Sentences with phrase «stop cell division»

Lin began by studying substances that are able to alter or stop cell division, called inhibitors.

«Three rings stop cell division in plants: Development of a triarylmethane compound for possible control of plant growth.»

DNA damage inhibits CDK activity, freeing Rep - MYB and stopping the cell division,» he says.

«We saw that chem7 had hardly any effect on the shapes of the cells and tissues, thus, suggesting that chem7 stops cell division in plant cells, but does not cause any severe damage to the shapes,» describes Ueda.

«chem7 rapidly stops cell division and plant growth without causing drastic damage to the shapes or functions of the cells.»

Not exact matches

He and colleagues have determined what gives cholera bacteria their curved shape and whether it matters (a polymer protein, and it does matter; the curve makes it easier for cholera to cause disease), how different wavelengths of light affect movement of photosynthetic bacteria (red and green wavelengths encourage movement; blue light stops the microbes in their tracks), how bacteria coordinate cell division machinery and how photosynthetic bacteria's growth changes in light and dark.

The embryos lacking functional BRCA2 genes probably stopped growing because molecular «checkpoints» in the developing embryo either halt the division of cells with damaged DNA, so that the damage can be repaired, or kill the cells outright.

Without an infection, the few mutated cells that could potentially cause cancer stop proliferating after several divisions.

One day, the cell division in one of the flasks seemed to be slowing down, and after about the 40th doubling, the cells stopped reproducing.

With each cell division, telomeres dwindle until they are just tiny nubs, which prompt cells to malfunction, stop replication and finally die off.

To ascertain that they had stopped growing permanently, the scientists waited up to 2 days after the last cell division before trying to cultivate them.

«Now that we know exactly how changes in EMSY spur cancer cell growth, we can start to design therapies to specifically target that activity and hopefully stop it,» says senior author Douglas Levine, MD, director of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at NYU Langone and its Perlmutter Cancer Center.

But if supplies of these materials run low, the cell will enter a suspended state called senescence and cell division will stop, freezing the advance of the virus, according to new findings from a Duke University research team that appear in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The «mother» cell appears in light blue up to the time of division when it appears mostly green and its migration stops completely.

However, stem cells and some cancer cells make enough telomerase to keep their telomeres from shortening, effectively stopping the aging clock and allowing a seemingly unlimited number of cell divisions.

Scientists think that normal cells, which apparently lack the telomerase enzyme, stop dividing and die off appropriately after 50 to 100 divisions when their telomeres are worn to the nub.

Histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor therapy is a type of targeted therapy that blocks enzymes needed for cell division and may stop the growth of cancer cells.

They remain alive for a time after they stop dividing, but sometime after cellular division ends, cells do a particularly disturbing thing: Essentially, they commit suicide.

Introducing miR - 24 into proliferating normal and tumor cells also stopped them from further cell division.

This study has demonstrated that by stopping the supply of certain amino acids it is possible to retard cancer cell division and growth.

Nine years of study have shown that a natural product called Ellagic acid is causing G - arrest within 48 hours (inhibiting and stopping mitosis - cancer cell division), and apoptosis (normal cell death) within 72 hours, for breast, pancreas, esophageal, skin, colon and prostate cancer cells.