Sentences with phrase «than normal cells»

When they are taken, the cancer cells eat the maple syrup because cancer cells consume 15 times more glucose than normal cells.

«What we're starting to learn is that there can be bad cells from cancer that appear to benefit more from antioxidants than normal cells,» he said in an interview.

By reviewing the experimental studies that compared the mechanics of individual normal and cancer cells, we argue that cancer cells can indeed be considered as softer than normal cells.

Cancer cells do not grow faster than normal cells.

The cells began to divide vigorously, and they completed at least 20 more cycles than normal cells.

They found that the cancer cells were more sensitive to DNA damage than normal cells.

Cancer cells use much more sugar than normal cells, and they do it by changing the way they use these energy sources from the environment.

Cancer cells are known to have anywhere from ten to thirty times more insulin receptors than normal cells and depend upon anaerobic metabolism of sugar for fuel.

So, even though a cancer cell has far more glucose than a normal cell, less of this glucose gets inside its mitochondria than in a normal cell.

Because they multiply quickly and spread throughout the body, cancer cells require more energy than normal cells.

«Tumor cells produce larger quantities of H2O2 and use oxidative signals at higher levels than normal cells in order to drive their own growth,» says Mirko Sobotta, first author of the publication.

«Cancer cells behave differently than normal cells in terms of glucose metabolism,» said Wisner.

Sixth, ellagic acid (i.e. from ellagitannins), is combined with glucose, making sure that cancer cells get a larger dose of ellagic acid than normal cells because cancer cells consume about 15 times more glucose than other cells.

In addition, cells under stress often behave differently than normal cells do, a huge stumbling block for scientists trying to draw connections between their experiments and the natural world.

Our data suggest the reason for this: cancer cells benefit more from antioxidants than normal cells do.»

Said simply, because cancer cells are weaker than normal cells, they are more susceptible to damage from heat.

This means cancer cells probably get far more ellagic acid than normal cells:

«Some of these high - temperature organisms have salt concentrations 10 to 20 times higher than normal cells,» says Slesarev.

In experiments with mice, the researchers found that Paneth cells engineered to lack a functional ATG16L1 gene were five times more likely to die in the face of rising TNF - alpha signals than normal cells.

«The cancer cells may be more vulnerable to the second attack than normal cells.»

Fat cells cultured from the body mass index of a morbidly obese patient cause multiple myeloma cells to anchor to a much greater extent than normal cells and produce a significantly larger number of blood vessels to sustain the cancer cells.

And because mouse embryo cells with inactivated copies of BRCA2 are more sensitive to ionizing radiation than normal cells are, «it's a reasonable extrapolation» that breast cancers with mutated copies of the gene may be especially good candidates for radiation therapy.

The researchers discovered that the tumour cells had many more mutations than normal cells, and that not only was each bowel cancer genetically different, but each cell they had studied within that cancer was different.

«One of the characteristics of cancer cells is that they tend to have more oxidative stress than normal cells,» said Bret Freudenthal, Ph.D., lead author of the paper and postdoctoral fellow in Wilson's group.

Then the researchers studied these «iPSC - hepatic cells» and found the diseased cells secrete AAT protein more slowly than normal cells.

«From a therapeutic standpoint you could imagine that the cells that are addicted to these nutrients could be starved and killed more easily than normal cells.»

They believe the mutated gene causes cancer by triggering cytoskeleton malfunction, which allows the cancer cells to move more quickly than normal cells, essentially invading the surrounding healthy tissue.

In this review, we first list the physiological reasons indicating that cancer cells may be more deformable than normal cells.

«Since cancer cells take up more FDG than normal cells, the PET scanner can construct a 3 - D map of the cancer site by detecting the signal from the FDG.

1 — Direct Cancer Cell Death: The principle of hyperthermia is that cancer cells are much more sensitive to and intolerant of the effects of excessive heat than normal cells.

Cancer cells, for example, often have much lower levels of basal autophagy than normal cells.

Thus, a person would logically expect a cancer cell to create 15 times more ATP molecules than a normal cell.

The reliance of hemangiosarcoma cells on VEGF signals to survive should make them more sensitive than normal cells to these drugs.

There is evidence to suggest that cancer cells are softer than normal cells (although tumours are stiffer).

This two - step strategy would starve cancer cells — which tend to require much higher amounts of energy than normal cells — by limiting their two major pathways for ATP production.

«Prostate cancer cells, as well as some other solid tumors, have been shown to contain higher cholesterol levels than normal cells,» said senior author Donald McDonnell, Ph.D., chairman of the Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology at Duke.

Cancer cells rely on this signal pathway more than normal cells because their DNA is more jumbled and prone to becoming tangled.

Viruses, tumors and toxin - laden cells are weaker than normal cells.

A team of scientists at the Children's Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) has made a discovery that suggests cancer cells benefit more from antioxidants than normal cells, raising concerns about the use of dietary antioxidants by patients with cancer.

Cancer cells consume 15 times more glucose than a normal cell.

The liver releases the glucose and cancer cells are likely to pick up this glucose because cancer cells consume about 15 times more glucose than normal cells.