Sentences with phrase «escape immune control»

More recently, we have learned that it is critical to understand the biology of cancer plasticity to identify the mechanisms that allow tumours to resist or escape immune control.

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The child, nearly 4, was found to have high levels of HIV in her blood, suggesting that the virus had escaped from immune control.

What this suggests is that lung cancers are able to take hold in the lungs by disarming T cells and escaping the immune system's control.

This work demonstrated the central role of HLA - B * 27 and HLA - B * 57 in immune control of HIV infection, and of cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) escape in HIV pathogenesis (Goulder et al, AIDS Res Hum Retr, 1996; Goulder et al, Nat Med, 1997).

In this Review, we discuss recent advances in understanding the molecular determinants of influenza virus immune escape, sources of evolutionary selection pressure, population dynamics of influenza viruses and prospects for better influenza virus control.

Here, we review the current state of the art of somatic cancer evolution and mechanisms of immune control and escape.

But in my case, the babesia symptoms did not show themselves until the lyme, several years post-bite, escaped control of my immune system.