Sentences with phrase «called death receptor»

The scientists also found that endothelial cells themselves give the signal for their own death: To do this, the vascular wall cells have a receptor molecule called Death Receptor 6 (DR6) on their surface.

Many receptors in this family, including CD95 are called Death Receptors because of their ability to induce apoptosis2.

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Kite Pharma, one of the companies chasing a new generation of cancer drugs called chimeric antigen receptor T - cell (CAR - T) therapies, announced a patient death in a clinical trial of its experimental KTE - C19.

For some years now, a new class of drugs called antibody - drug conjugates (ADCs) have been used, which work in two ways: they consist of an antibody that binds selectively to the tumor cell receptor and interrupts the signal to propagate; they also act as a transport vehicle for a chemical substance that enters the cancer cells with the antibody and triggers their death.

To devise a potential new therapy, the investigators engineered a population of neural stem cells to express a potent version of a gene called TRAIL, which codes for a molecule that activates cell - death - inducing receptors found only on the surface of cancer cells.