Sentences with phrase «killing other cells»

The key problem is that impaired scavenger cells fail to remove toxic byproducts from the eye, allowing them to build up and kill other cells.

Not exact matches

Only 10 % of the cells in and on your body are human, the other 90 % is the trillions of life forms that inhabit and live on your body... some of them can kill you if they get too numerous.

They have no problem killing them as long as they are not Christians, and since they want to give the tiny cell's in my wifes belly a chance to grow up and become a Christian they need to take away my atheist wifes right to have some of her tiny cells removed in order to prevent burdening ourselves or others with 18 + years of responsibility.

It has brought healing, conveniences, communications, and knowledge unimaginable in earlier times, but on the other hand it has brought advanced killing technology, pollution, and embryonic stem cell research.

Studies have shown that these cancer - fighting compounds and enzymes found in broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables may actually prevent the relapse of certain cancers by killing cancer stem cells.

The assailants shot and killed the policeman on duty, before freeing seven other suspected criminals who were being held in the cells.

«We feel it'll be able to help kill cancer cells in 80 percent of breast cancer patients,» said Dr. Olson, who added that their antibody has the potential to help kill lung, colon, prostate and other cancer cells, too.

Disney said the precise binding of Targapremir - 18a to microRNA - 18a means a cancer drug that follows this strategy would be likely to kill prostate cancer cells without causing the broader side effects seen with many other cancer therapies.

Other CAR - T cells that were tuned to different molecular targets also did not kill the DIPG cancer cells.

In the Cell study, Dr. Massagué, with Fellow Manuel Valiente, PhD, and other team members, found that in mouse models of breast and lung cancer — two tumor types that often spread to the brain — many cancer cells that enter the brain are killed by astrocytes.

In other words, unfortunately, anti-estrogen therapies may kill estrogen - dependent cells but at the expense of spurring the growth of CK5 + cells.

Raising concerns about potential harm to human health, other recent research has shown that some metal nanoparticles can damage DNA or kill cells.

Their analysis focused on the substantia nigra, a brain structure where Parkinson's disease kills neurons that use the chemical dopamine to communicate with other cells.

The payload kills cells by means other than genetic destruction, in contrast to the current standard treatments.

A final series of tests confirmed that toxic compounds generated by antibodies kill bacteria without any help from other immune cells, like macrophages.

Drugs that enhance a process called oxidative stress were found to kill rhabdomyosarcoma tumor cells growing in the laboratory and possibly bolstered the effectiveness of chemotherapy against this aggressive tumor of muscle and other soft tissue.

Antibodies are the sentries of the immune system, patrolling the body for invaders but leaving the actual killing to other immune cells.

Therefore, they not only kill cancer cells but also are toxic to other rapidly proliferating cells such as those in hair follicles and bone marrow.

«We could get some shrinkage of the tumours with other types of treatment we tried before, but we never got a complete cell kill,» he says.

Each tentacle is covered with stinging cells (cnidocytes) that can stun or kill other animals: most jellyfish use them to secure prey or as a defense mechanism.

«The fundamental «killing units» of CD4 T cells in lymphoid tissues are other infected cells, not the free virus,» says co-first author Gilad Doitsh, PhD, a staff research investigator at the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology.

This happens when immune cells talk to each other and also, when they kill diseased cells.

Professor Dan Davis and his team at the Manchester Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research, working in collaboration with global healthcare company GSK, investigated how different types of immune cells communicate with each other — and how they kill cancerous or infected cells.

Among the protagonists are B cells, which produce antibody molecules able to neutralize pathogens or mark them for destruction, and T cells, which prompt infected cells to kill themselves or secrete chemicals that direct the activities of other immune players.

The study, recently published in the journal Oncotarget, set out to determine whether neratinib could be utilized, alone or in combination with other agents, to kill non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cells that had become resistant to the drug afatinib.

Particularly prominent in the RNA - Seq analysis was the up - regulation of a number of granzymes, a group of proteinases secreted by immune cells that were originally thought to be involved in killing (via apoptosis) virus infected cells or other target cells.

As a first step, Williamson's team, in collaboration with other institutes, have produced eight mice whose milk contains lysostaphin, an enzyme which kills staphylococcal bacteria by dissolving their cell walls.

When the CD4 on the CAR molecule binds to HIV, other regions of the CAR molecule signal the cell to become activated and kill the HIV infected cell.

The therapy uses a designer ribozyme, a short strand of RNA that chops up other RNA, to seek and destroy mutant RNA before it can be used to build a protein that kills the eye's rod cells.

Meanwhile, other groups developed new ways of killing bacteria with vancomycin: One alteration found a novel way to halt cell wall construction, whereas another caused the outer wall membrane to leak, leading to cell death.

Although other tumor suppressors exist, what makes Par - 4 so special is that it is not mutated as frequently as other known suppressors, and it's «selective» in its actions in that Par - 4 will only kill cancer cells and not normal cells.

- GalCer ligands serve as tiny dock masters in our immune system, helping antigen - presenting cells attract and bind with iNKT cells so they can be activated to kill cancerous cells or fight off pathogens and other foreign invaders.

Moreover, the scientists observed traces of other damaging chemicals often recruited by RIPK1 to kill cells.

In experiments with cancer cell lines, the PIM1 inhibitors killed cells in a MYC - dependent manner, and in two different mouse models — one in which mice were implanted with patient tumors and the other in which a genetic alteration of MYC predisposes the mice to tumor development — the administration of PIM1 inhibitors resulted in significant tumor regression.

Wilson says the team next plans to investigate if lithium chloride can blunt other forms of neurological damage, such as that resulting from trauma and stroke, both of which can kill large groups of brain cells.

Another view is that tumors can become resistant to therapy by a process called cell fate decision, by which some tumor cells are killed by therapy and others become cancer stem cells.

Without a blood supply, cancer cells do not effectively metastasize to other organs and thereby kill the patient.

Hütter speculates that Brown was helped to a total cure by what is known as the host - versus - graft reaction: New stem cells and all their progeny see the old immune cells as «other» and kill them off.

Instead of killing HIV, as it would do with other viruses, the CD4 cell makes more copies of HIV, which then leave to invade other CD4 cells, ad infinitum, until an irreversible, lethal cascade has been unleashed.

She found that the brain depends on a type of immune cell known as the T cell, which normally kills infected cells or leads other immune cells in a campaign against foreign invaders.

The elements then form ozone, nitrogen oxide and other reactive compounds that can kill off bacteria and cancer cells.

«Most cancers kill their victims by metastasis, wherein cancerous cells move from the primary site to other places in the body.

This wondrous virus can package its DNA into «particles» and send them to other cells without killing the host cell.

The CD4 cycle alone would be enough to kill a person, but HIV also enters other cells, integrating into their genomes as well.

Those plaques are dense deposits of protein and other cell material that attach themselves to and eventually kill neurons responsible for memory and decision making.

Research performed by other groups determined if you inhibit this enzyme, you can preferentially kill cancer cells.»

Researchers now think that irradiation sometimes kills tumor cells in a manner that exposes new antigens to T cells, priming them to target other tumor cells that carry them as well, says Wenbin Lin, a chemist at the University of Chicago in Illinois, and one of the authors of the current study.

Some nerve cells are killed off, others are pruned back and still others are locked into place, a restyling that moves the brain closer to its adult form.

The study of human astrocytes has faced issues related to access (samples of living tissue must be obtained from brain cancer or epilepsy surgeries or fetal tissue) and purification (breaking apart astrocytes away from other cells often killed them and many experiments ended in failure).

The engineered T cells also performed successfully in a mouse model of PV, killing desmoglein - specific B cells and preventing blistering and other manifestations of autoimmunity in the animals.