Sentences with phrase «by antibodies produced»

Genetics had almost no effect on how well individuals responded to the flu vaccine, judged by antibodies produced against the injected material.

Not exact matches

One of the primary differentiating factors is that an allergy illicits an immune response by producing specific antibodies against substances in the environment that are normally harmless.

This means that in those with the condition the immune system is mistakenly triggered by a substance to produce antibodies and to attack parts of their own body.

The headaches will normally start to happen a few months after the infection has occurred, because of the antibodies which were produced by the body to deal with the infection.

These illnesses are characterized by antibodies being produced by the mother against her own tissues.

Colostrum, the first milk produced by the breast during pregnancy, is very rich in antibodies.

There, it is believed that mammary gland receptors interpret the «baby spit backwash» for bacteria and viruses and, if they detect something amiss (i.e., the baby is sick or fighting off an infection), Mom's body will actually change the milk's immunological composition, tailoring it to the baby's particular pathogens by producing customized antibodies.

But usually, our bodies benefit most from fighting off an infection by itself, so that it can fortify itself against future infections by producing necessary antibodies.

These cells produce antibodies in reaction to infections by bacteria, viruses and other invaders.

In an effort to create a more precise diagnostic, the MIT team set out to find antibodies that would interact exclusively with NS1 protein produced by the Zika virus, as well as antibodies specific to NS1 from each of the four different strains of the Dengue virus.

Serological tests, which determine the antibodies produced by the infected person, are recommended for use after the eighth day.

When they examined mice genetically incapable of producing Helios, they found the animals beset by a T - cell and antibody attack on normal tissue.

In blood samples taken from subjects in Mexico and Brazil, the scientists found antibodies — proteins produced by the immune system — that block the virus from initiating an infection.

But Frankovich and her Stanford colleagues were dealing with something else: damage caused by the immune response, including antibodies, the large Y - shaped proteins the body produces to fend off infections or other foreign invaders.

At Stanford, a team led by neurobiologist Ben Barres discovered that synapses in the developing brain produce two other immune proteins, C1q and C3, associated elsewhere in the body with complement proteins, which work in concert with antibodies to destroy invading microbes.

Multiple myeloma is preceded by a blood disorder called monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) in which abnormal plasma cells produce many copies of an antibody protein.

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.

The cocaine vaccine works the same way other vaccines do: by stimulating the immune system to produce antibodies that bind to a foreign entity, preventing it from entering the brain or otherwise interacting with the body's organs and tissues.

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 re-exposed to antigens such as bacteria or viruses, our bodies get rid of antigens by producing more antibodies than in the primary response.

Rather than waiting for an infected person's immune system to produce noticeable amounts of antibodies, the team chose to home in on the bacteria itself — specifically, proteins the bug sheds when attacked by the body's defenses.

Antibodies are produced by B cells to recognize and defend against viruses.

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.

Islet autoimmunity, detected by antibodies that appear when the immune system attacks the islet cells in the pancreas that produce insulin, is a precursor to type 1 diabetes.

The study found that the federally funded vaccine, made by the French drug firm Sanofi - Aventis, is safe and capable of producing antibodies to ward off the current strain of avian flu.

«If you can prevent antibody formation in the first place, by finding some way of producing immunological tolerance that gets around that type of protocol, that would be a major advantage,» says David Lillicrap, a clinician and researcher who specializes in bleeding disorders at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

S. mansoni IPSE binds to Immunoglobulin E (IgE), an antibody produced by the immune system that is expressed on the surface of basophils, a type of immune cell; and mast cells, another immune cell that mediates inflammation; and sequesters chemokines, signaling proteins that alert white cells to infection sites.

When challenged by a toxin or infection, the immune system screens this population for a match, then swiftly multiplies the clonal cell line that produces the matching antibody.

This response produces antibodies that block gonadotropin - releasing hormone (GnRH), required by all mammals to turn on the pathways that spur egg or sperm development.

These white blood cells might also be involved in CFS, by producing antibodies that...

These blood tests are inaccurate because they rely on antibody detection of antigens produced by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), the organism that causes tuberculosis.

Previous laboratory studies have shown that antibodies produced by the human immune system to fight dengue virus can also interact with Zika virus (ZIKV) without inactivating it.

The new technique, pioneered by Wilson and fellow researchers at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, saves time by using antibodies produced by so - called B cells (white blood cells that produce and then ferry them to infection sites to battle invading germs) in response to vaccines instead of to actual infections.

They help develop immunity by imitating an infection, which causes the immune system to produce T - lymphocytes and antibodies.

This is the prospect raised by the discovery of gene variants that seem to predict whether an individual will produce enough antibodies in response to a vaccine to protect them against disease.

If infected with the dengue virus, the blood will contain specific antibodies produced by the body to attack the intruder.

Made by Mapp Biopharmaceutical of San Diego, California, ZMapp contains three monoclonal antibodies produced in tobacco plants.

The researchers used lysin, a protein antibody typically produced by a virus after it has infected and hijacked a host cell's machinery to replicate.

This treatment resistance may be caused by certain anti-NMDA receptor antibody - producing plasma cells that remain inaccessible to current immunotherapies.

«Lerner's creation of combinatorial libraries of antibodies enables the construction of immunological repertoires far superior to those produced by the human immune system.»

Vaccines work by exposing the body to the disease - causing agent or a fragment of it, which primes the immune system to produce a flood of antibodies that stick to the infecting organism and block it from entering cells.

Among them, certain antibodies that are linked to autoimmune attack and produced by B cells are the best known indicators for risk of type 1 diabetes.

Cancer cells settle to the bottom of the well, where they selectively bind to the antibodies based on their surface markers (unlike other devices, the chip can also trap tiny structures called exosomes produced by cancers cells).

Researchers carried out the study by chemically inhibiting the production of antibody - producing white blood cells (B lymphocytes) in broiler chicks, before introducing C.jejuni infection at the age of three weeks and then monitoring bacteria levels in the gut for the next nine weeks.

Of the proteins produced by about 3 million possible genes, antibodies in the symptom - free children's blood latched on to just three, the team reports online today in Science.

Two injections of DNA followed by one injection of protein, or two injections of protein, produced large amounts of virus - eliminating antibodies in mice and monkeys.

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have overcome this limitation by combining ultrasound with a contrast agent made of micro-sized bubbles that pair with an antibody produced at elevated levels by many cancers.

The transchromosomal cows used by USAMRIID collaborator SAB Biotherapeutics, Inc. offer the opportunity to produce large quantities of antibodies that are fully «human,» meaning they will not be seen as foreign antigen by the human immune system.

Antibodies are produced by the body's B cells to fight off infections by bacteria, viruses, and other invasive pathogens.

Hu14.18 K332A is a laboratory - produced antibody designed to activate the immune response against tumor cells by recognizing and binding to an antigen found on the surface of most neuroblastoma tumor cells.