Sentences with phrase «adaptive cells in the immune system»

Dr. Locksley's laboratory focuses on tracking cytokine expression in model systems, as a mechanism to investigate complex functional interactions between innate and adaptive cells in the immune system.

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When the dendritic cells are activated, they train T cells — their allies in the adaptive arm of the immune system — to attack cancer cells anywhere in the body, whether at the site of the original tumor or distant metastases.

The rapid drop in circulating T cells during sleep «show [s] that even one night without sleep affects the adaptive immune system,» says first author Luciana Besedovsky.

The researchers are investigating an adaptive immune system, termed CRISPR - Cas, which is found in half of all bacterial species and in almost all single - celled microbes in the archaea domain.

With respect to biological applications, the group is focusing on how cellular heterogeneity and cell - to - cell communication drive ensemble - level decision - making in the immune system, with an emphasis on «two - body» interaction (e.g., host cell - virus interactions, innate immune control of adaptive immunity, tumor infiltration by immune cells).

Our laboratory is interested broadly in the interface between the innate and adaptive immune systems, and the unique subsets of T lymphocytes that bridge these systems by adopting properties that are very characteristic of innate immune cells.

B cells (bursal or bone marrow - derived cells) are lymphocytes that play a pivotal role in the adaptive immune system and disruption of B cell function is a common hallmark of many different diseases.

In the late 1960s, Rowley and his graduate student Donald Mosier were the first to describe the function of a previously unrecognized cell type, a component of the adaptive immune system they labeled the «A cell,» for its «adherent, accessory or antigen - presenting capacity.»

Immune Regenerative Medicine is the field of medicine which encompasses numerous strategies used to improve the body's healing response in restoring the cells and function of the innate and adaptive immune system.

Topics covered will include how the immune system and commensal microbes interact in the context of health and disease; how dendritic cells respond to infectious or inflammatory stimuli and the roles they play in the induction and polarization of adaptive immune responses against pathogens; how the innate immune pathways regulate inflammation at mucosal barrier tissue sites and how the macrophages are involved in intestinal inflammation.

For HIV to develop into full - blown AIDS, the virus must deplete a subset of immune cells called CD4 + T cells, disabling an infected person's adaptive immune system in the process.

GM - CSF also promotes an inflammatory environment for the adaptive arm of the immune system, especially in Th17 cell biology [64, 65].

The strict limit in proliferative potential of normal human somatic cells - a process known as replicative senescence - is highly relevant to the immune system, because clonal expansion is fundamental to adaptive immunity.

Zebrafish have both an innate and adaptive immune system with the full repertoire of immune and inflammatory cells found in mammalian systems.

The adaptive immune system is a more advanced, sophisticated part of the immune system, and miscommunications between adaptive immune system cells lead those cells to fight your body's own tissues, creating the villous atrophy seen in celiac disease.

What ends up happening is IgG cells from our adaptive immune system are called in to attack.