Sentences with phrase «cell responses before»

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Despite having been vaccinated against the disease in 1989, which was 3 years before Sousa and her colleagues examined them, 58 % of the Indians had a weakened or nonexistent immune reaction in skin tests that measure cell response to the tuberculosis bacterium.

The aim of neoadjuvant chemotherapy is to eliminate active cancer cells — producing a complete response — before surgery.

Antril, which is classified as an interleukin - 1 receptor antagonist, occupies the site on cells lining blood vessels where interleukin - 1 docks before it triggers an immune response.

They found that NF - κB, a protein complex known to promote tumor growth, may also have the ability to boost the immune system to eliminate cancerous cells before they harm, as well as promote antitumor responses.

Their results demonstrate that specific rhoptry and dense granule effector proteins that T. gondii secretes before and after host cell invasion, respectively, control the development of an effective host antitumor response, and increase the survival of mice with ovarian tumors.

In additional experiments, the NYU team showed that the TB - transporting dendritic cells had to first pass through the lungs — as would be expected in the natural course of the disease that is passed by someone breathing in infected droplets — before heading to the lymph nodes to elicit a strong immune response.

«Rapid - response immune cells are fully prepared before invasion strikes.»

«We now have the first marker for the capacity of brain immune cells to remove toxic materials,» says Haass, «and its increase long before full Alzheimer's dementia shows that there is early neuronal injury that does not yet affect memory, but already triggers a microglia response.»

Researchers also found that those needing sinus surgery had higher levels of eosinophils, white blood cells central to the body's immune response, even before they responded to the disaster.

Specifically, they want to know what role the quality of T - cell immunity before treatment plays in therapeutic response.

We were interested in understanding regulation of T cell responses and I began to suspect that, in addition to positive signals that need to be given to initiate immune responses, there are also negative signals that no one had really thought of before that might limit responses.

The research team discovered that two kinds of T cells, CD4 + and CD8 +, segregated into different zones of the spleen before an immune response took place in mice.

Shatz's first major scientific finding was that this layering of neurons in the LGN began before birth, in response to repeated bursts of spontaneous firing by retinal ganglion cells, which spread in waves across the retina.

As part of a large NIH - funded effort to develop immunotherapies for this allergy (the Inner City Asthma Consortium, or ICAC), the Sette lab has thus identified dominant epitopes to characterize T cell responses in allergic individuals before and after immunotherapy.

B cells, which manufacture antibodies and are key players in our adaptive immune response, need to undergo several developmental stages before reaching maturity.

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In response to Congressional investigation and just prior to formal Congressional hearings on the issue, DOJ & DHS significantly changed their discretionary internal policies to require a probable cause search warrant before using cell - site simulators — a major about - face from the policy in use since 1997.