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10B) showing that these cells are refractory to the differentiating effect of bt 2 cAMP.
Staphylococcus aureus is the most common cause of osteomyelitis, a disease often refractory to treatment and subject to recurrence.
All of these cell lines have been isolated from patients with advanced prostate carcinomas that have become refractory to androgen deprivation therapy [ 5, 6, 7].
M6P/IGF2R allelic loss would therefore result in enhanced cellular bioavailability of this potent growth factor, thereby potentially increasing both cell proliferation and resistance to apoptosis [ 29 ] . The M6P/IGF2R also facilitates the activation of TGFβ, a potent cell growth inhibitor that is secreted in an inactive form (reviewed in [ 15 16 ] ). M6P/IGF2R mutation is therefore one mechanism by which cancer cells can become refractory to TGFβ's mitoinhibitory effect.
Enrique Lerdau gives examples of German Schuttelreime [XX,3] but finds them refractory in English.