Sentences with phrase «gaining cell entry»

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Oligosaccharides, which are simple chains of sugars, often contain domains that resemble the binding sites through which bacteria gain entry into the cells lining the intestinal tract.

This protruding part of the antibody binds to a viral site that remains the same between strains, because the virus needs it to gain entry to a cell.

Robyn Biti, Graeme Stewart of Westmead Hospital in Sydney, Australia, and colleagues report that they have found an HIV - infected homosexual man whose white blood cells contain a defective copy of a critical surface protein, called CCR5, that the virus uses to gain entry into the cells.

Last year, researchers at NIAID and elsewhere solved a decade - long mystery when they found that HIV uses a second set of proteins to gain entry into immune cells.

The risk of developing severe malaria turns out to be strongly linked to the process by which the malaria parasite gains entry to the human red blood cell.

Novitch's UCLA lab group has likewise used its brain organoids to pinpoint additional receptors by which the virus may gain entry into neural stem cells, and identified a few other drug leads for blocking infection.

Still others gain entry by disguising themselves as the sort of free - floating molecules that our cells routinely gobble up.

Plasmodium parasites infect human red blood cells and gain entry via receptors on the cell surface.

«hPIV gains entry to human respiratory epithelial cells by attaching to carbohydrate receptors.

Additional experiments showed the feasibility of creating a two - layer security system for T cells by simultaneously blocking a gene the HIV virus needs to gain entry into cells and a gene the virus needs to survive and reproduce within the cell, resulting in doubly secure resistance.

The SDF - 1 / CXCR4 axis is gaining significant attention mainly due to its important roles in pathological processes, such as HIV entry, tumor metastasis, cell trafficking in autoimmune diseases and inflammatory conditions [10].

Her team has already identified the molecular signals that attract leukemic cells to a niche, allow them to gain entry and eventually take over.

A vaccine should tip the balance of this contest in favor of the immune system by increasing the numbers of CD4 + and CD8 + cells that are poised to swing into action if HIV gains entry to the body at some point in the future.

As FcRN receptors are also found in adult intestinal cells, coating the nanoparticles with Fc proteins (the part of the antibody that attaches to the FcRN receptor) and administering them orally in mice, caused the particles to grab hold of the FcRN in the intestinal lining and gained them and their payload entry into the bloodstream.

Also, from Wikipedia re Sorbitol, the Polyol Pathway and Aldose Reductase: «While most cells require the action of insulin for glucose to gain entry into the cell, the cells of the retina, kidney, and nervous tissues are insulin - INdependent, so glucose moves freely across the cell membrane, regardless of the action of insulin.

If our diet provides us with too little magnesium, however, calcium can gain free entry, and nerve cells can become overactivated, sending too many messages and causing excessive contraction.