Sentences with phrase «abnormal cell processes»

The findings may help scientists to better understand the earliest epigenetic changes which can initiate abnormal cell processes, and the transition between the pre-disease state and cancer.

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It occurs when something goes wrong during the fertilisation process, and is caused by an abnormal cell growth of all or part of the placenta.

During the ablation process, a catheter is snaked through the patient's body to the site of abnormal heart cells.

The presence of these abnormal circuits may also inhibit the natural process of removal of unnecessary developing brain cells known as pruning.

Rather, the mutation produces an abnormal version of a protein involved in a process called phase separation in cells.

For example, Gladstone scientists are researching how autophagy — a process by which cells eliminate abnormal proteins — can help to prevent the destruction of brain cells.

The elevated incidence of glomerulonephritis in p21 - deficient mice, with increased severity among females, has been reported previously (35) and is attributable to an autoimmune process produced by abnormal proliferation of memory T - cell lymphocytes.

Rather, the defective checkpoint system was left to proceed, and one of its downstream consequences, which was still under normal regulation — and one known to be directly induced by the normal degenerative aging process — was reversed at the structural level, by clearing out the p16Ink4a - positive senescent cells that had accumulated to an abnormal degree in their tissues.

It is possible that the Oct4 expression patterns that we observe is due to failure of one or more of these processes in the complex, abnormal milieu of this embryonal carcinoma cell line during differentiation.

«Over recent years, major investments in research in areas like immunology, cell biology and genetics have provided impressive insights into the basic biology of fundamental processes, such as injury, repair and neoplasia (abnormal cancerous tissue growth),» Elias said.

This process not only combats viral infections and the spread of intercellular parasites, but also helps the body eliminate abnormal cancer cells.

This catabolic process helps the body rid itself of intracellar pathogens as well as abnormal cancer cell development.

Foods and compounds which pro-apoptotic, as their name tend to indicate, are the natural process which the body takes advantage of by utilising it to discard any unnecessary and abnormal cells.

Treatment is to identify and treat underlying disease process; such as sex hormone related adrenal hyperplasia (abnormal cell growth) which is treated with lysodren.

The reason this process goes un-noticed and is inconsequential the overwhelming majority of the time, is because our immune systems are up to the task of identifying and clearing the abnormal cells before they have a chance to gain an established presence and / or spread in our bodies.