Sentences with phrase «normal cell cycle»

Abnormal chromosome ends can stimulate DNA repair mechanisms and trigger cell death, while one of the roles telomeres play is to ensure a normal cell cycle.

When a cell has its DNA damaged, often from external stresses, p53 stops the normal cell cycle to fix the DNA damage.

Strawberries and their major phytonutrient, quercetin, were also found to slow the normal cell cycle prior to cell death, suggesting that the protective actions may occur along different phases of cancer cell development.