Sentences with phrase «abnormal cells kills»

The radiation within the abnormal cells kills those cells generally sparing normal tissue and adjacent parathyroid tissue.

Not exact matches

«When a myocilin propellor misfolds, it unravels and forms amyloid fibrils (stringy abnormal proteins) that kill cells that maintain the trabecular network,» Lieberman said.

This turned out to be a normal protein in the cells of organisms throughout the animal kingdom — but in brains infected with scrapie and related diseases it turns up in both a normal, soluble form and an abnormal, insoluble form which accumulates in deposits that eventually kill the cells.

Li points out that, unlike yeast cells, human and mammalian cells have a protein called p53 that kills cells with abnormal numbers of chromosomes.

Although cancer cells are more likely to kill once they spread, scientists still don't understand how the abnormal cells divide inside such tiny tubes.

Antibody dependant cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC)- When antibodies coat an HIV - infected cell identifying it as something abnormal that needs to be killed.

This disease occurs when abnormal immune cells known as histiocytes grow and divide nonstop, often killing healthy cells nearby.

(Revlimid) An immunomodulatory and anti-angiogenic agent, this drug slows the growth of blood vessels feeding abnormal cells and kills abnormal cells in the bone marrow.

Before long, the cancer cell is abnormal enough that it takes on behaviors that eventually kill us.

In embryos where the mix of normal and abnormal cells was half and half, the researchers observed that the abnormal cells within the embryo were killed off by «apoptosis», or programmed - cell death, even when placental cells retained abnormalities.

Now they can form abnormal tangles, which can help kill brain cells.

Today's effective treatment options can actually cure the disease by killing off the abnormal tumor cells while leaving the normal thyroid cells undamaged, resulting in a normal life span for many affected cats.

As the radioactivity becomes concentrated in in the thyroid gland, it kills the abnormal thyroid cells.