Sentences with phrase «than normal cells because»

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

The hope is that 3BP specifically kills certain cancer cells — while leaving normal cells alone — because they rely more on glucose metabolism than on an alternative pathway called oxidative phosphorylation.

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.

Some biologists refer to this as multicellular behaviour rather than true multicellularity, because normal growth occurs when the cells are separate.

Chakravarti further notes that because GBM cells take up methionine much faster than normal glioma cells, positron emission tomography that uses methionine as a tracer (MET - PET) might help map GBM tumors more accurately, allowing more precise surgical removal and radiation - therapy planning.

In 2008, researchers led by YongKeun Park and Monica Diez - Silva of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that red blood cells vibrated less when they were infected with the malaria parasite, apparently because the infection made the cells stiffer than normal (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.0806100105).

Because the helper complex makes translation more efficient, the result of this interaction was that the cells made more extra-length than normal - length huntingtin protein.

Because of the interaction with the helper complex, the cells made more extra-length than normal - length huntingtin protein.

Because tumour cells are more dependent than their normal neighbours on accelerated nutrient import, these up - regulated transporters could be excellent targets for selective anti-cancer therapies.

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

Any health condition is made worse if the metabolic rate is slower than normal, because cells can't heal and repair themselves as quickly.

I am not a fan of sulfonylurea drugs, because the problem in Type 2 diabetes is not that you don't make enough insulin, it's that your cells are resistant to insulin, and in fact your insulin levels are HIGHER than normal.

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.

«Squishy» fat forms because, as fat cells are extracted and mobilized, the space where they once existed gets filled with water, making the area feel «softer» than normal.

Because cancer cells grow and divide more rapidly than most of the normal cells around them, radiation therapy can successfully treat many kinds of cancer.