Sentence examples for augmented killing from inspiring English sources

No doubt he benefits from the camouflage provided by Russian leaders who went before; Hitler's crimes seemed unique in European history, but Stalin could be seen as another bloody tsar, or as an Arakcheyev (Tsar Alexander I's chief enforcer) with industrially augmented killing power.

Other factors which may influence the rate of cell killing are firstly susceptibility of individual tumor cell lines to lysis and secondly the presence of cofactors such as CD80 and CD86 on the tumor cells which may augment killing.

Therefore, strategies augmenting the killing ability of NK cells can boost the immune system and enhance the effectiveness of monoclonal antibody-based therapies.

Furthermore, bystander effects in radiation therapy may augment the killing effects of radiation in tumour therapy (Chipman et al, 2003).

We hypothesized that the inhibition of CHK1 in the context of inducing DNA damage through the disruption of RRM1 and RRM2 function by gemcitabine could significantly augment the killing capacity of gemcitabine.

The insertion of specific transgenes into the MV genome can be used to confer increased specificity, augment MV killing of infected tumor cells, or provide markers to assess virus delivery and tumor response [ 9].

The present study further develops this strategy with the introduction of a replication-defective adenovirus that co-expresses the prodrug-activating P450 enzyme CYP2B6 and the pan-caspase inhibitor p35, and is shown to augment bystander killing and the overall anti-cancer response.

The doxorubicin killed 55% of the unsorted cells (p = 0.0016 compared with untreated controls), and the addition of verapamil significantly augmented this toxicity – killing 40% more cells (p = 0.0002).

Although the PARP inhibitor DPQ decreased cell death in response to MNU in the short term, it augmented the cell killing effect of MNU in longer-term clonogenic assays.

A higher concentration (100 μg/ml) of the plant extracts (acetone and ethanolic) was also tested and showed augmented bacterial kill in all 7 strains (Table  3).

This schedule and dose were selected based on our previous studies in the PC-3 prostate tumor model in vivo [ 13] and in vitro findings showing that pre-treatment with genistein augments radiation-induced killing both in PC-3 cells and KCI-18 cells [ 11, 12].