Sentences with phrase «allows white blood cells»

«This research aimed to identify the mechanism that allows white blood cells to recognise and expel these hijackers.

Antibodies, proteins that tag and attack viruses and bacteria, «remember» past invaders, allowing white blood cells to quickly respond during subsequent infections.

As part of the body's normal, healthy immune response to infection, the barrier formed by blood vessel cells temporarily loosens, allowing white blood cells to exit the bloodstream and attack the invading bacteria or virus, Rehman said.

TNF not only initiates a cascade of other chemical messengers but also increases blood - vessel permeability, allowing white blood cells to pass easily out of the capillaries to reach the site of an infection.

Note: Histamines work with prostaglandins and are created by Basophils, a leukocyte or white blood cell, and histamines increase the permeability of blood cells to allow the white blood cells to move to the infected or injured tissues.

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The white blood cells produce an enzyme that destroys the surface of the follicle allowing the bacteria to enter the skin layer causing inflammation of the skin.

One class of immunotherapeutic drugs is known as «checkpoint» inhibitors, as they target checkpoints in immune system regulation to allow the body's natural defenses, such as white blood cells, to more effectively target the cancer.

By analyzing chemical changes of the IRS - 2 protein in immortalized cultures of human white blood cells, it determined that IRS - 2 appeared in two different forms — «on,» which allows the signal to pass through, and «off,» which stops the signal from activating the cells into M2 macrophages.

PD - 1 (programmed cell death protein 1) is a receptor on the surface of T cells (the white blood cells that are part of the immune system), while PD - L1 (programmed death - ligand 1) is a molecule that binds to PD - 1 and is often over-expressed on the surface of cancer cells, enabling them to evade the immune system and allow cancer to grow and spread.

When the animals» immune systems identify a cancer cell, a genetic tweak allows their bodies to launch a massive attack of white blood cells that kills the budding tumor.

This triggers the blood vessel to expand, allowing other white blood cells to pass into the damaged tissue and mop up intruding bodies.

«Our combined analysis of cell - free DNA and white blood cell DNA allows for identification of tumor DNA with much higher sensitivity, and deep sequencing also helps us find those rare tumor DNA fragments.»

Since that membrane is what allows the cell to communicate and interface with other cells, a poorly constructed white blood cell can not do its job!

Once the blood is collected, ozone is injected into the container, the container and the blood are mixed together gently, allowing the red and white blood cells to take up the ozone.

Weight lifting reduces stress, therefore it allows your body to produce white blood cells and boost your immune system.

This allows for the removal of the cells affected by oxidative damage, leads to the preservation of tissue integrity and prevents the convergence of white blood cells.

While swelling allows important healing components such as white blood cells and other chemicals involved in the healing process to migrate into damaged tissues through increased vascular permeability, and also physically protects an injured area through decreasing it's potential range of motion, there is no physiological reason to allow swelling to freely progress for hours or days after an injury occurs.

Bones also allow us the gift of movement, they act as a reservoir of minerals to maintain acid / base balance in the blood and they actually produce red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets in the bone marrow.

The whey protein promoted better immune function than all of the other proteins, and it achieved this marvelous feat by increasing the amount of glutathione available to the spleen, allowing the rapid multplication of immune - enhancing white blood cells.

We have a comprehensive in - house lab that allows for rapid analysis of white and red blood cell values, electrolytes, and parameters of organ function.

That cellular portion is made up of red blood cells (= erythrocytes = RBCs) which carry oxygen throughout its body, platelets (thrombocytes) that allow its blood to clot when it is necessary and white blood cells (leukocytes), which are responsible for fighting disease.

If white blood cell levels drop low enough to create a risk of serious infection, chemotherapy is halted for a week or two to allow the bone marrow to catch up in cell production.

Laboratory: Our in - house laboratory equipment allows for extremely rapid evaluations of your pet's organ function (white blood cell counts, chemistries, electrolytes).

During estrus or «heat» in an intact female, white blood cells are decreased in the uterus to allow sperm to pass safely.

It attacks white blood cells in the body and literally destroys the lining of the GI tract, allowing bacteria to infect the bloodstream (a serious condition called septicemia).