Sentences with phrase «cells died as a result»

Nearly all of the cancer cells died as a result, but a residual population of tumor cells survived and became dormant.

The therapy employs a virus to insert a gene for a common ion channel into normally blind cells of the retina that survive after the light - responsive rod and cone photoreceptor cells die as a result of diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa.

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.

We have shown that most CD4 T cells die as a result of an innate immune response launched against cytoplasmic viral DNA accumulating as a result of abortive infection in these «bystander» CD4 T cells.

Some cells die as a result of this damage.

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Also, they have chosen a cheap populist theme, attacking cell phone, bank and credit - card charges instead of hammering the Conservatives on their dangerous, right - wing deregulation agenda — even though people are still dying as a result of Harper's «self - regulation» changes to food safety.

«Amyloid is one of many substances that builds up in plaques as a result of dying cells and atrophy in the brain,» he says.

The act of reprogramming cells to make them as capable as ones from embryos apparently can result in aberrant cells that age and die abnormally, suggesting there is a long way to go to prove such cells are really like embryonic stem cells and can find use in therapies.

As a result, Katlyn's immune cells were dying.

One of them was used to reproduce acquired aplastic anemia: due to various types of damage, some of the stem cells die, and those that remain need to divide more frequently in order to maintain the production of blood cells; as a result of so many divisions, the telomeres shorten and the disease appears.

«Dying cells in fruit fly alert neighboring cells to protect themselves: As a result, neighbors become harder to kill.»

With the passage of time, patches of retinal pigment epithelial cells may die, resulting in bare spots known as geographic atrophy.

An asymmetric cell division in non-stem cells can instead result in two daughter cells with very different fates, such as one large cell that reinitiates cell division prematurely and a much smaller cell that either grows very slowly or dies.

As a result, cells stop dividing and eventually die.

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.

If the layer is not sustained, which the implant intends to replace, then the photoreceptor cells also die off, and people lose their sight slowly as a result.

One of them was used to reproduce acquired aplastic anaemia: due to various types of damage, some of the stem cells die, and those that remain need to divide more frequently in order to maintain the production of blood cells; as a result of so many divisions, the telomeres shorten and the disease appears.

Myocardial infarction (MI) or acute myocardial infarction (AMI), commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die.

The results were impressive, as 75 percent of the cells died within 24 hours.

Our client died as a result of the failure to identify the transitional cell carcinoma on a CT scan.