Sentences with phrase «undergoing apoptosis»

The TUNEL assay showed more TUNEL - positive cross-sectioned tubules and more spermatogenic cells undergoing apoptosis in IVC male testes when compared to the control mice (Fig. 3).

Then Hu expressed lincRNA - EPS in maturing red blood cells and grew these cells in the absence of the hormone erythropoietin, which normally prevents the blood cell progenitors from undergoing apoptosis.

Oncogenes — whose protein products, when activated, cause uncontrolled cell proliferation or prevent cells from undergoing apoptosis.

The figure shows a confocal microscopy image of a mammalian cell undergoing apoptosis with the mitochondria stained in magenta and the protein Bax in green.

«Our results are saying that if cells in these experiments are senescing and undergoing apoptosis, any conclusions we draw from that might not apply to what drugs are being tested on them, but from how the cells were derived,» Lanza says.

It looks like capsaicin is able to pull this off by instructing the mitochondria in cancer cells to undergo apoptosis, cell suicide.

This process includes the removal of the milk - producing epithelial cells, whereby the alveolar epithelium undergoes apoptosis and is replaced with adipocytes.

The cell nuclei become fragmented, and some cells will even undergo apoptosis — auto - induced cell suicide.

«Both the immune system and nearby healthy cells send signals instructing damaged and unhealthy cells to undergo apoptosis, which is like programmed «cell suicide».

This suggests that long - term exposure to Mcf1 causes hemocytes to ultimately undergo apoptosis consistent with previous studies using Manduca caterpillars.

Manduca hemocytes also undergo apoptosis when exposed to recombinant Mcf1 [19].

Although epithelial cells acutely exposed to matrilysin rapidly undergo apoptosis, constitutive expression of MMP - 7 selects for cells with a reduced sensitivity to apoptosis.

Most cells with critical mutations in nuclear DNA (a) undergo apoptosis, (b) become senescent or (c) become cancerous (and we have already discussed how to address each of these problems).

Not exact matches

Multiple mutations in DNA — specifically, abnormalities in the p21 and p53 genes, among other changes — stop the process of apoptosis, or programmed cell death, that normal cells undergo.

Ligation of CD8 leads to apoptosis of thymocytes that have not undergone positive selection.

This is particularly evident in the case of the thymus, which undergoes massive p53 - dependent apoptosis after radiation (46, 47).

The cells of the rods and cones of the retina suddenly undergo programed cell death or apoptosis.