Sentences with phrase «unlike normal cells»

Unlike normal cells that can switch between using that of glucose and ketone bodies, cancer cells can only use glucose for energy.

Unlike normal cells, however, the tumour cells are considerably more sensitive, because they can not repair damage well.

The scientists looked at a process known as meiosis, which unlike normal cell division (mitosis) has two rounds of nuclear division, to ensure that when sex cells fuse with each other, they have two copies of each chromosome — one from each parent!

Not exact matches

How it spreads: Unlike normal cancers, where the disease - causing mutation is confined to one organism, devil facial tumor disease (DFTD) cells have evolved the ability to spread from devil to devil.

Unlike normal fish skin cells, they were tightly clustered and produced pigment in areas where there usually is none.

Unlike traditional chemotherapy, these drugs limit damage to normal cells.

Allergic airway hyperresponsiveness - enhancing γ $ ẹlta $ T cells develop in normal untreated mice and fail to produce IL - 4 / 13, unlike Th2 and NKT cells.

«The advantage to this approach is that, unlike conventional chemotherapy, it doesn't harm normal cells, so it should have far fewer toxic side effects.»

AHR - Enhancing γ $ ẹlta $ T Cells Develop in Normal Untreated Mice and Fail to Produce IL - 4 / 13, Unlike TH2 Cells and NKT Cells.

Unlike the case of most gene therapies that are intended to permanently alter their target cells, however, Oisín's senoablative genetic constructs will not be inserted permanently into the patient's genome: instead, its genetic payload will be expressed temporarily from the main body of the cell, following which the construct will be passively degraded by normal cellular metabolism.

For one thing, unlike most normal types of cells, stem cells are capable of dividing and regenerating for long periods of time.

Unlike in type 1 diabetes, in which insulin production is limited because beta cells are destroyed, «arsenic induces glucose intolerance through a disruption of beta - cell function that alters normal stimulus — secretion coupling,» the researchers wrote.

These data suggest that premalignant mammary cells respond to pregnancy and lactation hormones by activating STAT5, as their normal counterparts do (Figure 3A inset); however — unlike their normal counterparts — they continue to maintain high levels of pSTAT5 even during involution (Figure 3 — figure supplement 1B).

The basic principle is this: unlike normal, healthy cells, cancer cells don't have an «off switch» when it comes to consuming food (i.e., sugar).

Cancer cells are unlike any other cell in the body and they act totally out of line with normal cell functions.

Unlike most other anticancer agents, the phytates naturally found in whole plant foods may trigger cancer cell differentiation, causing them to revert back to behaving more like normal cells.

Unlike «normal» electric or hybrid cars, a fuel - cell vehicle never causes a drop of oil or lump of coal to be burned on its behalf.

Some studies suggested that certain chemicals present in peaches may be able to inhibit the growth of cancer cells without affecting normal body cells — unlike chemotherapy, which is highly effective but unable to discriminate between healthy cells and cancer.

Unlike normal plasma cells, the malignant plasma cells look large and round with a high mitotic index (measure of the proliferation of a cell population) in early stages of cellular differentiation.