Sentences with phrase «several cells of the immune system»

Several cells of the immune system can store vitamin C and require it to perform their task, especially phagocytes and t - cells.

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The momentum started building in 2010 when the FDA approved Provenge, a cancer vaccine that rallies male patients» immune systems to attack prostate cancer cells, allowing patients with an advanced form of the cancer to live several months longer.

It's a mixture of rituximab (which helps immune system keep cancer cells from growing) and several chemotherapy drugs (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone) that kill the cancer cells themselves.

During the initial phase, a relatively aggressive inflammation response occurs, and several types of cell from the immune system are attracted to the wound.

In laboratory studies, daratumumab caused the targeted killing of CD38 - carrying tumor cells by several distinct and potent mechanisms, including some that involve the immune system.

Their system, adapted from technology they previously developed and commercialized through U.K. - based CN BioInnovations, also incorporates several on - board pumps that can control the flow of liquid between the «organs,» replicating the circulation of blood, immune cells, and proteins through the human body.

The investigators also measured gene expression of postvaccinated cervical cells in three of the patients and found increased expression of several genes (CXCR3, Tbet and IFNβ) associated with activation of the immune system.

That vaccine, which included bits of beta - amyloid to arouse immune - system T cells, cleared the clumps, but it also provoked dangerous brain inflammation in several patients.

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.

Because of the work of several other collaborators, Haughey says, his team knew that some sort of inflammation - promoting molecule was released from brain and targeted to the liver after brain injury to send immune system cells to the damaged area, but the identity of this go - between had been elusive for years.

In particular it is important for the development of several kinds of cells of the immune system.

Key elements of the immune system, they also have the ability to turn into several cell types after having passed the endothelial barrier, in order to fulfil different functions depending on the tissue.

Genome studies show that several such viruses, including one that infects mouse mammary cells and has been linked to cancer, have something in common — a sequence of DNA similar to that found in immune system cells.

Johannes Scheid, a student in Nussenzweig's lab, isolated it several years ago from an HIV - infected patient whose immune system had an exceptional ability to neutralize HIV in the blood by preventing the virus from infecting and destroying a specific type of immune cells, called CD4 cells, in patients.

Vα14 invariant NKT (Vα14 iNKT) cells are a population of T lymphocytes that have several unique characteristics; many of these are related to their ability to function similarly to cells of the innate as opposed to the adaptive immune system.

In the past several years there has been growing evidence supporting this notion, revealing subpopulations of cells representing different arms of the immune system, as potential regulators of the immune system.

Ultimately, what the immune system produces is several hundred various types of antibodies and excrete immune boosting interleukins and cytokines on top of what it normally produces with the whole cell on its own.

In several preliminary studies — including one study of older individuals (with an average age of 86 years) consuming one half ounce of probiotic cheese every day for 4 weeks — researchers were able to detect immune system benefits, including increased activity of immune cells and increased numbers of some immune cell types (particularly phagocytes).

In terms of fat - derived stem cells, progress has been made in several areas of canine health, including muscle inflammation and a disease known as immune - mediated anemia, which is when the immune system destroys red blood cells, leaving your dog weak and listless.

(ref1, ref2) When the cat's eye (s) is involved, these cells of the cat's immune system increase in number within the several layers of the cornea - the clear covering of the eye.

``... several animal studies indicate serious health risks associated with GM food consumption including infertility, immune dysregulation, accelerated aging, dysregulation of genes associated with cholesterol synthesis, insulin regulation, cell signaling, and protein formation, and changes in the liver, kidney, spleen and gastrointestinal system.»