Sentence examples for cellular suicide from inspiring English sources
As it invades the body, the virus that causes AIDS unleashes a domino effect of destruction at the molecular level within immune system cells, ultimately leading to cellular suicide.
These included p53, a gene that, when working properly, suppresses cancer by regulating DNA repair, cell division and cellular suicide, and MAP3K1 and MAP2K4, which both promote cell growth.
Cellular suicide may play an important role in multiple sclerosis (MS), a new study has shown.
These reports suggest GO cytotoxicity from either direct cellular membrane damage or activation of natural cellular suicide mechanisms.
The removal of damaged, mutated, unwanted or simply dispensable cells without an inflammatory reaction occurs due to the cellular suicide program termed apoptosis.
As a testament to the efficiency and rapidity of efferocytosis, it is surprisingly difficult to histologically detect apoptotic cells despite >10 cellular suicides occurring per day in adult tissues.
These shorten slightly every time the chromosome replicates, until eventually the cell can no longer divide, becoming senescent or undergoing "apoptosis" – the cellular equivalent of suicide.
In addition to directly impairing virus replication, another effective protection mechanism used by multi-cellular organisms is to trigger suicide of the infected cell.
Did such a degeneration provoke a panic signal in the brain that goaded Wurtzel's deadly reverie: cellular death leading to thoughts of suicide.
It lessens swelling and pressure on the brain and reduces cellular activity, including cells' instructions to commit suicide.
