Sentences with phrase «to induce cancer»

It may be that laboratory - induced cancers in mice fail to mimic the natural process of cancer development in humans, he said.

«Even if one pathway is successfully blocked, obesity - induced cancer takes another path,» he says.

I believe this is very important for people with estrogen dominance, and estrogen induced cancers.

While it's tough to induce cancer in an enemy, it's certainly possible to increase his chances of developing the disease.

Because it more effectively induces cancer cell apoptosis in p53 - deficient tumors, FL118 is especially effective against late - stage cancers, which usually lose functional p53 and are resistant to DNA - damage drugs.

«We hope this study now provides a new cohesive direction for BRCA1 research so that we can answer the fundamental questions about how this gene promotes cancer and how we might be able to improve early diagnosis and, possibly, treat BRCA1 - induced cancer more effectively.»

To reach these figures, the board calculated the risk of dying of radiation - induced cancer from a particular dose received every year.

When the same induced cancer cells were transplanted into mice to generate tumors, the T cell therapy invariably cleared the transplanted tumors.

«These types of compounds can be very toxic and they can also cause problems of their own, like actually inducing cancer.»

Understanding how the two proteins interact with HPV E6 oncogene is a critical first step towards developing methods to target HPV - induced cancers as there is no specific treatment available at the moment.

«Blind mole - rats are resistant to chemically induced cancers.»

Yet somehow, the breast milk induced these cancer cells to take their own lives.

The research suggests that a cytokine produced by inflammatory cells near a prostate tumor induces cancer cells to decrease production of a protein that blocks metastasis.

Many obesity - induced cancers originate in the prostate, colon, breast, uterine endometrium, and kidney, Bray says.

When hydrochlorothiazide induces cancer, this is because hydrochlorothiazide belongs to a group of drugs with a so - called photosensitising effect.

Previous studies from these researchers have showed that FL118 induces cancer cell death, or apoptosis, by inhibiting expression of multiple cell - survival proteins (survivin, Mcl - 1, XIAP or cIAP2).

Nevertheless, one worker at the American nuclear waste site at Hanford in Washington is thought to have died of a plutonium - induced cancer of the spine.

The team is now investigating which microbiota members are triggering this detrimental effect, as well as the mechanism of altered microbiota - induced cancer promotion.

To induce cancer mutations, the investigators package the genes for Cas9 and the RNA guide strand into viruses called lentiviruses, which are then injected into the target organs of adult mice.

Other investigational therapeutics historically piloted in pet dogs with cancer include muramyl tripeptide, an immune - stimulating agent that could not be tested in immune - deficient mice or rats with induced cancers, Fan said.

Hydrochlorothiazide induces cancer because it has a photosensitising effect, meaning that it enhances the sunlight's harmful effects in the lips and skin, which can increase skin cancer risk.

Fasting induces cancer cell death via a process called differential stress resistance by the production of free radicals to only kill the cancer cells.

Growth hormone therapy does not induce cancer.

Worse - when foods that are loaded with carbohydrates are deeply fried they alter chemically and these substances are known to induce cancer risk.

The most common syndrome leading to death is a progressive anemia as the bone shuts down and loses its ability to produce red blood cells but general immune suppression can result and the virus» ability to induce a cancer called «lymphoma» is well known.

«Many wildlife species have played important roles in cancer research; for example, one of the first virus - induced cancers studied was in wild frog populations,» said Dr. Stetter.

Perhaps we can't change entire industries, or entire government systems, but every choice we make of where to shop, what to wear, what to purchase and what to eat has an absolutely direct and powerful impact upon life situations for children dying of starvation, pre-pubescent girls and boys working 18 or 20 hour days in toxic sweatshops, cotton pickers suffering from pesticide induced cancers, suicidal farmers, and upon the health and balance of Mother Earth.

There is a risk that growth factors in cord plasma might induce cancer in older people, says Castellano.

«Women tend to be afflicted by HPV - induced cancer more than men; however, more men have genital and oral HPV infections than women.»

Although capsaicin could induce cancer cell death, it can also kill normal neuronal cells (49).

These vast quantities are given because some, but not all, scientists believe that a fraction of the population would be at risk for cancer, should chiles be able to induce cancer in a mouse.

«We've shown that whether the mole rats are young or old, it is almost impossible to induce cancer in them,» says Avivi.

In theory, secret agents might be able to induce cancer in a leftist South American president with a severely weakened immune system.

«We've shown that whether the rats are young or old, it's almost impossible to induce cancer in them,» says Aaron Avivi of the University of Haifa in Israel.

«Newfound protein may prevent viral infection, herpes - induced cancer: Study sketches a disease roadmap for a soft tissue cancer called Kaposi sarcoma.»

When they inject white blood cells from any of these anticancer mice into their nonresistant brethren, the injected animals become resistant as well, fighting off induced cancer in a matter of weeks or avoiding it entirely.

Because digoxin and other cardiac glycosides have been shown to induce cancer cell death, the researchers concluded that infection by Zika triggered synthesis of the molecule in glioblastoma cells and that this phenomenon is probably one of the factors that lead to neuronal cell death.

After meeting in mid-October, the FDA's advisory committee recommended that the American trials be resumed and that patients be told that the retrovirus had induced cancer in one child.

«It therefore seems likely that the arsenic - induced inflammatory response plays at least some role in arsenic - induced cancer,» she says.

Matthew Paszek, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Cornell and Valerie Weaver, at the University of California, San Francisco, led the study on glycoprotein - induced cancer cell survival, published online in Nature.

Matthew Paszek, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, led the study on glycoprotein - induced cancer cell survival, published online in Nature June 25.

While the study identifies women with large breasts at higher risk of radiation - induced cancer, new technologies may help mitigate that danger.

These compounds have been shown to inhibit cancer cell growth, induce cancer cell apoptosis, and reduce tumor volume in mice (14, 15, 16, 17).

Dr Smout said the discovery means it's possible the growth factor could be used to accelerate the healing of chronic wounds such as diabetic ulcers and to develop a vaccine against the worm - induced cancer.

The situation is even clearer for children, who are at greater risk than adults from a given dose of radiation (Figure 4), both because they are inherently more radiosensitive and because they have more remaining years of life during which a radiation - induced cancer could develop.

Despite their prevalence and public health importance, our understanding and ability to manage viral - induced cancers is still limited.

Stimulation of TRAIL protein is sustained in both tumor and normal cells, with the normal cells contributing to the TIC10 - induced cancer cell death through a bystander effect.

As such, it is necessary for further development of drugs against herpesviruses, particularly those that induce cancer.