Sentences with phrase «induce programmed cell death»

Cancer Center investigators demonstrate that topoisomerase inhibitors induce programmed cell death in leukemia cells.

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Rather, the group speculates that the transplanted cells secreted protective neurotrophins, proteins that promote cell survival by keeping neurons from inducing apoptosis (programmed cell death).

In patients with ALL, this leads to a sharp fall in serum levels of asparagine, hindering protein synthesis in malignant cells and inducing apoptosis, or programmed cell death.»

CED - 4 translocation induced by the cell - death activator EGL - 1 was blocked by a gain - of - function mutation in ced - 9 but was not dependent onced - 3 function, suggesting that CED - 4 translocation precedes caspase activation and the execution phase of programmed cell death.

Vazquez's laboratory experiments have shown that cosmic rays induce what is called programmed cell death in neurons.

The generation of the germinal centers requires B cells to undergo a complex transcriptional program to allow them to divide rapidly, modify their antibody genes, and pass through a selection procedure that induces either their survival or their death.

Pterostilbene, found exclusively in blueberries, has been shown in studies to induce apoptosis — programmed cell death — of malignant cells, and to act against tumors.

The study found that curcumin is able to induce apoptosis (normal programmed cell death) in the most resistant breast cancer cells that lack estrogen receptors.

✓ Cytotoxicity — WGA has been demonstrated to be cytotoxic to both normal and cancerous cell lines, capable of inducing either cell cycle arrest or programmed cell death (apoptosis).

Rutin and gallic acid have been shown to induce apoptosis (programmed cell death) as well as complete destruction of cancer cells too.

The study team discovered that GSE targets colorectal cancer through inducing oxidative stress that leads to the programmed cell death known as apoptosis.