Sentences with phrase «t killer cells»

One function of T killer cells is to «patrol» in the blood and remove pathogen - infected cells.

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The favorable composition of flora were associated with a «higher activation status» of their killer T cells within the tumor compared to those who had an abundance of Bacteroidales.

Interleukin - 1 is important for developing the killer T cell response against the virus, but it also affects the part of the brain in the hypothalamus that regulates body temperature, resulting in fever and headaches.

Basically, CAR - T therapy involves taking a patient's own immune «killer» T - cells, inserting new genetic code into those cells which turn them into cancer - hunters that can home in on malignant B - cells (another kind of immune cell), and then pumping these specialized leukemia - busting cells back into the patient.

In clinical trials the treatment — which involves extracting individual patients» immune T - cells, modifying them to seek out tell - tale biological markers associated with blood cancers like aggressive lymphoma, and then pumping those modified killer cells back into the body — has shown major promise, in some cases eliminating all signs of the cancer in patients six months after treatment.

In December, SQZ partnered with global pharma firm and cancer treatment leader F. Hoffmann - La Roche in a deal that could be worth $ 500 million or more — a large undisclosed upfront payment, and additional sums when SQZ meets certain milestones — to speed up the development of its technology specifically to inject a person's immune cells with a protein to activate a «killer T» cell response to fight off cancer.

Bellicum is among the flurry of biotechs investing heavily into cell therapies such as experimental chimeric antigen receptor T - cell (CAR - T) treatments for cancer (this is the next - gen treatment that involves reprogramming immune cells to become cancer killers and has shown promise in blood cancers, which Bellicum specializes in).

No. 4: CAR - T takes a backseat Research into chimeric antigen receptor T - cell (CAR - T) therapy has captured the attention of investors over the past two years, but safety risks could emerge as trial sizes increase, and that could help shift attention to other promising anti-cancer approaches, including NantKwest's (NASDAQ: NK) natural killer cell approach and soon - to - IPO Editas» CRISPR / Cas approach.

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A decade ago a drug based on an internal protein of the flu virus, called NP (for nucleoprotein), set the immune system's killer T cells into action, but it only partially protected mice from the flu.

Unlike the differential effect on Treg cell proliferation following PD - L1 blockage, the researchers observed an increase in the proliferation of killer T cells from all HIV study groups, regardless of their viral load.

Marta Monteiro and colleagues at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, studied mice protected from the animal equivalent of multiple sclerosis by natural killer T - cells (NKT), a class of white blood cell which helps to control the immune system.

Chronic HIV infection results in exhaustion of the immune system, a phenomenon characterized by dysfunctional HIV - specific killer T cells.

Their paper, which appears in Nature Communications, describes how an immune cell recruited to the tumor induces the programmed suicide, or apoptosis, of the killer T cells harnessed by many immunotherapies.

Interaction between the PD - 1 protein found on killer T cells and its binding partner PD - 1L is one hallmark of immune exhaustion, and interfering with this interaction a potential strategy to overcome it.

Similar approaches using killer T cells are already being investigated as a cancer treatment, with some promising results.

The so - called STEP trial, sponsored by pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. and the federally funded HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN), was the first to test the idea of stimulating the immune system's killer T cells to hunt for the virus more aggressively, in this case using a weakened form of the cold virus to carry three genes from HIV.

IL - 15 is a growth factor for certain kinds of white blood cells including natural killer cells and T cells.

LFA - 1 molecules stud the surface of killer T cells.

Histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors have shown promise in «flushing out» HIV from latently infected cells, potentially exposing the reservoirs available for elimination by cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL), also called killer T cells.

«Drugs that flush out HIV may impair killer T cells, possibly hindering HIV eradication.»

If so, then different devils» perfectly matched «identity cards» would prevent their killer T cells from recognizing each other's tissues as foreign.

In this process, several hundred times more cells of the so - called myeloid lineage (thrombocytes, erythrocytes, granulocytes, monocytes) form than long - lived lymphocytes (T cells, B cells, natural killer cells) do.

Killer T cells (green) surround a cancer cell (blue), where they will deliver the death blow via chemicals stored in vesicles (red).

Next, the HIV - binding end of the protein latches onto those pieces of virus while the CD3 - binding end attaches to a killer T cell, activating it and bringing it close to the helper T cell.

1) Protein and cells, from left to right: engineered protein with yellow - and - black CD3 - binding end and thick black HIV - binding end; latently HIV - infected helper T cell (blue); inactivated killer T cell (red).

4) Activated killer T cell destroys HIV - infected helper T cell.

3) Protein binds to HIV fragment on helper T cell and CD3 receptor on killer T cell, activating the killer T cell and bringing the two cells close together.

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.

Then you activate the killer T cells with the dendritic - cell vaccine, so now you've got all your smart bombs and your cruise missiles coming in from outside.

Scientists have focused instead on the other branch of the immune system which marshals an army of specialised cells, such as killer T cells, against invaders.

To work his magic, Brenner takes ordinary T cells and tweaks them into cancer killers extraordinaire.

When a T cell detects one, it morphs into a fighting machine, zapping invaders with lethal chemicals, multiplying into an army of identical killers or signaling other immune - system troops to join the attack.

In essence, he says, weak T regs can mature into killer T cells that weed out other immune cells mounting attacks on healthy tissues.

This biosynthetic hybrid stimulates the development of weak T regs into killer T cells that destroy the immune cells directing the autoimmune attack.

They have evidence that some people may be able to resist infection because previous exposure to tiny amounts of virus has stimulated a strong response from killer T cells which can destroy cells infected with virus.

These cells are a part of the body's immune system, but the CD4 cells can not fight the virus themselves; killer T - cells can.

However, killer T - cells can not tell if a CD4 cell contains «hibernating» HIV virus.

In principle this means that the killer T cells can now trace and destroy the HIV - infected CD4 cells.

T cells can be divided into «helper» cells and «killer» cells, based on their function and the molecules they have on their surfaces.

This is an illustration showing interactions between components of the AH10 - 7 compound (yellow), an immune system antigen - presenting cell (gray), and an invariant natural killer T cell (green and blue) that spark activation of iNKT cells in «humanized» mice.

Moreover, the researchers have investigated if the total HIV reservoir in the body is lowered when the killer T - cells are now able to trace and destroy the HIV - infected CD4 cells.

The next step is a bigger trial where the researchers will combine romidepsin activation of hidden HIV with a vaccine (vacc - 4x) to strengthen the ability of killer T - cells to fight hiv virus.

An international team of scientists, led by Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute researcher Dr Di Yu, and Dr Axel Kallies from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, have discovered that killer T cells, a specialised type of white blood cells, can find these «hidden» infected cells in tissue and destroy them.

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.

«We could potentially transfer these specialised super potent killer T cells into patients, or we could treat patients with proteins that can drag these specialised killer T - cells into the right spots, specifically to the hot spots where HIV can hide on antiviral treatment,» Professor Lewin said.

He has initiated multiple trials under investigational new drug applications using infused T cells and natural killer (NK) cells.

«It pointed us to the idea that although T cells and natural killer cells are important, maybe we're forgetting about a part of the immune system that is also really important and could help us achieve our goals of ultimately curing the tumors.»

Dr Yu's PhD student Mr Yew Ann Leong, who conducted a large portion of the research, also from the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, said that although some infections including HIV could hide within B cell follicles, these killer T cells are specialised to eradicate this hidden virus pool.

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: