Sentences with phrase «common rhinovirus»

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They were then quarantined, exposed to the rhinovirus (also known as the main cause of the common cold) and monitored for five days afterward while the colds took hold.

Researchers have long known that the most frequent cause of the common cold, the rhinovirus, replicates more readily in the slightly cooler environment of the nasal cavity than in the warmer lungs.

In a new research report published in the June 2014 issue of the Journal of Leukocyte Biology, researchers show that in individuals with asthma, statins significantly reduce the in vitro inflammatory response of human monocytes to rhinovirus (RV), the cause of the common cold.

In this case, the agent of death was a rhinovirus, a respiratory virus that is the most common cause of ordinary colds.

Rhinovirus, which is responsible for roughly half of all common colds, survives on surfaces in hotel rooms for hours and can be transferred from there to people, a study shows.

A 1975 paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association, for instance, showed that people infected with a common cold virus called the rhinovirus shed more virus particles if they were treated with aspirin than untreated patients.

Over the course of the study, I had two common colds, one a rhinovirus and the other a respiratory virus.

The common cold virus, rhinovirus, is the number one cause of asthma flare - ups.

«Rhinovirus C has been the «missing link» in explaining illness caused by the common cold,» says Michael Rossmann, Hanley Distinguished Professor of Biological Science at Purdue and co-lead of the study with UW — Madison's Ann Palmenberg, professor of biochemistry and with the Institute for Molecular Virology.

Infection with human rhinovirus, the most common cause of asthma exacerbation in adults and children, was restricted to ciliated cells and resulted in ciliated cell apical sloughing and goblet cell hyperplasia, replicating hallmarks of cytopathology observed in vivo.

Furthermore, a genome - wide forward screen with Haplobank identified PLA2G16 as a host factor that is required for cytotoxicity by rhinoviruses, which cause the common cold.

Causes of viral pneumonia include influenza (the flu virus), rhinovirus (the common cold), and RSV (respiratory syncytial virus, which is common in infants and children).

In fact, «both MRSA, a potentially deadly staphylococcus bacteria, and rhinoviruses, the cause of the common cold, have been detected on gym equipment,» says Charles Gerba, PhD, a microbiologist at the University of Arizona.

Rhinoviruses are behind most cases of the common cold, which run rampant in schools.

Images of Human Rhinovirus 14 (2016)-- the common cold virus — built with open - source modelling programmes, are projected onto several beach balls floating in the air.

The most common are called human rhinoviruses (HRV), and are the little jerks that cause up to 40 percent of all colds.

Zinc may interfere with one of the most common causes of the cold: rhinoviruses.