

Collect tissues using sharp scissors or scalpel blades and mouse-tooth forceps. Handle tissues gently. Grasp and cut samples at the edges, so the areas of interest aren't damaged. At right is a ...

Sanchita P. Ghosh, Rupak Pathak, Parameet Kumar, Shukla Biswas, Sharmistha Bhattacharyya, Vidya P. Kumar, Martin Hauer-Jensen and Roopa Biswas Ionizing radiation causes depletion of hematopoietic ...

Researchers have discovered an unexpected reservoir of monocytes in the spleen and found that these cells are essential to recovery of cardiac tissue in an animal heart attack model. It takes a spleen ...

Mouse spleen cells infected with Zika virus. Infected cells are shown in brown, cell nuclei in blue. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...

The results of microarray analysis showed that 437 genes in spleen and 1119 genes in brain were differentially expressed in response to JEV infection, with obviously upregulated genes like ...