That draws water out of the cell, causing its walls to shrink.
These coils accumulate in the cell, causing it to enlarge and eventually die.
Once bound, killer cells insert a protein called perforin into the target cell, causing it to swell and burst.
Mutant ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules can be toxic to the cell, causing human disease through trans-acting dominant mechanisms.
For example, during use, the lithium electrode can grow branchlike structures that increase the impedance of the cell, causing it to heat up.
First, the invading cell attached to a potential entotic cell causing a deformation of its plasma membrane and a subsequent development of a cavity under the invading cell.
Sometimes these viral invaders turn cells into incubators for more virus particles, which then propagate from cell to cell, causing a variety of symptoms and, ultimately, derangement of normal function within infected cells.
Targeted cancer therapies (TCTs) are drugs that specifically act on molecular targets within the cancer cell, causing its regression and/or destruction.
Sorbitol does not diffuse across the cell membranes easily and therefore accumulates within the cell, causing osmotic damage which leads to retinopathy (cataractogenesis), neuropathy and other diabetic complications.
On the other hand, Ni, Cu and Cd have been reported to cause disruption of biological processes within the cell, causing DNA alterations63, and increased lipid peroxidation22, 64, 65.
A handful of genes that are normally active in the developing embryo are expressed in a differentiated cell, such as a skin cell, causing that cell to revert back to its undifferentiated state.
