Sentences with phrase «induce cell suicide»

In the studies led by Kanneganti, Kuriakose and colleagues first sought to identify the specific machinery that the innate immune system uses to induce cell suicide.

The cell nuclei become fragmented, and some cells will even undergo apoptosis — auto - induced cell suicide.

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Their paper, which appears in Nature Communications, describes how an immune cell recruited to the tumor induces the programmed suicide, or apoptosis, of the killer T cells harnessed by many immunotherapies.

So alpha - lac may induce apoptosis by directly causing the destruction of DNA from within the cell's nucleus, or it may instigate the suicide - generating caspace cascade through the mitochondria.

Discerning the basic mechanism wasn't enough — Svanborg wanted to find out if the cells might be induced to commit suicide on demand: Could the discovery be developed into a cancer cure?

This protein stops potentially precancerous cells from dividing and induces suicide in those that are damaged beyond repair.

The scientists discovered that dinaciclib, by interfering with UPR activation, caused multiple myeloma and myeloid leukemia cells to initiate a form of cell suicide known as apoptosis when exposed to agents that induced ER stress.

Plant defenses — which can include induced cell fortification, cell suicide, toxic chemicals, and defensive enzymes and proteins — typically were sufficient to keep the infection in check, but not strong enough to eliminate it.

Some researchers, for instance, have suggested that the AIDS virus may kill CD4 cells by inducing them to commit suicide.

By providing an exogenous apoptotic gene, which is only transiently expressed in cells that already have the p16 gene active, we can precisely induce the senescent cell to commit suicide.

This piquantly - flavored spice has a secret weapon: the ability to target cancer cells and induce them to commit suicide — all without harming healthy cells.

They also act aggressively against cancer by preventing cancer cell proliferation, inducing apoptosis — or cancer cell «suicide» — and inhibiting the formation of new blood vessels that nourish tumor growth.

In a 2013 study, researchers had found that quercetin inhibited the growth of pancreatic cancer cells by inducing apoptosis, or «cell suicide.»