cyst

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Interrupting a runaway process There are several small-molecule drugs that show potential for slowing cyst expansion.

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This limitation is crucial, he added, because the interior of each cyst -- essentially a sealed chamber lined with epithelial cells -- is the location where disease-driving activity occurs.

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"Many of the cyst-lining cells actually make growth factors and they secrete them into the cyst fluid," he explained.

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"In the literature there are dozens of growth factors that have been shown to be active in these cyst fluids," Weimbs said.

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Dr. Andrea Klemes, MDVIP’s chief medical officer, got a full body scan that turned up a “laundry list” of harmless things, like a cyst in her brain.

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