Sentences with phrase «to promote cell survival»

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).

And scientists at Harvard Medical School, the NIA and elsewhere have shown that caloric restriction drives expression of proteins called sirtuins, which help promote cell survival.

The team of researchers delivered an enzyme called chondroitinase to disrupt scar formation in tandem with a chemical called fibroblast growth factor used to promote cell survival as they performed nerve graft surgery at the site of the injury.

Some cytokines promote cell survival, while others activate a cell's suicide instructions.

Therefore, AKT is best known for promoting cell survival and growth.

The receptor is often expressed on epithelial cells, the type of cells that turn cancerous, and it promotes cell survival.

These include a plant - produced chemical called resveratrol, which spurs cells to increase production of sirtuins, the proteins that promote cell survival.

When we experimentally increased the expression of the microRNAs in model nerve cells designed to replicate the conditions of HD, the cells lived longer, indicating that these miRNAs may promote cell survival,» explained lead author Richard Myers, PhD, professor of neurology at BUSM.

The screen turned up some proteins that the Penn team had explored before but also a new one, a protein called BAG3, known as a chaperone protein, which under normal physiological conditions acts to promote cell survival.

A novel way of approaching protection - based therapeutics for glaucoma should derive from evidence accumulating over two decades in stroke and cardiac arrest: That simultaneously activating a variety of self - defense responses in cells with stressful «conditioning» stimuli induces the expression of a host of genes that promote cell survival.