Sentences with phrase «by cell suicide»

Instead, these deaths appear to occur by cell suicide.

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It looks like capsaicin is able to pull this off by instructing the mitochondria in cancer cells to undergo apoptosis, cell suicide.

Their paper, which appears in Nature Communications, describes how an immune cell recruited to the tumor induces the programmed suicide, or apoptosis, of the killer T cells harnessed by many immunotherapies.

It does this by triggering processes that either repair such mutations, or instruct an affected cell to stop dividing or even commit suicide.

If that damage is deemed too extensive by other cellular actors that interact with p53, it triggers p53 to launch the call for the cell to commit suicide.

So alpha - lac may induce apoptosis by directly causing the destruction of DNA from within the cell's nucleus, or it may instigate the suicide - generating caspace cascade through the mitochondria.

The protein, called Bcl - 2, is already famed among biologists for its ability to block «apoptosis,» or cell suicide, the process by which damaged or obsolete cells destroy themselves.

They also tested other chemicals known to prevent the other two forms of cellular suicide, but only CGP3466B protected mouse nerve cells in the brain from death by cocaine.

Ko first cloned the human GT198 gene while a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School, and subsequent studies by her and others have shown it has multiple roles that also include regulating stem cells, cell suicide and turning other genes off and on.

The topical anti-fungal drug Ciclopirox causes HIV - infected cells to commit suicide by jamming up the cells» powerhouse, the mitochondria — according to a study by researchers at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.

The scientists discovered that dinaciclib, by interfering with UPR activation, caused multiple myeloma and myeloid leukemia cells to initiate a form of cell suicide known as apoptosis when exposed to agents that induced ER stress.

Its depletion of nucleotides leaves HIV capable of making just a few incomplete pieces of DNA that cause great harm to their host by stimulating an inflammatory response, causing nearby CD4 + T cells to commit suicide.

This kills the cell by liberating proteins that order it to commit suicide (Cancer Research, DOI: 10.1158 / 0008 - 5472.

Lieberman, Dotiwala and their team were particularly struck by how much the granzyme - sparked cascade resembles apoptosis, a controlled form of cellular suicide that helps eliminate damaged or potentially cancerous cells.

In the studies led by Kanneganti, Kuriakose and colleagues first sought to identify the specific machinery that the innate immune system uses to induce cell suicide.

The symptoms of many diseases are caused by unwanted cell death, and the pathogens could be triggering abnormal cell suicide.

IL - 22 makes intestinal cells more resistant to viral invasion, whereas IL - 18 thwarts the virus by spurring cells it has already infected to commit suicide.

The next step would be immunosuppressive therapy, which could slow down viral replication by limiting the T cell activation and prevent the CD4 + T cells from committing suicide.

Researchers found TRIF signaling is able to eliminate these aberrantly activated astrocytes by apoptosis, a suicide program of the cells.

There is no question that the great specificity of any one conscious perceptual experience — such as the throbbing pain of the socket following extraction of the lower right wisdom tooth, the feeling of familiarity in dj vu, the aha experience of sudden understanding, the azure blue of a high mountain vista, the despair at reading about one more suicide bombing — is mediated by coalitions of synchronized cortical nerve cells and their associated targets in the satellites of the cortex, thalamus, amygdala, claustrum and basal ganglia.

Gemcitabine kills cells by triggering their suicide pathway.

Some researchers, for instance, have suggested that the AIDS virus may kill CD4 cells by inducing them to commit suicide.

A TROPICAL disease that can fatally damage the heart may take hold in the human body by causing important immune system cells to commit suicide, according to a Brazilian research team.

Bcl - 2 proteins play a key role in cell survival by protecting against a form of cell suicide known as apoptosis.

Now, Professor Martin and colleagues have discovered that in response to specific types of cell damage, Parkin can trigger the self - destruction of «injured» nerve cells by switching on a controlled process of «cellular suicide» called apoptosis.

«We assumed,» Aguirre said, «the diseases would be different from one another and that cells would commit suicide by their own specific pathway and that perhaps quite late they would have a common final pathway.

In this case, the trigger is a drug that interacts with the protein produced by the «suicide gene,» which metabolizes it into a form deadly to the cell, causing it to commit programmed cell death (apoptosis).

By providing an exogenous apoptotic gene, which is only transiently expressed in cells that already have the p16 gene active, we can precisely induce the senescent cell to commit suicide.

It was created by «wiring together» two natural proteins - one that detected virus entry, and another that acted as a suicide switch that kills the infected cell.

And after the wound is healed, they disappear, either by committing cell suicide or perhaps by reverting to their original cell type.

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• Studies have shown EGCG to literally kill off cancer cells, especially skin, breast, lung, colon, and bladder cancers, by turning the cells into suicide cells.

The drugs used in chemotherapy are designed to be toxic to cancer cells usually by inhibiting cell division or causing cell suicide (apoptosis).

They also act aggressively against cancer by preventing cancer cell proliferation, inducing apoptosis — or cancer cell «suicide» — and inhibiting the formation of new blood vessels that nourish tumor growth.

In a 2013 study, researchers had found that quercetin inhibited the growth of pancreatic cancer cells by inducing apoptosis, or «cell suicide.»

But because metformin may stem cancer through several different channels — by lowering insulin, directly slowing tumor growth, or promoting suicide by cancer cells — it could potentially prove useful in many types of cancer.

They could be drunk, under the influence of drugs, confused about signage, distracted by a cell phone, following an out of date map on a GPS device, driving for kicks or even attempting suicide.