Sentences with phrase «from invading the cell»

PS extracts block attachment of virus particles to host cells and thus effectively prevent the virus from invading cells.

How It Works As An Antiviral The proteins actually prevent the virus from invading the cell.

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Understanding how margin length decreases from surgery to pathology — because of how the removed tissue shrinks and tumor cells invade surrounding tissues — can lead to better surgical margin planning and in turn a better prognosis, said corresponding author Milan Milovancev, a board - certified veterinary surgeon at OSU's College of Veterinary Medicine.

But in some cases, the theory goes, leftover antibodies from the first illness can actually help the second infection invade cells, increasing the risk of severe dengue disease.

These peptides also have another critical ability that sets them apart from traditional antibiotics: They can recruit the host's immune system, summoning cells called leukocytes that secrete chemicals that help kill the invading microbes.

RNA invading from outside the cell is the hallmark of a virus, and our immune system has evolved ways to recognize and destroy it.

The virus appears to invade the brain by infecting a type of glial cell called olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs), which nourish smell - sensing neurons and guide them from the olfactory bulb to their targets in the nervous system.

The virus must lock onto this protein before it can invade white blood cells, and the mutations prevent it from doing so.

In addition to answering basic questions about how Zika invades cells, Linhardt's group also wants to come up with a way to block the interactions between the virus and placental sugars, protecting the fetus from harm.

«If you can find a treatment or a drug that can block cadherin - 22, you could potentially prevent cancer cells from moving, invading and metastasizing.»

When a virus invades a cell, one of the body's first signals that it's under attack comes from type I interferon proteins, which then rev up the production of hundreds of proteins that fight the virus.

Mammals keep iron out of reach of invading microbes by storing it in cells like macrophages — white blood cells which, among other things, normally «recycle» the iron from red blood cells back into the bloodstream.

L1CAM protein (brown in top panel) resides in cells poised to break from the cancer's bulk (cells with b - catenin are brown in bottom panel) and invade other tissues.

Neuroscientist Saul Villeda of UCSF homed in on one actor he thought might be responsible for some of that effect: β2 microglobulin (B2M), an immune protein normally involved in distinguishing one's own cells from invading pathogens.

For several years, the research team from the Turku Centre for Biotechnology lead by Professor Johanna Ivaska has focused their efforts on understanding how cancer cells move and invade surrounding tissue.

Using this time - consuming approach, scientists have been able to identify functions for some of the genes necessary for the parasite to invade red blood cells, as well as some of the genes required for the parasite to later erupt from blood cells.

When cancer cells from eg breast or lung tumours invade the bones through metastasis, the bone tissue is degraded.

In a study of around 80 samples from men with prostate cancer, scientists at the Barts Cancer Institute at Queen Mary University looked for cells that were gaining the ability to migrate and invade through the body.

Lymphovascular invasion (LVI) means that malignant cancer cells «invade» the blood vessels and lymphatic system, from whence they can be transported onwards.

Flu viruses invade cells that line the lungs, but obtaining those cells from patients is difficult.

So, for example, at the University of California in San Francisco they are trying to engineer E. coli so that it can detect cancer cells, it can invade tumors, and then once it's inside they can release toxins; and so they are putting in all sorts of genes from other bacteria to assemble this, you know, this sort of synthetic E. coli that could become basically a cancer torpedo.

After the few seconds that Plasmodium takes to invade a previously uninfected red blood cell, it's hidden from any antibody, he explains.

That's what the vaccinia virus seems to be saying after it invades a cell and prevents its companions from following suit.

From this point on, the parasite is unstoppable, multiplying within the cell until it breaks out of its host to invade fresh red blood cells.

Ripping a page from the Star Trek script, specialized cells of the barrier that lines the inside of the intestines and airways of humans have invoked a biological version of Captain Kirk's famous command «shields up» as a first defense against invading microbes.

In response to an invading parasite, mobile cells from an insect's blood surround and kill the intruder.

Tregs are regulatory immune cells that are involved in shutting down immune responses after they have successfully eliminated invading organisms from the body.

The result are cancer cells that are capable, from the very start, to invade surrounding tissue and spread metastases.»

In these circumstances, cells from primary tumors in breast, colon, prostate, or other organs invade lung tissue via the bloodstream.

MHC molecules recognize and present foreign proteins, such as those from invading bacteria, to immune system T cells to trigger their action.

These cells, often referred to as bone marrow stroma cells, develop during bone formation, from the early osteoprogenitor cells which later invade along the forming blood vessel and enter the bone marrow.

French scientists have learned how Listeria monocytogenes, which causes a major food - borne illness, commandeers cellular transport machinery to invade cells and hide from the body's immune system...

It grabs proteins from invading pathogens, displays these signature proteins to immune cells, and «trains» the cells to recognize and pursue hostile bacteria or viruses that have those proteins.

Normally, two types of immune cells, called T cells and B cells, protect the body from invading viruses, bacteria and fungi.

This is often enough to halt the infection but the second part of the immune response is adaptive immunity, when dendritic cells activate T lymphocytes and trigger a cascade of immune reactions, such as the formation of antibodies and killer cells that clear the infection from the body and form a memory of the invading pathogen.

Normally, T - cells protect us from infection by patrolling the body, seeking out specific protein signatures that indicate invading bacteria, viruses or cancer cells, and then rallying more T - cells together to attack the threat.

The infection comes from the Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasite which invades the human host's bloodstream and liver cells.

Harold Varmus: Well the simplistic way to think about that is and I'm not sure this is the way it will be worked out, is to be able to take just a few cells from those early lesions and examine them genetically or for other kinds of marks on the DNA that would predict whether or not this is some - this is a lesion which might or an early stage growth that might never be able to progress, but it is also possible that every early tumor of that kind has some probability of expanding and invading and growing to become a medical problem, so getting that right will obviously be crucial because it's very difficult to say when you've diagnosed something that is an early stage tumor that it won't progress.

Rather than fight the infection after it invades, particular changes to cell membrane receptors can completely prevent plague bacteria from infecting cells.

Macrophages, from the Greek for «eating cells,» are white blood cells that act as cellular scavengers by ingesting dying and invading bacterial cells, but they recognize and refuse to eat their own kind.

A drug that prevents myosin from working in cancer cells could keep them from invading other cells or metastasize into different organs.

Berberine has shown promise to prevent cancer cells from replicating and invading other cells.

The main role of SIgA is to defend the surfaces of the digestive system and other systems coated in mucous and to prevent these potential toxic substances from biding to cell surfaces, becoming absorbed by cells lining the mouth, throat, lungs, urethra, vagina and intestines, and ultimately invading the body.

Elderberries can help prevent cold and flu viruses from invading and infecting cells.

While there are many different types of cancer, all of them stem from the abnormal growth of cells that invade numerous body sites, quickly leading to the formation of tumours that are either benign (restricted to a local area and removable) or malignant (invasive, spreading throughout the body).

Once they occur, mast cell tumors can quickly grow from small «skin tag» - like growths on the surface to the skin to invading full thickness of the skin, and progressing to the lymph nodes for systemic infection.

Pathologists that examine kidney tissue from pets with failing kidneys have noticed that many have a higher than normal number of inflammatory cells invading this area.

Cancers can be divided into three general groups: carcinomas that arise from epithelial cells that cover the body (skin) or line internal body surfaces; sarcomas that begin in connective, skeletal, muscular, or reproductive tissues; lymphomas that invade the lymph nodes and the lymphatic system.