Sentences with phrase «increase breast cancer cell growth»

BPA can also increase breast cancer cell growth and lead to male sexual problems including erectile dysfunction and decreased sperm count.

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Across multiple triple - negative breast cancer subtypes, inhibiting the androgen receptor greatly increased apoptosis (programmed cell death), inhibited growth and increased necrosis by 60 percent in animal models.

When a chemical that inhibits entosis was applied to a line of breast cancer cells, colony formation — an indicator of tumor growth in vitro — increased 10-fold.

Additionally, overexpression of POSTN in human mammary epithelial and breast cancer cells resulted in enhanced tumor growth and metastasis (Wang et al., 2013), which is similar to a colon cancer cell model where overexpression of POSTN resulted in an increase in the number and size of liver metastases (Bao et al., 2004).

Biologically, hypermethylation often silences genes that keep runaway cell growth in check, and its appearance in the DNA code of breast cancer - related genes shed into the blood may indicate that a patient's cancer growth is increasing and the disease has worsened.

Mutations in the gene increase rat susceptibility to mammary cancer and FRY reduced the growth of highly aggressive human breast cancer cells.

Injections of iPSC - EPCs did not however have significant effect on tumor growth or on overall survival, but transducing cells with a baculovirus expressing CD40L, a member of the TNF gene family which can induce apoptosis [6, 7], and injection into the breast cancer lung metastasis, increased levels of pro-apoptotic cytokines in lung tissues, indicating the induction of apoptosis by CD40L carried by the EPCs (See figure).

Studies suggest that flax may reduce the growth of abnormal cells and increase apoptosis (programmed death) of cancer cells in breast tissue (1, 2, 3).

In animal and cell studies, grapefruit powder, limonin and naringenin decrease growth and increase self - destruction of colon, mouth, skin, lung, breast and stomach cancers.

Soy milk was a logical solution, until I started reading about the possibility of it increasing risk of breast cancer, as soy proteins may actually stimulate the growth of breast cancer cells, which is rather unsettling.