Sentences with phrase «host defense»

The findings suggest that dietary salt could have therapeutic potential to promote host defense against microbial infections.

Genetic engineering of human antibodies; host defense mechanisms against microbial infection.

Growth factors and the development of neonatal host defense.

IL17 is known to play a role in host defense against cutaneous Candida albicans and Staphyloccus aureus infection (Cho et al., 2010; Conti and Gaffen, 2015) and to be induced in rats by Y. pestis (Comer et al., 2010).

The leading cause of acute gastroenteritis linked to eating raw seafood disarms a key host defense system in a novel way: It paralyzes a...

Center for Genetics of Host Defense, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA.

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The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, describe how myeloid differentiation factor (MyD88), a protein that plays a major role in mediating host defense response against invading pathogens, is tightly regulated to prevent uncontrolled inflammation.

The scientists conclude that in mice «well - timed treatment with rIL - 27 improved lung injury and accelerated recovery without affecting viral clearance» and continue «these data demonstrate that IL - 27 has a unique role in controlling immunopathology without impacting on host defense, and might therefore represent a promising candidate for immunomodulatory therapy of viral pneumonia.»

«No one would have guessed the lung would provide such an immediate and strong host defense system,» says Bryan Yipp, an immunologist at the...

«Frog slime kills flu virus: Mining host defense peptides found in skin mucus.»

Comprehensive transcript profiling of Pto - and Prf - mediated host defense responses to infection by Pseudomonas syringae pv.

In addition to its critical host defense role, NADPH oxidase also functions to restrain inflammation by modulating redox - sensitive innate immune pathways during infection and injury.

Lymphopenia is an abnormally low level of lymphocytes or white blood cells that manage microbial host defense.

«Our proposed studies may lead to developing novel, non-antibiotic therapeutic strategies to control immunopathology, reduce mucus overproduction, improve hearing loss and enhance host defense for otitis media.»

They go on to suggest that «lowering levels of TNF may be an effective strategy in improving host defense against S. pneumoniae in older adults,» and that, «although it may be counterintuitive to limit inflammatory responses during a bacterial infection, [some existing] clinical observations and our animal model indicate that anti-bacterial strategies need to be tailored to the age of the host.»

The team also demonstrated that as MAIT cells responded to superantigens, they also began to develop signs of exhaustion and failure to participate in antimicrobial host defense.

Female lung host defense cells were also better at killing this and other bacteria (Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus) when tested in vitro.

«This is quite good and convincing work that confirms host defense activity of amyloid - β against fungal and bacterial infections in animal models, and begins to unravel the mechanisms of antimicrobial activity of the protein,» said Kevan Hartshorn who studies innate immunity at the Boston University School of Medicine and was not involved in the study.

Exaggerated inflammation, impaired host defense, and neuropathology in progranulin - deficient mice.

5/24/2007 How Plague - Causing Bacteria Disarm Host Defense Effector proteins are the bad guys that help bacterial pathogens do their job of infecting the host by crippling the body's immune system.

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Strengthen the immune system by «promoting the endogenous host defense systems... and enhancing the activity of natural killer cells.»

«No one would have guessed the lung would provide such an immediate and strong host defense system,» says Bryan Yipp, an immunologist at the University of Calgary in Canada.

The researchers found that C. mast, when cultured with immune cells from the conjunctiva, induced the production of interleukin (IL)-17, a signaling protein critical for host defense.

Frogs» skins were known to secrete «host defense peptides» that defend them against bacteria.

Immunopharmacology of glucan: a broad spectrum enhancer of host defense mechanisms.

The microbial host defense can be weakened by secondary or acquired diseases (injury, endocrinopathy, cancer or co-infection) or primary inherited disorders that affect the barriers that keep infection out or functions of white blood cells.

Since that time, investigators around the world have identified the distinct functions of T cell subclasses, providing new insights into their roles in host defense and opportunities for novel therapeutic strategies.

Spellberg is currently working on the immunology, vaccinology, and host defense against highly resistant Gram negative bacilli, including Acinetobacter and carbapenem - resistant Enterobacteriaceae infections.

Chamberlain should do more, I hope Campbell continues doing his thing, Giroud should be brought in the second half to kill the game after Walcott must have tire out the host defense.

Because the human immune system may not mature completely for several years, the constituents of human milk continue to support the host defense of the infant.

The lung is a host defense niche for immediate neutrophil - mediated vascular protection.

Beyond their participation in host defense, increasing evidence suggests that these modifications also play important roles in the regulation of gene expression, virulence and antibiotic resistance.

Areas covered range from basic studies into the biology of innate and adaptive immunity (immune cell development and differentiation, immunogenomics, systems immunology, structural immunology, antigen presentation, immunometabolism, and mucosal immunology) to immune contributions to health and disease (host defense, inflammation, cancer immunology, autoimmunity, allergy, transplantation, and immunodeficiency).

Receptors that detect molecular signatures of infectious organisms mediate awareness of nonself and are integral to host defense in plants and animals alike.

«The Gatm gene is needed for the synthesis of creatine, a substance made in the liver that travels to the barrier cells and allows them to utilize energy in an efficient manner,» said Nobel Laureate Dr. Bruce Beutler, Director of UT Southwestern's Center for the Genetics of Host Defense and senior author of the study, which was published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

However, if the bacteria somehow get through that mucus layer and reach the intestinal walls, inflammation is the result, explained lead author Dr. Emre Turer, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and in the Center for the Genetics of Host Defense.

Studying Ebola virus, they found that Ebola virus VP24 protein blocks interferon, an important part of the host defense against virus detection.

«It has long been proposed that native gut bacteria are an important component of host defense, but until now, the responsible species and molecular mechanism have not been clearly demonstrated,» says first author Yongqi Shao of Zhejiang University.

Nitric oxide is a critical second messenger in the body, playing roles in vascular homeostasis, neurotransmission and host defense.

«Since the properties that make the peptide problematic are the very properties that make it effective in host defense,» said Hartshorn, «the next question is whether we can find a balance to both prevent plaque formation in the brain and not damage the immune activity of amyloid - β.»