Sentences with phrase «agents against cancer cells»

«These new results are significant because they represent the discovery of a number of more potent variations of the natural product as cytotoxic agents against cancer cells,» Nicolaou said.

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Numerous studies have demonstrated activity of these agents against a wide variety of cancers, especially cancer stem cell - like subpopulations, by a host of different mechanisms which comprise inhibition of signaling pathways, of mitochondrial respiration, as well as of cellular stress responses and others.

The study relates to a particular type of vaccine (killed) against a particular virus, influenza, though the findings might hold true for other killed vaccines and for those vaccines consisting only of proteins produced by GM in bacteria, yeast or insect cells, against diseases such as hepatitis B (HBV) and human papilloma virus (HPV, the causative agent of cervical cancer).

Cancer stem cells (CSCs) in the hypoxic BM regions are blamed for the incurability of MM, because CSCs are often resistant to drugs currently used against BM cancers (including proteasome inhibitors and immunomodulatory agents).

Direct application of Acai berries onto the leukemia cancer cells kills up to 86 % of them, so it is safe to say that Acai berries are a fighting agent against cancer.

A study conducted at the University of California at Santa Barbara found that sulforaphane inhibited the growth of human breast cancer cells, causing researchers to praise it is a «promising» protective agent against breast cancer.