Sentences with phrase «against a protein called»

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A new study shows that sand flies, tiny insects that transmit a parasitic disease called leishmaniasis, also secrete a protein in their saliva that protects mice against the disease.

In findings they call counterintuitive, a team of UCLA - led researchers suggests that blocking a protein, which is crucial to initiating the immune response against viral infections, may actually help combat HIV.

Now, for the first time, researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Faculty of Medicine have revealed how a protein called Erbin acts as a brake against this excessive and pathological growth of heart muscle.

The researchers used a technique called activity - based protein profiling, which allowed them to screen the molecule's activity against a very large group of enzymes in living human cells.

In its normal form, caspase - 12 curtails the production of regulatory proteins called cytokines, which help mount an immune response against bacterial infection.

New supercomputer simulations have revealed the role of transport proteins called efflux pumps in creating drug - resistance in bacteria, research that could lead to improving the drugs» effectiveness against life - threatening diseases and restoring the efficacy of defunct antibiotics.

IFNL4 is a member of the family of proteins called interferons (named after their ability to interfere with viruses), which are an essential part of our immune defence against viral infections.

They also showed that drugs against a type of breast tumor called HER2 positive breast cancer — such as the dual ERBB2 / EGFR inhibitor lapatinib — potentially could benefit more patients than currently receive them, if analysis of the tumor proteins is taken into consideration.

The Alabama scientists have now shown how it works against head and neck cancers: It blocks a protein called epidermal growth factor receptor, or EGFR.

An entire class of proteins called transcription factors, which regulate the activity of certain genes by interacting with specific sequences of DNA, has largely been ignored by the pharmaceutical industry because it's difficult to design and screen drugs against them.

In work that has spanned more than a decade, the researchers analyzed blood from adults living in malarial regions of Africa and eventually traced the protection to antibodies against a previously unknown malaria parasite protein called MSP3.

The research involves a protein called fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21), which the scientists previously found helps protect mice against diet - related toxicities to the liver.

While working with Jung at Harvard, she identified a novel molecular mechanism through which a protein in human cells called RIG - I mediates defense against viruses.

In their latest work, reported online in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, the scientists analyzed blood from such mice and identified two types of autoimmune response directed specifically against the protein, with the first response directed by a specialized kind of immune system cells called T cells and the second by antibodies.

Influenza vaccines that better target the influenza surface protein called neuraminidase (NA) could offer broad protection against various influenza virus strains and lessen the...

«The body makes specific antibodies called Immunoglobulin E (IgE) against a particular protein,» explains Julie McNairn, MD, a specialist physician at Allergy and Asthma Associates in Ithaca, New York.

Celiac disease develops when a person makes antibodies against a wheat protein called gluten such that eating anything containing gluten results in intestinal discomfort and a variety other symptoms including joint pain, skin rashes, and fatigue.

Linoleic acid has natural anti-microbial powers, constructs proteins in the skin called ceramides, and is part of your skin cells» defences against UV radiation.

Research has shown that some mothers of children with autism carry immune compounds called antibodies in their bloodstream that react against proteins in the brain.