Sentences with phrase «adaptive immune system t»

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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.

T cells, along with B cells and others, comprise the adaptive arm of the immune system, the body's second line of defense which quickly attacks and «remembers» specific pathogens.

«An exaggerated inflammatory response among cellular elements of the innate immune system can drive the adaptive immune system down an allergy - associated T H2 pathway,» said Vuillermin.

A healthy gut depends on a balance of inflammatory and tolerant T cells, which make up part of the adaptive immune system.

As with innate immunity, the adaptive immune system — the T cells and antibodies produced by B cells that target specific molecules on invading cells — contributes to pathology or may also fight against it.

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 macrophages are capable of killing tumor cells or sending out an alarm to T cells of the adaptive immune system that something is amiss.

Until now, most researchers have focused on one of two strategies: attacking tumors with antibodies, which activate the innate immune system, or stimulating T cells, which form the backbone of the adaptive immune system.

MHC I & II molecules then bind the antigen and present it to different arms of the adaptive immune system, potentially mobilizing T cells, B cells and natural killer (NK) cells.

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.

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.

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.

T cell immunodeficiencies (adaptive)-- T cells are the second of two key cell types of the adaptive immune system.

T cells form a vital component of our adaptive immune system.

Available studies support important contributions to pulmonary inflammation from innate immune cells such as neutrophils and macrophages (TNF - α, IL - 6), as well as from the adaptive immune system, such as T cells (IL - 1, IL - 4, IL - 6, and IL - 10).

This arm of the immune system instructs the «learned» or adaptive system, which employs B cells and T cells to build antibodies that continues to re-recognize the offending agent.

These cells, along with dendritic cells, recognize the incoming undigested food particles, toxic agents, and bacterial components as foreign invaders, and present them to cells of the adaptive immune system called T and B lymphocytes, leading to clonal expansion (proliferation or multiplication of specific subsets of T and B cells) and recruitment of more pro-inflammatory immune cells to the gut through a process called leukocyte homing.