Sentences with phrase «effector cell types»

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These are led by activated T helper 2 (TH2) cells and type 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s), together known as effector cells.

The researchers studied two types of cells called effector T cells, which activate the immune system to defend our body against different pathogens, and regulatory T cells, which help control the immune system and prevent it from attacking healthy parts of its environment.

«It was once believed that effector and memory cells arose as two distinct populations, with some cells initially fated to be effector type and some to be memory,» McDonald said.

Calmodulin (CaM) is a major effector for the intracellular actions of Ca2 + in nearly all cell types.

This «friendly fire» goes unchecked due to the failing of another type of immune cell: called the T - reg, which controls T - effector cells, shutting them down when they are not needed.

She demonstrated, for the first time, that the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes in NOD mice correlated with an enhanced pathogenicity of T effector cells and a decreased suppressive activity of Tregs.

The things that we have demonstrated — such as the fact that the vertical nanowires can deliver any biological effector to any cell type in a spatially selected fashion — have drawn interest from many different people, and we have been working with stem cell institutes and others to demonstrate the unique utility of this particular platform.

It delivers its virulence factors, also termed effector proteins, to infected cells via two type III secretion systems, SPI - 1 and SPI - 2.

Motor Neuron a type of nerve cell that conveys impulses from the central nervous system to a muscle or other effector tissue.

tomato type III effectors AvrPto and AvrPtoB promote ethylene - dependent cell death in tomato

Five Xanthomonas type III effectors suppress cell death induced by components of immunity - associated MAP kinase cascades