Sentences with phrase «airway cells called»

They found that STAT6 - IP prevented RSV - induced changes to airway cells called alveolar macrophages, which can promote asthma - like responses both during and following viral infections.

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Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center say they have preliminary evidence in laboratory - grown, human airway cells that a condensed form of cigarette smoke triggers so - called «epigenetic» changes in the cells consistent with the earliest steps toward lung cancer development.

The unaltered hemagglutinin is akin to a key that unlocks a so - called receptor molecule in cells lining the upper airways of humans and other mammals.

Scientists create compounds called «correctors» to fix the CFTR proteins so that proper amounts transit to the cell surface where they can serve as chloride channels to help maintain a well - hydrated airway.

MERS CoV (CoV stands for coronavirus) has on its surface an array of spike - shaped proteins that bind to host cells — specifically to receptor proteins called DPP4 on the surface of cells that line human airways.

«It was known that the epithelial cells which line the airways in the lungs produce a protein called thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) that causes inflammation.

The outer surface of many of our cells, including those in the airways, has a protein called the H1 receptor.

Researchers observed that the immune cells, called CD4 T - cells, in the airways of severe asthmatics secreted different inflammatory proteins than those in mild disease, particularly interferon gamma.

But Luis Ulloa of Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and his colleagues have been working on a new drug, called TSG12, that targets the smooth muscle cells that line our airways.

The human airway is lined with two kinds of epithelial cells — those that possess hairlike fringes called cilia and those that don't.

The new coronavirus latches onto a protein called dipeptidyl peptidase 4, or DPP4, which decorates the surface of many cells, including some in human airways and kidneys, Bart Haagmans of Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and colleagues report in the March 14 Nature.

Tiny hair - like structures on cells lining your airways, called cilia, push the mucus back up to your throat.

Analysis of sputum samples revealed that those who had eaten the burger meal had an increased number of immune cells called neutrophils in their airways.

It is caused by motility defects in specialized cell organelles called cilia that are responsible for the respiratory airway clearance, the propelled movement of sperm cells and the determination of the left - right asymmetry during embryo development.

Furthermore, when mast cells degranulate chronically, permanent architectural changes in the lung, called airway remodeling, occur.