Sentences with phrase «normally dormant cells»

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By studying the same process in cultured cells, the scientists found that the light stimulated a molecular chain reaction that activated a normally dormant protein called TGF - beta 1.

We suspect that in precancerous cells many of these normally dormant origins are activated inappropriately,» notes David Shore, professor in the Department of Molecular Biology of the UNIGE.

Lengner's group and others had previously shown that these reserve stem cells normally reside in a dormant state and are protected from chemotherapy and radiation.

This image shows how transferred genes activate the stem cell properties of normally dormant retinal cells.