Sentences with phrase «by immune cells called»

11/6/2007 UCSD Researchers Discover Inflammation, Not Obesity, Cause of Insulin Resistance Findings may have important potential for new drug discoveries in fight against Type 2 diabetes Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have discovered that inflammation provoked by immune cells called macrop... More...

In the brain, a synapse (orange) is seen being wrapped around and attacked by immune cells called microglia (green), leading to synapse loss.

Further experiments suggested that the production of high levels of cell wall - associated GAG makes A. fumigatus more resistant than A. nidulans to neutrophil killing by neutrophil extracellular traps, or NETs (NETs are are networks of extracellular fibers, composed of DNA and proteins secreted by immune cells called neutrophils, that bind and trap various pathogens).

Ferumoxytol leaks out of blood vessels in areas of inflammation and is taken up by immune cells called macrophages, which congregate at sites of inflammation.

An antibody is Y shaped protein that is produced by an immune cell called a plasma cell in response to invasion by a a microbe (virus or bacteria).

Not exact matches

The tattooing process works by injecting ink into the skin, which stimulates an immune response in which cells called «macrophages» move into the area and «eat up» the ink.

«These attacks have grown in magnitude and they include attacks on security services, we have incidents where military officers have been lynched by mobs, we have instances where these vigilante groups calling themselves variously; Invisible forces, Delta forces, etc. invade police stations, break into cells and release suspects because they claim the NPP members are immune to any form of arrest in other words, they are living above the law because they happen to be members of a party living in power», he said.

Baby Layla's medical team treated her with immune cells altered by one type of the molecular surgical instruments called TALENs.

But during pregnancy, the fetus is protected from the mother's immune system by the placenta, which has specialized cells — called trophoblasts — that can burrow into the mother's body without exciting an attack by the immune system.

«We found that a protein expressed by gut bacteria called Bacteroides works to prevent IBD by rapidly recruiting white blood cells to kill a cell of the immune system that is responsible for orchestrating IBD,» says McCoy.

The so - called STEP trial, sponsored by pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. and the federally funded HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN), was the first to test the idea of stimulating the immune system's killer T cells to hunt for the virus more aggressively, in this case using a weakened form of the cold virus to carry three genes from HIV.

«A personalised immunotherapy was prepared for each patient by taking a sample of their blood and extracting a particular type of immune cell called dendritic cells.

The enzyme is produced by white blood cells called neutrophils, which play an important role in inflammatory and immune responses and may be a key contributor to the development of muscular dystrophy.

An animal's immune system detects foreign cells by scanning for proteins, called antigens, that stick out from the surface of each cell.

The invasion of epithelial cells and immune cells are controlled by two separate gene clusters called Salmonella Pathogenicity Islands 1 and 2 (SPI1, SPI2) respectively.

The third approach turns up production of T regulatory cells, which prevent specific immune cells from copying themselves and can also suppress rejection by secreting biochemicals called cytokines that direct the immune orchestra to change its tune.

These chemicals, called cytokines, drive the inflammation in the brain, attracting more immune cells, and causing the debilitating disease marked by loss of neurological function.

By manipulating the function of certain immune cells, called T cells, researchers could help restore the system's balance and create new treatments to target these diseases.

Since a primary function of the dendritic cells is to present an antigen to T - cells, to activate the T - cells and begin the immune response, the researchers suspected that T - cell activation in the heart tissue, and perhaps heart - tissue injury caused by T - cells, might be central to the pathological heart enlargement that is called remodeling.

Research published on August 7th in PLOS Pathogens comparing the two pathogens reveals how S. Typhi avoids recognition and elimination by patrolling immune cells called neutrophils, allowing it to disseminate throughout the patient's body.

An additional mechanism to prevent the immune response from going «overboard,» the researchers conclude, is provided by a subset of T - cells called induced regulatory T - cells (iTreg cells).

The immune system recognizes transplanted organs as foreign tissue by telltale proteins, called the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), that coat cell surfaces.

Cells in the innate immune system respond immediately by secreting inflammatory factors called cytokines to stop the spread of infection.

A new optogenetic technology developed by scientists at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and Texas A&M Health Science Center Institute of Biosciences & Technology, called optogenetic immunomodulation, is capable of turning on immune cells to attack melanoma tumors in mice.

In many cases the damage is caused by a particular group of immune cells called effector memory T - cells.

Researchers looking at the white blood cells called eosinophils found a new weapon in the immune arsenal: toxic webs of DNA flung in less than a second by a kind of cellular catapult.

Daniel Getts, chief scientific officer of Cour Pharma in Chicago, Illinois, says he has written WHO to suggest the use of his company's Immune Modifying Nanoparticles, designed to reduce tissue damage by binding immune cells called monocytes.

Previous studies in the lab showed that once HCMV is inside the cell, it quickly becomes latent by entering the cell's nucleus and co-opting a cellular protein called Daxx — part of the intrinsic immune system — to shut down its own replication, the process of reproducing its genetic material to make more copies of itself.

Moffitt researchers wanted to determine if it would be possible to activate the cancer - fighting properties of T cells indirectly by targeting another type of immune cell called a dendritic cell.

These molecules function by shuttling broken - down proteins called peptides from inside the cell to the surface, where other immune cells inspect them to see whether they are invaders.

However, this re-activation is blocked in most latently - infected cells by cellular molecules called immune check - points.

In the present work, the teams led by Michael Ewers (ISD) and EMBO Member Christian Haass (DZNE) focussed on the TREM2 protein, which functions in specialized brain immune cells called microglia that clear toxic material resulting from nerve cell injury.

Normally, immune cells called neutrophils kill microbes by gobbling them up or releasing toxic chemicals.

Researchers led by Van Allen and Choueiri sought an explanation for why some patients with a form of metastatic kidney cancer called clear cell renal cell cancer (ccRCC) gain clinical benefit — sometimes durable — from treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors that block the PD - 1 checkpoint, while other patients don't.

Estes, who works with virologist Jeffrey Lifson, has also developed a DNAscope to visualize this HIV DNA — called the provirus — which becomes integrated into human cells and can persist for decades without being attacked by the immune system or antiretroviral (ARV) drugs.

Once donor blood cells mix with recipient immune cells, they blunt the immune attack by a process called negative selection, says Strober, who has spent 30 years developing the regimen.

Tumor cells develop mechanisms to evade detection by the immune system by expressing a protein called PD - L1.

The sequence, called an ITAM (immunoreceptor tyrosine - based activation motif), encodes a piece of protein that can by itself signal immune system cells to multiply and go to work.

Johannes Scheid, a student in Nussenzweig's lab, isolated it several years ago from an HIV - infected patient whose immune system had an exceptional ability to neutralize HIV in the blood by preventing the virus from infecting and destroying a specific type of immune cells, called CD4 cells, in patients.

A study led by UCLA's Drs. Robert Prins and Linda Liau, both UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center members, looked at the impact of a combined treatment using a chemotherapy drug called decitabine and genetically modified immune cells or T cell immunotherapy.

Shortly after infection, HIV levels skyrocket, but then the immune system and other antiviral factors produced by cells drive down the amount of virus in the blood — the so - called viral load — and establish a «set point.»

HIV wreaks havoc by destroying immune cells called T - cells.

Researchers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have discovered the mechanism by which immune cells called regulatory T cells keep themselves intact and functional during their demanding task of holding the immune system in check.

TREM2 is segregated by certain immune cells of the brain — called microglia — and thus reflects their activity.

he body responds to tuberculosis infection by locking the bacterial offenders into tiny clusters of immune cells called granulomas, which are a hallmark of the disease.

When a new bacterium or virus invades the body, the immune system mounts an attack by sending in white blood cells called T - cells that are tailored to the molecular structure of that invader.

One way they do this is by transporting the virus to the body's immune cells, without themselves becoming infected, through a process called trans - infection.

Older studies have shown that certain compounds can activate iNKT cells in mice by stimulating the response of another type of immune cell called cytokines.

In previous research, a team led by the same Artyomov showed that inflammatory immune cells called macrophages produce significant amounts of itaconate when they detect bacteria.

FcRn bears an intriguing structural resemblance to molecules called major histocompatibility complex (MHC) proteins, which function in the vertebrate adaptive immune response by presenting antigenic peptides to T cells.