Sentences with phrase «bacterial cell interaction»

Look up «lysogenic virus» and you read: «a special type of virus bacterial cell interaction maintained by a complex cellular regulatory mechanism».

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«Chronic inflammation of the intestine is thought to be caused by abnormal interactions between gut microbes, intestinal epithelial cells and the immune system, but so far it has been impossible to determine how each of these factors contribute to the development of intestinal bowel disease,» said Hyun Jung Kim, Ph.D., former Wyss Technology Development Fellow and first author on the study, speaking about the limitations of conventional in vitro and animal models of bacterial overgrowth and inflammation of the intestines.

When they administered minocycline — a tetracycline antibiotic with anti-inflammatory properties commonly used to treat bacterial infections, acne and arthritis — many of the abnormalities in the astroglial cells were corrected and there were more healthy interactions between the astroglia and neurons compared to the control cells without the defect.

The results, revealing new examples of heritable bacterial species — including those related to diet preference, metabolism, and immune defense — appear May 11 in Cell Host & Microbe's special issue on the «Genetics and Epigenetics of Host - Microbe Interactions.»

«This is the first time that we have been able to actually look at how the components of a bacterial cell membrane are able to interact with different substances, and understand how differences in metal and mineral interactions can occur on the surface of a cell.

These cells allow for large scale screening using RNAi and have been successfully used to identify proteins involved in host interactions with important human bacterial pathogens such as Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus [42], [43], Mycobacterium spp. [44], Legionella pneumophila [45], Chlamydia spp. [46]--[48] and Listeria monocytogenes [49]--[51].

Current research applications focus on new approaches to a) drug and probe development for neurodegenerative disorders and diseases including Schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's, b) understanding the structural determinants of antidepressant binding to neurotransmitter transporters, c) cardiac arrhythmia as caused by the complex interplay of potassium channel regulation and drug interactions, d) multidrug resistance in cancer and bacterial cells related to multidrug transporter proteins, and e) structural basis of viral infections and antibody activity.

Cario, E., Bacterial interactions with cells of the intestinal mucosa: Toll - like receptors and NOD2.