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death factor
noun
Any of various substances that cause apoptosis in cells
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We called it the 'kiss of death' factor".
This death factor is recognized by the receptors TNFR1 and TNFR2, but most of its biological activity depends on TNFR121.
The current review article is an attempt to cover and establish an understanding of some major signalling pathways intervened through survival factors (IGF-1R), growth factors (TGF-α, EGF), Wnt, Hedgehog, interleukin, cytokinins and death factor receptor which are frequently dysregulated in prostate cancer.
The findings challenge the long-held theory that leukemia cells simply outperform healthy cells by living longer and suggest that targeting this "death factor" may be a viable way of combating the disease.
It turns out that Bmp4 is a cell death factor, Cohn said.
Because football with neutrality is like sex without romance, inherently pleasurable, but lacking the life and death factor that really makes it worth it.
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But watching Louis's conversations remind us that death factors heavily in the slide into addiction.
Indeed, these death factors directly contribute to the death of hepatocytes and thus to pathogenesis in MHV3 fulminant hepatitis.
During fulminant viral hepatitis, a cytokine burst arises, resulting in an enrichment of the hepatic microenvironment in death factors such as TNF-α, Fas ligand (FasL) or TRAIL.
This is likely based on its ability to increase neuroprotective factors BDNF and BCl-2 and decrease apoptotic (cell death factors) BAX and P53 (Malhi et al, 2013; Rowe and Chuang, 2004).
With C4C, the advocacy skills necessary to complement my professional experiences in the fight against maternal death factors are being acquired.
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