Sentences with phrase «for tumor destruction»

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Once activated, T cells can home in on a tumor and target it for destruction.

At the same time, other switches get flipped throughout the body, modifying everything from metabolism to cell growth, via other cytokines, such as IL - 6 and tumor necrosis factor — a, and things like CRP, which mark bacteria for destruction.

The selective pressure of the competent immune system «edits» the tumor by selecting for cells that can avoid immune destruction.

In effect, Affigen uses cancer's «Achille's Heel»: the proteins which distinguish tumor cells from normal cells, that can target tumor cells for destruction with extreme sensitivity and precision.

They are important especially for the destruction of cells infected by a virus or of tumor cells.

Through its various targets, MMP1 promotes not only tumor invasion but also breast cancer colonization to bone by mechanisms that include the release of membrane - bound EGF - like growth factors from tumor cells, leading to activation of EGF receptor signaling and suppression of OPG expression in osteoblasts, which in turn promotes the differentiation and activation of osteoclasts required for bone destruction and enhanced tumor growth in the bone microenvironment (32).