Sentences with phrase «cell disease expose»

Genomic analyses of pneumococci from children with sickle cell disease expose host - specific bacterial adaptations and deficits in current interventions.

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In a study, his team found that female incest survivors had abnormalities in the ratios of immune cells, compared with untraumatised women, exposing them to autoimmune diseases.

Workers in Chinese factories exposed to high levels of formaldehyde had lower counts of white blood cells that fight germs and diseases, according to a 2010 study led by Zhang.

Exposed to both air and fluid, the cells might also be used to model the lungs and test drugs for lung disease.

Despite a lack of rigorous clinical trials to test safety or efficacy, a ban of the treatment by health authorities, and a lack of peer review by the scientific community, the privately funded Stamina Foundation has been using cultured mesenchymal stem cells that have been exposed to putative conditions that favour neuronal differentiation to treat different diseases in severely or terminally ill patients.

He would spend his Saturday mornings in the lab conducting microbiology experiments and got exposed to the science of DNA during a summer internship at the university's Center for Sickle Cell Disease.

In the tea drinkers» immune systems, gamma delta T cells produced five times more infection - fighting interferon when exposed to disease - causing bacteria than did the T cells of the coffee drinkers.

The next step was to expose the neural progenitor cells to 130 substances that had already been approved by the FDA for use in treating other diseases.

Knowing that Notch governs vessel permeability makes it a candidate for new drugs to treat cardiovascular diseases as well, and the team is also investigating the TMD as a potential therapeutic agent itself, as cell models that were exposed to leak - inducing inflammation displayed a dramatic reduction in leakage when they were engineered to express the TMD.

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.

The experiments also show that starvation increases the rate of pigment cell loss in light - exposed flatworms, which mirrors the worsening of disease symptoms some porphyria patients experience when they diet or fast.

Once inside the cell, enzymes cleave off the neutral phosphotriester group to expose a charged RNAi drug that shuts down production of the target disease protein.

We believe that the use of DNA binding agents such as Hoechst can be used to target exposed DNA in other diseases where necrotic cell death plays a critical role and could be used as a platform therapy.

Three recent experimental studies focused on low consumption / exposure.949596 In one study, 29 smokers each consumed a single cigarette, immediately after which they had a significant decrease in blood vessel output power and significant increase in blood vessel ageing level and remaining blood volume 25 minutes later, as markers of atherosclerosis.94 In another study, human coronary artery endothelial cells were exposed to the smoke equivalent to one cigarette, which led to activation of oxidant stress sensing transcription factor NFR2 and up - regulation of cytochrome p450, considered to have a role in the development of heart disease.95 These effects were not seen when heart cells were exposed to the vapour from one e - cigarette.95 A study exposed adult mice to low intensity tobacco smoke (two cigarettes) for one to two months and found adverse histopathological effects on brain cells.96

These B cells have memory and retain memory of the various diseases we are exposed to throughout our life.

These memory cells then «jump - start» antibody production, so that the reaction is much faster and stronger than it would be if the body had never been exposed to the disease before.