Sentences with phrase «called apoptosis»

We all rely on those policemen cells to locate them, and destroy them through a process called apoptosis.

This process is called apoptosis (natural cell death).

All cells have the ability to go through a process called apoptosis, or programmed cell death.

The same study also suggests that the nutrient could lead to cancer cell death, also called apoptosis.

Some studies show that in a laboratory setting, they cause cancer cells to self - destruct through a process called apoptosis.

When a healthy cell becomes damaged, it commits suicide and kills itself in a process called apoptosis.

Shiitakes, of course, contain many of the superpower health benefits of mushrooms, including reducing cholesterol levels, helping maintain healthy weight levels, boosting immunity, and even helping to fight cancer by inducing a cell cleansing process called apoptosis.

And just as mitochondria help to give us life - sustaining energy, they also play a key role in cell death, called 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.

On closer inspection Håkansson noticed the cells had died as a result of a process called apoptosis — programmed cell suicide — which is one of the ways that the body gets rid of unwanted or damaged cells.

Myc cancer gene empowers tumor cells to relentlessly divide but simultaneously, provokes a cell suicide process called apoptosis.

They found that Fusobacterium nucleatum in the gut can stop chemotherapy from causing a type of cancer cell death called apoptosis.

UJ3 appears to target the mitochondria, resulting in programmed cell death to kill cancer cells — a process called apoptosis.

Cells commit suicide all the time, a phenomenon called apoptosis, in which the body rids itself of old or unnecessary cells (see «Apoptosis,» on page 73).

This process, called apoptosis, is triggered in oocytes by the protein p63.

Giving the mice antibiotics helped gemcitabine kill tumor cells, increasing the number of tumor cells going through a type of cell death called apoptosis from about 15 percent to 60 percent or more.

Chemotherapy drugs are often designed to kill off malignant cells by damaging their DNA until they transition to a programmed death mode called apoptosis.

There, depending on what other chemical signals are present, the GAPDH can either stimulate the neuron's growth or activate a self - destruct program — called apoptosis — that will kill the neuron.

But in the following hours and days, the body's self - defense mechanisms backfire: White blood cells come in to clean up dead tissue, which causes massive inflammation, which in turn triggers healthy cells in the surrounding tissue to self - destruct in a process called apoptosis.

Not exact matches

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.

Certain existing chemotherapy drugs are designed to induce apoptosis, rather than «septic» cell death which is called necrosis, for this reason.

The researchers picked one such experimental drug called RITA — Reactivation of p53 and Induction of Tumor cell Apoptosis — and used it to treat mice for a few days after cardiac injury.

In the current issue of Nature Medicine, John Pezzuto of the University of Illinois at Chicago and his colleagues report that a compound called betulinic acid triggers apoptosis or programmed cell death, in cultured melanoma cells.

Dr Xu showed that for BET inhibitors to successfully kill lymphoma and myeloid leukemia cells the presence of a protein called BIM, which brings on apoptosis, was critical.

Those cells escape from the apoptosis process by activating a cell - survival mechanism called autophagy.

When L - HIPPO was added to virus - infected cells via a carrier called α - CDE, the virus became confined within the cell and the cell would die through natural apoptosis.

Previously, Jonathan Tilly, a reproductive biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, found a striking correlation between high levels of a protein called Bax (a key regulator of apoptosis) and cell death in healthy ovaries.

They kill cells by releasing small cytoplasmic granules of proteins called perforin and granzyme that cause the target cell to die by apoptosis (programmed cell death).

Apoptosis is often called «programmed cell death,» where cancer tumor cells die because of a natural process in the body.

Nine years of study have shown that a natural product called Ellagic acid is causing G - arrest within 48 hours (inhibiting and stopping mitosis - cancer cell division), and apoptosis (normal cell death) within 72 hours, for breast, pancreas, esophageal, skin, colon and prostate cancer cells.

Several other fascinating research studies on the healing properties of lemons and limes have shown that cell cycles — including the decision a cell makes about whether to divide (called mitosis) or die (apoptosis — are altered by lime juice, as are the activities of special immune cells called monocytes.