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One theoretical explanation for this was offered by Casemore [ 56 ] who expressed the opinion that long-term, low-level exposures to oocysts in raw vegetables and in unpasteurized products may confer protection by boosting the immune system.
One type might be clones that carry M. tuberculosis genes that confer enhanced resistance to the antimicrobial processes of the macrophage.
In three of these cell lines, LNCaP, MDA PCa 2a and MDA PCa 2b, mutations in the ligand-binding domain of the AR confer broad steroid-binding affinity [ 8, 9].
To examine the effect of TGF-β1 on joint pathology, we used adenovirus-mediated intra-articular gene delivery to confer sustained, intra-articular TGF-β1 expression in both naïve and arthritic rabbit knee joints.
The T790M mutation was shown in vitro in the context of wild-type EGFR to confer resistance to gefitinib [21] and a related quinazoline inhibitor, PD153035 [22].