Sentences with phrase «block immune system responses»

Steroids — synthetically enhanced corticosteroid hormones — block immune system responses to the toxins that are overworking the system, giving relief from symptoms.

Treatment options for moderate to severe psoriasis include phototherapy; systemic medications such as acitretin, cyclosporine and methotrexate; and biologics, which block the immune system responses that fuel inflammation.

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However, immune cells may be blocked by inhibitory molecules, which serve as checkpoints to alleviate or «turn off» the immune system response, Gu explained.

This response was blocked by a drug that inhibits the complement system, a part of the non-specific immune system present in human blood.

Allison pioneered immune checkpoint blockade, an approach that treats the immune system, rather than the tumor directly, by blocking molecules on T cells that shut those attack cells down, protecting tumors from immune response.

Conversely, the immune system contains triggers to blunt immune responses, and antibodies that block these «off - switch» checkpoints might be able to further reduce the ability of these cancers to escape the immune system.

The virus first blocks the immune system's regulatory response that usually gives non-native substances, like food proteins, the OK, Terence Dermody, a virologist at the University of Pittsburgh, and colleagues found.

Patients in the study were treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors that block the activation of PD1, a protein on immune system T cells that halts immune response.

A new class of drugs called immune checkpoint inhibitors block molecules on T cells that shut down immune response, freeing the immune system to attack tumors.

But there were no measurable virus levels in the blood of the four animals treated with the monoclonal combination, nor was there any immune system response, indicating the virus had been blocked completely.

Checkpoint blockade: Fewer but stronger results Allison pioneered immune checkpoint blockade, an approach that treats the immune system, rather than the tumor directly, by blocking molecules on T cells that shut those attack cells down, protecting tumors from immune response.

The rationale for using CT - 011, an immunotherapy antibody that blocks the programmed death (PD)-1 receptor, is to boost the function of the immune system by inhibiting PD - 1 whose function, in part, is to inhibit T - cell response.

Furthermore, saturated fat has been shown to have numerous positive effects on health, such as improving liver health by encouraging the liver cells to get rid of their fat cells, improving the immune system's response by helping white blood cells to recognize and destroy invaders more effectively, enabling the absorption of fat - soluble vitamins by acting as their carriers, as well as improving hormonal activity by providing the building blocks for a variety of hormones that are essential to human health.

Another kind of drug, called a biologic response modifier, blocks the damage done by the immune system.

The infant's immune system begins to manufacture its own protection (immunity) when vaccines are administered if protection obtained from the mother does not «block» its own immune response.

But it is important to do more than just stop the itching — drugs that simply block immune responses or important biological regulation systems often have strong and undesirable side effects.