Sentences with phrase «evade immune attack»

Tumors use adenosine as an important process to evade immune attack and promote their survival.

The new «trivalent» vaccine induces antibodies against three different parts of the virus, including two components that normally help HSV2 evade immune attack.

To take root and grow, a tumor must evolve mechanisms over months or years to evade immune attack.

Tumors typically have a repertoire of molecular defenses they can use to suppress or evade immune attacks, which is why cancer vaccines and immunotherapies have had mixed results in clinical trials to date.

Not exact matches

Tecentriq belongs to a class of drugs called PD - 1 inhibitors, which help the immune system to fight cancer by blocking a mechanism that tumors use to evade attack.

Now, thanks to the new mouse model, it will be possible to study how renal tumors are able to develop in an environment with a normal immune system, and how cancer cells manage to evade the immune system's attacks.

This ability to change shape likely allows the virus to evade recognition by the immune system — but could also make it more vulnerable to attack.»

One of the reasons cancer is so deadly is that it can evade attack from the body's immune system, which allows tumors to flourish and spread.

HIV is also able to evade attack by hiding inside a person's immune cells.

For a malignant tumor to form, cancer cells must evade the immune system's attack.

Disease - causing pathogens have been shown to manipulate or attack the ubiquitination process to disarm immune cells and evade the body's defense mechanisms, he said.

Building on each other's work, the five award recipients demonstrated how this normal self - defense mechanism can be hijacked by tumors as a way to evade immune surveillance and dodge an attack.

While the harder modes do indeed offer harder challenges as always, I found the new enemies caused more frustration than enjoyment as they often involve evading like crazy and picking moments to pull off individual attacks to take down strong opponents — with many enemies immune to certain weapons, problematic combinations of enemies seemed to break the flow of juggling multiple enemies.