Sentences with phrase «which death receptor»

The Max Planck researchers then showed that less necroptosis of endothelial cells and less metastasis occur in genetically modified animals in which Death Receptor 6 is disabled.

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For some years now, a new class of drugs called antibody - drug conjugates (ADCs) have been used, which work in two ways: they consist of an antibody that binds selectively to the tumor cell receptor and interrupts the signal to propagate; they also act as a transport vehicle for a chemical substance that enters the cancer cells with the antibody and triggers their death.

To devise a potential new therapy, the investigators engineered a population of neural stem cells to express a potent version of a gene called TRAIL, which codes for a molecule that activates cell - death - inducing receptors found only on the surface of cancer cells.

PD - 1, which stands for programmed death receptor - 1, was identified by Tasuku Honjo, M.D., Ph.D., of Kyoto University School of Medicine.

In fact, an estrogen receptor negative tumor, which normally means twice the death rate — unless you eat five servings of fruits and veggies a day, and walk 30 minutes, six days a week.

This joins the nicotinyl receptor sites of insects, thus upsetting normal nerve transmission which causes death.