Herceptin is one such miracle drug that blocks a faulty gene pathway found in 30 percent of breast cancers.
narrow pathway high in the air (as above a stage; between parts of a building; along a bridge).
Studies performed in the HCV infected animal model of virus infection showed initially that by blocking this pathway it is possible to reconstitute the T cell function.
Each sensor has its own microelectrode, and these are placed in contact with nerve cells in the retina, called bipolar cells, the first step on the pathway from the eye to the brain.
A cobblestone pathway is a perfect way to lead people to your doorway.
The scientists contend that Bush ducked because his brain’s action pathway categorized the trajectory of the shoe as a threat well before his perception pathway began to track its flight.
Neuroscientists like to say that addictive drugs and activities, but not the nonaddictive ones, "highjack" the reward-reinforcement pathway, they don't merely activate it.
Edwin Wintermute and his colleagues at Harvard have engineered yeast cells to carry out two of six steps in the pathway needed to make lysergic acid, the precursor of LSD.
They discovered a pathway that inhibits nitric oxide and thus impedes blood flow.
"Life seems to exploit every possible chemical pathway to obtain energy and make carbon-carbon bonds," says Hazen.
If your early world is full of stress, that may calibrate you onto a pathway of develop fast, don't think too far ahead about the future, get on with stuff at an early age.
This was a new pathway into the creation of memories that had never been understood before.
So we could get this result from another pathway, too, but a more simple and direct way is just to start directly from the Boltzmann result for entropy.
The pathway could also elucidate how language evolved.
They said: "This pilot study suggests that dietary intake of watercress may be sufficient to modulate this potential anti-cancer pathway."
The glucose not used in glycolysis is metabolized via a second pathway, the hexose monophosphate (HMP) shunt.
Oncology drugs act primarily by inhibiting a deregulated pathway, which indirectly leads to cell death.
Whether this means nicotine is working through an additional, hormone-regulated pathway in the female brain is yet to be determined.
They walked along the pathway toward the house.
It's believed that the same neurotransmitter pathway problems are involved in the development of ADHD and DLB, so Golimstok's team wanted to test the theory that ADHD often precedes DLB.
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