Sentences with phrase «evade apoptosis»

The Altieri laboratory is interested in how tumor cells evade apoptosis — also known as programmed cell death — which is the process that normally causes dysfunctional cells to self - destruct.

Thus, capsaicin might commit tumors to survival and evade apoptosis in the absence of TRPV1 through the activation of EGFR.

This implies that cancer genes, and the mechanisms that allow tumour cells to evade apoptosis, «have deep evolutionary roots».

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T. cruzi is already known to disguise its cell surface with human proteins and sugars: apoptosis would be yet another weapon in the arsenal that helps it evade the immune system.