Sentences with phrase «direct cytotoxic»

In fact at the doses used, the chemotherapy is not having direct cytotoxic activity, i.e. not directly killing the cancer cells.

(26) These studies also show that cadmium reduces insulin levels and has direct cytotoxic effects on the pancreas.

Thus apart from direct cytotoxic effect, the exposure of cancer cells to therapeutic doses of radiation also enhances the survival and proliferation of a fraction of cells which ultimately leads to radiation resistance and therapeutic inefficacy.

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They induce CD4 + helper T cell responses, which in turn activate cytotoxic T cells and direct them to recognize and fight specific types of cancer.

Some of these T cells become «effectos» (the ones that have direct roles in the immune response, including helper functions for CD4 + T cells, and cytotoxic functions for CD8 + T cells), while other T cells differentiate into resting memory cells.

Heretofore, treatment of patients with primary or light chain - associated (AL) amyloidosis has been directed toward reducing the synthesis of the amyloidogenic precursor protein through conventional or high - dose cytotoxic antiplasma cell chemotherapy.