Sentences with phrase «certain immune cells»

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.

It also seems to have a regulating effect on certain immune cells.

Cancer cells also know how to control certain immune cells.

A compartment discovered within certain immune cells is almost certainly the place where a vital step in the immune response takes place.

To do this, vitamin D can bind to specific receptors on certain immune cells and therefore prevent them from destroying the cells of the thyroid gland.

The researchers then tested a drug FDA - approved for treatment of multiple sclerosis, which acts by preventing certain immune cells from leaving lymph nodes for sites of inflammation.

In 2014, he and his colleagues discovered that these molecules are unusually abundant in certain immune cells of mice with high blood pressure — and that the same is true in patients with hypertension.

Nivolumab targets and blocks a protein called PD - 1 on the surface of certain immune cells called T - cells.

Potassium is also very important in a diet as it causes certain immune cells to activate when there is an infection in your body.

In a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience, researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine showed certain immune cells — neutrophils — can clean up nerve debris, while previous models have attributed nerve cell damage control to other cells entirely.

Scientists have rid one man of HIV by preventing the virus from entering certain immune cells.

Studying the rodents more carefully, the researchers determined that Clostridia were having a surprising effect on the mouse gut: Acting through certain immune cells, the bacteria helped keep peanut proteins that can cause allergic reactions out of the bloodstream.

Once relocated inside the liver, beta - glucan bound certain immune cells and triggered inflammation.

«Over the past ten years, several research groups, including our own, have shown the importance of certain immune cell subsets in preventing or exacerbating heart disease in mice, but we are just beginning to understand how the metabolism and function of these immune cells change during cardiovascular disease progression in humans,» says Hedrick.

Austin, TX (Scicasts)-- A new study has revealed that certain immune cells behave differently in HIV - infected patients than they do in healthy individuals.

It also reduces the amount of certain immune cells which could interfere with implantation of the fertilized egg.

Fevers help your body to fight off infection by allowing certain immune cells to work more efficiently and effectively.

In both diabetic models, high blood sugar levels caused a significant increase in the blood counts of certain immune cells called monocytes and neutrophils.

Researchers picked out certain immune cells from Olson's blood, then inserted a virus into the cells.

Lymphoma is the name for a group of blood cancers that develop in certain immune cells.

When IL - 15 is present in excess or for long periods of time however, like if the body is chronically inflamed, it can cause certain immune cells (the large granular lymphocytes) to become cancerous.

Specifically, T α 1 has been shown to enhance the function of certain immune cells called T and dendritic cells.

«If we learn how to control dendritic cells, we could strengthen our immune response to infection when needed, or weaken the action of certain immune cells that attack the body's own tissues in autoimmune disease.»

It is possible «that the genes that set the body clock are intimately connected to certain immune cells, according to the study.»

The federally funded study, published in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology, showed how a stress receptor, known as corticotropin - releasing factor, or CRF1, can send signals to certain immune cells, called mast cells, and control how they defend the body.

A new Duke University study in mice suggests that in Alzheimer's disease, certain immune cells that normally protect the brain begin to abnormally consume an important nutrient: arginine.

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

The pain was made worse because of the release of pain signals from certain immune cells in the spinal cord.

Whitehead Institute researchers have uncovered a novel association between two fungal recognition receptors on the surface of certain immune cells, called macrophages.

By doing so, they found that the influx of certain immune cells, called macrophages, from the young mouse helped resident stem cells restore effective remyelination in the old mouse's spinal cord.

Interferons, commonly referred to as IFN, are a type of cytokine that boosts the ability of certain immune cells to attack invaders like viruses or cancer cells.

As a natural antihistamine, quercetin can inhibit release of histamine from certain immune cells.