Sentences with phrase «cells of the immune system actually»

Dagmar Gotthardt and colleagues at the Vetmeduni Vienna now show that blocking STAT3 in cells of the immune system actually leads to increased anti-tumour immunity.

In fact, one of the mysteries remaining for BanLec work is just how the T cells of the immune system actually attach to it.

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And a new analysis of the STEP trial, published last November in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, provides a warning that the very vectors (adenoviruses, which are also employed in other vaccine development work) used to distribute the inactive HIV strains can actually make the immune system more vulnerable to infection by recruiting susceptible T cells to mucous membranes, where they are more likely to be infected during sexual activity.

In effect, PD - 1 may actually help to preserve a «reserve force» of T cells that can fight on later in the long - term cellular war between the immune system and foreign invaders or tumors.

And a new analysis of the stopped STEP trial, published online Monday in Proceedings in the National Academy of Sciences, provides a warning that the very vectors (adenoviruses, which are also employed in other vaccine development) used to distribute the inactive HIV strains can actually prime the immune system to be infected by recruiting susceptible T cells to mucous membranes, where they are more likely to be infected during sexual activity.

Rather than the body's immune system destroying its own tissue by mistake, researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered how cells convert from being aggressive to actually protecting against disease.

At that time, she says, she «found it fascinating that the immune system can actually recognize an enormous, almost unlimited pool of different antigens,» which are signature proteins or carbohydrates the immune system recognizes as signals of infectious diseases, damaged cells, or cancer.

Cancer cells have developed a number of ways to survive, including ways to escape detection and attack by our immune system, but their ability to respond to viral infections is actually quite limited.

This intelligent bacterial ecosystem in your gut makes up the majority of your immune system, and your body actually contains 10 times more bacterial cells than human cells!

«We're showing that in the context of maternal infection or inflammation — the most common cause of preterm labor — the naive fetal immune system wakes up, gets activated too early, and can actually identify and reject the mother's cells,» said lead researcher Dr. Tippi MacKenzie.

«My argument is that the three classic areas of neuroscience, endocrinology, and immunology, with their various organs — the brain (which is the key organ that the neuroscientists study), the glands, and the immune system (consisting of the spleen, the bone marrow, the lymph nodes, and of course the cells circulating throughout the body)-- that these three areas are actually joined to each other in a bidirectional network of communication and that the information «carriers» are the neuropeptides.»

Supporting healthy gut bacteria, which actually outnumber your cells 10 to one, is one of the most important things you can do to improve your immune system so you won't get sick, or get coughs, colds, and flus.