Sentences with phrase «against viral infections»

Our best defence against viral infections is the immune system.

T - cells represent an essential element of our immune system's defense against viral infections.

This new data will provide insight into the cat's immune response to infectious diseases and will help detect breaches in protection against viral infections.

When these key elements are combined, they protect the body against viral infections and cancer.

These so - called «restriction factors» are a first line of defence against viral infections, and constitute an important component of the innate immune response.

Unphosphorylated ISGF3 drives constitutive expression of interferon - stimulated genes to protect against viral infections

In 2008 Luis Teixeira, now a principal investigator at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, and other scientists have discovered that Wolbachia can protect their hosts against viral infections.

Biologists have long wondered if mammals share the elegant system used by insects, bacteria and other invertebrates to defend against viral infection.

All these data allow us to conclude that wAu protects better against viral infections than one of the most protective wMel variants and this can be, at least partially, explained by the reduction of the viral titres.

(Antibiotics don't help against viral infections.)

Since antibiotics don't work against viral infections, doctors are more judicious about prescribing them.

The vaccine also induced a sharp rise in CD4 T - cells, whose job is to mobilize the antibody response and other immune elements against viral infections.

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.

Like other immunizations that guard against viral infections, HPV vaccines stimulate the body to produce antibodies that, in future encounters with HPV, bind to the virus and prevent it from infecting cells.

Researchers have identified the primary player of the biochemical bugle call that musters the body's defenders against viral infection.

«Understanding the origins and biology of potentially long - lived CD4 - CTL precursors may pave the way for developing strategies to boost durable CD4 - CTL immune responses after vaccination against viral infections and cancer,» the authors write in their paper.

It is an excellent defence against viral infections as well as anti-tumor support.

The immune system typically mounts waves of defense against viral infections.

Recently, Wolbachia have been attracting widespread attention due to their ability to protect their hosts against viral infections.

You might also consider supplements that boost your dogs» immune system in a way that helps to protect against viral infections.

Determining the role of innate immunity mediated by antibodies in protection against viral infection.

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.

We conclude that wAu protects better against viral infections, it grows exponentially and significantly shortens the lifespan of D. melanogaster.

Looking for an answer, Emerman and colleagues homed in on the immune protein TRIM5α, one of several proteins involved in innate immunity, the body's first line of defense against viral infection.

This is paradoxical because IFNL4 is an essential part of our immune defence against viral infections, and should therefore have a positive effect,» says Associate Professor Rune Hartmann, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University.

NK cells are important for defense against viral infections and cancer because they identify and attack infected cells.

Both Wolbachia wAu, naturally associated with Drosophila simulans, and wMel, native to Drosophila melanogaster, have been previously described to protect their hosts against viral infections.

We conclude that wAu protects better against viral infections — it increases lifespan of virus - infected flies and significantly limits viral replication.