My group has also shown that lymphocytes from patients with breast cancer, melanoma, and colorectal cancer
develop immune signaling defects that blunt their proliferation and function in vivo.
Not exact matches
As many as 20 % of people who
develop sepsis will die, not from the infection itself — but from the overload of inflammatory chemical
signals created by the
immune system which ultimately leads to organ failure.
In some cases, the antibodies that
develop to help fight off the bacteria also
signal the
immune system to attack the body's own cells that bear gangliosides.
That's the promise of a new study, which has found a unique set of
signals in the
immune cells of people who later
developed inflammation, headaches, fevers, and other «adverse events» after receiving a flu shot.
There are antibodies that have been
developed now that basically block those inhibitory
signals and allow the
immune system to act against the cancers.»
Cooke said the team is
developing methods to manipulate innate
immune signaling of ROS to maximize the production of iPSCs and better direct their differentiation.
Developing strategies to inhibit this
signaling within tumor cells could help restore T cell access and enhance the potential of
immune - mediated cancer treatment.»
In a paper published online Aug. 31, by Nature Medicine, researchers report that using a monoclonal antibody called anti-CD47, which blocks the «don't - eat - me»
signal on malignant cells, to treat mice with an intact
immune system provides a much more lifelike way to study and
develop an
immune - based cancer therapy.