Sentences with phrase «as antibodies against»

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These antibodies confer temporary immunity against bacteria and viruses to which the mother is already immune, such as measles and mumps.

Babies are fed large amounts of immune cells, such as leukocytes, and antibodies called secretory immunoglobulin A (IgA) passed from the mother to help fight against many harmful agents.

However, breast milk is considered best for the babies, as it provides them with not just the necessary nutrients and minerals, but also the much needed antibodies which are vital for the protection of the baby against diseases.

«As long as mom and baby are together, mom will make antibodies against the diseases the two of them come acrosAs long as mom and baby are together, mom will make antibodies against the diseases the two of them come acrosas mom and baby are together, mom will make antibodies against the diseases the two of them come across.

To protect the infant against illness, breast milk contains antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal, and antiprotozoal factors as well as antibodies to many specific disease organisms.

• Breastmilk contains special antibodies which help protect your baby against infections • Breastmilk is your baby's natural food, it's easily digested and enough on its own for the first 6 months • Breastfed babies are less likely to have eczema and diabetes or high blood pressure and obesity later on • Breastfeeding helps you and your baby to get to know each other • Breastfeeding means you'll return to your pre-pregnancy weight quicker • Breastfeeding helps give you stronger bones in later life and helps protect against breast and ovarian cancer • Breastfed babies are not as windy as bottle - fed babies • Nappies are not as smelly!

Colostrum contains antibodies that protect newborns against disease, and it also contains a higher concentration of protein than regular milk, and it is lower in fat as well.

Scientists have long understood that mother's milk provides immune protection against some infectious agents through the transfer of antibodies, a process referred to as «passive immunity.»

Your breast milk is packed with antibodies to protect your little one against infection, as well as reduce the likelihood of them developing allergies such as asthma and eczema.

Detection of major periodontal pathogens in saliva and analysis of serum and saliva antibodies against major periodontal pathogens as well as a vaginal swab for the diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis at baseline were carried out.

«In the case of multiple sclerosis, as a patient progresses through steps of the disease, their body generates novel antibodies or higher existing antibody titers against certain proteins, such as myelination proteins.

Both drift and shift make these proteins unrecognizable to the antibodies present in people that were previously inoculated against the flu virus, which now circulates as more than 90 strains.

Three percent of patients with Lyme - like symptoms tested positive for the antibody against the bacteria as well.

This is important as the antibody would not need to compete with but would instead augment the overall natural immune response against dengue virus.

As a comparison of the Neu5Gc antibody concentration of over a thousand children and the occurrence of asthma has clearly shown, «Farm children have many more antibodies against Neu5Gc in their blood — and children with more antibodies suffered considerably less from asthma,» Frei says.

When the team fed small groups of mice gliadin — a component of gluten — they found that mice produced two to three times as many antibodies against the compound over the next two days if they were also infected with reovirus.

The bacteria can seem so similar to human tissue that antibodies produced against it attack human organs as well.

Using a mouse model of HSV - 1 as well as autopsied samples of human adult and fetal tissues, investigators from Dartmouth College's Geisel School of Medicine found that antibodies against HSV - 1 produced by adult women or female mice could travel to the nervous systems of their yet unborn babies, preventing the development and spread of infection during birth.

In the past, scientists have tried to determine therapeutic effectiveness by separating patients into groups based on their clinical parameters such as what antibodies they are producing against themselves, how swollen their joints are and medications they are taking.

When this was given to rabbits, the antibodies they made protected other rabbits against the spider venom almost as well as antibodies from horses exposed to the real thing (Vaccine, doi.org/mg3).

Spontaneous immune responses were assessed by measuring serum antibodies against ovarian cancer - associated antigens, such as NY - ESO - 1, that are not expressed in normal body tissues but are expressed in cancers.

But he has cut others, such as a five - year, $ 24.7 - million contract awarded in 2008 to Peregrine Pharmaceuticals of Tustin, California, to find antibodies against haemorrhagic fevers.

Treating the mice with antibodies against CD4 + T - cells four weeks after experimental heart attacks — to deplete that subset of T - cells — prevented the progressive abnormal enlargement of the left ventricle that leads to heart failure, as compared with untreated mice.

As they report today in Science Translational Medicine, the antibodies provided solid protection against disease in most cases.

As with innate immunity, the adaptive immune system — the T cells and antibodies produced by B cells that target specific molecules on invading cells — contributes to pathology or may also fight against it.

For example, the most advanced therapy — ZMappTM, a cocktail of three monoclonal antibodies — is specific for Ebola virus (formerly known as «Ebola Zaire»), but doesn't work against two related ebolaviruses (Sudan virus and Bundibugyo virus) that have also caused major outbreaks.

Mice deficient in critical innate immune functions such as Toll - like receptor signaling or oxidative burst production spontaneously produce high - titer serum antibodies against their commensal microbiota.

Natural antibodies are often dismissed from immunological analysis as «background,» but they may play an important role in conferring immunity against infections.

As a further therapeutic option, the researchers are pursuing the approach of using specifically developed antibodies against CEACAMs in order to fight diseases associated with the bacterium.

«Compared to conventional methods, such as fluorescent antibodies against certain surface proteins, we know how the cells will decide three cell generations earlier,» reports ICB scientist Dr. Felix Buggenthin, joint first author of the study together with Dr. Florian Büttner.

A herd was defined as positive if at least one animal aged between 150 - 365 days was shown to have antibodies against the virus.

The antibodies did in fact activate the CD4 cells but eventually killed them as well, depleting the body's best weapon against HIV.

As a result of their findings, the researchers caution against administering antibodies against the prion as a possible therapy for both prion and Alzheimer's diseaseAs a result of their findings, the researchers caution against administering antibodies against the prion as a possible therapy for both prion and Alzheimer's diseaseas a possible therapy for both prion and Alzheimer's diseases.

According to Wilson, monoclonal antibodies from (deliberately infected) animals were routinely used in the first half of the 20th century to try to treat diphtheria (an upper - respiratory illness that killed roughly 15,000 people annually in the early 1920s until a vaccine was formulated against it in 1924) and tetanus (a potentially fatal infection also known as lockjaw, because one of the muscles it destroys is in the jaw).

In fact, TBK1 may also be a contributor to debilitating diseases such as ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) and childhood herpes simplex virus encephalitis, if its connection with ICOS somehow triggers B cell activation and specific antibody production against the body's own cells in ALS or an excessive response to the invading viruses in childhood encephalitis.

As HAI antibodies only target the «head» of the HA while ELISA antibodies can be against the head or the relatively conserved «stalk» domain, this result indicated that some individuals were more likely to target the conserved stalk region (i.e. show greater reactivity in ELISA than in HAI).

Another one - third had other antibodies (known as antinuclear antibodies) that indicate the immune system is turning against the body.

«If 4CMenB were to be introduced into a routine vaccination schedule, measures such as adequate disease surveillance would be important to determine whether waning of antibodies might influence the effectiveness of a vaccination campaign against this bacterium,» they conclude.

As expected, several animals had antibodies against OC43 in their blood, and none carried antibodies against SARS.

As a consequence, the production of IgE antibodies against the milk protein is stimulated.

As a result, antibodies against gp120 from one HIV strain will not protect against other strains or a mutant strain.

They also reported that no patients developed antibodies against the factor, also known as «inhibitors.»

It's also possible that the antibodies were directed against another virus, as Fish suggests, he acknowledges — but if so, it would be a closely related and unknown phlebovirus, which still would be something to watch closely.

As the team reports today in Science Translational Medicine, no one developed malaria or suffered serious harm in this first phase of human tests, and the vaccine triggered antibodies against the sporozoites.

We also demonstrate that multiple broadly neutralizing antibody lineages can be raised against HIV in the llama HCAb model and that, when combined as purified VHH, they provide enhanced breadth and potency of neutralization.

«As eliciting a highly diverse immune response may be favorable to providing protection against incredibly diverse HIV - 1 variants in global circulation,» the researchers conclude that their study «supports further investigations of the molecular and functional characteristics of the virus - antibody interplay in superinfected individuals, as superinfection may provide insight to the development of a diverse Nab response with multiple epitope specificities.&raquAs eliciting a highly diverse immune response may be favorable to providing protection against incredibly diverse HIV - 1 variants in global circulation,» the researchers conclude that their study «supports further investigations of the molecular and functional characteristics of the virus - antibody interplay in superinfected individuals, as superinfection may provide insight to the development of a diverse Nab response with multiple epitope specificities.&raquas superinfection may provide insight to the development of a diverse Nab response with multiple epitope specificities.»

In conclusion, the antibodies characterized herein show promise for development as broadly reactive therapeutic agents against the pandemic H1N1 influenza virus, as well as against the majority of H1N1 and H5N1 influenza strains.

The assay will be validated against clinical outcomes in human vaccine studies (correlates of protection such as neutralising antibodies or vaccine - induced protection in human challenge models, or exploratory correlates such as multifunctional Th1 cells).

Obtained as a Fab by selection against gp120 IIIB of an antibody phage display library prepared from bone marrow of a asymptomatic HIV - 1 seropositive donor.

As of early 2012, clinical trials of IL - 17 antibodies against psoriasis have shown promising results in Phase II.