The immune misfiring and
resulting cell suicide, Mongkolsapaya says, could be a primary cause of dengue hemorrhagic fever.
Not exact matches
This triggers a domino effect in the
cell's defense system,
resulting in the activation of the enzyme caspase - 1, which ultimately causes the induction of pyroptosis, a fiery form of
cell suicide.
Earlier research had shown that
cells surrounding an HIV - infected
cell die as a
result of apoptosis, or programmed
cell suicide, and scientists knew that Nef had a hand in starting that process.
On closer inspection Håkansson noticed the
cells had died as a
result of a process called apoptosis — programmed
cell suicide — which is one of the ways that the body gets rid of unwanted or damaged
cells.
I may never recover the brain
cells that committed
suicide as a
result.