Sentences with phrase «given human immune system»
Researchers injected both the naked virus and SEVI - treated HIV into the tails of rats that had been given human immune system cells.
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Further studies are needed to understand the role of SPMs in infants who have been given human breast milk and the precise way SPMs may help an infant's immune system mature, but the research team hopes that their study will open up new areas of investigation for the field.
Based on our knowledge of the flu virus and the human immune system, we can use computers to design the components of a vaccine that gives much broader and longer - lasting protection.»
This study that has been ongoing since 2013, Study of the Impact of Long - Term Space Travel on the Astronauts» Microbiome, Microbiome for short, investigates how space travel affects the human immune system and an individual's microbiome, which is the collection of microbes that live in and on the human body at any given time.
Working with the Tulane National Primate Center in Louisiana, Friedman and his group showed that the trivalent vaccine — given three times at monthly intervals — induced a strong immune response in macaque monkeys, whose immune system closely resembles the human version.
They gave aging mice (engineered to have deficient immune systems that would not adversely react to human plasma) infusions of the three types of plasma every fourth day for two weeks.
His solution is to give computers the digital equivalent of the human immune system.
Tests in mice and nonhuman primates had shown TGN1412 to be safe, but when it was injected into humans — in a dose less than 1/500 of what was given to monkeys — it caused a massive release of infection - fighting T cells that overstimulated the patients» immune systems, resulting in multiple organ failure.
«Given the importance of the microbiome in human adaptations such as digestion, smell and the immune system, it would appear very likely that the human microbiome has had an effect on speciation,» Bordenstein says.
Cannon used a special strain of mouse that lacks a functioning immune system and so can be given human immune cells without rejecting them.
Although it's not yet known whether regulatory T cells undergo the same conversion in humans, the finding gives a clearer picture of how diet and the immune system interact to shape cardiovascular risk.
The quest for an HIV vaccine has been given a bad prognosis recently, due to increasing agreement that the human immune system isn't clever enough to outsmart the ever - changing surface of the virus.
When the pet's immune system decides to attack human erythropoetin as a foreign protein, it not only destroys the human erythropoetin that was given - it also destroys the pets natural erythropoetin.