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- noun Plural form of
caspase .
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Examples
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Cancer drugs today indirectly activate those enzymes, called caspases, but finding a way to directly rev them up may create a new way of killing cells in a broad range of cancers while reducing the toxic side effects of chemotherapy.
Boston Business News - Local Boston News | Boston Business Journal 2010
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Cancer drugs today indirectly activate those enzymes, called caspases, but finding a way to directly rev them up may create a new way of killing cells in a broad range of cancers while reducing the toxic side effects of chemotherapy.
Boston Business News - Local Boston News | Boston Business Journal 2010
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Normally, faulty cells die by committing programmed suicide, or apoptosis, which occurs when proteins called caspases are 'switched on' in cells, the researchers said.
News24 Top Stories 2009
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Normally, faulty cells die by committing programmed suicide - or apoptosis - which occurs when proteins called caspases are "switched on" in cells.
Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009
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Normally, faulty cells die by committing programmed suicide, or apoptosis, which occurs when proteins called caspases are 'switched on' in cells, the researchers said.
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2009
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IAPs are key components of the complex cascade of protein signaling that activates enzymes called caspases to initiate breakdown of the cancer cell.
unknown title 2009
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One way of determining whether they're succeeded is by monitoring key early players in apoptosis called caspases, a family of usually quiescent enzymes found inside every mammalian cell.
innovations-report 2009
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The activated caspases will begin the process of orderly taking the cell apart and the cleavage of part of the actin cytoskeleton is shown.
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The activated caspases will begin the process of orderly taking the cell apart and the cleavage of part of the actin cytoskeleton is shown.
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Cassens U, Samraj AK, Sibrowski W, Schulze-Osthoff K, et al. (2002) The role of caspases in cryoinjury: caspase inhibition strongly improves the recovery of cryopreserved hematopoietic and other cells.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Sangeetha V. M et al. 2010
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