Sentences with phrase «immune system strategies»

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Brain and nervous system development, immune system strength, learning capacity, stress coping strategies, emotional stability and physical coordination are all experience dependent.

This strategy works by sabotaging the ability of the cancer cells to hide from the immune system.

«Steep funding cuts for the federal health agencies are counterproductive at a time when innovative research is moving us closer to identifying solutions for rare diseases, new prevention strategies to protect Americans from deadly and costly conditions, advances in gene therapy, new technologies for understanding the brain, and treatments that harness the ability of our immune system to fight cancer.»

«Our findings results suggest a new strategy for immune system - based therapies for cancer,» says the study's senior author, Harvey Cantor, MD, of Dana - Farber and Harvard.

Together, the two studies advance the idea that gut microbes play a role in turning the immune system against nerve cells, causing MS.. It will take a lot more work to develop cures or preventive strategies based on that, but the research raises the intriguing possibility of treating an often - devastating disease with something as low - tech as fecal transplants or probiotics.

At Stanford and elsewhere, the hunt is on for treatment cocktails that quell the inflammation and new strategies to keep a rogue immune system at bay.

So Swanton is focusing on immunotherapies — strategies that help the immune system to recognize and destroy cancer cells.

Combining current drugs with strategies to protect oligodendrocytes, enhance myelin - making and possibly wrangle the immune system through the gut might be the best strategy for achieving prolonged benefit for people with MS.

With so many unanswered questions, researchers have begun looking for potential treatment strategies outside the immune system.

Porter and June's strategy was to enable the body's own immune system to eliminate the cancer cells.

The problem, he explains, is that the strategy is different from vaccination, in which the body's immune system produces antibodies and remembers how to do so for years or even decades.

«Targeting autophagy in tumor cells is a promising strategy to reinforce the immune system to fight cancer,» he claims.

«Immune system found to control eye tissue renewal in zebrafish: Discovery suggests that strategies to regulate immune system cell reactivity to injury and cell loss might one day unlock and boost human tissue and cellular regeneration.»

One promising strategy in the fight against cancer is to use the body's own immune system to remove tumor cells, but due to a phenomenon called immune tolerance, the immune system has a difficult time identifying which cells to attack.

Researchers have long speculated that viruses and other infectious agents could trigger MS.. Many pathogens are thought to evade the immune system using a cloaking strategy called molecular mimicry.

A strategy that combines ultrasound with microscopic blood - borne bubbles can briefly open the barrier, in theory giving drugs or the immune system access to the brain.

Now a University of Colorado Cancer Center review published in the journal Viruses explores another strategy that viruses use to ensure their own survival, also with the unfortunate byproduct of promoting cancer, namely the viral ability to manipulate the human immune system.

Until now, most researchers have focused on one of two strategies: attacking tumors with antibodies, which activate the innate immune system, or stimulating T cells, which form the backbone of the adaptive immune system.

And, in fact, these doctors and researchers are finding incredible success with this strategy; for example, PD - 1 inhibitors remove this «cloak» that cancers use to hide from the immune system, and CAR - T cell therapies use specially engineered T - cells to seek cancer - specific proteins and destroy the cancer cells to which they are attached.

The immune system has several strategies to prevent this, known as tolerance, and researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) have identified a novel checkpoint of peripheral tolerance, specifically in B cells.

They also support the view that modifying the body's immune system is an important strategy in treating cancer.

«We need to find new strategies that will empower the immune system towards long - term control of HIV infection,» said Luis J. Montaner, D.V.M., M.Sc., D.Phil., Editor - in - Chief of the Journal of Leukocyte Biology.

A better strategy, Watts and colleagues reasoned, might be to target BACE1 with antibodies, immune system sharpshooters that can be designed to attack very specific molecular targets.

Immunotherapy is a promising strategy for the treatment of Alzheimer's that uses antibodies to stimulate the immune system to remove pieces of a protein called amyloid beta which accumulates in the brain (in deposits known as plaques) and is thought to be a major factor driving Alzheimer's neurodegenerative effects.

However, tumors also employ strategies to evade detection by the immune system.

«Knowing specifically how LPA inhibits the immune response suggests several strategies for harnessing the immune system's natural ability to fight cancer,» said Dr. Torres.

She holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Aging & Immunity, and investigates how changes in the immune system of older adults and vulnerable populations predispose them to pneumonia infection.The aim of Dr. Bowdish's research at McMaster University is to develop novel preventative and therapeutic strategies that reduce the burden of pneumonia.

The CRISPR / Cas adaptive immune system seems like the winning ticket to ensure prokaryotic survival; however, viruses, too, are famous for their ability to devise new strategies to reproduce within a host cell.

The Cancer Research Institute (CRI), established in 1953, is the world's leading nonprofit organization dedicated exclusively to transforming cancer patient care by advancing scientific efforts to develop new and effective immune system - based strategies to prevent, diagnose, treat, and eventually cure all cancers.

By understanding nature of the relationship between the central nervous system and the immune system it will become easier to develop therapeutics strategies to treat neurotrauma more effectively.

Researchers at the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered a potential novel strategy for improving drugs that unleash the immune system against cancer — by binding two compounds...

Researchers at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center have initiated a clinical trial based on a unique two - pronged strategy for arming the immune system to more effectively attack cancer cells.

This team plans to conduct the first human clinical trial combining these two therapeutic strategies (which have been tested separately and have shown activity in reducing HIV in humans), with the expectation that a boosted innate immune system empowered with unique antibodies to target HIV - infected cells will achieve greater reductions in HIV than observe previously.

Immune Regenerative Medicine is the field of medicine which encompasses numerous strategies used to improve the body's healing response in restoring the cells and function of the innate and adaptive immune system.

In addition to drugs and gene constructs, there's another strategy in the works for eliminating senescent cells: enhancing the innate immune system's ability to purge them.

A better understanding of how maternal Abs interfere with the infant immune system is key to developing combined maternal and infant immunization strategies that will ensure the continuous protection of infants.

Her objective is to mobilize the immune system to eradicate them, by uncovering the strategies they use to establish chronic infections.

Immune Regenerative Medicine encompasses numerous strategies used to improve the body's healing response in restoring the cells and function of the immune system.

Li Gan, PhD, and her team showed that targeting key components of the immune system could be a new therapeutic strategy for a common form of dementia.

As for the kill portion of the strategy, specific antibodies have to be introduced to the immune system to help it identify and kill the virus.

The need to wipe out a patient's existing immune system beforehand can be problematic, so Dr. Rubinstein is developing a strategy that eliminates the need to do so.

Warner Greene, MD, PhD, director and senior investigator of GIVI, co-director with Volberding of the UCSF - GIVI Center For AIDS Research (CFAR), and one of the amfAR Institute's four project directors, said the team's strategy would focus on stimulating the less specialized, «innate» immune system that forms the first line of defense against infections.

«Our strategy will be to exploit the innate immune system to help flush the virus out of hiding and ultimately to eliminate its ability to bounce back when drug treatment ends,» said Greene, a professor of medicine, microbiology and immunology at UCSF, and the Nick and Sue Hellmann Distinguished Professor of Translational Medicine at Gladstone.

They linked these behaviors to immune pathways, implicating that targeting key components of the immune system could be a new therapeutic strategy for FTD.

For example, the counterintuitive management strategy in such an encephalitis case would be to suppress the immune system — not a therapeutic intervention one would necessarily consider in the case of a pathogen caused disease.

To eliminate HIV latency, scientists are exploring a «shock and kill» strategy that would use a combination of drugs to wake up the dormant virus, then act with the body's own immune system to eliminate the virus and kill infected cells.

A novel approach to cancer immunotherapy — strategies designed to induce the immune system to attack cancer cells — may provide a new and cost - effective weapon against some of the most deadly tumors, including ovarian cancer and mesothelioma.

However, instead of focusing on neurons, she thinks an alternative strategy lies in the brain's immune system.

This strategy instructs the vaccine recipient to produce the antigen in his / her own body so that the immune system can be activated and mount a rapid and potent response against malaria.

Researchers at Roswell Park Cancer Institute have initiated a clinical trial based on a unique two - pronged strategy for arming the immune system to more effectively attack cancer cells.