Sentences with phrase «cell suicide known»

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

MAPK regulates cell functions, including proliferation, gene expression, differentiation, cell division and a form of cell suicide known as apoptosis.

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.

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Myc no longer was able to drive tumor growth, cancer cells committed suicide, and the treated mice survived longer.

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.

ABT - 737 targets proteins known as B - cell lymphoma 2 (Bcl - 2) and Bcl - xL, which prevent apoptosis, a form of cell suicide, in cancer cells.

However, in developing brain cells, the researchers found TLR3 activation also influences 41 genes that add up to a double whammy in this model — diminished stem cell differentiation into brain cells and increased cell suicide, a carefully controlled process known as apoptosis.

Knowing the structure of survivin «doesn't clear up the controversy» about how it prevents cell suicide, says biochemist Guy Salvesen of the Burnham Institute in La Jolla.

Earlier research had shown that cells surrounding an HIV - infected cell die as a result of apoptosis, or programmed cell suicide, and scientists knew that Nef had a hand in starting that process.