A variety of plant compounds, vitamins and minerals have been shown to decrease specific immune responses in the gut related to food sensitivity. (sanjosefuncmed.com)
If melanoma cells can be made to produce IL - 2, this should stimulate a strong, specific immune response against them. (newscientist.com)
Although this problem can, to some extent, be addressed by the use of reporter constructs (e.g. Diptericin - LacZ) that provide quantitative or visual read - outs from specific immune response genes, we still lack the ability to follow bacterial infections in real - time in the critical early stages of infection. (journals.plos.org)