prosurvival

A characteristic exhibited by an adult zygote was prosurvival or contrasurvival only in terms of what and when and where-and also in terms of more than one generation.

Time Enough For Love Heinlein, Robert A. 1973

In times of acute illness an otherwise healthy body loses its appetite for food because it is prosurvival to stop eating.

How and When to Be Your Own Doctor Isabel Moser

On the balance, carrying excess weight is a far greater liability than any potential prosurvival aspects it might have.

How and When to Be Your Own Doctor Isabel Moser

In contrast, cannabinoids do not induce apoptosis in cells expressing high levels of receptors because these now also couple to the prosurvival signal AKT.

PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Eiron Cudaback et al. 2010

In contrast, cannabinoids do not induce apoptosis in cells expressing high levels of receptors because these now also couple to the prosurvival signal AKT.

PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Eiron Cudaback et al. 2010

Bok J, Wang Q, Huang J, Green SH (2007) CaMKII and CaMKIV mediate distinct prosurvival signaling pathways in response to depolarization in neurons.

PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Hortensia Sanchez-Calderon et al. 2010

Typical IGF-I intracellular target kinases were also examined in the cochlea, and interestingly a 25% reduction in the activated forms of prosurvival Akt kinase and proliferation-associated ERK1/2 were found, with a dramatic increase in the levels of the stress kinase p38.

PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Hortensia Sanchez-Calderon et al. 2010

The Bcl-2 family includes several prosurvival proteins that are associated with the resistance of cancer cells to apoptosis, or cell death.

Emaxhealth 2009

Using conditional mutagenesis to delete the gene encoding the transcription factor STAT5, we demonstrate that the development of pro-B cells was restored by transgenic expression of the prosurvival protein Bcl-2, which compensated for loss of the antiapoptotic protein Mcl-1.

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Therefore, specific targeting of HER3 may require novel strategies such as antisense that down-modulates HER3 receptor expression and disrupts this critical prosurvival pathway.

Health News from Medical News Today 2008