Malignant ascites, a complication observed in terminal ovarian cancer, significantly contributes to poor quality of life and to mortality. Excess accumulation of fluid in the peritoneal ... in tumor ...

Part antibody-secreting B cell, part myeloma cell, a hybridoma combines the talents of each constituent, continuously releasing a single type of antibody when cultured in ascites fluid in a mouse's ...

Section of Medicine, Royal Marsden Hospital and Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, UK Metastasis from epithelial ovarian cancer can occur via the transcoelomic, haematogeneous, or lymphatic ...

Purpose: To seek novel diagnostic approaches, we improved the workflow of cell-free DNA (cfDNA ... technique of cfDNA was designed for large volumes of body fluid (e.g. blood, pleural fluid, ascites ...

Pleural fluid is secreted by the specialized cells in the pleura called mesothelial cells. The fluid allows the layers to glide over each other as the lungs inflate and deflate during respiration ...

Methods: Patients with symptomatic ascites/pleural effusion for at least 3 weeks with a fluid amylase level of > 1000 S units/dl and underlying pancreatic disease were included. The interventions ...

Understanding the behavior of tiny droplets in our cells could aid the search for new treatments. A team of Leiden ...

Another cell type, known as mesothelial cells, are found only in visceral adipose tissue and mark its outer boundary. As the researchers were able to show, there are significant functional changes in ...

Patients present with anemia and teardrop-shaped red blood cells and rarely with portal vein thrombosis causing portal hypertension with ascites and varices. Bone-marrow biopsy is diagnostic it ...

The commonplace phenomenon of liquid drops falling from a surface is—perhaps surprisingly—not yet fully understood by ...