Sentences with phrase «against microbial»

One of their key modes of action is targeted against microbial membranes and cell walls, which are then disrupted by the higher frequiencies being generated.
And the world's first protection against microbial contamination so the brushes stay clean and fresh longer
The homemade ointments and salves that I use (recipe can be found in my eBook) contain coconut oil because it gives a little added protection against microbial infections.
The zinc in cashews plays a vital role in the strengthening of the immune system against microbial infections.
The innate immune system is a critical component of host defence against microbial pathogens, but effective responses require an ability to distinguish between infectious and non-infectious insult to prevent inappropriate inflammation.
Genetic engineering of human antibodies; host defense mechanisms against microbial infection.
Genomics is a new weapon we have in our battle against these microbial diseases.
D.K.V. Kumar et al., «Amyloid - β peptide protects against microbial infection in mouse and worm models of Alzheimer's disease,» Science Translational Medicine, doi: 10.1126 / scitranslmed.aaf1059, 2016.
Even when compared against microbial melanin, the spectral signatures matched more closely with an animal source.
The new method takes the unknown sample and compares it against this microbial reference library.
The hallmark of vertebrate immune systems is their ability to «remember» an infection and mount specific attacks against microbial invaders the next time they come knocking.
«It leads the counterattack against microbial insult.»
«We expect that protective associations with antibiotic - producing bacteria is a common strategy of insects against microbial invaders.»
In healthy skin, CD49a + and CD49a cells are dormant, but quickly respond with inflammatory and cytotoxic effects when stimulated by IL - 15, a protein secreted from skin cells as a rapid - response defence against microbial attack.
Healthy skin is protected against microbial attack by different kinds of immune cell, including T cells.
Bitter taste receptors are not only on the tongue but throughout the body, where they defend us against microbial invaders
The findings suggest that dietary salt could have therapeutic potential to promote host defense against microbial infections.
MP1 acts against microbial pathogens by disrupting the bacterial cell membrane.
She stayed in Boston to take her current position at Harvard Medical School, where today she maintains a lab for her research on mucosal immunology and host defenses against microbial pathogens.
Breastfeeding provides the neonate with considerable amounts of secretory IgA antibodies directed particularly against the microbial flora of the mother and her environment.
Human milk is the most effective and efficient protection against microbial contaminants.
The end of line inspection of filled food packaging provides effective protection against microbial load and contamination.
Thirty - five years ago, three scientists in Oregon set out to create a fermented ingredient to protect against microbial spoilage and extend the shelf - life of food products.

Not exact matches

Everyone I am aware of recommends against such practices for the sake of that microbial communities.
We've done everything we possibly can to stimulate microbial activity but the weather has been working against us.
The moisturiser itself uses manuka honey to nourish the skin, as well as to take advantage of its microbial properties so as to protect against inflammation or blemishes.
«But, herbivores can evade plant defenses by using symbiotic bacteria that deceive the plant into perceiving an herbivore threat as microbial, suppressing the plant's defenses against herbivores.»
«Also by studying how the gut microbiota usually recover after cholera, we gain new ideas about how to manage severely disturbed microbial communities, ideas that can be used to protect against diseases that often follow such disturbance, such as infections that commonly follow antibiotic use.»
What's more, the studies suggest how our gut microbes make the immune system turn against nerve cells — a finding that could lead to treatments, like drugs based on microbial byproducts, that might improve the course of the disease.
Model simulations can always be improved by testing predictions against field data collected from different ecosystems, and Sulman and Phillips are doing just that: investigating how roots influence soil decomposition and protected forms of carbon in forests that vary in the composition of tree and microbial communities.
The findings, by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, suggest that manipulating the gut's microbial communities may protect against intestinal parasites, which affect more than 1 billion people worldwide.
When it came to protection against chytrid, a study published by Harris, Vredenburg and colleagues in 2009 in ISME Journal (International Society for Microbial Ecology) showed that more violacein was definitely better: frogs with higher concentrations of the peptide did not succumb.
The resulting data clearly showed that the microbial cocktail could bolster plant defenses against both arsenic and rice blast disease.
The new research, presented at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) International Congress in Munich, suggests that exposure to the microbial environment in animal skin and fur could have a protective effect against asthma and allergies.
Identifying the bacteria that drive and protect against disease is the first step toward developing microbial interventions and therapies, said Rolig, a postdoctoral researcher in the UO's Institute of Molecular Biology.
Normally, germ - free mice exposed to a mouse with microbial - based obesity would themselves become obese, but we could design a microbial community taken from lean people that protected against this weight gain.
Matzinger's competing «Danger Model» argued against Janeway's focus on microbial agents.»
More recently, however, microbial life found around hydrothermal vent ecosystems (i.e., the «Lost City» found in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which is cooler than those found at «black smokers») indicate that Carbon - 13 is not selected against Carbon - 12 in hydrogen - rich environments where microbial life is starved of carbon, essentially in the form of carbon dioxide (Alexander S. Bradley, Scientific American, December 2009: pp. 62 - 67).
We are dissecting the detailed caspase -2-mediated pyroptosis pathway and its biological effect on microbial pathogenesis, and protective immunity against brucellosis and many other diseases.
Our research aims to continuously elucidate the caspase -2-mediated proinflammatory cell death pathway and its biological effect on microbial pathogenesis and protective immunity against brucellosis and other diseases.
They studied terrestrial plant waxes, a layer on the plant's surface protecting against dehydration and microbial attack, which are preserved in the sediment.
It turns out that the more microbial exposure we have at a young age — and the more diverse our microbiome — the healthier we are long - term, because all those microbes we encounter in our early years train and challenge our immune system to respond appropriately, whether that means taking action against toxins and harmful microbes or laying low when confronted with harmless allergens.
Melatonin protects against chemical, free radical, microbial and heavy metal damage that lead to degeneration of brain structure and function.
This data will allow us to compare the gut microbial communities of this population against other dietary strategies.
Adjuvant is a chemical, microbial constituent, or mammalian protein commonly added to an inactivated (killed) viral or bacterial vaccine to enhance the immune response against a selected pathogen.
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