Sentences with phrase «killer cells kill»

Compared to other types of immune cells, Natural Killer cells kill these cells quickly.

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She suspects that the dying muscle cells release the killer protein, triggering a slow domino killing effect that picks up speed over decades of life.

In August 1995 they announced that breast milk kills cancer cells and pinpointed the killer, which turned out to be one of the most abundant proteins in the milk.

The researchers found that the protein, called VRC07 - αCD3, triggered the activation and killing of latently HIV - infected helper T cells when the cells were taken from patients on antiretroviral therapy and then incubated in the lab with the patients» own killer T cells.

One was a stark deficiency in the total number of natural killer cells, which seek out and destroy viruses and cancer cells, and a reduction in the killing power of the natural killer cells that remained.

Dr Yu said this type of killer T cell was naturally found in the body during infection, but their numbers and killing function needed to be boosted to allow them to eradicate chronic infections.

Using a combination of human or specially engineered mouse cells in vitro and in vivo animal models, study senior investigator Judy Lieberman, MD, PhD; study lead investigator Farokh Dotiwala, PhD, with a team lead by the Brazilian parasitologist Ricardo Gazzinelli, DSc, DVM, found that when an immune killer cell, such as a T - cell or natural killer (NK) cell, encounters a cell infected with any of three intracellular parasites (Trypanosoma cruzi, Toxoplasma gondii or Leishmania major), it releases three proteins that together kill both the parasite and the infected cell:

«Natural killer cells are very attractive targets for immunotherapy because they are able to kill tumor cells,» said Si - Yi Chen, M.D., Ph.D., a faculty member of the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and senior author of the study.

What's more, IL - 33 and the DNA vaccine augmented immunological responses in both CD4 helper T cells and CD8 killer T cells, with a large proportion of CD8 killer T cells demonstrating a further improvement in the ability of DNA vaccines to drive the immune system to kill tumor cells in animals.

A subtype of T lymphocyte, known as a natural killer (NK) cell, patrols the body, attacking and killing viruses and cancer cells.

Led by Ludwig Lausanne investigator Alexandre Harari and George Coukos, director of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Lausanne, the study shows that ovarian tumors harbor highly reactive killer T cells — which kill infected and cancerous cells — and demonstrates how they can be identified and selectively grown for use in personalized, cell - based immunotherapies.

For every modified T cell infused into the patients» blood, at least 1000 tumor cells were killed, leading the researchers to dub the T cells «serial killers.»

My research is working towards developing ways to kick - start this metabolic engine in patients» Natural Killer cells in order to restore their capacity to kill tumours.

In the study, the biomedical engineers killed the cancerous tumor cells within days, by injecting liposomes armed with TRAIL (Tumor necrosis factor Related Apoptosis - Inducing Ligand) that attach to «natural killer» cells — a type of white blood cell — residing in the lymph nodes.

The tumour killing functions of Natural Killer cells require energy and to meet this demand NK cells take on more fuel, which they burn within a metabolic engine to drive energy production.

David Raulet and colleagues show that the DNA damage response, a kinase cascade induced in early stage cancer cells, induces tumor cells to display ligands that activate natural killer cells and induce tumor cell killing.

«My whole work is about immune cell responses to melanoma — how we can teach particular immune cells called killer T cells to recognise melanoma better, target melanoma better and kill melanoma better,» Katherine says.

Marauding immune cells called natural killer (NK) cells, which attack and kill invaders and spew inflammatory substances called cytokines, need to be «licensed» to properly carry out...

HIV needs this protein to infect and kill the killer cells, so removing it can «protect» killer cells so that they can continue to spread and kill HIV - infected cells.

25: Radaeva S, Sun R, Jaruga B, Nguyen VT, Tian Z, Gao B. Natural killer cells ameliorate liver fibrosis by killing activated stellate cells in NKG2D - dependent and tumor necrosis factor - related apoptosis - inducing ligand - dependent manners.

The third Objective (IRF3) brings together promising scientists and clinicians from the University of Pennsylvania and the Rockefeller University to combine gene therapy strategies, independently tested in humans, with the goal of engineering, growing, and administering killer cells that are uniquely empowered to find and kill HIV - infected cells.

This suggests that treatment with IL - 15 can successfully relieve tumor - resident killer T cells from functional suppression and reactivate them to kill pancreatic cancer cells.

These killer T cells and antibodies can help eliminate the reactivated reservoir cells to complete the «shock and kill» strategy.

Natural killer (NK) cells, the «rapid response» cells of the innate immune system, can kill virally infected cells and thereby slow down an infection until antigen - specific and clonally - expanded cytotoxic T cells can be recruited to finish the job.

The tumors in the active mice contained more of two types of cancer - killing cells, explains Quartz, «double the number of T - cells and five times the number of natural killer cells.»

The killer feature in the ViewSonic ViewPad 100 is dual - booting capabilities with Windows 7 and Android, so you can kill two birds (cell phone nerd, work use) with one stone.

Garlic increases the immune activity of Killer Cells (cells that seek out and kill invading bacteria and cancer ceCells (cells that seek out and kill invading bacteria and cancer cecells that seek out and kill invading bacteria and cancer cellscells).