Sentences with phrase «dies by apoptosis»

When a cancer cell dies by apoptosis, the result is a neat and tidy process where the dead cell's remains are «recycled,» not contaminating healthy cells around them, and not inducing inflammation.

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).

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BCL - 2 is present in high amounts in many tumors and helps cancer cells to survive, but when the BCL - 2 gene is blocked by MM41 in mice, the cancer cells succumb to apoptosis and die.»

The drug, known as HRX9, works by preventing the cancer cells from avoiding apoptosis — the natural process by which unhealthy and damaged cells close themselves down and die.

The other 1 million or so oocytes present at birth die off gradually by programmed cell death, or apoptosis, until a woman reaches menopause at mid-age.

Ideally, they should die by the process known as apoptosis, but as we age, more and more frequently they don't.

A number of lines of evidence indicate that in a cancer context, like in development (Daxx - null genotype is an embryonic lethal condition in which the embryos die by age E9.5 [15], due to global apoptosis), DAXX may have a pro-survival role.

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.