Sentences with phrase «different cell surface proteins»

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Researchers are developing many different versions of CAR - T cell therapies, but the basic premise is the same: Doctors remove a patient's T cells (immune system cells that attack invaders) from a blood sample and genetically modify them to produce artificial proteins on their surfaces.

Previous research had shown that nicotine seems to have conflicting effects on different types of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, proteins on the surface of brain cells that respond to nicotine and the naturally occurring neurotransmitter acetylcholine.

T cells are thought to be able to provide protection across different strains, says Teijaro, because the bits of influenza virus the T cells recognize do not mutate as much as the influenza surface proteins, the target of antibodies.

(A) Different biomolecules on the surface of prepared silver nanoparticles (linker not shown); (B) in cell culture media the nanoparticle - water interface is composed of ligands and ions but also of proteins, the so - called protein corona.

Subsequent work identified a different protein on the surface of T cells — PD - 1 — as another key regulator of T cell response.

Because the damaged proteins on the surfaces of tumor cells look very different from healthy cells, the immune system is alarmed, and natural killer (NK) cells and macrophages are immediately sent to the tumor.