Sentences with phrase «research hospital immunologists»

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital immunologists have identified the protein trigger in the body's quick - reaction innate immune system that specifically recognizes the influenza virus in infected cells and triggers their death.

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Not only microbes protect against asthma evidently, but also farm animals: Petting cats and cows and drinking farm milk can also prevent asthma, as the team of researchers headed up by Remo Frei of the Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research from the University of Zurich in cooperation with the Center for Allergy Research and Education (CK - CARE) in Davos and the Children's Hospital of Eastern Switzerland in St. Gallen: «Early childhood contact with animals and the consumption of food of animal origin seems to regulate the inflammatory reactions of the immune system,» says immunologist Frei.

The researchers, led by Professor Bernd Pichler at the Werner Siemens Imaging Center, worked with dermatologists, pathologists and immunologists at the University hospitals and at the German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research.

«It's a very elegant study,» says immunologist Paul Thomas of the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.

The research, which was funded as part of a collaboration with the University of Oxford, involved professor Peter Andrew from the University of Leicester's Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation and professor Chris Bayliss from the University of Leicester's Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, the hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgeon Ashley Dennison from Leicester's Hospitals, the immunologist Luisa Martinez - Pomares from the University of Nottingham and the expert in bacterial pathogenesis Richard Moxon from the University of Oxford.