Sentences with phrase «stimulating abnormal cell»

Some of those hits affect tyrosine kinases, enzymes that promote cancer by stimulating abnormal cell growth and proliferation.

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Further, transplanting these cells into mice and stimulating them with Activin - A led to abnormal bone.

Implanted devices send targeted electrical stimulation to the nervous system to interfere with abnormal brain activity, and it is commonly assumed that neurons are the only important brain cells that need to be stimulated by these devices.

These abnormal cells — in the case of pulmonary hypertension, those that line the blood vessels leading to the lungs — release signals that stimulate the growth of small new blood vessels to feed the renegade cells, allowing further proliferation, and thickening of the vessel walls.

Megakaryocytic hyperplasia with abnormal features are characteristic, and it is thought that these cells stimulate and drive fibrotic progression.

These abnormal cells release signals that stimulate the growth of small new blood vessels.

And according to recent studies conducted in Japan, the full ripe bananas with dark patches on their skin produce the largest quantity of TNF (Tumor Necrosis Factor), a cytokine that fights abnormal tumor cells in the body by stimulating the production of white blood cells and assisting their communication.