Sentences with phrase «generate specific antibodies»

By cloning rat melanopsin and generating specific antibodies, we show that melanopsin is present in cell bodies, dendrites, and proximal axonal segments of a subset of rat RGCs.

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B cells swing into action when the body is under attack, generating antibodies and fine - tuning them to fight specific infections.

This study also advanced understanding of the role a protein named mTOR plays in generating the highly specific antibodies.

This «suggests that antibodies specific for this conserved region could provide protection against multiple toxin - mediated clostridium infections and points to a generalizable strategy for generating safe vaccine antigens for this class of toxins,» they concluded.

Monoclonal antibodies are molecules, generated in the lab, that target specific antigens on tumors.

The RTM hypothesis is that the immune systems of people who reach the ages at which AS, beta - amyloid, and other pathological aggregates begin to accumulate would generate antibodies against their abnormal form, and that people who remain free of these specific diseases might be producing antibodies that are particularly effective at keeping these aggregates at bay.

The antibodies listed above in the immunocytochemistry section were also used on eye sections together with a cocktail of antibodies generated against human - specific markers (HSM) to identify human cells (the Oka blood group antigen, mouse TRA -1-85, 1 ∶ 10 (a kind gift from Peter Andrews, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK) together with mouse human nuclear antigen, 1 ∶ 1000, Millipore).