Sentences with phrase «activated immune cells»

The treatment kills activated immune cells but doesn't harm the stem cells, which are needed to grow the new immune system.

Giving patients a dose of their tumor neoantigens, which look foreign to the immune system, should help activate immune cells called T cells to attack the cancer cells.

Scientists discovered highly active beta -(1 > 3)- glucans with the ability to potentiate innate immunity by activating immune cells.

«Recent successes in cancer immunotherapy — in the form of immune checkpoint inhibitors and adoptive T cell transfer — demonstrate how activated immune cells can eradicate tumors, but until now we didn't fully appreciate immunosurveillance or the role of adaptive immunity in tumor formation,» said senior author Michael Karin, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology and Pathology at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

«What we think happens is that the bacteria activate immune cells, which release chemicals called cytokines that then act on receptors on the sensory nerves to increase their activity,» he says.

By studying infected cells grown in a laboratory, the team found that a large number of CMV's genes help it hide from the immune system by allowing it to destroy many of the proteins produced by the body during virus infection and preventing them from activating immune cells to destroy the virus.

The brains of mice fed a high glycemic index diet have greater numbers of activated immune cells (shown in red and green) called microglia.

Two teams of scientists suggest that activating immune cells in fat can convert the tissue from a type of fat that stores energy to one that burns it, opening up potential new therapies for obesity and diabetes.

And now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis believe they know why: Female sex hormones activate immune cells that damage the nerves necessary for vision.

The researchers went on to identify the immune networks underlying IL - 33's harmful effects and discovered that this molecule activates immune cells called type 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2), which had never before been linked to liver disease.

Two bacterial species that inhabit the human gut activate immune cells to boost the effectiveness of a commonly prescribed anticancer drug, researchers report Oct..

Speeds up our blood clotting function, to prevent excessive blood loss in the event we are injured, and activates our immune cells so they are prepared to commence tissue repair also.

Pure Encapsulations Arabinogalactan has demonstrated the ability to activate immune cells involved with the body's first line of defense and to promote cytokine production.

Fever increases the body's set temperature (range of temperature in which body systems can function normally) to assist the immune system by activating immune cells to attack the foreign invader, such as a bacterial infection.

Dr Samantha Ho, the first author of the article, and colleagues in the laboratory of Asst Prof Gasser found that out - of - place DNA in cancer cells activates the immune system by producing a substance called interferon that activates immune cells called macrophages and T cells to kill cancer cells.

Hoping to develop a more potent approach, medical oncologist Ron Levy of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and colleagues used mice to test the cancer - fighting capabilities of some 20 molecules, including several types of antibodies that activate immune cells.

The activated immune cells are then injected back into the patient's body to spread the call to arms.

He is directing the first gene therapy protocols using modified chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR T) cells based upon the Sleeping Beauty transposon system, and has helped develop clinical - grade artificial antigen - presenting cells for numerically expanding and activating immune cells.

This compound destroyed the activated immune cells, particularly those that targeted islets, so that when a surgeon implanted islets on the kidneys of each mouse, the transplants could take root, make insulin and restore normal blood sugar control.

Most of the «upregulated» genes produce compounds known to activate immune cells — so - called cytokines and chemokines — or are involved in programmed cell death.

«It's as if the seminal fluid is a Trojan horse that activates the immune cells to get things ready for conception,» says Robertson.

The scientists caution that it's too soon to know if the acceptance is permanent — activated immune cells that the scientists have found in the kidneys could still lead to eventual rejection.

«If you activate immune cells, they can home in to cancer cells selectively.

The cells then produce more of what the genes code for: cytokines, which are messenger molecules that circulate in the blood and activate immune cells.

A next step that Ricklin and his colleagues are particularly interested in is how the presence of densely C3 - populated cells affects clearance of PNH erythrocytes under anti-C5 treatment and immune cell modulation (the binding of C3 fragments to immune cell receptors such as CR3 to activate those immune cells).

2000 Johns Hopkins Cancer Center researchers develop a pancreatic cancer vaccine and prove it activates immune cells against pancreatic tumor cells.

The study published on - line April 10th in the journal Nature Immunology finds that saturated fatty acids but not the unsaturated type can activate immune cells to produce an inflammatory protein, called interleukin - 1beta.

These plaques are thought to contribute to the memory loss associated with the disease, possibly by blocking the communication between neurons, or by activating immune cells and triggering inflammation in the brain.

The first part of the PDF describes the beta glucans, and how they activate immune cells, and why do we need them.

Curcumin likewise suppresses production of monocyte chemoattractant protein - 1 (MCP - 1), interferon - inducible protein, tumor necrosis factor (TNF), and interleukin - 12 (IL - 12), cytokines which recruit or activate immune cells and perpetuate pro-inflammatory immune cascades (Chainani, 2003).

Vitamins E, B1, and B9 fight free - radical damage and eliminate toxins from the body and the beta - glucan and polysaccharides work to moisturize, improve collagen production, and activate immune cells.