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  • adjective That leads to apoptosis

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Examples

  • In this paper, we report the proapoptotic effects of embryonic stem cell (ESC) - mediated mda-7/IL-24 delivery to malignant glioma cell lines.

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  • Seeley and his team treated lean and obese mice and rats with the proapoptotic peptide for periods of four or 27 days.

    EurekAlert! - Breaking News 2010

  • A research team led by Randy Seeley, PhD, of UC's Metabolic animal models treated with proapoptotic peptide experienced decreased food intake and significant fat loss.

    WN.com - Articles related to Maternal obesity makes kids prone to inflammatory diseases 2010

  • Viral vectors that deliver proapoptotic genes to malignant glioma cells have been investigated.

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  • Previous studies reported a reactivation of the proapoptotic factor Bid

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Nadine Rohwer et al. 2010

  • Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a major cause of disability, its clinical outcome depending mostly on the extent of damage in which proapoptotic cytokines have a crucial function.

    Naturejobs - All Jobs Giuseppina Cantarella 2010

  • Researchers know that TRAIL-induced cell death entirely depends on the presence of Bax, which is a member of the proapoptotic Bcl-2 family of proteins and is often lost in tumor cells for various reasons.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010

  • Since TNF-α is a known proapoptotic cytokine, we tested for observable differences in apoptosis of macrophages infected with

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Arunava Dasgupta et al. 2010

  • In this study, the function of the proapoptotic cytokine tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand

    Naturejobs - All Jobs Giuseppina Cantarella 2010

  • Alvino E, Pagani E, Arcelli D, Caporaso P, et al. (2009) Altered expression of selected microRNAs in melanoma: antiproliferative and proapoptotic activity of miRNA-155.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Mitchell S. Stark et al. 2010

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