31. Garlic lowers cholesterol, stimulates the immune system and may kill cancer cells. 32. Future treatment, he said, will involve drugs that selectively kill cells with a particular defect in a breast cancer gene. 33. Hepatitis C can kill liver cells and cause scarring, called cirrhosis. 34. He says the goal is to find treatments that will selectively kill cancer cells, leaving the normal ones standing. 35. --Heavy alcohol consumption kills cells in the mouth and throat. 36. Hycamtin kills cancer cells by interrupting the replication of DNA inside cells, Broom said. 37. Hypoxia, which can kill brain cells, dulls thinking, leading climbers into sometimes fatal mistakes. 38. In addition, the inhibitors seem to lack the toxic side effects of current chemotherapies that unavoidably kill normal cells, too. 39. In ALS, an excess of glutamate overstimulates and kills brain cells. 40. In conventional cancer drug development, companies look for immediate signs that the drugs can kill cells and shrink tumors before they give a green light for further testing. |