Sentences with phrase «avoid immune destruction»

The selective pressure of the competent immune system «edits» the tumor by selecting for cells that can avoid immune destruction.

The sugar made it hard for antibodies to stick, so it helped the virus avoid immune destruction.

Two new emerging principles (reprogramming cellular energetics and avoiding immune destruction) became evident, as did a second enabling characteristic (inflammation).

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The immune system does not normally attack «self» proteins, so by producing protein fragments, or peptides, that imitate the structure of those in the body's own tissues, viruses and bacteria may avoid destruction.

Yet despite its long residence in the body, the malaria parasite somehow avoids destruction by the immune system.

Specifically, some tumor cells appeared to express PD - L1, essentially «wrapping» themselves in it to avoid immune recognition and destruction.