Sentences with phrase «against abnormal cell»

Abundantly rich in oxygen, which can also help protect against abnormal cell growth, viruses, and bacteria that can not survive in an oxygen - rich environment

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Treating the mice with antibodies against CD4 + T - cells four weeks after experimental heart attacks — to deplete that subset of T - cells — prevented the progressive abnormal enlargement of the left ventricle that leads to heart failure, as compared with untreated mice.

The new research found that on top of their known effects on cancer, Hsp90 inhibition also blocked production of abnormal forms of the androgen receptor, stripping cancer cells of their defences against hormone treatments.

A key challenge of treating these cancers has been to identify a way of eliminating the abnormal T - cells whilst sparing the healthy ones that play an essential role in providing protection against infections.

• Keeping abnormal proteins from building up and potentially shutting down major organs (heart, liver and nervous system, to name a few) • Protecting the brain's functions of learning and memory against neurotransmitter toxicity • Activating or increasing the activity of proteins that promote the initial growth, maintenance and survival of brain neurons • Enhancing the movement of proteins, lipids and other cell parts through the cytoplasm of cell bodies.

Using a new mouse model, we propose to test whether the spread of tangles through the brain is a result of abnormal tau overwhelming the cell's ability to clear it and whether we can boost cell defenses against tangles using clinically approved drugs that have not been used for this purpose previously.

In 2006, Shelia Gannon was close to the end of a losing battle against acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a form of cancer that causes abnormal blood formation and a shortage of red and normal white blood cells and platelets.

Copper deficiency is characterized by fatigue, anemia, neutropenia (low level of neutrophils, the most common type of white blood cell that protect against infection), leukopenia (abnormal decrease of leukocytes or white blood cells), bone and joint abnormalities, skin abnormalities, impairment of nerve and muscle function, impairment of adrenal and thyroid gland function, reproductive difficulties and loss of hair and skin color.

Iodine controls apoptosis, programmed death of abnormal cells, and is part of the body's surveillance mechanism against cancer.