Sentences with phrase «from cytomegalovirus»

Dwarki and Jaime Escobedo improved the AAV's ability to insert genes into chromosomes by adding a gene promoter region from cytomegalovirus, known to be active in the target for their gene therapy, muscle cells.

Not exact matches

According to the National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD) chlamydia, gonorrhea, genital herpes, and cytomegalovirus can be passed from mother to infant during delivery when the infant passes through an infected birth canal, while HIV and CMV, can infect a fetus before birth during your pregnancy.

Understanding the placenta might one day lead to ways to prevent fetal damage from the so - called TORCH infections: toxoplasmosis, rubella, cytomegalovirus, herpes and HIV, he added.

The «training data» were generated from 78 mice infected with influenza or the cytomegalovirus (CMV) and 32 humans infected with flu, CMV or the Epstein - Barr virus.

Vermijlen's team analysed cord blood from 19 newborns infected with cytomegalovirus (CMV)-- which can cause serious symptoms in infected infants and give fetuses brain damage — and 22 uninfected newborns.

And in a study of monkeys, researchers discovered that a cytomegalovirus - based vaccine protected 50 percent of animals from infection by simian immunodeficiency virus.

Now they have some good news about the herpes virus family: Ironically named viral immunologist Herbert Virgin from Washington University School of Medicine has come up with some pretty convincing evidence that infection with two other members of the herpes virus family — the Epstein - Barr virus, which causes mononucleosis, and the relatively harmless cytomegalovirus — can actually protect a person from a range of bacterial infections.

Volunteers from five countries differed in genetics, body composition, compliance to the study, response to diet, blood measurements, cytomegalovirus positivity and inflammatory parameters.

In late - stage sepsis patients, dormant viruses that the immune system usually keeps under control, such as Epstein - Barr virus and cytomegalovirus, emerge from hiding.

In the current work we used adenoviral - type 5 (dE1 / E3)(Cytomegalovirus promoter) with human ABCA10 transgene (Ad - h - ABCA10) purchased from Vector Labs ® in order to investigate whether gene therapy can be used as a pre-treatment to enhance the efficiency of inhaled cisplatin.

To obtain the pcDNA - SRα / FLAG vector, pcDNA3 - FLAG vector (Invitrogen Corp., Carlsbad, CA) was treated with HindIII and NruI to eliminate the cytomegalovirus promoter fragment, blunted, and then ligated with 0.8 kb of ClaI - treated and Klenow filled - in SRα promoter fragment from pSRα vector (28).

Immunoblot analysis using mouse monoclonal antibody to human IgM detected IgM to cytomegalovirus (CMV)- specific proteins (150, 42, 38, 32, and 28 kDa) in 74 (38 %) of 197 seropositive serum samples from 197 individuals in three subject groups: 43 surgical patients, 31 patients with solid tumors, and 123 healthy individuals.

Gross brain pathology from infants with presumed or laboratory - confirmed ZIKV infection, primarily from neuroimaging, closely resembles neuropathology associated with congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV).48 The most notable difference is the distribution of intracranial calcifications (ie, typically subcortical in congenital ZIKV infection and periventricular in CMV).48, 49 Such calcifications are likely dystrophic and related to cell death, either by necrosis, apoptosis, or both.50

For the primates unfortunate enough to be kept in captivity like this, there is always a chance of developing diseases such as tuberculosis, hepatitis, simian herpes, SIV, cytomegalovirus, in addition to being subjected to abuse and isolation from their kin.

Infants were excluded from the MLS if they had a chromosomal abnormality or TORCH (toxoplasmosis, other agents, rubella, cytomegalovirus, herpes) infection confirmed before the 1 - month assessment or if the mother planned to move outside of the study catchment area.