Sentences with phrase «acts on cancer cells»

Once Herceptin binds to HER2, however, DM1 is released and acts on cancer cells in the vicinity.

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Because CTLA - 4 acts like a brake on the immune system, it prevents the body's defenses from attacking cancer cells.

«Beta blockers may lead to new novel triple negative breast cancer treatments: New research suggests that adrenaline can act on tumor cells via a cell surface receptor called the beta2 - adrenoceptor and that changes in signaling within the cell make it highly invasive.»

The nanoparticle has interleukin 2 on its surface, so when the protein is around it acts as a switch, a contact with the cancer cell to bind to the receptor and to carry out its biological action.

On the horizon, nanoscale structures may one day be marshaled to hunt cancer cells in the body or act as robot assembly lines for the design of new drugs.

But it is entirely unclear whether natural selection can act on the parts within the colony, as it does on our own cells when we get cancer, since we don't know about the heritability between the parts of the colony.

An exciting development in rational anticancer drug design is Gleevac, a drug that acts on a protein unique to the defective white blood cells in chronic myelogenous leukemia and on a related protein in a rare form of gastrointestinal cancer.

In these instances, resistance usually develops when the cancer cell's circuitry bypasses the protein that the drug acts on, or when the cell uses other pathways to avoid the point on which the drug acts.

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Colon cancer occurs when high levels of dietary vegetable oils and hydrogenated fats, along with certain carcinogens, are acted on by certain enzymes in the cells lining the colon, leading to tumor formation.14 This explains the fact that in industrialized countries, where there are many carcinogens in the diet and where consumption of vegetable oils and carcinogens is high, some studies have correlated meat - eating with colon cancer; but in traditional societies, where vegetable oils are absent and the food is free of additives, meat - eating is not associated with cancer.

Polyunsaturated fats such as corn oil and soybean oil are highly unstable and vulnerable to oxidation — and oxidation, in turn, is linked to cancer — while the omega - 6 fatty acids that predominate in vegetable oils have been shown to accelerate the growth of tumor cells.6 As Fallon and Enig explain, 4 excessive consumption of toxic polyunsaturated oils — not red meat — represents a known mechanism for colon cancer: «Colon cancer occurs when high levels of dietary vegetable oils and hydrogenated fats, along with certain carcinogens, are acted on by certain enzymes in the cells lining the colon, leading to tumor formation» [Emphasis added].

«Besides affecting tumor cells» directly, phytates «can act on [our] immune functions» by augmenting natural killer cell activity, the cells in our body that hunt down and dispose of cancer cells, as well as neutrophils, which help form our «first line of defense.»

As far as if surgery will prolong his life - it entirely depends on the cell type of the cancer - just like with people, some act more aggressively than others, so if you can get a cell type with another FNA, your veterinarian can go over the odds with you.