Sentences with phrase «for immune escape»

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In addition to formulating diagnostic strategies for cancer immunotherapy agents, her team is focused on developing a deep understanding of tumor immune biology as well as mechanisms associated with immune response and immune escape in cancer patients, with the intent of generating rational strategies for the creation of combination therapies.

Tumors escape from the fighter T - cells that would otherwise attack them, by tricking the immune system and making an environment ripe for tumor growth.

Background: Expression of programmed death ligand (PD - L1 / B7 - H1 / CD274) represents a mechanism of immune escape for renal cell carcinoma (RCC) cells.

Some of these randomly generated «escape mutants,» as they are called, would then be selected for survival in succeeding generations of the virus, since they would possess the advantage of being «fitter» — avoiding the body's immune response — than their nonmutated counterparts.

CRI postdoctoral fellow Dr. Haihui Lu at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is studying some of the unique characteristics that differentiate metastatic cancer cells from primary tumor cells, and specifically aims to understand how these unique characteristics enable breast cancer cells to escape elimination by the immune system.

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.

There's no doubt that probiotic exposure very early in life — primarily from a vaginal birth and exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months — helps to seal the «open guts» of babies, thereby preventing foreign substances like food particles from escaping through the intestinal wall into the bloodstream and stimulating allergic immune reactions that can last a lifetime.

The key ingredients being chicken and brown rice, this food is not only rich in protein but, is a rich source for vitamins and food - fiber Vets recommend this food as it boosts the immune health of the dogs that enable them to escape the threats of the outburst of various ailments.

Now the heroes of the story for some reason are immune to the virus and must survive as they make their way to escape from the islands.

Like the bacteria that cause gonorrhea, members of T. pallidum have multiple copies of the gene coding for the proteins that allow them to adhere to human cells — perhaps, as in the case of gonorrhea, these genes allow T. pallidum to alter their surface proteins in order to escape recognition by the immune system.